Lol, gas prices in PA have been higher than MD's for as long as I can remember, Einstein. Go ahead and "by" from them - pay extra to fix roads in other states. Pure genius.

The Democrat will always take from you your property and liberty. Always. They can't stop spending and they certainly can't significantly cut spending. The constituencies that support Dems demand more government spending, so in order to stay in power, the Dems must continue to spend.

Bill, you have exactly no historical support for your claim (history shows the exact opposite, actually). You'd know that if you had even a cursory understanding of Reagan, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama.

I like that...take the money from a bunch of losers to fix everything.... the fix is in...
With one exception, the public education system that continually dumbs down so that there will always be a bunch of losers...the majority. Lifetime politicians love this stuff...adds to the illusion..

Crap statement Frank...it's all that you can offer..

Only a fool with nothing constructive to add would make a comment such as that Frank...you continue to share the best that you have though...sad little pigeon..

"Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?"

Because a large segment of society refuses to support paying the actual cost of things. Hence decades of "no new taxes" pledges and dumba$$ crap like that. Gas tax hasn't been raised since 1992 and people wonder why the transportation fund isn't self sustaining. Absolutely stupid it wasn't originally pegged to inflation and absolutely disgusting that there are people out there selfish enough to refuse to pay their fair share and replenish the fund. Boomers have got to be the most selfish generation in our nation's history with the way they've spent their whole lives supporting the run-up of deficits instead of paying the proper amount of taxes for the services they demand.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

Could you share a few facts to back the boomer claim jag?

...you're unaware of the giant deficits run up over the last generation? Or you're saying that's someone else's fault other than the people who elected (for DECADES) to wrack up more and more debt rather than actually pay for things? I can't think of another generation that has done more harm to this country or was anywhere near this disgustingly self-serving. If you can think of a worse generation, I'd love to bump Boomers down the list. Just let me know.

Leftist/Dem politicians (and some Rinos as well) create problems, and then, to solve the problems they create, they propose more government solutions. It's a spiral that we see over and over.

Mr. Harmon:

Are you suggesting Anarchy?

I am suggesting that history will in fact repeat itself in order that balance of freedom may be maintained....Let's call it American maintenance...much like a very well built old house...without it, it will slowly fail and fall apart...the world will in fact take it's toll Jeff..

It's about power, and politicians behaving in a manner that they believe will secure this power.

Call it what you want though...

I would argue that throughout our nations history we have dealt with varying degrees of failures and managed to not only address those failures, but also improve. It's an evolving process, it's fluid, there are peaks & valleys.

I agree with you that our country is currently under severe stress and most of it is caused by those the public elected to office, but it's not the first time. Every generation has it's challenges.

We will weather the storm and be stronger for it in my humble opinion.

The band aid fix is in..

"O'Malley doesn't want to address the persistent structural deficits"

Huh? Well, first off, the state's budget deficit has gone from $2 BILLION a few years ago to maybe a $100mil this year and maybe no deficit at all, depending on what month's estimates you're looking at.

Secondly, you complain about O'Malley raising fees so as to address the now resolved $2 BILLION deficit...yet are also complaining that he has done nothing. Which is it? If you're going to perpetually whine in every comment you make, at least don't have the whining internally conflict from one sentence to the next, please.