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I agree, unless the US government does something to stop the outsourcing of American jobs to China and other similar countries these jobs will never return to America. It will only get worse now that I predict jobs will also be leaving to South American countries like Brazil and Peru in the near future. We have let our politician turn our country in to a land of consumers and not producers.
Correct there aren't enough government jobs for everyone and not everyone can be a CEO of a company.
As an election issue, it is New Jersey’s chronic cough. It hacks away at lifestyle and affordability. It irritates everybody. It never goes away, and there seems to be no cure.
Some say high property taxes have turned into a terminal disease for the state. High taxes and high home prices are conspiring to drive people out, which, in time, will flat-line New Jersey’s real estate values -- if it hasn’t already. New Jersey: First in property taxes, near first in resident exits. Since 2000, the state lost 163,000 households and $12.8 billion in gross income.
"There is absolutely a spiral to it," said Jon R. Moran, senior legislative analyst for the state League of Municipalities.
Dan it's an age thing. When I graduated high school in the 70's MOST of us went to work. Blue collar jobs. Post Office, Police, Fire, trucking, mechanics,warehouses. These jobs were plentiful. Not anymore. The people that went to college then DIDN'T want to be cops and postal workers. Now they do.
You do have a good point there. Of the people I know my age that became cops, they all went to college beforehand. I think a lot of departments are requiring it, either by regulation or just in practice. Personally, I'm getting my masters degree now and am considering law enforcement afterward.
Someone else I know who went to college for finance is now a boat mechanic in Manahawkin. He says the pay is way better.
Cost of living in Ohio is MUCH lower than NJ. Thus the expectations of what the middle class should/can earn is MUCH lower in Ohio than in NJ.
Cost of living is proportionate to salaries. Someone in Ohio paying $600 a year for an apartment makes proportionately less than someone doing the same job in NJ who pays $1200 for an apartment.
Anyway, none of that has anything to do with the fact that businesses are closing down all around the nation, not just in NJ, and in fact this has been going on in other states (like Ohio) to a much greater extent and for a longer time than it has been going on in NJ. That's why your characterization of a national trend that is only now increasing in NJ as a "New Jersey meltdown" is extremely misleading at best.
It's the USA's economic meltdown which by now we are all very familiar with. NJ, if anything, is weathering the meltdown better than most states.
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