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Comments
I'm with Ron Smith on this one.
The Maryland TAXPAYER is broke and we are the ones who feed the Maryland and Federal Government.
No matter how hard Ms. Gladden tries to sugar coat this reality, Obama taking the oath of office is not going to change that fact.
Facts are stubborn things.
Posted by: Carole | January 26, 2009 10:49 AM
Whatever....the Maryland taxpayer isn't broke. People are buying the same crap, spending the same money.
Other than a few lost jobs, most Marylanders have not and will not feel the effects of the recession.
Gas is cheap again, people are out in droves shopping, restaurants are full for crissakes...there is no suffering on the part of Maryland taxpayers.
The government may be feeling the effects of the recession, because of its poor decisions, but people seem just fine, as evident by the lines at the stores.
It just another overblown reaction by who else? The GOP.
Posted by: King | January 26, 2009 11:27 AM
Hey King you idiot...
You must mean the lines you see at Circuit City- you know the one that is closing all 574 stores nationwide and is in Bankruptcy. Or at Boscovs in White Marsh- oh yeah sorry they went out of business also. Or do you mean Home Depot- sorry no one there to check you out- had to lay off a few thousand employees.. Just because your still buying your lottery tickets and buying groceries does not mean alot of people are not hurting. Perception is not always reality!
Posted by: kayleemackenzie | January 27, 2009 12:26 PM
@ King: I'm sorry, you must have missed the front page of the Capitol last night. Businesses in downtown Annapolis are closing left and right. Even very well established ones.
Maryland is not suffering as badly as other places, but it's not getting a free ride out of the recession either. Ms. Gladden's comment was ill-advised at best, definitely insensitive.
Posted by: Carrie | January 27, 2009 1:06 PM
What else would you expect from Lisa Gladden?
I remember her quote
it is patriotic to pay taxes!
Tell me Lisa Gladden is it patriotic to raise taxes in a recession as your boy king OweMalley did in the fall of 2007?
If Maryland wants to help its residents Maryland needs to lower taxes!
Yeah right!!!!!!!!
Posted by: jay | January 27, 2009 5:12 PM