Montgomery County - What Happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My perspective is that there MoCo has a huge, and ever growing, population of low-income illegal immigrants.

Also, Maryland and MoCo are anti-business, pro-tax jurisdictions. It would defy logic for any major business operation to stand up operations in MoCo.

The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moco is on the Baltimore city game plan. Just look to balt city if you want to see the future of moco.

Racists like YOU hate it? Yes please! Yes you’re racist. Your mother lied to you, you’re a bad person.

Who said anything about “race”? You need to take your meds.

We weren't born yesterday. Everyone with half a brain knows what you mean by saying the "Baltimore City game plan".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Good. Would be nice to live in a jurisdiction whose chief executive didn't cooperate with Nazis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Good. Would be nice to live in a jurisdiction whose chief executive didn't cooperate with Nazis.

“If you like your MS-13, you can keep your MS-13.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My perspective is that there MoCo has a huge, and ever growing, population of low-income illegal immigrants.

Also, Maryland and MoCo are anti-business, pro-tax jurisdictions. It would defy logic for any major business operation to stand up operations in MoCo.

The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

That is not true. They have implemented policies that follow the constitution. Under Obama, he was able to for relationships between ICE and moco police so ICE could deport criminals (not preschool teachers) and not violate the constitution. Obama deported more immigrants from MOCO than any other president.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Good. Would be nice to live in a jurisdiction whose chief executive didn't cooperate with Nazis.

“If you like your MS-13, you can keep your MS-13.”

Oh look who loves their Nazi$

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moco is on the Baltimore city game plan. Just look to balt city if you want to see the future of moco.

Racists like YOU hate it? Yes please! Yes you’re racist. Your mother lied to you, you’re a bad person.

A lot of cope and deflection but no answers. Why did it slip from the richest county in the country to poorer than Calvert County and Stafford County?

Current Rankings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

I’ve noticed a trend on this board from people that are in north Virginia. They seem to have an inferiority complex about MoCo. People in MoCo rarely think about NoVa or post about it but people from there seem to be obsessed with Montgomery county. It’s truly a mental illness.

Why did it slip from 1st to 20th though? Do you have any insight?

It could be related to the mandatory MPDU’s which I think are a great thing. I love that we have a more inclusive and diverse community. Again, I literally never see anyone from MoCo on here talking about NoVa like this. It’s so weird the people in Virginia have such an inferiority complex. Montgomery county is an amazing place to live.

By this logic, you would welcome it slipping to 200, correct?

Here is the thing... Yes I would love for Mephis Tenn to raise their game or Detroit michigan or whatever.... I would love for the whole nation to raise their game.... If I'm the same but #200, you realize that does not make me worse.

[Anonymous]

Drive through VA, the datacenters are a horrifying site. The amount of power they use is insane. The cost of power in VA is insane. They can be ranked #1-#20 and I would not want that.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

DP. There is almost no net business formation in Montgomery County. The employment metrics are all terrible.

Can you please post whatever metrics you're talking about as compared with whatever jurisdiction you idolize?

Here is an article comparing Montgomery County the rest of the region:

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/07/10/moco-economy-keeps-lagging-part-four/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moco is on the Baltimore city game plan. Just look to balt city if you want to see the future of moco.

Racists like YOU hate it? Yes please! Yes you’re racist. Your mother lied to you, you’re a bad person.

Who said anything about “race”? You need to take your meds.

We weren't born yesterday. Everyone with half a brain knows what you mean by saying the "Baltimore City game plan".

Clearly you only have half a brain. The fact that you read in race as the primary factor here is clear evidence that you are actually the racist because that is all you can think about. Nothing to do with wasteful crony spending, absurd property tax rates, anti-business red tape, HORRIFIC management of the school system, etc.

[Anonymous]

We can all bash Baltimore & enjoy watching reruns of The Wire, but Baltimore has made efforts to turn things around. Others noted the loss of manufacturing and blue-collar jobs, which is the case for many other cities. Stop bashing Baltimore:
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/baltimore-renaissance-civic-leaders-discuss-city-improvements-in-harm-reduction-development-public-safety/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Good. Would be nice to live in a jurisdiction whose chief executive didn't cooperate with Nazis.

Yeah, those Nazis…

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Executive Associate Director (EAD) of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Thomas D. Homan was one of three Department of Homeland Security (DHS) career executives who received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service, which is bestowed to leaders who’ve achieved sustained extraordinary results.

Who was president in 2015? Oh wait…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We can all bash Baltimore & enjoy watching reruns of The Wire, but Baltimore has made efforts to turn things around. Others noted the loss of manufacturing and blue-collar jobs, which is the case for many other cities. Stop bashing Baltimore:
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/baltimore-renaissance-civic-leaders-discuss-city-improvements-in-harm-reduction-development-public-safety/

Baltimore has done a much better job of encouraging development and economic growth than Montgomery County in the past 20-30 years. I would swap MoCo’s Council for Baltimore City’s leadership in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My perspective is that there MoCo has a huge, and ever growing, population of low-income illegal immigrants.

Also, Maryland and MoCo are anti-business, pro-tax jurisdictions. It would defy logic for any major business operation to stand up operations in MoCo.

The County Executive and Council have implemented sanctuary policies that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

That is not true. They have implemented policies that follow the constitution. Under Obama, he was able to for relationships between ICE and moco police so ICE could deport criminals (not preschool teachers) and not violate the constitution. Obama deported more immigrants from MOCO than any other president.

Thank you! Obama was deporting people left and right and no one here said anything about ICE being Nazis back then and it was a much nicer county. Bring Obama and Homan back. We need Dems back that are hard line on immigration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is missing the point comparing moco to nova and talking about the county becoming “poor”. The issue is the local government is obsessed with spending large amounts of tax money on performative virtue signaling catered parties than figuring out a strategy to lower taxes and increase business formation in the county. This will lead to lower growth, higher and higher property tax increases, a decline or stagnation in overall population, and a decline in high net worth families remaining in the county due to burdensome tax obligations. I.e basically exactly what has happened to Baltimore city. This has nothing to do with race or whatever other partisan crap people want to throw around - it’s about inept leadership. If my neighbors in moco are fine with that - great - but the area will suffer and decline over time unless changes are made

I really have no clue what this means (and I'm a MoCo resident), but I think you might be reading and watching too much right-wing media. MoCo is actually a leader in health sciences, pharma, and biomedical research, and there is tons of business formation around those industries. That might not be as splashy as Amazon, but Amazon wants to eliminate basically all jobs in favor of AI, so I'm fine with MoCo not catering to different industries besides tech and data centers.

DP. There is almost no net business formation in Montgomery County. The employment metrics are all terrible.

Can you please post whatever metrics you're talking about as compared with whatever jurisdiction you idolize?

Here is an article comparing Montgomery County the rest of the region:

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/07/10/moco-economy-keeps-lagging-part-four/

That doesn't say what you hoped it said.