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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP — I’d be more willing to listen if you weren’t so over the top. Tone it down and try again, and you might convince more people.[/quote]

OK then let me calm down and try again. [b]This is why MoCo is failing:
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- Council supports crony capitalism for developer donors
- Executive doesn’t appear to support private sector at all
- Council supports meaningless social justice initiatives
- Executive has bombastic history of leftist rhetoric and associations
- Executive favors insider supporters over regular constituents
- Like other leftist regimes, when you tax and “social justice” your tax base to oblivion, they leave.

Got it?[/quote]

Is this like the anarchy in Portland, or New York City emptying out? And then you go to Portland and almost all of the streets are as orderly as ever, or you go to New York City and there are still millions of people living there?

Montgomery County isn't paradise on earth, to be sure, but the only people who believe Montgomery County is failing are people who wish it were still 1975 in Montgomery County. Or maybe 1955.[/quote]

Not true. Wasn’t even born then. I’ll take MoCo circa 2000, thank you very much. I did not worry about walking in my neighborhood alone at night. The schools were not overcrowded. Teachers had time to focus on even the kids who will be “fine.” Taxes were lower. Great bike trail through Bethesda. Shall I go on?[/quote]

I would take MoCo 2010 over what we have today.  I've never seen such rapid decline. [/quote]

Me too.  Montgomery County and MCPS have definitely declined over the past 10-12 years.  We have had kids in the school system and have seen the changes from the oldest to the youngest.  Have lived in MoCo for 15 years and it is definitely not as great a place to raise a family as it used to be, unfortunately.  
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