I love my home...........

[Burma Jones]

I copied this from my response to another thread:

Montgomery County, MD went something like 70% - 30% for Mikulski. There's one Republican on the 9 member county council, and he's rino. We just bitch-slapped three republican ballot initiatives back into their fucking pie holes by huge margins.

We have about a million people. Our public schools are among the nation's finest - both for wealthy residents as well as the less well off. Our minority test scores have improved at a pace far out-stripping any other jurisdiction in the USA. All our County Cops have at a minimum 2, and most have 4 year degrees and actually arrested Mike Tyson without shooting him. Our roads are not plagued with potholes - although I do wish we would install more "smart" traffic lights. We have Public Transit that runs on Natural Gas. We have an INDOOR DUMP. We have WORKING FARMS and world-class restaurants. We also have ridiculously low unemployment. We are one of the, if not THE best educated jurisdiction in the USA, yet, we have welcomed poor immigrants, provided them with shelter and have spent a lot of time and money to help them live here, and yes, a lot of them work crummy jobs, but so did my grandparents....

Our taxes are nowhere near as bad as those in NY and NJ, and are comparable to those in Fairfax County, VA - a "Purplish" county.


Sometimes, in threads, I have suggested taking the fight to state and local governments. Perhaps that is colored by living here, but for God's sake, if people could see what good government can do.........

[prodigal_green]

1. I'm with you

At this point, imagining that any blue state, county or municipality will get anything out of the federal government is insane.

I guess I'm a "conservative" at this point because I trust the NY State (post-Pataki) and NYC (post-Bloomberg) government to provide for the needs of New Yorkers than I do a bunch of RED-necks. And if they hate us for our freedom, then they must hate our money too.

I'd much rather trust my future and my childrens' future to a bunch of Feminists, Queers, Jews and Immigrants than to a single fundamentalist so-called Christian.

Tax revolt!

Viva la Resistance!