Red America Is Abandoning Jersey
In Its Hour of Need. Menendez
Is Leading The Push Back.
Star Ledger [Newark, NJ],
by
Tom Moran
Original Article
Posted By: poliposter,
5/17/2020 11:31:49 AM
After Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Michael battered Florida in successive years, in 2017 and 2018, the federal government sent $7 billion to aid the recoveries. We are all Americans, and people of Florida were innocent victims who needed our help. No one argued it. But that patriotic reflex is missing now, in New Jersey’s hour of need. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is resisting what he calls a “blue state bailout.” And GOP Sen. Rick Scott, who was governor of Florida during both hurricanes, hit the same note on the Senate floor Wednesday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ronniethek 5/17/2020 11:43:21 AM (No. 413654)
I escaped the clutches of these SOB's last year and moved to Florida for good. Piss on'em I don't want to pay for the Dems buying off the government workers with their bloated pensions etc. Also the waste and fraud spending on illegals and other programs. NJ can go screw itself.
60 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
JayD 5/17/2020 11:47:59 AM (No. 413662)
The article's author and the leftist politicians are either disingenuous or ignorant, take your pick. It's just time to open up businesses again so they don't have the pandemic to use as an excuse for their excesses and greed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/17/2020 11:48:13 AM (No. 413663)
Menendez should b pushing a broom in jail .He is a dirty ,dirty liar .But it IS NJ . They are lucky Kalifornia & NY get press exposure ( nothing much happens but it is sorta exposed) . NJ is the Devil’s Garden .Where most of their politicos are eventually jailed when past their useful date ( except menendez,yet )
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/17/2020 11:52:05 AM (No. 413671)
Get rid of dem & we'll talk.
16 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/17/2020 11:54:59 AM (No. 413679)
These guys hand out cash for votes (government union pension NEGOTIATIONS, seriously ?) on the premise that sooner or later when it crashes they will have access to 49 states' worth of other peoples money. Tell the NJ pension fund to start buying (and paying) in Bitcoin.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Avanti1 5/17/2020 11:55:25 AM (No. 413680)
New Jersey's corruption and high taxes are driving wealthy residents to leave the state.
Instead of reforming their failed policies, politicians in New Jersey are seeking bailouts from residents of well run states.
I say they made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/17/2020 11:58:51 AM (No. 413686)
New Jersey is totally corrupt. Fix that first.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/17/2020 12:02:30 PM (No. 413692)
Somebody remind me please...exactly when was the last time New Jersey did NOT have an "hour of need"?
30 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 5/17/2020 12:02:54 PM (No. 413695)
Tom Moran, the editorial page editor is left of Mao Tse-Tung and a full fledged Commie. Robert Menendez is a full fledged creep from the bowels of Hudson County with full Democrat Immunity. The double and triple dipping into the state and local pension funds has been going on for far too long. That's where one serves in different posts in different towns simultaneously so you get a pension from each locality. Moran also led the fight against Christie during the Bridgegate fiasco. That was his revenge for Christie berating him for some stupid question at a town hall. New Jersey shouldn't complain about being a "donor state" because it's Socialism in practice, which is what our politicians believe in. And the the ones bearing the brunt of this are the property owners who pay obscenely high property taxes along with a high sales tax and income tax to fund this greed. I stand with McConnell on this...not one red cent to NJ unless ropes, not strings, are tied to how the money gets granted and spent! This would be one way of forcing reform on these greedy politicians.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/17/2020 12:06:42 PM (No. 413702)
Oh, suck an egg, Star Ledger.
New Jersey's problems were of their own foolish making and were years in the making.
Why should residents of other states pay for the union-bloated pensions of a civil servant who retires at 45 with 100% salary?
Again, suck an egg.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/17/2020 12:08:16 PM (No. 413705)
Get rid of the multiple layers of government which includes 550 separate Boards of Education and superintendents, a traffic and municipal court in each town. Share service too and maybe we can talk.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 5/17/2020 12:12:48 PM (No. 413714)
Them and a couple other States led themselves into fiscal insolvency and now want the rest of the country to bail them out...he&& no!!! They need to fix their own problems...and what is hitting them is not a hurricane, but a lack of foresight and excessive spending on their part...
19 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/17/2020 12:31:24 PM (No. 413742)
Blow it our your..., Moran! We have all suffered from COVID and the savage irresponsible devastation the goobernment hath wroth! Natural disaster I can see. Manmade liberal disaster that finally run out of other Peopl's money, live with it!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kono 5/17/2020 12:32:50 PM (No. 413745)
Somebody tell Moran his ass is showing -- and remind him that FEMA gave nearly $6 billion to New Jersey for Hurricane Sandy. Then try to explain the difference between natural disasters and political ones.
22 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/17/2020 12:34:43 PM (No. 413747)
Impoverish your citizens and grind them into the dust, then ask for others to bail you out? Sounds like a typical 'Rat plan to me!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/17/2020 12:35:36 PM (No. 413748)
Senator Epstein (D- JrHi) needs to just go lay down by his dish before we remember what he's famous for.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/17/2020 12:52:32 PM (No. 413765)
Public union employees - you allowed them, you pay for them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MuncsSister 5/17/2020 12:59:12 PM (No. 413769)
“After superstorm Sandy hit the east coast nearly two years ago, the federal government quickly sent out $1.4bn in emergency disaster aid to the hurricane’s victims.” From - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/fema-hurricane-sandy-money-back-recovery-ineligible
The only thank you we red staters got for that 1.4 billion was a bunch more Yankees moving down here to vote democrat and tells us who stupid and racist we are. A perfect union? Feels more like a suicide pact.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/17/2020 1:03:12 PM (No. 413772)
Moro(a)n, corruption is not a natural disaster. Bailouts are for people who have no control about the damage done to them by unforeseeable circumstances. New Jersey's Pensions were noted, at the time to be unsustainable and you people went and did it anyway.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/17/2020 1:11:16 PM (No. 413780)
I think I know how to pronounce Tom's last name...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/17/2020 1:34:57 PM (No. 413793)
The whole reason for the lock-down, testing, extra beds, closing business and schools nonsense was just an excuse for the red states to force bankruptcy.
Look at the states which are screaming poverty - all Dem Governors.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/17/2020 1:52:24 PM (No. 413805)
Dear Comrade Menendez: It sucks for you since Hillary lost. Now you have to deal with the problem you weren't expecting to. Of course, you won't really have to deal with it, since you will have your fat retirement and benefits. You can pay lip service to your constituents all the way to the bank!
Of course, you probably will not retire to your democrat/socialist paradise of New Jersey, choosing a more friendly climate with lower/no taxes.
12 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
cThree 5/17/2020 2:08:07 PM (No. 413816)
This is a childish article.
I had thought the Star Ledger was a serious outlet, and I thought Tom Moran could do better.
I guess not.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/17/2020 2:11:36 PM (No. 413820)
NJ has already gotten their share of the virus funds. Have they forgotten? Now NJ wants a bailout of their 50 years of deficit spending and not funding their pension systems. NJ's bad choices is not a national emergency. It's NJ's problem, and they have a genius governor to figure it all out.
12 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/17/2020 2:15:13 PM (No. 413822)
For those of you who are too far away to smell Joisey from your front porch - - the Newark Star Ledger is at the far left end of radical communism. If they moved six more inches to the left - - they could call themselves The New York Times.
Yes - - it's that bad.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
judy 5/17/2020 2:20:59 PM (No. 413833)
The states with the highest taxes have the highest deficits ...and the whiniest camera happy governors. Have you heard the southern governors complain?
15 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 5/17/2020 2:26:44 PM (No. 413838)
Is this the same creep who had a permanent pass on Epstein's pedophile plane?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
marbles 5/17/2020 3:09:34 PM (No. 413881)
Sorry pumpkin head, You and your friends have run NJ into the ground with your lousy management. kickbacks and payoffs. NJ in over extended and underfunded and YOU , not the American taxpayers are responsible. for it. I live in NJ. You stink.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/17/2020 3:25:30 PM (No. 413899)
There is a big difference between a Natural disaster,and a disastrous money problem in a Democrat State. A disaster they made themselves.
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Hey, Bob, tell us about those underage chicas in the Dominican Republic.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
red1066 5/17/2020 6:38:05 PM (No. 414017)
New Jersey is comprised of two regions. Those located in south jersey are farmers and blue collar workers more in line with main stream America. Those located north of Camden are your socialist/liberal voters who infect and ruin that state. Since there are more people in northern New Jersey guess who get elected.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/17/2020 7:08:33 PM (No. 414038)
No bailout for socialists.
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New Jersey is looking for a pension bailout. Moran is comparing natural disasters to bailing out a corrupt state with bloated unsustainable pensions.