[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:

> Most people are taking this all very well, but we're pissed we pay the
> highest state taxes in the nation, then get shit on by the state when
> a crunch comes. 

Feh - move out.  That is the solution.  It is a horrid place and it is 
the "state" that is responsible for 98% of the reasons NJ is a stink hole.

>  Christie is awfully damned loud-mouthed about what's wrong with
> everybody else, but it was due to him or his appointees that NJ lost
> $400M in ed. funds due to flat-out stupidity, and that NJ will have to
> repay $200M+ in transportation funds to the Feds due to his canceling
> a railway tunnel project (though our Democratic Senator may have got
> that amount reduced -- if Christie isn't too stupid to blow THAT
> deal).  Now he runs off ahead of a forecast blizzard.  Nice going,
> gov.

	Now now Bruce, you're letting the evil social-liberal in you show.

> Friends fared about the same in other townships,so it's not just
> Neptune that is in this state.  Marshall, in Howell Twp, was still
> working to clear his own land, and the neighbor's driveway.  Elaine,
> in Ocean Twp., managed to get an SUV free so she could go XC skiing
> locally. 

	That is SO textbook Elaine.  Tell her Happy New Year.


> She lives in a private development, so the snow clearing
> there was done by contractor, not by the township. 

	See how well privatization of certain functions works?

	Sometimes less is more.