The Maryland legislature has been called into a special session to find ways of closing an estimated $1.7 billion dollar budget deficit.  Yet rather than seriously look for ways to trim the budget the governor has threatened to cut services near and dear to the Democrats heart in an effort to get the legislators to vote for his package of tax increases and slot machine legalization.

While the threat of services cuts worries politicians in Montgomery County, the wealthiest county in the state, it apparently wasn’t too worrisome for the County Executive as he granted 9,000 county employees five hours off recently to attend the annual Diversity Day Celebration at the county’s Executive Office Building. 

So even if you take a modest sum of say $10 per hour per employee and multiply that times the number of county workers you get a cost to the taxpayers of $450,000.  While that is a lowball figure it isn’t exactly what I would call chump change either.  How much productivity is lost (yes we are talking about government workers) or how many people could have been served with the money spent on sending the workers to an event of questionable value.  But that is what we get in a one party state and one party county government.  Talk about a lack of accountability.

Hey Governor!  You might as well cut the county’s share of state tax revenue since they obviously don’t seem to need all of it.  Thank you Ike Leggett!

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