Posted on 09/27/2013 8:45:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I drive thru Jersey on my to and from NY. The northwest part of the state, the farmland, is absolutely beautiful. You’d never know that you were in that state. But sadly, like so many other states, the dense populations of the urban areas control what the rest of the state does.
As for the shore, its convenient. It has the ocean. But it also has Snookie. You can have that.
Much of central and south Jersey are farmland as well (between the towns & cities on the shore and those on the Delaware River) - I think NJ is one of the top producers of cranberries & eggplant (we are “The Garden State”, after all). Ocean City NJ is the best place along the shore I’ve ever been; it is a dry town (there are others, all founded by Protestants early in the 20th century) filled with vacationing American-American families (many from PA, as it isn’t as far for them as it is for me). The worst parts of the shore are the north end (where NYers like the “Jersey Shore” people go) and Atlantic City, which is an urban toilet.
People had been telling me for years to visit Ocean City Maryland; we finally went and while it was nice it was very developed compared to many NJ shore towns.
“But sadly, like so many other states, the dense populations of the urban areas control what the rest of the state does.”
White libs in the ‘burbs control the state; if urban areas did we would never have Governor Christie. Christie as governor of NJ is akin to Pat Buchanan in the White House; when things get bad enough white libs will support a Republican (as they do in NYC as well - both Giuliani and Bloomberg won as Republicans in a city heavily tilted Dem).
Good point.
It amazes me even more that the ‘white libs’ you describe are the way they are. If they’re all so compassionate, start a charity and do what you want. Stop reaching into other people’s pockets for your causes.
The Number One reason for leaving New Jersey....... tada ta da!!!
New Jersey
“It amazes me even more that the ‘white libs’ you describe are the way they are.”
Here in the northeast they are more racist than the Klan (while lecturing you about how the government needs to put section 8 housing next door to YOU). They started voting for Republicans when they saw their money being funneled into urban ghettoes and crime was going up.
When Repubs warn about DeBlasio winning for NYC mayor by harkening back to the days of David Dinkins (Crown Heights riot & such), they are fighting a losing battle because so many of the current residents weren’t even living there back then. The new transient underclass has pushed out white taxpayers, so a communist should be a shoe-in.
Ping!
Might as well post the footnote or note:
Syrin • a day ago
I’m a physician, and what is not being reported are the number of physicians fleeing medicine all together. Our most experienced oncologist at this hospital just announced his retirement as of January 1st. He’s 52. The cardiology group will stop seeing hospital patients, general surgeons not taking ER call, neurologists are longer performing EMGs, and I could go on for pages. My group is the third biggest group in the country in my specialty. We experienced 26% GROWTH this past year and our revenue was DOWN 17% from the previous year. There are even more draconian cuts coming in January. MOST of my specialty will be forced to close their practice permanently as they will lose money with every patient they see. You cannot make that up on volume. This means there will be hospitals that will literally have to stop all patient care activities as no department in the hospital can function, by law, without my specialty.
As bad as anyone THOUGHT Obamacare MIGHT be, it will be FAR, FAR WORSE. I stated years ago that this might be the single most destructive piece of legislation in the history of the world as it will simultaneously with a single pen stroke destroy the economy, destroy the best health care system ever seen, and put more people into the unemployment line than we’ve ever seen before.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/docs_flee_jersey_wouldnt_you_comments.html#
Bottomline:
Everyone will be paying out the wazoo for something that they won’t be able to get.
They will be paying huge premiums for Health Insurance but will be unable to get Health Care.
If the fat-slob governor of NJ would donate 1/2 of his monthly food budget to the state, everything would be just rosy there.
Spot on, once again.
I grew up on LI. Now live in Georgia. I chuckle when I hear people talk about the racist south. While the South may have had their stuff going on back in the day, this place has changed dramatically. It doesn’t hold a candle to the NE.
All one has to do is drive thru the very segregated towns on LI(Hempstead) or the suburbs of Boston(Beacon Hill, etc) and you’ll notice that things are a bit different up there.
As for the people of NYC, if they elect DeBlasio, they’ll surely reap what they sow. And throw in the prohibition of ‘Stop & Frisk’. ‘Troit won’t have anything on that city in a couple of years.
Thanks.
NJ only outlawed slavery 15 years before the Civil War started, and when blacks came north fifty years ago to work in the cities they were basically quarantined in housing projects (a situation that exists to this day).
We never had Jim Crow up here, but I believe southern whites had more daily interaction with blacks than many whites in NJ ever will (because of the close proximity in which they lived). Yankees shouldn’t be pointing fingers at the south, and Frederick Douglas told them so back then (due to how free blacks were treated in the north)
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