All talk and no action

In nearly four years as Governor, Martin O’Malley has presided over a near-doubling of Maryland’s unemployment rate. Certainly all the blame can’t be placed on his shoulders, but it is worth pondering why the state’s unemployment rate is higher than neighboring Virginia’s or 14 other states which don’t have the advantage of location near the seat of a burgeoning federal government.

As part of his response to both the issue and the attention paid to it by his three main opponents, Governor O’Malley signed an Executive Order last week to create a 26 member commission to study the issue and report back to the governor annually beginning in June 2011 – safely after both this year’s election and the 2011 General Assembly session.

(continued on my Examiner.com page…)

Author: Michael

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