N.J. lost 9.3k private sector jobs in February ’19

Save Jersey ^ | March 21, 2019 | Staff

[kearnyirish2]

NJ is a microcosm of what is happening nationally, and it is all due to demographics - the lack of American children drives much of the decay. Once the bloated government bureaucracy couldn’t be sustained by taxing companies, they squeezed taxpayers - and when they fled or stopped breeding to pay the bills, foreigners were trafficked here to keep housing and classrooms occupied. As they aren’t here to give but to take, federal “safety net” wealth transfers are used to fabricate a pseudo-economy, but as those funds can’t cover the costs taxes continue rising - and more people AND THEIR EMPLOYERS flee.

Not long ago NJ was representative of the demographic makeup of this country; that has surely changed as whites flee even earlier now (when their children - if they have any - finish high school, rather than waiting for retirement as they had done in the past). Our largest county a few years ago added a third language to all county business; all communications are now in English, Spanish, and KOREAN. Childless young people flee outright, as there are limited opportunities here but large bills awaiting them - primarily related to the public schooling of an increasingly-foreign student body (this takes about 3/4 of our absurdly-high property taxes). It is so bad that there is no longer any reason for people to invest in improving their homes; whereas in the past adding $10,000 in improvements might add $20,000 of value to your home, today you wouldn’t even break even on it. With every passing day the homes lose value, and the only way to sell them is to bring in foreigners who will put three families in a single-family home (imagine what parking is like). Homeowners aren’t just adding illegal apartments to pay their property taxes; they are also making de facto rooming houses (further contributing to the general decay and squalor).

We are becoming a state of 1%ers, government workers (our new upper middle class, with salaries and benefits far exceeding those of our remaining private-sector workers), and a massive underclass of welfarians and foreigners. Look at the desperate steps introduced by neighboring NY to keep Americans from leaving; they’ve re-introduced a form of quasi-indentured servitude, in which “free” tuition is offered to residents on the condition that they remain in the state for one year after graduation for each year of tuition they’ve received. It will fail anyway, because to remain in expensive states with primarily McJobs for the residents means those graduates would be working several jobs just to live there for the duration of their “servitude”.

Federal intervention (read: money) is the only thing keeping NJ alive; even many state workers in the capital live directly across the Delaware River in cheaper Pennsylvania. They don’t want to pay so many 6-figure cops and teachers, either...