Posted on 07/01/2017 10:21:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
New Jerseyans were feeling the impact as a state government shutdown took effect Saturday, shuttering parks and other public sites and disrupting ferry service to Liberty and Ellis islands.
Among those affected were a group of Cub Scouts forced to leave a state park campsite and people trying to obtain or renew documents from the state motor vehicle commission, among the agencies closed by the shutdown.
Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the Democrat-led Legislature planned to return to work Saturday to try to resolve the shutdown, the state’s first since 2006 and the first under Christie. It came about after leaders failed to reach an agreement on a new budget by Friday night’s deadline. […]
Remaining open under the shutdown will be New Jersey Transit, state prisons, the state police, state hospitals and treatment centers as well as casinos, race tracks and the lottery. …
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Meanwhile NJ State workers enjoy a free paid vacation
because in the hours, days, weeks, months previously they cant get shiite done to create a balanced budget? Hope those inept tasbards have to work through July 4th too.
In in NJ and don’t feel impacted at all was at the beach this morning (US National park), look9ng forward to grilling later.
Even the highest tax rate in the nation isn’t enough to support a socialist state.
This state is a cesspool and I cannot wait to get out. Most of what is closed should be privatized anyway. This is a socialist hell hole run by the Lords of Trenton. The Revolutionary War was faught against tyranny such as this.
Is DMV normally open on Saturday in NJ?
Scary stuff on all States who have squandered citizens’ monies:
We’ve been hearing it for years: America’s public pensions are a ticking time bomb.
Well, at long last, the state of Illinois is about to expose just how big this blowup could be.
As of the 2015 fiscal year, Illinois had promised its employees $199 billion in retirement benefits. Right now, it’s $119.1 billion short.
That gap lies at the center of a years-in-the-making fiscal mess that’s threatening to drop the state’s credit rating to junk-bond status.
But Illinois is hardly alone. Connecticut and New Jersey—states that, to most of the world, seem like oases of prosperity—are under growing financial strain, too.
We’ve ranked the states by the size of their funding gap.
The lower the funding ratio, the more money the state has to come up with to meet its pension obligations.
FIND YOUR STATE ON THE CHART.
The town of Clinton in hunterdon county is full of love the muzzie signs.
“New Jerseyans were feeling the impact as a state government shutdown...”
Are you sure? Cuz most of them are here at the Outer Banks checking in.
Our state government’s shutdown - who knew?......
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