Frederick wants to secede from Maryland, page 1

A local legislator is suggesting that Frederick County consider seceding from Maryland. Republican Lennie Thompson, who lives in Walkersville, is concerned that that state legislature is piling up long-term debt at an unsustainable rate. “Maryland’s unfunded liability for its state employee pension systems has gone from just under $3 billion in 2004 to over $17 billion," explains Thompson. “We also have an unfunded liability for retiree health care benefits that [are] over $15 billion. So, all told, that’s over $32 billion in unfunded liability that is -- more or less -- just simply being ignored.” Thompson plans to ask his fellow Commissioners, at their Tuesday morning meeting, to formally study the benefits of secession. He may have an uphill fight. One teenage girl rejected the idea outright with the comment: “I like Maryland." A middle aged woman coming out of the library thought about it for a moment and commented, “It doesnt seem like Fredericks big enough to be its own state.” One man said simply, “I think its silly.” Asked what he would call his proposed new state, Commissioner Thompson suggested the name that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used for the retreat now known as Camp David. In FDR’s day, the nation’s chief executive called the mountainous area of Frederick County: Shangri-La, after the mythical land in the novel Lost Horizon.

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So the 51st state could be Frederick....or Shangri-La. So there you have it! Frederick County, best known for....... its BP solar facility and minor league ball teams wants to become its own state. Texas representatives voiced their opinions on the secession matter last year in a very big way, and I have a feeling they were a little more serious.....