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New Jersey is richest state, but has some of the poorest cities
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| 08.30.06
| GEOFF MULVIHILL
Posted on 08/29/2006 10:25:01 PM PDT by Coleus
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:25:04 PM PDT
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
So, the richest state is also the ugliest state. Very interesting. Maybe all of those rich folks should spend some money fixing up The Garden Dump.
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:37:14 PM PDT
by
CdMGuy
To: CdMGuy
Owing to the dysfunctionality of the black community.
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:38:37 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Coleus
Luckily, Camden is also the easiest city in America to avoid visiting. There is absolutely no reason to ever go there, unless you want to be on the giving or receiving end of a crime.
It might as well be on Mars.
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:43:35 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Coleus
By this definition, New Jersey is
not the richest state in the nation. It may have the highest median income, but it also has a very high cost of living and one of the heaviest tax burdens.
The only accurate measure of wealth across the 50 states is median net family worth (assets minus liabilities).
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:50:00 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Coleus
A perfect liberal state. Corvee Labor ready. Believe me if the Elite Liberals ever get their way we will all be living in NJ.
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posted on
08/29/2006 11:04:09 PM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(Radical Islam is a disease and George W. Bush is the cure.)
To: dead
DING, DING, DING... we have a winner!
Don't never, ever go into the shitty city of Camden, day or night. Ever. Never.
My Class III weapons would hardly make a dent, in trying to save my own life, there. 'Nuke and re-pave' comes to mind...
To: CdMGuy
if they were gonna give the states an enema...They'd stick it in New Joisey....
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posted on
08/29/2006 11:25:08 PM PDT
by
M-cubed
(Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
To: CdMGuy
I've driven through New Jersey. Not very impressed. I remember, it was all industrial areas. Newark is the worst.
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posted on
08/29/2006 11:35:12 PM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Ptarmigans will rise again!)
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: dead
"Luckily, Camden is also the easiest city in America to avoid visiting."
years ago I heard Camden referred to as the plywood storefront capital of America
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posted on
08/30/2006 12:13:30 AM PDT
by
Bogtrotter52
(Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
To: Coleus
Because a big percentage of the wealthy who work in Manhattan each day live in New Jersey so they can have big homes with yards.
This is where this big influx of money comes from.
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posted on
08/30/2006 12:27:46 AM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: CdMGuy
Actually, New Jersey has some very attractive areas. The problem is that fully half the state is nothing but weeds growing out of a sand bar.
Pennsylvania should donate Philadelphia to New Jersey. It would improve both states.
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posted on
08/30/2006 12:38:57 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
To: tomnbeverly
They have got the liberal way of life perfected there.
They keep voting to raise taxes, which winnows out the "undesirables" that they shove in poor areas.
It's a creative way to practice discrimation. Basically, they can pass all the pc laws they want, but they've basically just priced all those nasty types away from their very white, very wealthy homes.
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posted on
08/30/2006 1:43:53 AM PDT
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: Alberta's Child
I knew you were from New Jersey by what you wrote..."very high cost of living and one of the heaviest tax burdens."...yup, that's New Jersey!
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posted on
08/30/2006 2:09:04 AM PDT
by
tina07
(In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
To: CdMGuy
Actually New Jersey is mostly a scenic state, full of nearly limitless woods and hundreds of miles of sandy beaches on the coastline. Huge sections of inland New Jersey are as rural as the hollows of the Virginias and Tennessee. However, most people only know New Jersey by driving through their Turnpikes or passing through their urban airports so that is why they picture New Jersey in their mind as dirty, gritty and run-down.
I made the mistake of driving through some of the bad parts of Newark once. It was like playing a real-life game of Quake only I didn't have any weapons at my disposal. So I gunned the engine, locked the car doors and hauled butt out of there.
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posted on
08/30/2006 2:19:33 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(This Program is Morally Good)
To: Coleus
A terrific example is Atlantic City, or at least it was about 10 years ago, the last time I was there... It was The Boardwalk, and a bunch of highrise casinos in the middle of a slum.
Mark
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posted on
08/30/2006 2:23:39 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: dead
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posted on
08/30/2006 4:54:04 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: CdMGuy
How would someone from 3000 miles away have any idea what NJ looks like? You've been to Newark airport once?
NJ sucks in a lot of ways, but not it's not ugly. Know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
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posted on
08/30/2006 4:58:34 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: tomnbeverly
Just like Connecticut. Unless your are wealthy, you live like sh*t. It is a state of, for and by corporate executives. A former corporate executive (liberal) who becomes senator then governor. The epitome of gun control, police state type of laws such as helmet law for bikers, primary seat belt enforcement, harsh gun control - only the elite can have guns.
A perfect liberal state. Corvee Labor ready. Believe me if the Elite Liberals ever get their way we will all be living in NJ.
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