From the Record:
Home flippers ramped up activity in 2015
One in 25 home sales in New Jersey last year were investors’ flips — in which properties are bought, renovated and quickly resold — according to a company that tracks real estate deals.
Nationally, about one in 20 home sales were flips, according to RealtyTrac, a California-based real estate information company. A total of about 180,000 homes were flipped in 2015 nationwide, including about 3,800 in the Garden State.
Home-flipping activity rose slightly in 2015, but remains well below the levels seen during the housing boom about a decade ago, said RealtyTrac, which counts sales as flips if a home is sold twice within a 12-month period.
Last year, about 5.5 percent of sales were flips, up from 5.3 percent the previous year, but significantly below the peak of 8.2 percent in 2005, as the housing bubble inflated.
Last year, about 110,000 investors completed at least one home flip, the highest number since 2007, but less than half the 259,000 who flipped properties in 2005.
Home flippers made a gross profit averaging $89,000 in New Jersey and $55,000 nationwide, according to RealtyTrac. The gross profit doesn’t include the cost of renovations and transaction expenses, which can be substantial.
Conservatives who for 8 years sowed the dragon’s teeth of partisan politics are horrified to discover they have grown an actual dragon.
-Stephen King
Just one?
dude, was waiting to post that tweet
Probably more but thought it was a damn good quote.
Politicians who for years sowed the dragon’s teeth of partisan politics are horrified to discover they have grown actual dragons.
Better…
Jobs up 242,000
agree. saw it too, was great
PUBLIC Television
walking bye says:
March 3, 2016 at 1:41 pm
flipping channels had the kids watch Channel 13′s Scott Kellys year in space last night. The kids are under 10 and sat up straight on the couch mesmerized for an hour watching the show. I realized kids don’t really see that these days besides 20 seconds news clips. Unlike what I remember watching the space shuttle flights in school.
We looked like a family watching the moon walk circa 1969.
From MarketWatch:
The U.S. generated 242,000 new jobs in February, snapping back after a modest slowdown in hiring in the first month of 2016. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected an increase of 198,000 nonfarm jobs. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9%. Employment gains for January and December, meanwhile, were revised up by a combined 30,000, the Labor Department said Friday. The government said 172,000 new jobs were created in January instead of 151,000. December’s gain was raised to 271,000 from 262,000. Yet despite the big gain in new jobs, average hourly wages fell 3 cents, or 0.1%, to $25.35. Hourly pay rose a mild 2.2% from February 2015 to February 2016. And the amount of time people worked each week dropped 0.2 hours to 34.4 hours, the lowest level in two years. The labor-force participation rate moved up to 62.9%, the highest level since May, as more than half a million people joined the labor force.
The kids are under 10 and sat up straight on the couch mesmerized for an hour watching the show.
Restores faith in humanity, it does.
“trickle down” bs concept is dying
@salon
The right has sold the working class a bill of goods and massive lies for decades. They’re not buying it anymore
“For the last several decades, the Republican party has been selling a simple economic message to its base: what is good for rich people is good for you too. And, until this election, the base was buying it. The astonishing rise of Donald Trump is an almost apocalyptic sign that they’re not buying it any more.
The GOP establishment has seen all of its candidates not merely beaten, but utterly humiliated, by an aggressively ignorant demagogue, whose rhetoric makes him sound like a cheap knockoff of Benito Mussolini and George Wallace.
Why? A look at the facts of American economic life suggests that the rubes have decided they’re tired of being played for marks, which explains why the GOP establishment’s siren song about the Land of Opportunity is no longer doing the trick.”
Damn strong report – would like to have seen stronger wage pressures though.
awesome. Thank you Mr. President
@WSJ
Breaking: U.S. employers added 242,000 jobs in February; the unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent.
Because or, or despite?
I explained it all yesterday. Trump and Sanders are protest votes. Whichever parties embraces the protester wins. And Otto, your explanation was textbook doodie. If more people thought like you, the Barnum & Bailey Circus would be today’s Google. The protest vote on the R side is not a knock on their social stances ya dolt. It’s exactly the same thing that the Berners are looking for. People want a frickin’ raise after both of their parties sold the middle class down the river in free trade agreements that exported our jobs so the plantation owners (that top 1%) could fulfill their need for greed.
Bingo bingo bingo.
Here is how I see it.
Trump vs Bernie – Trump Wins
Trump vs Clinton – Trump Wins
Cruz vs Bernie – Bernie Wins
Rubio vs Bernie – Bernie Wins
Cruz vs Clinton – Clinton Wins
Rubio vs Clinton – Clinton Wins
#14..I agree
nope, disagree
1987 Condo says:
March 4, 2016 at 8:52 am
#14..I agree
Given Trump’s performance on a shoestring budget (relative) – with the full financial support of the GOP behind him, he would steamroller over Sanders. In a debate he would destroy him.
I’m not saying Sanders isn’t a great guy, or wouldn’t make a great president, I’m also not saying that Trump is anyway more qualified. But when does the best person ever win based on that? I’m saying Sanders would be destroyed by Trump during the campaign.
I also think Trump could attract more of the Hispanic and Black vote than Sanders, which is an insane thing to think, but I really think he could. Look to the fact that Bernie is not claiming the portion of the black/hispanic vote that he probably should claim, against Clinton. I would expect this to continue, in the opposite direction. Immigrants love Trump, even though he is an obscene caricature of the American Dream. He is exactly how a suave president would be portrayed on a telenovela. Compare that to little boy Rubio or Cruz … no balls … no machismo … no respect.
Sanders would make a terrible President……his entire campaign automatically gets tossed out……his entire Plan A….gone…..so his tenure would have nothing to do with the subject matter he discusses now. So if he reacts like Obama, he just takes his ball and goes home……..what I find most disturbing about him is that he is at such an advanced age, and he still seems to be living in a fantasy…….bless him…..I guess?
10- I always spoke of the harm being done to our economy over the past 40 years with almost all of the economic gains going to the top. Always said that it can’t last, and what we are finally seeing is a move back towards equilibrium. As we move towards this equilibrium, it will only lead to a larger boom in the 2020’s. Trump looks like he is stepping into a pile of sh!t. Whoever wins in this election will step into an awesome economic run that only comes around once or twice a century. They will go down in history as a hero (when in reality, it was just lucky timing, nothing to really do with their actions).
It’s coming. 2017-2018
grim says:
March 4, 2016 at 8:36 am
Damn strong report – would like to have seen stronger wage pressures though.
every single GOP candidate would make a terrible President, as bad as W….if that’s even possible
took us 8 years to rebuild his destruction and we still ain’t there yet.
chicagofinance says:
March 4, 2016 at 9:11 am
Sanders would make a terrible President……his entire campaign automatically gets tossed out……his entire Plan A….gone…..so his tenure would have nothing to do with the subject matter he discusses now. So if he reacts like Obama, he just takes his ball and goes home……..what I find most disturbing about him is that he is at such an advanced age, and he still seems to be living in a fantasy…….bless him…..I guess?
Obama is still president?
anon replace “rebuild” with continue and you might have a point.
[14] grim
I disagree on Trump v. Clinton. I think he gets his clock cleaned.
First, the media has been engineering this contest. And they will absolutely unload on Trump once he’s the nominee
Second, Trump did better in open primaries. That includes Dems colluding to put in in. There’s evidence this is occurring although one questions the effect and it may not be quantifiable for years.
Third, the Dems have been holding water and money, and will unload on Trump once the GOP stops.
Fourth, the civil war has done too much damage.
The one thing on Hillarys favor is that she can work with the GOP majority in Congress. She’ll have to throw the left under the bus but that’s the Clinton way. Trump can too but it would be a marginal improvement on the Divider in Chief and he’d really have to dial it back.
[25] redux
And fifth, you would see unprecedented foreign “involvement” in our election, and don’t look for this or a Clinton 2.0 administration to prosecute anything.
Hey. I’ll take Bernie or Sanders over all of them. I know I am not alone with this sentiment.
The left if now fundraising like crazy on the stop Trump message. Some of the fundraising emails I have been getting are asking for donations as low as $3.
On the right Ted Cruz is sending out emails asking for donations as low as $10, and the call Romney put out seems to be working the Billionaires are now lining up behind Cruz with more super PAC spending.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/04/ted-cruz-new-super-pac-trusted-leadership/81306006/
http://tinyurl.com/Otto-s-nightmare
Trump is not a career politician. Everyone else up there is. That’s the difference.
No more career politicians. Come from the private sector, give back and serve your country…then go home.
We need a constitutional convention an an amendment to the constitution that enacts term limits for the House of Representatives and the Senate.
They sure as fcuk aren’t going to do it to themselves.
Nom,
PRIMARIES SHOULD BE OPEN!!!!!!!
Fcuk!!!!
The greatest moment for me was when Trump showed up at the Iowa state fair in his $7 million dollar helicopter with his name emblazoned on the side and offered all the kids rides.
I can only imagine the mood on the ground. What is that noise? Who the heck is that? As the chomp on their deep fried oreos…then trample over each other to catch a glimpse.
Fcuk yeah. Being rich is cool this year.
Hillary showed up in 2008 in a Helicopter paid for by her campaign and was chastised for it.
re # 27 – Turd, you are right you are not alone however Bernie is just a fool with his errand, money will never be taken out of politics, the left and the right won’t allow it.
You only need to look at the votes on campaign finance reform to see that. Trump is the Anti-Politician, the Reality TV hero we actually deserve, right now he is destroying Reality down in Washington DC, the halls of power are quaking and marshaling for one giant battle this month. Will it be $100 million spent or more is the question, some checkbooks are still smarting after writing checks to Jeb, they are going to have to dig deep if Lyin Ted is to have any chance beating Trump at his game.
And Bernie well he is just the old work horse, and will be put out to pasture.
Trump is more popular than anyone thinks. If he gets trampled on by the powers that be, then there will be a price to pay…….he hasn’t blown up yet, which is prima facie evidence that he is bomb-proof……..I am stunned….the people who will vote for him GUSH about it……they LOVE him…..ignore at your own peril…..
Comrade Nom Deplume, Newspeak Editor says:
March 4, 2016 at 10:09 am
[14] grim
I disagree on Trump v. Clinton. I think he gets his clock cleaned.
First, the media has been engineering this contest. And they will absolutely unload on Trump once he’s the nominee
Second, Trump did better in open primaries. That includes Dems colluding to put in in. There’s evidence this is occurring although one questions the effect and it may not be quantifiable for years.
Third, the Dems have been holding water and money, and will unload on Trump once the GOP stops.
Fourth, the civil war has done too much damage.
Rubio better hope he wins Florida…
Cruz will always be remembered as the guy had food on his face or ate his booger at the debate…..blech yuk
Kasich Who? From Where?
I love the people pointing the finger that Trump is a “con artist”……really?
Also, the more I see of Rubio, the more that I understand that he is sleaze….
RECALL CHRISTIE
Just because you call supporting Trump a “protest vote” doesn’t make it so, ya ninny. He is the culmination of everything the Republican Party and their supporters has stood for and run out to the polls to vote for the past 50 years–scapegoating others for straight white people’s perceived problems. Cruz is just as much as “protest” as Trump. If Trump was able to cull all this support without the xenophobia, gay bashing, white supremacy, Christian bs, you might have a point, other than the one on your head. But nice try divorcing the economic angst of the right wing morons from their well documented and continued fear of a black planet.
BTW, why can’t all these brilliant republican tools just start their own businesses and become successful? Why do they need a handout from President Trump?
37 – RECALL CHRISTIE?
To what end Chi?
Frankly I like the idea that his continued governorship drives the anti-gun people, PW unions, Democrats in the Legislature, The star ledger editorial board, and Tom Moran bat sh1t crazy.
That alone makes me want to keep him.
The GOP is having the same issue the communist party was having in the old USSR/East Bloc in the late 70’s & 80’s. The actual day to day running of society showed the ideology was bankrupt, however the political/ideological power brokers had a vested interest/ forced by system/ old fashioned true believers in not seeing the reality. A good old fashioned cognitive dissonance episode.
The clearest way, I saw it was in one of the debate exchanges between Trump and Rubio.
Rubio mentions that Trumps supports national healthcare. Trumps snaps back “I’m not going to let anybody die in the sidewalks of the country”. Rubio retorts “but this is a republican party debate”.
In short Rubio missed, in his deep ideological submersion state the simple human decency statement that Trump said, but surely registered with the public.
27. Bernie “not a Jew” Sanders?
So no-one but me felt a chill when Trump said about commanding the military to engage in war crimes?:
“They won’t refuse. They’re not going to refuse me,” “If I say do it, they’re going to do it.”
I’m sure he has the same attitude toward the constitution and what he’s going to tell the police, CIA, FBI, etc, to do to American citizens and their rights.
How did that “non-career politician” failed painter work out for Germany? Anyone running for President is a politician. The key question is what they plan to do based on which principles.
You know how angry I get with people pushing this garbage. What is wrong with you? You think people are voting for trump because they hate blacks? You people make me sick. If your thought process had one ounce of logic, how do you explain a black president? Better yet, why isn’t some white supremacist running for president; based on your way of thinking(based on quote below) he would automatically win.
I’m assuming you are black, and here is a little tip, stop blaming race and white people for your own problems. Racism is illegal in this country and in no way can hold you back. If anything, your race card gives you an advantage over whites and Asians when it comes to moving up the ladder. All you have to do as an African American is do good in school and you pretty much get a paid Ivy League education. I wish I had that opportunity, but you don’t see me sitting here bitching that a lesser qualified student received a better opportunity than me because of the color of his skin. Quit making excuses and pulling out the race card. It’s 2016, race is not holding you back, only the choices you make.
“If Trump was able to cull all this support without the xenophobia, gay bashing, white supremacy, Christian bs, you might have a point, other than the one on your head. But nice try divorcing the economic angst of the right wing morons from their well documented and continued fear of a black planet.”
Otto, I’ll admit you com across as a bright guy. Not that you care for my opinion. But you are so incredibly blinded by the manufactured political divide. I know you can’t even see it, but it’s still all about economics. Always will be.
42 – No. Dude is saying the problems we currently have with morale, will no longer exist when he is president.
Trump “telling it like it is’ last night. Finally something he and I agree on:
“I’m changing. I’m changing. We need highly-skilled people in this country. If we can’t do it, we will get them in. And we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have. So we do need highly-skilled,” Trump said. “One of the biggest problems we have people will go to the best colleges, they’ll go to Harvard, they’ll go to Stanford, to Wharton, as soon as they are finished they get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately. They are not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.”
I guess he will call these the Trump1B visas.
This of course contradicts what people assume his H1B position to mean. Like most politicians, Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth, letting his fans hear what they want to hear and run with it in their fantasies of how “very special” things will be under his leadership.
Pumpkin responding to Ottoman = can’t tell what’s worse
Regardless of who wins:
Renunciations will stay at pace or increase
Inversions will continue
Foreign companies will acquire US companies at faster pace and it will become a political issue
Tax reform will be a front burner issue.
44-
What is it about these lilly white liberal communites where people like ottoman grow up and attend schools in and then emerge harboring such hostility?
[38] Otto
My racial fear rules are simple:
1. Black man approaches. If I know him, say hi.
2. Black man approaches. If I don’t know him and he looks sketchy, snap off safety.
3. Otto approaches. Quickly scan for cameras or witnesses, bust a cap in his head and plant a knife on the body.
[46] Ragnar
In the past year, I was on the campuses of Mt Holyoke and Penn and the thing that struck me was that I saw almost no Caucasians. Lots of Asians and Indian subcontinent. And at Penn, few white men (MHC, none but that figures)
What does Otto do? Operate a falafel cart in Camden?
He’s slightly higher-functioning than anon, who is nearly illiterate.
I can tell FabMax actually has some intelligence (e.g can write in complete sentences), but his brain has been misspent on the support of false ideas.
War crimes was a douchey question. “kill families of Muslim terrorists”
What do you think our drone strike program has been doing all this time? Anyone caught in the vicinity of a drone strike is guilty by association women and children included.
Trump’s war crime plan is tame compared to Obama’s current war crimes.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/04/we_the_people_devoid_of_empathy_partner/
[34] chifi
MSM and the Dems will eviscerate him. They aren’t worried about backlash because they don’t represent the minority that will vote for Trump. Expect four more years of the sort of division we’ve had for the last seven.
Personally I hope some libs are offed, the gun grabbers overreach, the reaction results in more Tea Party governors and we get closer to Splats civil war. There’s money to be made then
Sorry that I’m brutally honest. Unfortunate that some people can’t handle the truth, hope you are not one of them.
joyce says:
March 4, 2016 at 11:54 am
Pumpkin responding to Ottoman = can’t tell what’s worse
I don’t know about that. Times are changing. No longer is anyone padding anyone on the back for increasing profits by cutting American jobs. 20 years ago, people would consider you a good businessman for that, now they look at you with different eyes; eyes looking at the world differently through experience and lessons learned.
Comrade Nom Deplume, Newspeak Editor says:
March 4, 2016 at 11:56 am
Regardless of who wins:
Renunciations will stay at pace or increase
Inversions will continue
Foreign companies will acquire US companies at faster pace and it will become a political issue
Tax reform will be a front burner issue.
55 – The mud doesn’t stick to him. People know exactly who he is, and they vote for him anyway.
Economics is everything, everything else is just noise.
Apply it to anything in history. Why did Hitler first attack Jews, in the name of race or economics? How about caste system in India? How about Chinese and Japanese blocking out foreigners from their country? The elimination of native Americans? How about all the civil wars and fighting going on in modern Africa? All were/are in the name of economics, but somehow race becomes the main reason to blame for all these issues.
Now you know why they say money is the root of all evil.
Libturd Ninny says:
March 4, 2016 at 11:47 am
Otto, I’ll admit you com across as a bright guy. Not that you care for my opinion. But you are so incredibly blinded by the manufactured political divide. I know you can’t even see it, but it’s still all about economics. Always will be.
Comrade,
Your four points have been increasing for decades, not much of a prediction.
Doesn’t matter since none of your ‘honesty’ contains any accurate statements.
The Great Pumpkin says:
March 4, 2016 at 12:25 pm
Sorry that I’m brutally honest.
An official audit prompted by the investigation into the killing found that officers in the Neighborhood Narcotics Unit stole money and drugs, took valuables as “trophies,” misplaced or destroyed evidence, misused GPS trackers and other equipment, and had made “improper use” of the pathetic people who had been blackmailed into working as “confidential informants.”
Cowley’s lawsuit confirms those allegations in detail, while depicting himself as an embattled whistleblower who had been scapegoated for the transgressions of less honorable men. By his account, from the beginning of his assignment with the NNU Cowley was disgusted by the casual corruption of his colleagues. That revulsion didn’t prompt him to quit until long after he had killed a helpless, desperate young woman as part of an NNU assignment.
Six months after Cowley was assigned to the NNU, the unit received a federal grant through the DEA for its investigation into the disappearance of Susan Powell – a lurid unsolved case with no demonstrated connection to drug trafficking. On the basis of Cowley’s lawsuit it appears that the DEA grant was used to fund the NNU’s other activities, which – in his words — involved routine violations of “constitutional rights and proper police procedure.”
As Cowley relates the story, in early 2012, he confronted his supervisor, Lieutenant John Coyle, about an illegal search and unlawful seizure of “a large amount of US currency inside the closed drawers of a tool chest” found in a domicile. “Coyle ordered Cowley to be quiet or face punishment for insubordination,” the lawsuit alleges. “Cowley shortly thereafter asked to be transferred from the NNU but was denied a transfer.”
Narcotics enforcement in a low-income, white-minority suburb of Salt Lake City was more lucrative than other assignments that might actually involve the protection of persons and property. Cowley, like other NNU officers, found himself so busy building petty drug cases that he didn’t have time to follow long-established procedures. This meant that he often kept evidence in personal lockers before booking it.
After the Willard killing, the department began an internal audit of the NNU’s evidence. As part of the investigation, Lt. Coyle and an underling “cut the lock on Cowley’s locker and destroyed all the evidence present in the locker,” the suit asserts. “Coyle made no inventory nor kept any record of the locker search.” In similar fashion, Cowley testifies, Coyle ordered officers to destroy the cell phones they had seized from citizens and claimed as “trophies of past investigations.”
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/03/can-you-spare-some-tears-for-killer-cop.html#links
yep, very good example. this, my main prob with y’all
many of you, like rags, are as fundamentalists as the old east block of the 70’s
different outlook, but as fundamentalist and as morally and intellectually bankrupt
NotGOP ChiFi says:
March 4, 2016 at 11:05 am
The GOP is having the same issue the communist party was having in the old USSR/East Bloc in the late 70′s & 80′s. The actual day to day running of society showed the ideology was bankrupt, however the political/ideological power brokers had a vested interest/ forced by system/ old fashioned true believers in not seeing the reality. A good old fashioned cognitive dissonance episode.
The clearest way, I saw it was in one of the debate exchanges between Trump and Rubio.
Rubio mentions that Trumps supports national healthcare. Trumps snaps back “I’m not going to let anybody die in the sidewalks of the country”. Rubio retorts “but this is a republican party debate”.
In short Rubio missed, in his deep ideological submersion state the simple human decency statement that Trump said, but surely registered with the public.
He did it because of his recently revealed medical condition.
Google it. I can’t post it. It will never get through Grim’s site filters.
With this in mind, we can rest easy in the US because Trump has large hands.
The Great Pumpkin says:
March 4, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Economics is everything, everything else is just noise.
Apply it to anything in history. Why did Hitler first attack Jews, in the name of race or economics?
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231186
Where’s the arrest?
“””But the cop was off-duty — and instead of turning the knife over to his higher-ups, sources said he kept it for years.
In late January, he contacted a friend in the homicide division — and told him he was getting it framed for his wall.
The former traffic division officer even asked the pal to get the departmental-record number for the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murder case so he could engrave it in the frame, TMZ reports.”””
Got it?
This cop got his hands on a knife found on Simpson’s former property. He attempted to keep and frame it, and even intended to engrave the handle with the case number rather than turning it over.
That is, he intended to and did steal evidence in a criminal case.
If you or I did this we’d be in jail right now facing down charges.
Was this cop immediately arrested? Nope!
But…. be a couple of kids who simply see a gun, never touch it, never manipulate it, never do anything with it and they’ll arrest you!
“””Two 14-year-old boys from southwestern Ohio were charged on Friday with a misdemeanor for failing to report that a fellow student had taken to school a gun used in a shooting that wounded four students, the Butler County Sheriff’s office said.”””
They didn’t supply the gun, they didn’t touch the gun, they didn’t use the gun, they simply saw the gun.
And that makes them a criminal.
But if you actually take and keep a knife that was possibly used in a murder…… it’s ok, provided you’re a cop.
Poor, poor, Eva!
“Conservatives who for 8 years sowed the dragon’s teeth of partisan politics are horrified to discover they have grown an actual dragon.
-Stephen King”
The Left is delusional if they believe they are not afflicted with the same issues.
Problem is, when their monsters appear they have bigger and sharper horns…….
Rubio’s job last night was to do a kamikaze his sights aimed at trump. Blow yourself up to save the party.
Twitidiot [21];
we still ain’t there yet.
Don’t look now, but you just admitted that the community organizer is a two-term failure. Of course I said that 8 years ago; but you had to be dragged unwittingly into admitting it.
Higher salaries than the governor of NJ.
The superintendent of the NJSP doesn’t make this much.
Heck, members of the president’s cabinet don’t make this kind of money.
Navy captains commanding aircraft carriers, responsible for 5,000 sailors and billions of dollars of equipment, don’t make this kind of money.
Seriously, this is out of control.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/who_are_the_highest-paid_police_chiefs_in_nj.html?ath=e48193b1505a73e67f7874531301093d#0
Lol….never knew that about him.
I def stand by my statement that everything comes down to economics. Without economics, would any type of slavery exist? Without economics, what reason would Germans rally against the Jews? Hitler stated that the Jews were responsible for the economic problems the Germans were experiencing, and this is how it all began. Take out economics and it would have never happened.
Christie used the same tactic against teachers and public workers. It was bad economic times, Christie blamed the teachers for the economic problems as a pure power grab (just like hitler) on his way to a 70% approval rate in 2012. Christie attacked a group and made them a scapegoat for people’s problems. Unlike hitler, he doesn’t get accused of racism because this group was not identifiable as a homogeneous group of individuals. Had this group been predominately Jewish or black, Christie would have been accused of being a racist. Point being, the root cause of hatred is economics (economics is the allocation of limited resources). The hate the world has for whites comes down to what? Hate of their skin color, or their utter domination of economics? Middle East religious hate movements are based on economics in the name of religion. You can go on and on with this.
D-FENS says:
March 4, 2016 at 1:18 pm
He did it because of his recently revealed medical condition.
Google it. I can’t post it. It will never get through Grim’s site filters.
With this in mind, we can rest easy in the US because Trump has large hands.
The Great Pumpkin says:
March 4, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Economics is everything, everything else is just noise.
Apply it to anything in history. Why did Hitler first attack Jews, in the name of race or economics?
Thanks for the Space Show recommendation. Its playing again 3am tomorrow so will record.
Footstool [38];
TL:DR — Wepubwicans is Wacist!
You have nothing but your caricature to cling to.
Flipping is a sign of the apocalypse.
LOL so much for the unemployment #’s …Jobs came in well above expectations at 242,000 despite tax data collections that support a Job Growth estimate of 55,000 to 85,000.
A quick dive into the details shows the report is a lot weaker than the headline number indicates. Of the 242,000 jobs added, 304,000 of them were part time. That means the economy actually shed 62,000 full-time jobs……..mish
Nothing to see here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-citigroup-mbs-idUSKCN0W626D?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
71. nonsense – everything is about sex. amirite jj??
I just finished puking. 252,000 salary to Woodbridge chief? A sq mile town paying what? Who lets this happen?
My town is up at number 7, with 221,000 salary. My other property in Clifton also made the list.
Listen, I have no problem paying a fair and just salary. This is just ludicrous. Cops are the most corrupt individuals out there. Why we, the public, only focus on teachers and state workers makes no sense. It’s politicians, firemen, county admin, educational admin, and most of all police to blame for the insane compensation. It’s criminal.
Mike says:
March 4, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Higher salaries than the governor of NJ.
The superintendent of the NJSP doesn’t make this much.
Heck, members of the president’s cabinet don’t make this kind of money.
Navy captains commanding aircraft carriers, responsible for 5,000 sailors and billions of dollars of equipment, don’t make this kind of money.
Seriously, this is out of control.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/who_are_the_highest-paid_police_chiefs_in_nj.html?ath=e48193b1505a73e67f7874531301093d#0
For Joyce. Gotta love the honest man with a badge.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/04/blood-stained-knife-found-buried-on-oj-simpsons-estate/
70. Chief’s salaries
200k for a population of 75000+ and 100+ officer under your command I can see.
These towns with population of less than 9000 and less than 19 cops under your command….wow.
The article posts average tax bill. I’d be more interested in seeing violent crime stats.
Bill Bratton with 35,000 cops and 8 million people makes $205,000
Lefty!! Good to hear from you again.
leftwing says:
March 4, 2016 at 4:37 pm
70. Chief’s salaries
200k for a population of 75000+ and 100+ officer under your command I can see.
These towns with population of less than 9000 and less than 19 cops under your command….wow.
The article posts average tax bill. I’d be more interested in seeing violent crime stats.
The “real” criminals of nj. Protect and serve my a$$.
“New Jersey Watchdog investigation found the sheriffs in 16 of the state’s 21 counties are double-dippers. In addition, the sheriffs also employ 37 undersheriffs who returned to work after retiring as local, county or state law enforcement officials at relatively young ages.
In total, the 53 officers collect nearly $10 million a year from public coffers – $5.7 million in salaries plus $4.1 million in retirement pay – according to payroll and pension records.
By order of annual incomes, the double-dipping posse includes:
Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino (R), $267,987 – $138,000 salary + $129,987 pension as an Emerson Borough police retiree
Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik (D), $253,957 – $151,887 salary + $102,070 pension as a Clifton police retiree
Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy (R), $231,315 – $107,250 salary + $124,065 pension as a Toms River Township police retiree
Mercer County Sheriff John Kemler (D), $227,330 – $142,499 salary + $84,831 pension as a Mercer County sheriff’s office retiree
Camden County Sheriff Charles J. Billingham (D), $219,232 – $144,753 salary + $74,479 pension as a Washington Township police retiree
Somerset County Sheriff Frank J. Provenzano (R), $208,576 – $132,555 salary + $76,021 pension as Bridgewater Township police retiree
Warren County Sheriff David P. Gallant (R), $208,432 – $125,945 salary + $82,487 pension as a State Police retiree
Morris County Sheriff Edward V. Rochford (R), $200,838 – $139,203 salary + $61,545 pension as a Morris Township police retiree
Middlesex County Sheriff Mildred S. Scott (D), $200,796 – $139,455 salary + $61,341 pension as a retiree of the Middlesex County sheriff’s office
Hunterdon County Sheriff Frederick W. Brown (R), $197,796 – $115,868 salary + $81,928 pension as a retiree of Raritan Township police
Salem County Sheriff Charles M. Miller, $195,452 (R) – $119,386 salary + $76,066 pension as a retiree of the Salem County prosecutor’s office
Gloucester County Sheriff Carmel M. Morina (D), $191,996 – $128,547 salary + $63,449 pension as a Greenwich Township police retiree
Sussex County Sheriff Michael Strada (R), $170,124 – $121,212 salary + $46,973 pension as Mount Olive Township police retiree
Cumberland County Sheriff Robert Austino (D), $166,938 – $107,250 salary + $59,688 pension as a Vineland police retiree
Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer (R), $161,654 – $107,500 salary + $54,154 pension as an Ocean City police retiree.
http://watchdog.org/235267/sheriffs-double-dip/“
If a soldier patrolling the streets of some worn torn nation does not get paid 150,000 to patrol streets; how does my town pay 150,000 to patrol the mean streets of Wayne?
But Bratton will get 10K a speech afterwards and will get paid as a correspondent on MSNBC when he resigns. Chief Wiggum of Woodbridge, he’ll have to live miserably through his pension.
Chief Wiggum from Woodbridge becomes deputy chief in Edison.
I posted that pic of Bill and Hillary Clinton with Hillary in blackface and invited my usually combative liberal friends to comment.
> crickets <
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Most of the towns around me don’t have police. We don’t have crime problems either.
One of these things is not like the other. But remind yourself; its for the children
Too busy flipping properties to pay attention to your petty politics!