Larry Hogan: New Leadership for Annapolis

 

Larry Hogan: New Leadership for Annapolis

 

Larry Hogan is the Republican nominee for Maryland Governor. In the primary election he overcame his rival with 43% of the vote. Yet he knew the road to the State House would not come easy. Maryland’s voter base is nearly 2 to 1 in the Democrat corner. This profoundly blue state has elevated very few Republicans to the Governorship with Robert Ehrlich being the last. Determined to make a change Hogan burned up the roads to get his word out to anyone who would listen. His message of pro-business, reduced taxes and a simplification of Maryland laws has resonated in this politically divided state. In 1985 Hogan established a real estate business which has managed over two billion dollars in transactions since then. From this base Larry Hogan has accrued significant experience within the business community and his message poses a great challenge to his opponent, Anthony Brown. Lieutenant Governor Brown is part of a team of Democrats which has placed onerous tax increases on the backs of those who pay them. Governor Martin O’Malley, who Hogan is looking to replace, has funded a huge entitlement structure to retain power in Annapolis. Taxes have been increased dozens of times during his tenure. The rain tax is his newest  burden to businesses and the residential community. O’Malley is a classical Democrat and Hogan’s opponent Brown will walk in the footsteps of the present Governor. Larry Hogan’s platform looks to change the culture in Annapolis by taking the government off the peoples’ backs. Present tax and spend policies would evaporate under a Hogan Governorship to be replaced with a pro-citizen agenda. With his vast business experience laws will move forward to attract new companies to Maryland terrain stopping the hemorrhage of businesses fleeing to greener pastures. Anthony Brown has already gone on record that he will continue the present Governor’s policies which are to fund Maryland’s bloated state government and entitlement structure. Hogan looks trim the Maryland Budget and give relief to those who deserve it most, the taxpayer. Time is ripe for a major change in Annapolis. Larry Hogan is that change. Vote right on Election Day because those in charge have voted wrong for the last 8 years.

 

Mark Davis MD, President of Davis Writing Services. www.daviswritingservices.com Author of Obamacare Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster and Demons of Democracy. platomd@gmail.com

What is Wrong with Maryland

What is wrong with Maryland

 

Perhaps the title should be rephrased to what is right about Maryland. Nearly six million people inhabit the Free State as it was nicknamed after slavery was outlawed in 1864. Blessed by this State’s endemic Democrat government the word free has taken on an entirely new meaning. Maryland Government has a clear agenda to deprecate the entrepreneurial sector to vantage the entitlement class. Illegal is no longer a term permitted to be spoken by the bluest of blue within the confines of this State. Once removed from the illegal category “immigrants” can dip into a vast amount of cash being offered to them on the proverbial silver platter by Maryland’s left of the left government. Trumped up taxes, levies, fees and move support several million people who have decided it is better to sit on their backsides than work a job. Why are O’Malley and his crew so intent on giving away your money? Votes! Freebies to the indolent, lazy and sloths among us keep the support flowing for those who want to move up the food chain with a blue ring on his or her finger. O’Malley’s policies extort money from anyone who has a business or receives a paycheck. State coffers are starved for these funds. So where do all these funds end up?

 

An intricate system of entitlement fund delivery has been created in the Free State. This system is purposely complex to fool the most ardent person who seeks knowledge of it. Checks are flying out the doors of Maryland Administrative offices faster than the cash coming in to support the State’s socialist activities. Have a child out of wedlock in Maryland get a check. Have several children and receive multiple checks. Take a trip to your local entitlement office. They are located conveniently throughout the state. The social workers in these offices are begging for business and will welcome you with open arms. As you sit before one of them he or she will pull out a menu of giveaways and ask what your needs are. With minimal information to support your state of poverty these social workers are ready to write checks. Energy assistance, food stamps, housing supplements, cell bills, cable support and a dozen more freebies are waiting for you. Would you like to go to school? No problem with minimal qualifications or check for citizen status the money will be forthcoming the next day. Has your child been misdiagnosed with a chronic medical condition, there is a very good chance Maryland will send you a check. Perhaps you are from Baltimore City. Seventy percent of households there are single parent homes or so the government believes. Stay unmarried, but cohabitate, Maryland will send you two checks.

 

Health professionals relate multiple stories of patients on Medical Assistance, now Obamacare, who come to their offices driving Range Rovers, Mercedes and BMWs. Many of these patients live in the equivalent neighborhoods their automobiles reflect. Governor O’Malley and his minions could very easily compare the Medical Assistance assignments to the Motor Vehicle master list to uncover this specific fraud. He has chosen not to which in a sense sends a signal to these thieves that it is okay to steal from the taxpayer since politicians do it all the time.

 

Start a business in Maryland and the Comptroller’s office becomes your best friend. Do they lend you money to start and or stay in business? No. Do they provide guidance for your business to improve its function? No. Instead they are useless dolts commandeering your money in the form of levies, licensing fees, surcharges, taxes and various penalties from the outset. Recently a poll of Marylanders suggests that 47% of its residents would leave if circumstances would permit. This number may reflect the feelings of business owners as well.

To answer the question what is wrong with Maryland: government overreach, high taxes, extensive number of violent crimes and a political cast of thousands using its residents as pawns are but a few of the problems legal residents face. Maryland is on its way down. With a slight push many of its jurisdictions could go over the edge. As O’Malley moves off the stage he leaves behind a fiscal disaster so trenchant that Maryland will be bleeding economically for the next decade. Perhaps the electorate will vote “right” next time.  

 

Mark Davis MD, President of Davis Writing Services. For media content and author support contact us. www.daviswritingservices.com. platomd@gmail.com Dr. Davis is an on air media consultant. His latest book is Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

Maryland's Primary: Why bother

Maryland’s Primary: Why bother

 

Maryland is a profoundly blue state. Its election cycle for governor is a mere formality.  After eight years of Martin O’Malley’s oppressive left-wing agenda Marylanders deserve a respite from heavy taxes, over regulation and budgetary mismanagement. Yet those seeking the governorship from the Democrat slate not only want to keep O’Malley’s programs in place they want to intensify them. Taxpayers, under the Democrat’s platform, are secondary to the entitlement class that keeps them in power. Leading the pact of Democrats during this primary cycle is Anthony Brown, the present Lieutenant Governor. He has a 2 to 1 lead in the latest polls over his closest rival, Douglas Gansler. As Attorney General Gansler has amassed a significant level of baggage that is pulling him down in the polls. A comparison of his bio to his actual performance in office offers quite a disparity in content. Unions and the political fossils still in power have ordained Brown as their choice to take O’Malley’s place. Four other candidates running against Brown should not have wasted their efforts or money. Disturbing as the fact is they never had a chance. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/06/23/3123694/md-primary-could-play-a-role-in.html?sp=/99/177/507/

 

Five candidates are vying for the Governor’s seat in the Republican Primary.  Harford County’s Executive David Craig and Larry Hogan, a business owner, are the best known in this group. Craig’s tax proposals deserve a closer inspection. Does he really believe in lower taxes and lean budget management? From his tenure in office many questions arise concerning his fiscal priorities. Larry Hogan has moved up quickly in recognition around the state. His business experience allows him to understand the stresses present Maryland government has inflicted on those in the private sector. Three others in the Republican field are relatively unknown. They have a minute chance to succeed at this late date.

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With all the attention being paid to Anthony Brown both sides of the aisle are struggling to have their words heard. Moribund as this primary season has been most of the candidates, in either party, have yet to energize those who would place them in office. Since O’Malley has taxed Maryland into a coma no one coming after him can do much worse, or could they? To move away from Maryland’s tax and spend mentality now is the time to consider your vote very carefully. Democrats are crying for more entitlements, higher taxes and tighter control of those who they reign over. Republicans antithetically want the opposite in every sense imaginable. Whichever side you lean towards please vote. It is your right before someone votes it out of existence.

 

Mark Davis MD, President of Healthnets Review Services. www.healthnetsreviewservices.com platomd@gmail.com

Dr. Davis is author of Demons of Democracy and Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

Maryland's Exchange: too much for too little

Maryland’s Exchange: too much for too little

 

Maryland’s draconian state government suffered one more defeat announcing dissolution of its insurance exchange. Reportedly spending more than 125 million to bring Obamacare one-step closer to reality, failure was the final outcome for an exchange that never was. Many media outlets have reported on Maryland’s grotesque failure, yet the Baltimore Sun has not taken up the pen and written the final epitaph. Why the Sun is not reporting this story may be in the fact they wholeheartedly supported this government boondoggle. By withholding this story the inference is the left cannot accept defeat. Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown led the charge to flesh out this component of President Obama’s grand Ponzi scheme. Uninitiated in the complexities of building such site was no bar to appoint Brown as its head cheerleader. In the last few days the blame game has been afoot, with the Democrats hiding behind their usual spin.

 

Governor Martin O’Malley blindly went ahead with a project that was doomed from the start. Built on algorithms whose equations required a younger crowd to sign up for insurance, the mix of applicants has been the antithesis of expectations. Over 49,000 had applied through last week, yet the state has not revealed how many were paying customers. Since its incipience on October 1^st 2013 a series of glitches continued to plague the system. Even with the purported fixes the Exchange could not sustain the heavy usage necessary to make it successful. Already released from their contract the management company responsible for this catastrophe may face investigation from the feds. Does O’Malley have the wherewithal to sue for return of State Funds is only a conjecture at this date?  

 

President Obama has changed the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act 38 times by most accounts. Deadlines have been extended, levies have been delayed and mandates put off into the distant future. As Obamacare unravels, very blue states, such as Maryland, refuse to see the obvious. They are fighting their own futures by wasting money to keep this leviathan from being finally buried. As O’Malley looks towards Washington and Brown towards the State House remember their sheer incompetence as you consider your next vote.

 

Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews.

Author of Demons of Democracy and his most recent release, Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster. www.healthnetsreviewservices.com platomd@gmail.com

Martin O'Malley's final assault on Maryland businesses

Martin O’Malley’s final assault on Maryland businesses

 

Maryland’s Governor O’Malley has proposed to raise the minimum wage from 7.25 to 10.10 an hour, in three phases, over the next two years. His proposal also consists of automatic increases to keep pace with inflation. Martin O’Malley’s intention to extort funds from private businesses is not new. From the day he became the state’s Chief Executive Officer his desire was clearly to destroy the business community. Under his tutelage dozens of taxes, fees and outright levies have increased with the burden ending up on the heads of those who generate the majority of state funds, our businesses. His latest gambit to increase the minimum wage is fraught with landmines that he and his minions may not have considered. As the so-called minimum wage increases matching Medicare and Social Security taxes increase, as well as unemployment taxes and workers compensation reimbursements. Worse, O’Malley’s proposal robs more funds from business budgets by automatically forcing them to raise wages based on the quasi formula which establishes inflationary trends. The Governor’s irrational train of thought never takes into account the stresses businesses have to stay afloat. His excuse that 21 other states have higher minimums is a ruse to create the illusion the raise is justifiable. Of these 21 most are a few percentage points elevated over Maryland’s present 7.25 hourly rate. Twenty-nine other states’ rates are at or below Maryland’s. During one of the Governor’s diatribes he noted the unfairness of the minimum wage structure which impedes a worker from supporting his/her family. Entry level jobs, paying minimum wage, were never designed to support a family. Maneuvering state legislatures to manage their entitlements by drawing funds from the private sector is a ploy by the left to keep the gravy flowing to their constituents. In a recent gathering of elected officials concerning the minimum wage Douglas Gansler, Maryland’s retiring Attorney General, displayed his usual enthusiasm to stick it to the business community. Unfortunately, the next Governor Anthony Brown is also onboard with O’Malley’s intended folly. Governor O’Malley’s agenda closely parallels that of our President, neither one cares about the ramifications their insults bring to society only the votes they garner in an election. Raising the minimum wage brings the danger of pushing more businesses to the edge, resulting in less jobs available to entry level workers. Worse, the change in wage structure will accelerate the exodus of businesses leaving the state. In the waning days of Governor O’Malley’s reign he intends to do as much destruction to the Maryland economy as possible. Perhaps there are a few decent legislators left in Annapolis who have the sense and sensibility to impede O’Malley’s last financial fiasco. If not the jobless rate will grow exponentially adding further burden to an entitlement structure already seeing red.

 

Mark Davis, MD author of the book lawyers hate Demons of Democracy and the recently released book, Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster.

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Maryland needs leaders not followers

Maryland needs leaders not followers

 

Maryland’s Governor and Attorney General (AG) are running away from their respective offices to move higher on the food chain. Governor Martin O’Malley has his eyes on the White House as Attorney General Douglas Gansler looks towards the State House. Governor O’Malley’s few accomplishments are drowned out by the enormous number of unsolved problems he will leaves in his wake. Violence throughout the state of Maryland, especially in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County, has only received lip service from someone who incessantly brags of his nonexistent achievements. Taking his lead from President Obama, Governor O’Malley will waste several billion dollars or more on green projects to nowhere. Under his mindless tutelage a rain tax now falls across Maryland, the only state in the union to institute such idiocy. Taxes, tolls, assessments and other financial extortions from the state have moved up exponentially to fund O’Malley’s massive entitlement structure. Efficiency is not in the Governor’s vocabulary. His inability to understand business dynamics caused Maryland to be named a business unfriendly state by those in the know. In the event this is the record O’Malley will run on, conservatives will have no fear of him succeeding.

 

Attorney General’s office sits in prime real estate in the midst of Baltimore City, not in the less expensive state towers on Preston Street. From this perch a panoramic view of Baltimore’s nightly blood bath is evident. Since his installation as Attorney General, Gansler has made no effort to stem the flow of violence surrounding his office or elsewhere in the state. The daily body count attests to the fact that his very liberal agenda, to retain office, excludes the possibility of taking on the true challenges necessary to reduce the death toll. Gansler’s well concocted bio displays his strong push for; nontraditional marriages, health care solutions through the abomination called Obamacare, gun control for victims not victimizers, diversity in state appointments without consideration for merit, baseless green energy projects and numerous other left-wing assaults driving businesses to more friendly environs. Baseless lawsuits against physicians are one of his office’s specialties. Douglas Gansler has intimidated a sufficient number of people to keep his name afloat in the media, not to dissimilar from another cohort Eliot Spitzer, who followed the same path from AG to the Governor’s office in New York. Power hungry people will go to many lengths to stay in positions that give them control over others, Gansler is no different. Recently, Gansler made several gaffes when he insisted his opponent Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, an Afro-American, has only his race to offer as a justification for seeking the governorship.  This denigrating statement may move many out of his camp for obvious reasons. According to Gansler’s bio Civil Rights are a high priority for him, yet his speeches appear to reflect otherwise.  Both Martin O’Malley and Douglas Gansler have their priorities misplaced. Their motivations for seeking office have less to do with improving living conditions in Maryland than staying in positions of power at all costs. With these two men in charge Maryland has become more blue pushing state coffers into the red. Neither one should be honored with higher office, yet knowing Marylanders they like the status quo. Mark Davis, MD President of Healthnets Review Service and Davis Book Reviews, www.healthnetsreviewservices.com, platomd@gmail.com, twitter.com/americassage, Author of Demons of Democracy and the forthcoming book, Obamacare: Dead on Arrival, A Prescription for Disaster. To comment please join us on LinkedIn in the group, Government in Transition.