Anonymous wrote:Yet another grim warning about Montgomery County's economy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-economic-slow/2021/06/24/4fdd0cd8-d427-11eb-9f29-e9e6c9e843c6_story.html

Over the past five years, the report adds, Fairfax County outpaced Montgomery in adding research jobs in life sciences - and industry that Mongomery has touted as a cornerstone of its economic development strategy.

To reverse course, the report proposes the formation of a $275 million job creation fund that would offer grants and other perks to companies willing to set up shop or expand operations in the Maryland suburb of 1 million people. The District and Northern Virginia have unveiled similar incentive programs in recent months, but it is unclear whether officials in liberal Montgomery, who have been focused on supporting vulnerable residents hit hardest by the pandemic, will be receptive to the idea.

Leftists like to say that Virginia is winning for the cynical reason that Americans prefer "death sciences" (military/defense) to life sciences. Well, Virginia is winning in life sciences too. The left does not want to admit that the reason Montgomery County is failing is because of its socialistic policies and woke ideology of its government.





MoCo is a government town. When you look at the top Montgomery County employers, they are:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Montgomery County Public Schools
U.S. Department of Defense
County of Montgomery

So, federal government and county government.
If you don't work for the government, then where do you work? Probably Northern Virginia.

This is what socialism is - everybody works for the government, and relies on the government for their own income AND communal public services. Socialism doesn't work, because eventually you urn out of other people's money. That is exactly what is happening right now. Never mind the fact that the County Executive and County Council are focused on climate virtue signaling (yes climate change is real, but how exactly is one county going to reverse climate change? China and India will wipe away any progress one US county makes in one hour, and all the tax dollars will be wasted) and Racial Equity and Social Justice. While it is admirable that people want to help the lowest earning residents, we need more ladders to climb up than temporary boosts in the form of handouts. And this is just not happening.

Socialism is ingrained in the Montgomery County system. The government and all its services are omnipresent and feed off their own bureaucracy. Also, the County Executive and his cult of personality in Takoma Park remind me of an old Soviet political vanguard. They are so into their own revolutionary facade but they don't know how to actually govern effectively, and turn to authoritarianism to hold power instead (refer to our own pandemic regime, and the control of public employee unions) People like Elrich also want to shut down criticism and free speech.

Why does Montgomery County have to feel like 1980s East Germany? Mr. Elrich Tear Down This Wall .. the metaphor can be extended to the Potomac River, and an additional bridge crossing and highway expansion, which will enable people to migrate across the river like they moved to the West when the Berlin Wall came down.

How can we permanently end Socialism in Montgomery County?

Anonymous wrote:"Marc Elrich is a Stalinist" may be the most foolish thing I have ever read on DCUM, which is saying something.

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Anonymous wrote:"Marc Elrich is a Stalinist" may be the most foolish thing I have ever read on DCUM, which is saying something.

It’s only foolish to you because you’ve never seen/heard the word “Stalinist” prior to this thread.

Anonymous wrote:"Marc Elrich is a Stalinist" may be the most foolish thing I have ever read on DCUM, which is saying something.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

If government control of liquor stores is the benchmark for socialism, I ask Virginia to step forward and take a bow.

dp.. don't be obtuse. That was just an example.

MoCo is not completely socialist, but some of its policies knocks on the door of it and is way more left leaning than many other counties, especially around here.

Oh, of course. What other private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

Or do you think socialist is just a synonym for liberal, or maybe very liberal?

Except Elrich isn't a liberal. He's authoritarian anti-capitalist.

He's authoritarian on Covid policies and making Moco a police state.

Also a liberal would be in favor of more housing with fewer regulations so that markets can open up and make homes for the kind of "diverse" people Elrich claims to want to live here.

Instead, he's like this hellish mix of Socialism and NIMBYism. In his hatred of so-called new money, he is just protecting the old money, AKA existing homeowners. This matches the Soviet metaphor from OP. He is the guy of the party elite, the insiders, with some woke diversity just for show (like the USSR nationality policies under Stalin). He doesn't want people to come here and grow businesses and keep their own money, he either wants people who a) work for the government and get rich off the government or b) rely on the government and its "equity" policies. He doesn't want young people here who work hard and earn money in the private sector.

So I would actualy say Marc Elrich is a Stalinist, not a liberal.

That’s actually one of the most enlightened things I’ve ever read on DCUM.

Spot-on.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

If government control of liquor stores is the benchmark for socialism, I ask Virginia to step forward and take a bow.

dp.. don't be obtuse. That was just an example.

MoCo is not completely socialist, but some of its policies knocks on the door of it and is way more left leaning than many other counties, especially around here.

Oh, of course. What other private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

Or do you think socialist is just a synonym for liberal, or maybe very liberal?

Except Elrich isn't a liberal. He's authoritarian anti-capitalist.

He's authoritarian on Covid policies and making Moco a police state.

Also a liberal would be in favor of more housing with fewer regulations so that markets can open up and make homes for the kind of "diverse" people Elrich claims to want to live here.

Instead, he's like this hellish mix of Socialism and NIMBYism. In his hatred of so-called new money, he is just protecting the old money, AKA existing homeowners. This matches the Soviet metaphor from OP. He is the guy of the party elite, the insiders, with some woke diversity just for show (like the USSR nationality policies under Stalin). He doesn't want people to come here and grow businesses and keep their own money, he either wants people who a) work for the government and get rich off the government or b) rely on the government and its "equity" policies. He doesn't want young people here who work hard and earn money in the private sector.

So I would actualy say Marc Elrich is a Stalinist, not a liberal.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

If government control of liquor stores is the benchmark for socialism, I ask Virginia to step forward and take a bow.

dp.. don't be obtuse. That was just an example.

MoCo is not completely socialist, but some of its policies knocks on the door of it and is way more left leaning than many other counties, especially around here.

Oh, of course. What other private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

Or do you think socialist is just a synonym for liberal, or maybe very liberal?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

If government control of liquor stores is the benchmark for socialism, I ask Virginia to step forward and take a bow.

dp.. don't be obtuse. That was just an example.

MoCo is not completely socialist, but some of its policies knocks on the door of it and is way more left leaning than many other counties, especially around here.

Oh, of course. What other private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

Or do you think socialist is just a synonym for liberal, or maybe very liberal?

Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you please explain how Montgomery County is a socialist regime?

MoCo elected a tyrant like Erlich.

Which private enterprises has Elrich nationalized?

https://redmaryland.com/2019/11/comrade-elrichs-kirwan-plan-government-run-pot-stores/

Yes it's a right wing blog, but the quotes from Elrich are real and this is actually something he wants to do.

Instead of privatize liquor control... moco has a liquor monopoly that loses money and only plays to the hands of powerful public employee unions... Elrich wants to expand it to include marijuana. State controlled, socialist marijuana. That's the most Takoma Park thing I've ever heard.

If government control of liquor stores is the benchmark for socialism, I ask Virginia to step forward and take a bow.

dp.. don't be obtuse. That was just an example.

MoCo is not completely socialist, but some of its policies knocks on the door of it and is way more left leaning than many other counties, especially around here.