Those blue areas have more people per square mile (Camden, Trenton, Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, other hellholes....) than the red areas and it's those blue areas where 90% of the political corruption takes place.
Budget balancing won’t solve what ails New Jersey. Their taxes are way too high and business climate way too low. I don’t see how Christie could get that Dim legislature to do anything really constructive about those problems.
Yeah, I was pretty much thinking this myself today while I was listening to the NJ radio station.
For the first time, I read the name Chris Christie and my first thought was of somebody who is small and getting smaller. In this case, I’m not talking about his weight, but good for him getting that more under control. I mean his public image of power and influence. Even Rahm (DeadDeadDead) Emanuel looks bigger in stature now than Christie. But then, it’s still early in the game, right? Let’s revisit the topic one year from now with the campaign in full swing.
These Dimwitocrats will never get it. High state tax rates plus a heavily regulated private sector equals economic stagnation. That’s Business 101 but the Dem controlled legislatures in New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois all follow that model. Then these Dimwitocrats wonder why their state economies are a mess?
So is Chrissy going to go crawling back to his little friend in the White House?
For 20 years we tried to get good conservative candidates in NJ and get them into office.
We were betrayed by RINO Whitman, we tried to get others into the Senate and the Governorship, but the people of NJ just kept pulling the Dem lever, in spite of all the evidence of institutionalized corruption and Dem malfeasance.
We even had the State Supreme Court ignore state election law and allow Lautenberg to go on the ballot instead of Torricelli in 2002.
That was the final signal that NJ would never get out of Dem clutches.
Corrupt government, corrupt education system, teachers unions, state government workers, layers and layers of fiefdoms in local government(town,county,education district, state), high property taxes, unfettered immigration—these have all worked to destroy a once vibrant state that was the center of manufacturing and the American Dream into the late 1960s.
I left NJ in 2006 knowing I could not retire there.
Came to southern DE where the taxes are low, the people are conservative, the beaches and farms are close by, and small town America still exists.The only unfortunate part is that the northern, more populated part of DE is hopelessly Democrat, but they don’t fare that well in Sussex County.
Contrary to what you may have heard or seen from the NJ Turnpike, NJ is one of the most beautiful states in the country. Rich in history, beaches, farmlands, mountains, nature, it is an amazing place.
It is run by complete A-holes from the governor on down.
Twenty years ago we gad a chance to fix it, but we blew it as a state.
Now, there is no turning back. Boomers are leaving, and immigrants who need services are replacing them and then some.
The elderly will be stuck there and eventually lose their homes to property taxes.
A state where anything could be and was built, does not work anymore.
Soon there will not be enough in all of NJ to pay its bills for pensions, benefits and gov’t obligations.
And I place the blame on the Dems and the weak-willed, feckless RINOS who were their accomplices.
NJ is a microcosm of where we are heading as a nation.
Those blue areas have more people per square mile (Camden, Trenton, Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, other hellholes....) than the red areas and it's those blue areas where 90% of the political corruption takes place.
Who is Chris Christie?
He better Veto the gun magazine ban - if he does not his Presidential ambitions are toast. I cannot fathom how his supporters do not see this. Do they have an IQ of 24?
Fat boi is a DemocRat.