Baltimore City Leads State in Economic Growth

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Originally Posted by Infinite_heights77

*I disagree with this statement!!! Come on Tom?!! If that is the case, how do you explain how Jewish people have become powerful and influential inside the United States?! It wasn't done by pleading and beggin' from other other ethnicities for your salvation. You really need to read Joel T. Kotkin's work, Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy.

Jewish people have a strong education and work ethic. Jewish people are powerful and influental because they are economically successful. Take Goldman Sachs, the biggest investment bank on the planet. The executive team has people with last names Blankfein (CEO), Solomon (president), Schwartz (CFO), Friedman, Horwitz (secretary), .... Let's try some well known Jewish CEOs. Sergey Brin and Larry Page / Google, Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook, Larry Ellison / Oracle, Michael Dell / Dell Computer, Jeff Zucker / CNN, Bob Iger / Disney, Mike Bloomberg, .... The list goes on and on.


Any President, Senator, Congressman, or Governor is going to drop anything they're doing to take a phone call from most of that list. When the US economy was melting, Goldman Sachs was sitting in the White House pulling the strings. An inexperienced 1 term Illinois Sentator certainly wasn't up to the task. If you're worth a billion dollars and control a major corporation, people take your call and listen to what you have to say. You're also feeding huge dollars into the political machine to assure access. The Clintons and Obamas aren't going to die paupers. Dubya already had his family money from it.
They didn't do that from working class campaign contributions.


If you look at the new tech companies, the executive teams are largely Indian/Asian. Another group with a strong education and work ethic. In 30 years, the "richest people" list is going to have an awful lot of Indian/Asians on it.


What determines how close you come to maximizing your potential is largely your parents. They instill the value system into you. Successful people almost always had parents who did that and they also had the good fortune to be born intelligent and have access to educational opportunities. It's kind of hard to maximize your potential when you don't have parents doing that and you attend a failed school system.

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Good for Baltimore!

[TommyCarcetti]

More data identifying the economic shift underway:

Carroll County's low population growth rate may be 'new normal' - Carroll County Times

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Honestly who cares? I'm hoping that people will stop judging what is good and bad by DOLLAR SIGNS only. Baltimore has the potential to be a really beautiful city. I've know for years that people KEEP MOVING THERE as a landlord. Baltimore does have some bad things, but it is CHOK FULL of history and art. It also has the potential to be a city with a lot of natural beauty.


But CARROLL COUNTY? Are you sure the population is not growing there? There has been a TON of new development, and CC was BOOMING. Maybe it is slowing down, but compared to what? My personal feeling is that some people in Carroll County moved there because they did NOT want to live in an urban area. Any slow down there may not be so bad for them.

CC seems to be one of the many places in Maryland with little or no control over growth. If they want to cut down all of their trees and get rid of all of the farms to coat the place with Mc Mansions, is that good? Soon the entire state will be covered in vinyl and concrete and there will be no where to run.