Blog: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back
If it feels like every month our national economy is taking three steps forward and then one step back, that’s because, as a country, for every three jobs the private sector creates, the public sector eliminates one. While the private sector has created net new jobs for 21 consecutive months (for the first time since 2005-2006), the public sector has lost jobs 16 out of the last 18 months.
Here in Maryland, over the last month while our private sector created 4,300 jobs, 2,300 moms and dads working in the public sector lost theirs, in a year in which Maryland has created 26,700 net new jobs (98.5 percent in the private sector).
Police officers, fighter fighters, teachers – all these public sector jobs, are jobs we cannot afford to lose. They are jobs that allow moms and dads to put food on the table, pay their mortgage or rent, send their kids to college, heat their homes in the winter, and serve as a multiplier for our economic growth.
Public sector job losses can kill this fragile jobs recovery just as surely as private sector job losses can kill this jobs recovery. We have to move forward together.
Martin O'Malley is the Governor of Maryland. He writes a regular blog for his official website.
bill bissenas
4:18 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
O'Taxey doesn't have to worry about private sector jobs in Maryland as the state is a federal dependency, largely dependent on federal government jobs to support its tax base. Maryland ranks near the bottom in business climate according to the Tax Foundation (http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2010/10/26/maryland-ranks-44th-in-tax-climate-study.html). Maryland ranks last in the country in terms of private sector job creation (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-06-17/business/bs-bz-maryland-jobs-may-20110617_1_maryland-ranks-pace-of-job-creation-seasonal-adjustments). And Maryland continues to lose jobs to Virginia and Pennsylvania (http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/09/16/maryland-loses-2500-jobs-in-august/). And according to the Mercatus study, Maryland ranks 43rd in individual and economic freedom (http://mercatus.org/freedom-50-states-2011). And yet O'Taxey's solution is to hire more union employees to help stuff the campaign coffers of Democrat politicians and which will create the need for higher taxes and more unfunded pension liabilities. But keep on electing statists like this Maryland. You'll get more of the same.
H.R. Pufnstuf
4:55 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Why is O'Malley dressed like he's going to go dance down at the Hangar Club?
Eludius
8:11 am on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
O'Malley is the only person that gets away with saying he cut the budget by over $6 billion, yet the budget has increased every year that he's been governor. That's quite a Houdini trick.
JustABill
5:04 am on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Never underestimate the dark side of the force. Maryland does not have an unemployment problem. These tolls will keep the bridges from falling down. This gas tax increase is only a tax increase on the rich, not the poor and working families of Maryland. I will fight BGE to stop the rate increase on your electric bills. What money? There was no money left in the Transportation Trust Fund or Bay Restoration Trust Fund by the Ehrlich administration when we got here. These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along. Move along.