What is MoCo's political future?

[Anonymous]

What MoCo hates to admit is that even PG now creates more jobs than MoCo. Race has nothing to do with the valid points above. It has everything to do with garbage leadership, politics, and stupid voters who keep voting for the same.

Rising taxes will be used to plug budget holes, because the county can't grow economically. People will flee, which means the county will keep raising property and income taxes so that their credit rating won't decline. Eventually they won't be able to raise taxes anymore and the next hit will be a decline in credit rating. Borrowing costs skyrocket and it is a never ending spiral down.

[Anonymous]

When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

Cope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

Lived here for 40+ years. Still have tons of family and friends here. Still care about it deeply. Sorry that bothers you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

Seethe harder.

[Anonymous]

I challenge ayone to find a better mayor than Erlich! He has single handedly stopped big industry from steamrolling over our community

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Due to self-sorting, with more centrists fleeing to Fairfax, Frederick and Howard, as well as the fact that way too many MoCoites are way too online and getting fed pretty extreme leftism, the future is going to look a lot like some combination of Portland and Baltimore. The rich areas stay rich but get smaller, the middle class and poor areas get poorer, but there’s microbrew and bike lanes!

Agree with this for the most part. Certainly the rich areas will stay rich, just shrink. Poor areas will stay poor and grow. Middle class areas will continue to get squeezed out. You can't be so anti-business and succeed. The world is too small now. Businesses can start and be run from anywhere with the technology of today. Moco has lost the built-in advantage of being "in-close" and it is never coming back at scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to self-sorting, with more centrists fleeing to Fairfax, Frederick and Howard, as well as the fact that way too many MoCoites are way too online and getting fed pretty extreme leftism, the future is going to look a lot like some combination of Portland and Baltimore. The rich areas stay rich but get smaller, the middle class and poor areas get poorer, but there’s microbrew and bike lanes!

Posted by a person who thinks Portland is what you see on Portlandia, and Baltimore is what you see on The Wire.

When people talk about the Wire in any context about about Baltimore it’s always a sure sign they don’t know sh*t about the city.

Worked in downtown Baltimore for 10 years...it is closer to the Wire than not.

[Anonymous]

I predict in 10 years, PG County will overtake Moco economically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to self-sorting, with more centrists fleeing to Fairfax, Frederick and Howard, as well as the fact that way too many MoCoites are way too online and getting fed pretty extreme leftism, the future is going to look a lot like some combination of Portland and Baltimore. The rich areas stay rich but get smaller, the middle class and poor areas get poorer, but there’s microbrew and bike lanes!

Posted by a person who thinks Portland is what you see on Portlandia, and Baltimore is what you see on The Wire.

When people talk about the Wire in any context about about Baltimore it’s always a sure sign they don’t know sh*t about the city.

Worked in downtown Baltimore for 10 years...it is closer to the Wire than not.

There are many Baltimores. It’s a city of incongruous neighborhoods that’s dominated by “the Wire” part but not defined by it. The other parts are very, very small though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I predict in 10 years, PG County will overtake Moco economically

If they land the FBI then I think it could definitely have more public and private sector jobs. It will always lag in wealth though. But that’s not the economy.

[Anonymous]

Blair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

For real. I think some of these people living in Howard just wish they were still in Montgomery. It's like there's some sort of a inferiority complex. They wish they were MoCo but they aren't. MoCo is a much larger county population and importance wise. Howard is kind of provincial. It's got 300k people. The City of Rockville has 20% of the population of all of Howard County. They're basically wishing they were MoCo. Why else would they constantly talk about us? It's so weird too because no one in MoCo hardly ever speaking about Howard but we live rent free in their heads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When guys like Friedsen and Katz are the closest thing reseembling moderates on the council- you have your answer already.

David Blair might have helped in a "goalie" sense, but the train is pretty far down the tracks now, and the answer is option A that the OP put out.

Those with means will vote with their feet.

I already moved to Howard- plenty of the progressive values we like, but way less of the BS. And schools and services that are still good, and no crime issues.

And yet here you still are, posting about Montgomery County like you just can't quit it.

For real. I think some of these people living in Howard just wish they were still in Montgomery. It's like there's some sort of a inferiority complex. They wish they were MoCo but they aren't. MoCo is a much larger county population and importance wise. Howard is kind of provincial. It's got 300k people. The City of Rockville has 20% of the population of all of Howard County. They're basically wishing they were MoCo. Why else would they constantly talk about us? It's so weird too because no one in MoCo hardly ever speaking about Howard but we live rent free in their heads.

The maturity of like a 5 year old.