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Cities become distressed because the middle class runs away as soon as recession creates unemployment. You'd find the money laying around if you were hungry, checking every crack in the sidewalk hoping to find a quarter for a buttered roll.
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I think this is great, we should invest more into rebuilding the major cities of Newark, Camden, and Trenton. All these cities have great locations and have made huge strides into bettering themselves, with a little more help they can become great once again.
Cities become distressed because the middle class runs away as soon as recession creates unemployment. You'd find the money laying around if you were hungry, checking every crack in the sidewalk hoping to find a quarter for a buttered roll.
Your arrogance is a disgrace.
But corzine and christie said the budget was broken and in debt , so how can a 44 million dollar surplus just show up? Corzine said the debt was so bad we had to increase sales tax 1% now 44 million shows up?
I think this is great, we should invest more into rebuilding the major cities of Newark, Camden, and Trenton. All these cities have great locations and have made huge strides into bettering themselves, with a little more help they can become great once again.
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They are trash, and will always be trash.
NJ is in a major budget deficit. Much better uses for this money then wasting it on these ghettos
Given NJ's history with throwing large sums of cash at it's troubles, it would be an interesting story if we could follow the money and and know how it was spent.
NJ is the 'center of excellence' for creative accounting.
Open space funds are used for playgrounds in big cities and improving the African cat exhibits at Turtleback Zoo.
Dedicated funds marketed for the most empathetic reasons end up in the general fund.
The search for missing funds for several dedicated efforts have gone 'cold case' and have been stacked on the shelf along with Amelia Earhardt, flight 19 and Jimmy Hoffa's final resting place.
$$$ Donation to big cities appears to be NJ's own version of 'foreign aid' used in the hope that they will return the favor during elections. Time to pull the money plug in an effort to bring the patient back to a functional life. The infusion of money given in a dose of dollars to killograms/ years has been found to be ineffective and violates the ethic of 'first do no harm'.
Camden, Newark, Trenton, etc need to regain their business and residential prominance to become the jewels of the garden state. Throwing endless money at them is not the way to go.
Losing Federal aid would be a good start. Grants to expand the police force is equivalent to the first free dose of cocaine. Now your hooked and you need to pay for it. Can't figure who was copying whose business model.
A desire and a plan are needed to ressurect NJ's cities. Any money sent without specific intent and penny by penny tracking will essentially be burned in a 55 gallon drum used to keep warm while waiting for the promised global warming.
I think this is great, we should invest more into rebuilding the major cities of Newark, Camden, and Trenton. All these cities have great locations and have made huge strides into bettering themselves, with a little more help they can become great once again.
I agree.
Newark is definitely poised for a major rebirth. I was born and raised and still live in this great city and I have witnessed the post-riot bleakness of the early 1970's. I remember when burnt-out abandoned cars on cinder blocks dotted the landscape of the central ward. I remember what the corner of Springfield and Bergen looked like then also. That same corner now has an Applebee's and a Home Depot not far away. That famous corner is light-years away from where it was in July of 1967. There are success stories like this all around Newark. Newark has had a major reduction in violent crime since Booker was elected. While he is not perfect, Booker is exactly what this city needed and I think this new decade is Newark's time to shine.
When people call Newark a hopeless ghetto all it proves is that they have absolutely no idea what goes on in this city, probably do not know anyone who lives here, and never even step foot inside of it. People who live in and/or frequent Newark know all of the positive things that have been happening here.
I welcome the money that is going to be pumped into NJ's urban centers. Now that Newark has more responsible leadership, the money will have a better chance at getting to where it needs to be.
I don't understand why angry posters feel the need to constantly pop-up on threads about Newark and call the city names insensitive names like "ghetto" (we all know who they are {hint ~ look up a few posts}). I will not dignify him by quoting his username because he is either a troll or has a case of jungle fever.
I cant believe what I just read. How SELFISH of this CORSLIME!! I mean its just plain out selfish. Im disgusted. Can wait for this Christie to get in !!
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