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Friday, February 08, 2008
hen pigs fly
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
The Blog of South Brunswick
Posted by Hank Kalet at 4:30 PM
Hank Kalet
Hank Kalet is managing editor of the South Brunswick Post and the Cranbury Press. His column, “Dispatches,” appears weekly in the Post and the Press and he writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He also is the editor of The Other Half, a literary journal, and a published poet. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie and their dog Honey.
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The Democrats, of course, deserve to be blasted, but it is disingenuous to blame only one party for the mess the state’s finances are in. Christie Whitman, after all, helped starve state government of resources by cutting the income tax and then left behind a timebomb by revaluing the state pension fund.
Gov. Jon Corzine is the first executive since Florio to take the state’s fiscal problems seriously, though his prescription is a bad one likely to have some unpalatable side effects.
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Well there is no doubt that both parties have their snouts in the trough up to their eyeballs. But, pointing out that both are complicit is a giant waste of time. That’s what the mainstream media is good for … … wasting time. It’s apparent that the taxpayers have few friends in the media. If 1015 boosts its ratings by leading a tax revolt again, it’s at least on the right side of the battle imho. The Hands Across New Jersey movement was sold out by the R’s with respect to Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. By the time that everyone realized, the momentum ws lost.
For the NJ taxpayers, this state is just a total disaster. Until the people paying the taxes stop, the gooferment mess will just roll up bigger and bigger bills. We can’t afford the ever burgeoning political class, the increasing bureaucratic do-nothings, the teacher’s union, and all the parasites that suck off the productive class.
Time has come to end: (1) pensions for everyone especially politicians; (2) gooferment education; and (3) the expansive worthless state gooferment.
“Unpalatable side effects”!
The author has to be joshing. The Corzine “plan, which is conveniently short of details or written legislation, promise to bankrupt the state with a huge debt that will never be liquidated, give the Trenton gang a pot of money to steal from, choke the state with cars driven off the toll roads, force business to pass along these costs to everyone in everything trucked thre the state, and — of course — we’ll need new state employees to track all of this.
“Unpalatable side effects”!
Maybe when the gang in Trenton drives out the productive class, then like a deadly parasite, they can find a new host.
Feel sorry for those leftbehind.
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