How many Americanized teenagers do you see working service industry jobs in Kearny? Those jobs still exist, the workforce has changed.
NJ didn’t really create a single private industry job for 11 years, yet the state had almost a half million more residents.
The economy and employment situations in States like NJ/NY/CA/IL are really broken, and now after 10 years of NJ not creating any private industry jobs in net, we’re looking at another decade of no growth.
Will we see the state population rise another 450,000 in this decade? Who knows, cause they surely won’t be working if they move here.
How many Americans do you see at all in Kearny? Not nearly as many as even ten years ago.
We did lose an electoral vote (even Jon Corzine admitted that without ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS we lost population). The fact is that many of those illegals took jobs that people my age did in high school or afterwards (landscaping, fast food jobs, gas stations, movers, etc.), and those jobs that weren’t taken by illegal immigrants were taken by LEGAL immigrants (been to a bank lately?).
NJ is simply turning into one giant underground economy, from jobs to illegal apartments, and it is no longer a viable tax base. As more “anchor babies” show up in public schools, housed in illegal apartments, the tax burden compels those who can flee to do so. The fact that our houses have no value is the main reason why 75% of the Americans left in NJ are staying.