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Democrats blamed the past eight years and the problems we have as a country on the fact that there was a Republican in the White House, and that the GOP also controlled Congress untill 2006.
So here in Jersey, we have ridiculously high taxes and a host of other problems, and we have been essentially under Democrat control in the Governor's office and legislature.
So, how come it's not the Dem's fault in our state? If you can so quickly blame the nation's fault on the Republicans, why can't the same argument be made about the Democrat-controlled state leadership?
I can think of thousands of New Jerseyans who have fled to other states because it's negatively impacted theirs to the point that they couldn't live here anymore.
and I can point you to numerous posts just on this forum
from folks who are moving into NJ
City-data posters aside, we're what's considered an outflow state. Like that other bastion of sound financial management, California.
If we did away with the sanctuary city nonsense we'd be even more of an outflow state.
That's not good from a financial prospective, by the way.
Just to be clear, we have an outflow relationship with the rest of the nation (more people leave the state to move to other states than move to this state from other states). We have a growing population, though, because of births and international immigration.
Slower population growth or declining population is not necessarily a bad thing, as it opens up the possibility that per capita income can rise. Imagine if the people who left the state were all in the bottom quintile of earners; they have chronic employment issues and cannot afford to live in a high-cost metro any longer. This sort of population outflow would be great for the financial health of the state. The problem with NJ's population change is that its growing slower because of job outflow and slower job creation. In this sort of environment, per capita income decreases because labor is not perfectly mobile and some people are attached to where they live.
Never fear, no matter who wins in November 2009 it'll be NJ Political business as usual in 2010 and beyond.
On a lighter note: I choose Ben Richards - that boy is one mean "----------er", that's the type we really need.
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