Annapolis - Modest improvements in Maryland's unemployment rate and month-to-month employment figures, announced today by the U.S. Department of Labor, are not nearly enough to move the needle on the state's status as a regional laggard in economic performance.
Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia have experienced lower rates of job declines since 2007. So far this year, Virginia's gain of 19,200 jobs, Pennsylvania's gain of 33,000 jobs and the District's gain of 6,500 jobs are drastically higher than Maryland's gain of just 4,200.
"Martin O'Malley can order the state's economic development office to sit around and do bar graphs and pie charts all day long," said Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan. "The fact remains that Maryland is a regional laggard in loss of taxpayers, job growth, and businesses lost."
A Department of Business and Economic Development "report" issued today and a Governor's blog item posted yesterday attempt to argue that Maryland's job growth is better than that of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Governor O'Malley has repeatedly been accused by several well-respected organizations of cherry-picking data and putting out misleading, incorrect, and false economic data.
"There is no need to have economic development staff waste time concocting convoluted charts and graphs for what is simple and undeniable math," added Hogan. "If the governor really cares about job growth, he should order his staff to determine what the problems are, and get to work on solutions, rather than to engage them in political spin and propaganda designed to fudge the numbers to make him look good."
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5 comments:
You have absolutely pegged O'Malley.
Everyone - (at least everyone on this side of the Bay bridge) - knows very well that our area has been devastated by business & plant closures.
This Governor will peddle 'snake oil' all day long to try and bolster Obama's national ratings. He'll even go so far as to mislead our general population.
Thanks Joe - for trying to set the record straight as opposed to outright distortion.
5:19, what you say is correct but the problem is that all the a**hats living in Montgomery, Prince Georges and Baltimore Counties will always outvote us because they are sucking at the teat of O'Malley's government largesse.
To 5:19 & 5:35
Secession looks to be our only viable option to rid ourselves from this repressive form of present governance. The sooner we move the better off we'll be.
I think we are missing the boat here, the real worry should NOT be how Omalley tries to help Obama BUT Omalley will in my opinion attempt to run for President in 2016 THEN WE ARE REALLY IN TROUBLE! While on the topic of Md why please tell me why our? tax dollars should be used to spay or neuter an animal! What would the criteria be? Income? I don't want to pay for neutering someones pit bull they walk with a chain or leave out in the weather! I didn't do Fact Check but has Salisburys crime rate gone down by 42%? i can't believe that is true.
One more thing...why is it OK for anyones insurance plan to pay for VIAGRA FOR MEN but NOT to pay for contraceptives. Lets see Viagra plus sex without contraception equals a baby somebody has to raise and pay for. DO YOU want your tax dollars paying for those babies? FAIR IS FAIR
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