O’Malley And The Democrats: Giving Maryland The Business

On the planet currently inhabited by Gov. Martin O’Malley – a fantasy world also populated by the state’s elected majority-party ruling class – Maryland’s business climate is not only robust and rejuvenated, but apparently the envy of the civilized, capitalism-loving world.

As noted in a column posted to the Maryland Watchdog Wire website, the Guv’nuh delivered alate-May speech to the Center for American Progress (CAP) wherein he championed “Fee State” policies that have led to a top-ranked education system (achieved via smoke, mirrors and silos full of cash); a wealthier populace (courtesy of the ever-growing, taxpayer-clutching tentacles ofgovernment jobs, pensions and public-sector unions); and “investment pipelines” (see: taxpayer-clutching tentacles) and the state’s leverage to “raise and attract more venture capital for job creation.”
 
Touting the business-friendly nature of the state is certainly one of the things this governor does best – even if statistics continually prove there is nothing welcoming, affordable or regulatory pleasant when it comes to Maryland’s current business climate.
In the days following the CAP canard there came a number of reports that show – in spite of whatever talking points were being dispatched from Planet O’Malley and its brownnosing masses – Maryland is as friendly to business as, well, as Maryland is to Republicans.
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