Posted on 01/02/2014 3:17:23 PM PST by markomalley
Unexpected????
Center - periphery confict.
Capitol enriching itself at the expense of the provincials.
Yeah, how long before we have to ship off two kids there each year to get slaughtered?
yeah.
DC = Cornucopia
Fly over country = District 12
My In-Laws live there.
And they’re farmers...
Public servants?
Have the covert biggov supporters announced this is nothing by "class warfare and wealth envy" yet?
Falls Church is home of Northrop Graumman, Dyncorp, CSC and several other major defense contractors.
Fairview Park, which is located right by 495 and route 50 in Falls Church has half a dozen major military contractors in it.
I would say 75% of Falls Church earns its money as either working for the gov’t, or a contractor
So this is all nothing by “class warfare and wealth envy” right?
Seems every time someone talks about the politicians, the well connected and those in government lining their pockets and getting wealthy, someone always comes along tells us it’s all about the military and the troops.
Very odd.
This article is actually referring to the tiny independent city. Those companies are in Fairfax County — which is also high on the list!
Grew up in #4 but that was before the big onset of the lib population.
In 1975 my husband was transferred to Virginia from Long Island. We had a huge 4 bdr. 3 bath house, with a large piece of property, in a really nice suburb. Naively we expected Northern Virginia to be fairly inexpensive being a mostly southern state. Wow, were we in for a surprise. We did have the option of moving further from his office, in Falls Church, but decided the commute wasn’t worth it. We bought a brand-new house in a brand new subdivision. The smallest house in the neighborhood and it was awful. Most of our neighbors were NOT gov’t workers. We had a doctor and a fellow who wound up being the vice president of the Marriott Corp. Happiest day of my life was being transferred out of there, to southern NJ which was very affordable, and ,at the time, had very reasonable property taxes. We eventually wound up in an idyllic town in MA.
My husband grew up in rural Kentucky. Something we've both noticed in talking to people from there, vs. people from here (central MD) -- when you ask "how far is it from A to B?" In KY they'll give you the distance in miles. Here, they'll give it to you in time (i.e., "it's about a half-hour drive").
Government workers are paid better because they steal from people like us...
DC is a volcano spewing money into the surrounding area.
For the southern Md counties to have incomes among the top 25 wealthiest counties in the nation, the situation must be out of control. Not too many years ago Calvert, Charles, and St Mary’s counties were just rural tobacco and market garden farmer communities. Incomes were low! Now even they are bedroom communities for the hundreds of thousands of people on the taxpayer payroll.
No wonder Martin O’Malley and the rest of the blue-state MD legislature have no worries about crazy budgets.
Tough to take it seriously when they can’t spell Loudoun.
At least we now know where Elysium is . . .
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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