Are you familiar with the Peter Principle, the certain people rise to their own level of incompetence?  Well, in Maryland we have the Porcari Principle, where certain politicians rise to an even higher level of incompetence.

It is named after Maryland Secretary of Transportation John D. Porcari, whose fundamental incompetence has been on full display these many months since O'Guvnah kissed the Blarney Stone and suckered the state into electing him Governor.

Today's lesson on Day 27: O'Misery in O'Maryland is on Public Service Commission Patronage.  What is patronage?  for those of you who can't remember back to your high school years, or didn't pay attention, or didn't bother to go, patronage is the purely political act of giving government jobs to your political supporters.

It seems that as people read more and more in Fiscal 2009 Budget (that is the budget year that begins on July 1, 2008), we find more and more political patronage from the hands of O'Guvnah.

In Part II of Starve The Beast, I want to focus on "interacting with government".  But not in a normal take.

Well, it's day 5 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, and already, business groups are pushing back on including computer services -- anything from web design to technical consulting to wiring cable -- in the new 6% sales tax.

All fine and good, but where in the hell were these supposed "business groups" during the Special Session?

I am going to hold my breath while I wait for an answer...

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”.

In a previous post, I argued that we need to “Starve the Beast”.  That is, we need to deprive State Government of its ability to wage war on the hard-earned income of Marylanders.  In this ongoing series, I will posit ideas and concepts on how we can do this.  This will cause pain, and in some cases, it may seem unfair.  But we must be willing to take the battle directly to the thieves and whores of the General Assembly.  If they thought the Special Session of 2007 was painful, we must make their pain even greater, as they are forced to evaluate every nickel of state spending as revenues fall dramatically.

Guvnah Marty The Mick O'Malley, General Secretary of Maryland's own version of the Communist Party USA, is at long last starting to unveil his strategy to overcome the "structural deficit" that a decade of teat-sucking by the General Politburo in Soddom on the Severn has given us.

His strategy can be broken down into three separate programs:

1)  Break any and all campaign promises used to whore votes from all his left-wing, on-the-dole constituents in metropolitan Baltimore and the Washington suburbs. 

2)  Raise each and every tax he possibly can and kill small business.

3)  Continue to let his politico buddies and financial supporters suck at the teat of Maryland government while he screws the actual hard-working citizens of the state.

Do you know the nine scariest words in America?

"I'm from the government, and I am here to help."

Ronald Reagan's famous quip has been repeated often, and it has never been more true.

I missed this previous article at the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter, but apparently we are giving millions every year to something called the Oyster Recovery Partnership... one giant earmark to watermen, with little show for it.