O'Malley and liberal elites to push for gas tax hike again

[Baltimatt]

MM--

Well, on the way up to Mondawmin, the drunk guy in the wheelchair was drawing all the attention to himself, trying to sing, bothering this woman who didn't want to be bothered with him. Hear the driver say that he had given this guy a ride downtown and he was riling up all the schoolkids, but there were few kids on my trip up to Mondawmin.

Coming back down was uneventful. However, across Reisterstown Road from Mondawmin some guy was doing a Michael Jackson imitation with dance moves, including stepping into the roadway every so often, so I got a little entertainment while waiting to go home.

Nobody bothered me. I'm sure BO doesn't believe that.

[sigmalady]

http://foxbaltimore.com/news/feature...ax-16855.shtml

Wonder why the liberal Sun paper has not mentioned this yet! So this article basically says the trust fund, even after being raided to help liberal social programs including illegal immigrants, still has enough money to maintain the current roads. They are ONLY doing this to pay for the Red Line and the new mass transit project they want to build in the DC area. First of all many people here do NOT want the Red Line built. Second it will be unfair to the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland voters who will be subsidizing it through their gas taxes.

If they INSIST on building more mass transit lines it should be paid for by sales taxes which everyone pays, not just drivers. Currently mass transit riders get a subsidy as their fares do not cover the operating costs of the transit systems. And while the liberals promote hybrids and fuel efficient cars, now they are losing money with the gasoline tax and have to add more again.

I guess you missed this story. It's on the front page of the print edition.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4488561.story

Business leaders and county officials are urging the governor and General Assembly to increase Maryland's gas tax or find another way to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for road and transit projects — even in the face of public opposition.

[sigmalady]

And WE DO NOT NEED the Baltimore REd Line. I live in Baltimore County and am VERY opposed to it. First off as someone who drives exclusively I think mass transit users should pay for themselves. Fox 45 said that 50% of the state's transportation money goes to the Light Rail, Baltimore Metro, and DC Metro and other mass transit operations like the MTA buses (where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case). In Virginia, Northern Virginia's local taxes pay for their part of the DC Metro while in Maryland everyone in the entire state, including Cumberland and Salisbury, pays for it. Also even if my taxes were NOT used to fund the REd Line, I would STILL oppose it as it allows more and more of an undesirable segment of the urban population to move here to Baltimore County.

A friend from Carroll County once told me its good that you must be able to afford a car to live there because that keeps certain people out. Many people here believve the same thing, and many in Baltimore County and Anne Arundel wish the Metro and Light Rail had never been built. Not just because of the taxes used to pay for them, but because of the crime and ghetto migration it has facilitated.
Its not that criminals use the train a lot to rob people and ride with their stolen boom boxes back to the city. Its that it allows a ghetto population to MOVE into the suburbs, which results in a ghetto culture arising in the areas where the ghetto people move to. Even kids and teens who initially were not ghetto can be influenced by the gehtto lifestyle and crime. That is the real reason that crime rises when mass transit is built into the suburbs.

You move a lot, don't you?

[Baltimatt]

Does anyone still have boom boxes?

[dogstarman]

The irony is that the more we build-up mass transit, the less traffic we get on the main arterials. You driving-only people should be jumping for joy at every mass-transit project that gets proposed: it means more room on the road for your PT-cruisers and more parking at your endpoints.

[ybnormal]

Whoever said the red line is for you. Although, people in Howard county will used the red line. Chill out. LOL

As I said, those with at least one functioning brain cell. Thanks for proving my point yet again.

[octoburn]

The really PITIFUL thing is that these corrupt Bastards who run this state have no intentions of cutting ANYTHING that is illegal and infringing on our rights such as CASA de Crooks, Illegal Aliens infiltrating our Sanctuary State (from GOD only knows what background) or speed cameras, etc.

At least Paulette Faulkner blew the whistle on on illegal aliens receiving welfare benes in a MOCO office with just a CASA crap ID and expired visas and NO ID at all! This was a few years ago and I am sure it's still going on.

If ONLY we got rid of the fraud just IMAGINE the money this state would save. But that isn't possible in this corrupt ONE PARTY state. Not that the republicans did anything to aid Paulette anyway. So Sad and frustrating. Just keep suckin' us dry O'Malley. The totally out of touch teflon half lepreCON.

I thought that WCBM interview six months ago resulted in having an attorney taking up the Faulkner case pro bono. What happened to that? Isn't Help Save Maryland headed up by a lawyer? Why can't he help or refer her to someone?

[sigmalady]

Does anyone still have boom boxes?

Nobody that I know.

[Marshan Man]

As I said, those with at least one functioning brain cell.

One of the few times you obviously weren't talking to yourself.

[octoburn]

Does anyone still have boom boxes?

Can't you read? The criminals stole them all and listen to them on their way back to Baltimore on the train until they get off at the 80s stop.

[sigmalady]

He was talking about buses, not the Metro.

Be that as it may, can you image Bloomin Onion on an MTA bus? Every black person that comes through the front door would make him quiver. Too bad he wasn't with me earlier this week when I rode the 1 between downtown and Mondawmin after dark through the hood of West Baltimore--both ways.

Thanks for the laugh YOu mean you don't get beat up at least twice a week?!

[Virginia Poe]

I thought that WCBM interview six months ago resulted in having an attorney taking up the Faulkner case pro bono. What happened to that? Isn't Help Save Maryland headed up by a lawyer? Why can't he help or refer her to someone?

For the last time NO...HSM is NOT "headed up by a lawyer."

And..you DESERVE to be kept in the dark.

[boink]

And WE DO NOT NEED the Baltimore REd Line. I live in Baltimore County and am VERY opposed to it. First off as someone who drives exclusively I think mass transit users should pay for themselves. Fox 45 said that 50% of the state's transportation money goes to the Light Rail, Baltimore Metro, and DC Metro and other mass transit operations like the MTA buses (where if a white person boards they are racially attacked like that well known case). In Virginia, Northern Virginia's local taxes pay for their part of the DC Metro while in Maryland everyone in the entire state, including Cumberland and Salisbury, pays for it. Also even if my taxes were NOT used to fund the REd Line, I would STILL oppose it as it allows more and more of an undesirable segment of the urban population to move here to Baltimore County.

A friend from Carroll County once told me its good that you must be able to afford a car to live there because that keeps certain people out. Many people here believve the same thing, and many in Baltimore County and Anne Arundel wish the Metro and Light Rail had never been built. Not just because of the taxes used to pay for them, but because of the crime and ghetto migration it has facilitated.

Its not that criminals use the train a lot to rob people and ride with their stolen boom boxes back to the city. Its that it allows a ghetto population to MOVE into the suburbs, which results in a ghetto culture arising in the areas where the ghetto people move to. Even kids and teens who initially were not ghetto can be influenced by the gehtto lifestyle and crime. That is the real reason that crime rises when mass transit is built into the suburbs.

more likely stolen TVs instead of boom boxes....
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http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/...b/-/index.html

Witnesses watch burglar carry TV from home
Police catch man at Linthicum Light Rail Station
11:33 AM EDT Aug 06, 2012

BALTIMORE —
Witnesses watched a burglar carry out a television from a home in Linthicum, police said.

Anne Arundel County police officers were called to the 200 block of Minta Court at about 10:06 a.m. Friday.

Police said witnesses told them they watched a man walking down the street with a television in his hands. The man was at the North Linthicum Light Rail Station, taken into custody and positively identified by the witnesses, police said....

[octoburn]

For the last time NO...HSM is NOT "headed up by a lawyer."

And..you DESERVE to be kept in the dark.

It's been six months since you said you heard she had "secured a lawyer."

Linky

It sounds like I'm not the only one in the dark.

It's nice to know that some things never change ~ like the obsession you have with ethnic purity. So what if O'Malley is ~ according to you ~ only of "half" Irish ethnicity? Of all the things one might justifiably criticize him over, the extent of his ethnic heritage isn't one of them, unless one is hung up on ethnic purity.

You continually post on here about some impending defeat or legal action ~ but when it comes down to reality ~ your "insider knowledge" turns out to be groundless blather. So don't be angry with me. Take it out on those who feed you what you try to peddle on here. They are the ones who are wrong.

[Wizard777]

We gave then slots and then we gave them expanded slots because it will create jobs.......for people in Atlantic City and Philly.

Table games could hit Maryland in March after commission approves new gaming rules

Hiring will continue in January with job fairs seeking experienced table game dealers in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and new employees will begin applying for state-mandated licenses by February

We give and we give and we give. We give until it hurts. We give until we bleed. But no matter how much we give it's never ever enough. There will always and forever be some moron in Annapolis say, hey I've got a new idea and it's only gonna cost a couple of billion dollars. We're a billion dollars in the hole. Yet everyone in Annapolis is going to wet themselves and have a stroke if we don't spend 4 billion dollars on RED AND PURPLE FREAKIN' CHOO CHOO TRAINS! MORONS! I think I need to say that again. MORONS!

Nevermind that raising gas prices is the worst possible thing they could do to the economy. That's just reality and they live in the land of psychosis where they have a never ending supply of money. Because every goose lays golden eggs and unicorns fart rainbows that lead to a pot of gold. God help us because these leaches are going bleed us dry.

[kelsey59]

Maryland has a pension problem. Instead of being honest about where the money will go, they are making up this crap about money for roads.

[Bloomin Onion]

And I think to be fair if there is a gas tax increase, the Eastern Shore, Western Maryland, Carroll, Harford, and Cecil Counties should be exempt from it as it will only be used to build mass transit projects to help Baltimore City and the DC area counties. Even the state admits they have enough money to maintain the current roads and the only reason they want to raise the gas tax is to pay for public transportation. I'll be more okay with a gas tax increase if ALL of it goes toward roads and the trust fund will not be raided anymore.

There are road projects that this state needs, like a second Route 90 bridge and the widening of Route 90 into Ocean City, the construction of a Potomac River bridge in Montgomery COunty to Virginia to repalce the ferry, and the proposed highway bypass of Manchester that was never built. I've also heard Carroll County always gets the least amount of funding since they are Republican and the state govenrment punishe them for it that is why the Manchester Bypass was never built and it took so long to build the Hampstead Bypass.

[AtticusII]

. A friend from Carroll County once told me its good that you must be able to afford a car to live there because that keeps certain people out.

Too bad your friend didn't tell you about the huge problem Carroll County is now facing, because the growing elderly population is unable to get to doctor appointments, get medical treatment, etc. Also true for those who've become disabled.

There is a task force, trying to jerry-rig some sort of transportation system to address this increasingly dire situation, all in the name of keeping "certain people" out.

[Baltimatt]

http://www.carrolltransit.org/

Carroll Area Regional Transit

[AtticusII]

Baltimatt,

CATS is part of the task force. They realize there is no way they can meet the demand for public transportation in Carroll County.

Not a knock on them, they do their best, but there are an underfunded non-profit organization.