Day 1: O’Misery in O’Maryland

With the dawn of 2008, Marylanders awake to a new state of spending and taxation that will make the big-government Keynesianism of the Great Depression pale in tremendous comparison. New sales taxes, new gas taxes, new tobacco taxes. The list goes on and on. Maryland will now reap the benefits of a Martin O’Malley victory in 2006. Having squandered a $1.4 billion surplus during 2007, the O’Guvnah created a brand new $1.8 billion crisis deficit through the year for 2008 that resulted in some of the largest tax increases ever to fun an ever-expanding fascist bureaucracy and jobs program we politely call “Maryland State Government”.

Lied to by the O’Guvnah and his Democrat sycophants in the General Assembly; betrayed by Republicans like Wade Kach and Page Elmore, Marylanders had to suffer the indignity of four-week “Special Session” that broke the law, betrayed our Constitution, and attempted to separate those who would govern from the consent of the governed.

So what can we do? I for one, intend to document this new era of non-representative government every day this year in a series I will call “O’Misery in O’Maryland”. Second, I plan to argue forcefully that we start to starve the beast.

That’s right. Starve it. Starve state government. Starve the Governor and his accomplices in the General Assembly. “Thy despot’s heal is on thy shore,” our state song sings. And while O’Guvnah is certainly no Abraham Lincoln, he rules with an iron fist of vengeance against slights both real and perceived.

Don’t believe me? Ask Nancy Grasmick. 

How do we starve the beast? That will be a series of posts I will begin, offering new ideas every day or so. And yes, there will be collateral damage. My ideas will cause pain – but pain must be felt if we are to enrage the masses into realizing the real damage that this governor and this General Assembly are doing to our state through their insistence on paying for their outrageous incumbent protection programs on the backs of hardworking taxpayers.

We must ignite a new revolution, and make our fury and our rage and our anger felt in the hearts and mind of every politician in Maryland – from our county councilmen to our state legislators. We must starve the beast, and increase the pressure. We must question their character, their integrity, and their honesty. We cannot let live in a vacuum any longer. The noise and din must rise from our homes, our offices, and our stores – a noise so loud and so angry that they fear for their offices and their names. 

We should not surrender our freedom and our liberty to  incessant drumbeat of a liberal fascist working to expand his reach into facet of our lives. As free-born men and women of Maryland, we cannot sit by calmly watching our state descend into a pit of never-ending despair and hopelessness as public employee unions and liberal special-interest groups attempt to steal the fruit of our labors and our life’s work. That is all excessive taxation is: theft by legislation.

And we cannot let state government act like a thief in the night!