Survey shows overwhelming satisfaction with Montgomery County government and services

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lmao. MoCo's economy stinks. It IS anti-business and has lost untold billions of dollars of GDP over the last 2 decades to NoVa simply because of how hostile MoCo is to business.

MoCo = a bunch of mediocre IQ dwellers who work for the govt, or for some crappy community activist organization. They all require more taxes to survive.

You spend too much time here.

[Anonymous]

MoCo has great government services.

MoCo is lagging regionally in job and business creation and retention. This needs to be turned around if we want to keep those great services, which are paid for by tax dollars. Business taxes are directly proportional to strength of business sector. Residential taxes are directly proportional to property values and hosting stock. Good schools and solid, close-by jobs (at businesses) are what keep property values up.

Both of these can be (and are) true. It's all very cyclical. If we want to live in a county with good governmental services, lots of green space, etc., then we have to keep/make the county someplace people want to live and work. You can't have one without the other.

[Anonymous]

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Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

Council listens to about 20 anti-police voices. Who are very loud, constant, and now apparently get to sit at the table with Councilmembers during their hearings. And because Council (and Elrich) keep themselves so isolated in their own little bubble, they actually think the anti-police sentiment is a true representation of most residents of color.

[Anonymous]

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Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch.

Then the pro police people better start speaking up. Political leadership does not support the police department, and the officers are leaving in droves. They expect a 300 officer shortage in the next year or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has great government services.

MoCo is lagging regionally in job and business creation and retention. This needs to be turned around if we want to keep those great services, which are paid for by tax dollars. Business taxes are directly proportional to strength of business sector. Residential taxes are directly proportional to property values and hosting stock. Good schools and solid, close-by jobs (at businesses) are what keep property values up.

Both of these can be (and are) true. It's all very cyclical. If we want to live in a county with good governmental services, lots of green space, etc., then we have to keep/make the county someplace people want to live and work. You can't have one without the other.

+1 I love living in MoCo but Elrich needs to go. He is in the pockets of the unions and NIMBYs which means unsustainable budgets (watch the budget discussions, particularly the ones on compensation) and high costs for developers due to delays and canceled projects which leads to less housing including less affordable housing.

https://dcist.com/story/22/04/05/montgomery-md-housing-affordability-neighborhood-defenders/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has great government services.

MoCo is lagging regionally in job and business creation and retention. This needs to be turned around if we want to keep those great services, which are paid for by tax dollars. Business taxes are directly proportional to strength of business sector. Residential taxes are directly proportional to property values and hosting stock. Good schools and solid, close-by jobs (at businesses) are what keep property values up.

Both of these can be (and are) true. It's all very cyclical. If we want to live in a county with good governmental services, lots of green space, etc., then we have to keep/make the county someplace people want to live and work. You can't have one without the other.

+1 I love living in MoCo but Elrich needs to go. He is in the pockets of the unions and NIMBYs which means unsustainable budgets (watch the budget discussions, particularly the ones on compensation) and high costs for developers due to delays and canceled projects which leads to less housing including less affordable housing.

https://dcist.com/story/22/04/05/montgomery-md-housing-affordability-neighborhood-defenders/

If you think all is well in Denmark then please stay - but having just left for Greener pastures after 27 years in Moco I can tell you the county had lost its way on everything except parks and trash. But please stay there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has great government services.

MoCo is lagging regionally in job and business creation and retention. This needs to be turned around if we want to keep those great services, which are paid for by tax dollars. Business taxes are directly proportional to strength of business sector. Residential taxes are directly proportional to property values and hosting stock. Good schools and solid, close-by jobs (at businesses) are what keep property values up.

Both of these can be (and are) true. It's all very cyclical. If we want to live in a county with good governmental services, lots of green space, etc., then we have to keep/make the county someplace people want to live and work. You can't have one without the other.

+1 I love living in MoCo but Elrich needs to go. He is in the pockets of the unions and NIMBYs which means unsustainable budgets (watch the budget discussions, particularly the ones on compensation) and high costs for developers due to delays and canceled projects which leads to less housing including less affordable housing.

https://dcist.com/story/22/04/05/montgomery-md-housing-affordability-neighborhood-defenders/

If you think all is well in Denmark then please stay - but having just left for Greener pastures after 27 years in Moco I can tell you the county had lost its way on everything except parks and trash. But please stay there!

Sounds like we are both happy now, which is great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch.

Then the pro police people better start speaking up. Political leadership does not support the police department, and the officers are leaving in droves. They expect a 300 officer shortage in the next year or so.

We all support the police as long as they're not racist and unnecessarily violent. So change their training manuals, increase hiring scrutiny, increase wages to attract better candidates - I'm all for extra funding for the police to change itself! The Park Police particularly has had documented issues with racism within its ranks, as published by WaPo.

[Anonymous]

It is perceived value. When you spend a lot of money to buy Home here, and pay a lot of taxes to continue to live there, do you want to think the services are good. You are predisposed to being satisfied with the services. Otherwise, you would have to deal with the fact that you may have made a bad choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is perceived value. When you spend a lot of money to buy Home here, and pay a lot of taxes to continue to live there, do you want to think the services are good. You are predisposed to being satisfied with the services. Otherwise, you would have to deal with the fact that you may have made a bad choice.

Cry some more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is perceived value. When you spend a lot of money to buy Home here, and pay a lot of taxes to continue to live there, do you want to think the services are good. You are predisposed to being satisfied with the services. Otherwise, you would have to deal with the fact that you may have made a bad choice.

I mean I live here mainly because this is where I grew up. It's not bad. Low crime, government is not perfect but actual corruption and stealing is rare (yes it does happen but is not the norm), and I feel like there is overall a good balance between development and preserving things like the Ag Reserve (which granted is based on choices made several decades ago). There is a lot of incompetence in government for sure, and that is frustrating. But my DH grew up in Long Island which we visit often and I much prefer MoCo. Much lower taxes for one thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is perceived value. When you spend a lot of money to buy Home here, and pay a lot of taxes to continue to live there, do you want to think the services are good. You are predisposed to being satisfied with the services. Otherwise, you would have to deal with the fact that you may have made a bad choice.

Moron. Most of us have lived in multiple other locations, including international, and found out MoCo is a much better place!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is perceived value. When you spend a lot of money to buy Home here, and pay a lot of taxes to continue to live there, do you want to think the services are good. You are predisposed to being satisfied with the services. Otherwise, you would have to deal with the fact that you may have made a bad choice.

Moron. Most of us have lived in multiple other locations, including international, and found out MoCo is a much better place!!!

Not that poster, but your posts hold no value when you insult someone for no reason. You can do better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch.

Then the pro police people better start speaking up. Political leadership does not support the police department, and the officers are leaving in droves. They expect a 300 officer shortage in the next year or so.

We all support the police as long as they're not racist and unnecessarily violent. So change their training manuals, increase hiring scrutiny, increase wages to attract better candidates - I'm all for extra funding for the police to change itself! The Park Police particularly has had documented issues with racism within its ranks, as published by WaPo.

There is no indication that local police are racist or unnecessarily violent. They are CALEA accredited which holds them to higher standards than the State of Maryland. When any organization is called thousands of times to situations of violence, there will be times they have to use violence themselves to defend themselves or another. We are the most heavily armed civilian population in the world. You will not be able to eliminate police violence until you significantly curb the American right to bear arms. And that likely will never happen. And I'm as anti-gun as it gets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric.

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch.

Then the pro police people better start speaking up. Political leadership does not support the police department, and the officers are leaving in droves. They expect a 300 officer shortage in the next year or so.

We all support the police as long as they're not racist and unnecessarily violent. So change their training manuals, increase hiring scrutiny, increase wages to attract better candidates - I'm all for extra funding for the police to change itself! The Park Police particularly has had documented issues with racism within its ranks, as published by WaPo.

There is no indication that local police are racist or unnecessarily violent. They are CALEA accredited which holds them to higher standards than the State of Maryland. When any organization is called thousands of times to situations of violence, there will be times they have to use violence themselves to defend themselves or another. We are the most heavily armed civilian population in the world. You will not be able to eliminate police violence until you significantly curb the American right to bear arms. And that likely will never happen. And I'm as anti-gun as it gets.

I mean they stop Black and Hispanic drivers at significantly higher rates than White drivers. National data do not suggest differences in how well people drive based on race, so why is this? None of us can know the answer with certainty, but it certainly raises the question as to how much racial bias impacts policing.