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Originally Posted by Alex07860
You know, I was just wondering, with all the talk about property taxes, budget cuts, cost of living and mass exodus from NJ, Why are we contemplating leaving? Shouldn't we stay and fight for our rights to live where we do? We, as voters have the choice to elect NEW officials that will work for the PEOPLE, I'm tired of politics as usual, I may not agree with the budget cuts that Corzine is proposing, especially since a lot of small towns will be affected tremendously by the aid cuts, and altough unpopular it's the right course of action, we're mortgaging our futures and the futures of our children if we don't change our spending, simply put we can't keep on spending money we don't have, think about it, that's what's happening in the housing market. I urge my fellow citizens to vote and have your opinion count. I personally love our state of NJ, no other state offers you so much diversity and options, not only do we have suburbian living with open spaces but we also have NYC to the north, philly to central jersey and Baltimore to the south. I know it's qute popular at the moment to bash our state, but let me tell you, no where else will you find so many different types of cultures, do you think they celebrate St. Patty's day like we do around here let's say in Mississippi? or how about the feast of St. Genaro? I never heard of it been celebrated in Kentucky either.
Perhaps is the rainy day that has me pissed off at the moment, but hey, is jersey after all and we have an attitude so they say, all I can say in return is..."hey, you got a problem with that?"
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You are a dreamer. But a good dreamer. Vote? Why? Year after year after year people vote for trash like Whitman, Kean, McGreevey, Florio and Corslime and look what you get. Look !!! Have you accomplished anything?
Ok you did.
Corslime has your taxes higher then any place on earth.
McCreepy disgraced your state with his immoral acts.
Kean made sure your teachers are the highest paid on earth.
And good ol Cristy. The hearings on misleading the people on her EPA antics.
Florio???? Yikes !!! What garbage. Nothing even need be said.
Fairleigh Dickenson University PublicMind poll ranks Christie Whitman as worst governor of New Jersey; Jim Florio ranks second-worst of all time. How's your voting skills? Did your vote count or make a difference? You seemed to think so when you believed their speech and went out and voted for them. But like all voters who chant and march and say hooray for their candidate, within a few months they realize what a terrible mistake they made. Their hero let them down. Oops.......they must have lied to us. They must have lied and said anything the people want to hear just to get votes. Oh no they must be crooked. Kinda like..............not honest.
After all......why would anyone spend millions of dollars to campaign for a job that pays $157,000 a year? Sorta like Obama Salami spending $100,000,000 to win a job that only pays $400,000. Could there be more to the job? Like some corrupt payoffs perhaps? Yea...that auta make the job worth the investment, the payoffs.
Realize these clowns are not on your and mine side. I know you will not change your mind. You will continue to say hooray for your side even though they have double crossed you time and time and time again.
Where to you think all those property taxes you are paying go? Do you really really really think NJ can not run on 5 million homes times an average of $5500 each property taxes? Do that math. One might think with the property taxes you pay......well NJ alone can run the federal govt payroll without the rest of the states paying one thin dime.
As far as NJ being nicer then the other states? Maybe just 4 others. But that is not the point. It is home and most people want to stay but can no longer afford it.
Vote to make a change? Yea and I just hit the pick 6 on the past 10 consecutive nights. What those of you who are left need to do is organize a militia and take over your corrupt govt. Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return.
But the problem here is we do not have time to fight back. We are all busy working 2 jobs just to make ends meet......and failing. In the 60s we marched, ranted, and carried signs saying hooray for our side....and the govt listened. They were afraid of us. Today we are afraid of the govt. They rule and we are just peons.
I am on your side Alex but you would not see me at the voting booth, even at gun point.
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