[mware]

Dick Morris was right about one thing.

Corzine is going to change NJ into a red state.

[theDentist]

Yup, that's what happened in Massachusetts, with many companies moving their headquarters to other places (NH, Va. Fla and Arizona) rather than deal with the Taxachusetts attitude that remains to this day.

[HonestConservative]

Lot of Big Pharm in N.Jersey, moving its technical manufacturing to N. Carolina to escape the unions.

[chilepepper]

there was high tech industry in new jersey??

[bmwcyle]

NJ will wake up someday and they will be a seasonal economy only.

[Cicero]

Much of it was university related. The high tech industries around Rte. 128 in Massachusetts owed their start to MIT and Harvard. In New Jersey, it was mostly Princeton and Rutgers.

But with skyrocketing taxes, insurance costs, etc., it's no longer as attractive as it was.

[xtinct]

s...pffft Who cares what happens to a Blue State's citizens? In addition to losing these tech jobs, NJ just passed a law for higher taxes a few months ago.

People don't understand until it's too late like Taxachusetts that taxes play a big role in whether companies start up and/or continue to do business in their state.

[Zeroisanumber]

Man, who isn't leaving New Jersey? Isn't their state song "Born To Run"?

[Thunder 6]

I love NJ. My family has had a house at the shore since 1964, but holy crap, the taxes and government corruption are beyond belief unless you have to deal with it...no wonder business is leaving.

Regards,

[Thunder 6]

BTW, love your home page.
Regards,

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

To all my NJ freeper friends. sorry But your state is getting what it deserves. The people elected Corzine and knew what they were getting.

[misterrob]

With the downturn in the telecom industry Lucent shed a lot of people. Companies that supplied Lucent also lost a ton of people. Verizon and AT&T have also let go a good amount of people. Plenty of start up companies that used to sell into the telecom industry went away too.

Not sure how liberalism has anything to do with that.

[Wuli]

The only growth in employment in New Jersey in recent years has been in government related jobs, state, county and local. Thus the largest financial gain has been in property taxes to counties and localities.

Following what's gone before, the Dim's in local and county government will demand more state revenue, so on top of the property tax increases we'll get more state tax increases, chasing more companies out, increasing the portion of the state economy held by government workers and contining the cycle of decline.

Oh, and you can forget reductions in state government with our RINOs, we got the Keane wing in charge now; no small government GOPers are they.

[Kuksool]

Hold on. In 2005, NJ allocated large tax funded grants for stem cell research. The media said it would bring industries to Jersey. What are the Jersey jobs?

[Lancey Howard]

LOL, that's quite a Democrat talking-points memo from James Hughes and Joseph Seneca.
Yay. Go, Corzine. Whatta guy. See? He's not THAT communist and corrupt. Etc.

[P-40]

At the same time, Texas added 165,900,

I swear Austin adds that many all by itself...weekly.

[sergeantdave]

Trying to vie with Michigan as the No. 1 view of an a##hole state in America, I see.

Forget it.

We're at 7.1 unemployment, and our stupid communist governor will beat your stupid communist governor any day of the week.