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25 December 2009 - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!
And keep this thought. While the kids are unwrapping presents and you are visiting the family, the legislators in Trenton and Washington DC are not doing anything. And for that I will give thanks!

01 December 2009 - NJ Legislature: The Silly Season Begins…
As we have commented in the past, the New Jersey does their best impression of fiddling while Rome burns after election time each year. It is during this time that our elected representatives in the Assembly and Senate take a look at the prevailing issues of the day and then completely ignore them. Prior sessions [...]

25 November 2008 - Forbes: NJ begging for help for bad budget behavior
Forbes had an excellent article today about state governments going hat in hand to Washington to beg for relief for their bad practices in budgeting and spending. Subsidies, whether broad or targeted, do not deliver recovery. They veil bad behavior and poor financial decisions, while encouraging more of the same–leaving the underlying causes for failure [...]

16 September 2008 - NJ spending is fixed by courts? So fix the courts.
In this article in the CourierPostOnline, Sharon Schulman discusses the budget options available to New Jersey legislators. Her point is that there are not too many options available to cut: There is no magic bullet that allows a governor or legislature to give us property-tax relief without creating pain elsewhere. They are constrained by the [...]

14 September 2008 - NJ’s Do Nothing Legislature Returns
From this article in NJ.com: The summer silence at the Statehouse ends Monday when the Legislature returns from a 12-week break. Leaders hope to spend the rest of the year fine-tuning a new housing law, tightening ethical standards and passing long-delayed reforms of the government’s power to seize property through eminent domain. Senate President Richard [...]

22 August 2008 - Obama’s Supporters Think The Soprano State’s Leaders Are Doing A Great Job
Want Yet Another Reason not to vote for an Obama-nation? How about the fact that his backers think New Jersey legislators are to be commended? N.J. eco-group backs Obama, gives lawmakers high marks2 senators, 8 congressmen get perfect scores A state environmental advocacy group yesterday announced its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president and [...]

14 July 2008 - Daily Record Letter – Little hope for this corrupt state
Every so often you see something that speaks completely for itself. The following is a letter to the editor of the Daily Record that really sums up the state of things in New Jersey. It is printed in its entirety. To the editor: Wednesday’s Daily Record contained what was practically an inventory list of what’s [...]

12 July 2008 - A Society of Whiners!
Former Senator Phil Gramm sparked a major controversy this past week by saying that we have become a nation of whiners. Now, of course from a political standpoint, this was a completely stupid thing to say. McCain did the expected two-step backwards and threw Gramm under the bus. Obama responded with his typical snide and [...]

10 July 2008 - Meet the Bills: A10 (Reducing School Administrative Costs)
On a local (West Orange) email list, I am looking at bills that our representatives are voting on. It seems to me that we would want, for the most part, to ignore non-controversial bills and focus on bills that are subject to substantial debate. To that end, I’m going to look at places where my [...]

25 June 2008 - Hey Corzine! Paying down 130 mil while borrowing 3.9 bil is not paying down debt!
This just in from Forbes: Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Wednesday created a new state fund to pay down debt, a move meant to push the state long plagued by budget woes away from using one-time revenues to balance spending. “The goal is to constantly be pushing to pay down debt,” Corzine said. The law [...]

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