From the Star Ledger:
See how your town scores on income inequality
There are multi-million dollar McMansions and blue-collar families just trying to make ends meet. Across New Jersey, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to get wider.
But how are things changing in your town?
The Census calculates income inequality using a measure called the Gini index, which assigns a value between 0, which would mean complete equality, and 1. The closer a score is to 1, the more wealth is concentrated among fewer people and the bigger the income inequality.
As a state, New Jersey boasts a score of 0.4782. That’s slightly higher than the last five-year period, 2007 to 2011, measured by the Census, but lower than the national average of 0.4804 over the last 10 years.
FRIST
In New Jersey is the GINI index pronounced “guinea”?
All blue Democrat states (and D.C.) DOMINATE the list of states that have the largest and fastest growing gaps between rich and poor. There is no one to blame but the moron who votes for Democrats.
In NJ, like in NY, CA, D.C., CT, and MI, Dem politicians raise taxes in “prime” real estate areas to keep the “undesirables” out and because they abuse their own powers. They have for decades.
However, in the end you can’t just blame the Dem politician. It’s the dumb Dem voter who votes for incompetent and corrupt Democrat politicians that let this all happen.
Trump’s and the GOP’s tax plan was brilliant! It taxed the rich who mostly reside in blue Dem states that didn’t support the GOP. Face it, this retribution was a long time coming.
9:29 Sounds legit. Lol
Americans Are Ditching These Five States In Record Numbers (Illinois, CT, NJ, CA, MI)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/americans-are-ditching-these-five-states-record-numbers
^^^^People continue to flee the indebted, pension ponzi burdened liberal states of America in record numbers, with Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey and California all ranking at the very top of the most ditched states of 2017.
3b,
You have some nerve judging me. I have never spoke of my wife on here till the hater of year (expat) trolled me by bringing up my wife yesterday. So I said what I said to show him that I’m happily married.
Expat has some things right about me, but other things, he is so off. You actually believe I didn’t graduate high school? You think I owed 700,000 on my mortgage like he stated? The dude is an ultimate troll. What’s funny, you don’t give him any sh!t for stalking me, and trolling me on a daily basis, but you go after me the one time I bring up something sexual on this site. JJ and trump totally sh!t on women, but peanut gallery loves it. Pumps says something and I’m a bad guy.
You guys are typical conservatives. Anything a Republican does, you defend to no end. You go after me for saying I get laid by my wife and get bj’s on a anonymous blog site. Claim I have no class. In the same context, you supported a president that got caught saying “grab them by the puzzy.” That’s the definition of no class. Allowing your party to put an individual like trump in the presidency and allowing him to stay there. DISGUSTING! YOU GUYS HAVE NO CLASS FOR SUPPORTING A PRESIDENT THAT BEHAVES IN THIS WAY. So look in the mirror before you start coming at me for behavior that you have supported for over a year.
You guys also supported Christie when he bullied nj citizens (esp teachers) on a regular basis. Says a lot about republicans when they support jerkoffs like Christie and Trump. Republicans are the star athlete jocks in high school who act like jerkoffs to everyone, but still get to be the man!
When Hollywood’s most prestigious organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) — the group of nearly 7,000 actors, directors and other industry types who dole out the Oscars — expelled Harvey Weinstein on Oct. 14, audiences applauded. But by acting so swiftly, a mere nine days after the New York Times first reported allegations of sexual assault against the movie producer, the outfit now finds itself facing a dilemma.
Put simply: What to do with the rest of them?
https://pagesix.com/2018/01/06/academy-members-now-regret-banning-weinstein-so-hastily/
Yes, Democrats are responsible for income inequality. So stupid.
What policy exactly is responsible for income inequality? The tax plan that gives 2% break to billionaires, raises the estate tax to 22 million, and gives huge tax deductions for individuals that live off passive income?
J says:
January 7, 2018 at 9:29 am
All blue Democrat states (and D.C.) DOMINATE the list of states that have the largest and fastest growing gaps between rich and poor. There is no one to blame but the moron who votes for Democrats.
In NJ, like in NY, CA, D.C., CT, and MI, Dem politicians raise taxes in “prime” real estate areas to keep the “undesirables” out and because they abuse their own powers. They have for decades.
However, in the end you can’t just blame the Dem politician. It’s the dumb Dem voter who votes for incompetent and corrupt Democrat politicians that let this all happen.
Trump’s and the GOP’s tax plan was brilliant! It taxed the rich who mostly reside in blue Dem states that didn’t support the GOP. Face it, this retribution was a long time coming.
That post just shows how deranged and insane some conservatives are. They are actually blaming democrats for income inequality. Insanity.
Fab,
Thanks for having class and not piling on me like some of the jerkoffs on here. Says a lot about party politics. You seem to have a lot more class.
Illinois is the most common out of state license plate I see in dfw area other than Oklahoma.
This is exactly what I was alluding to yesterday. Anyone that wants to do drugs is doing it. Just because you make a law stating that something is illegal, spends billions every year trying to enforce it, doesn’t mean it’s actualky stopping anyone from doing it. So stop wasting taxpayer money. Republicans always complain about reckless spending by the govt, do you understand that the war on drugs is the most reckless spending of them all. You get nothing for it, just money pissed away. Maybe it’s part of the republicans plan of “make work,” because honestly, it’s equivalent of paying people to dig ditches that serve no purpose.
Fabius Maximus says:
January 6, 2018 at 7:29 pm
BRT
“Right now, if I had to estimate, 30% to 35% of kids are using ecigs.”
The worrying thing I see in my town is that it starts with the parents. Mon is on alcohol and/or pills. Dad is rec using weed. Its frightening.
I had a friend complaining that they didn’t get invited to a big party in town. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that is was because her husband is a cop. A lot of professionals and a lot of self employed. They are not in danger of having to get tested for their job, so its the norm.
Obama was dead on when he told federal prosecutors that you have bigger fish to fry. Sessions is a f’en idiot old man too set in his ways. Hate Obama all you want, but at least he was practical.
I guess BJ Pumps struck out so he’s spreading his weekend jizz here, as per usual.
Pumps I won’t belabor the point. I judged the fact that you bought your wife into the discussion in your battle with ex. Did ex cross the line? Yes. You crossed it further. I leave it there.
Who is leaving? Everyone leaves that part out.
Retirees and individuals that have no skills and must resort to a low cost area to survive.
Everyone one of my friends that left for places like Florida, Arizona, Texas..etc couldn’t make it here. That’s why they left, my cousin being one of them. The people that left for cali or Boston were all high skilled looking for even more money. Obviously, this is my bias, but I think it’s pretty on point.
Three of the biggest junkies I knew from my high school days moved to Carolina and Naples Florida
The Original NJ ExPat says:
January 7, 2018 at 10:29 am
Americans Are Ditching These Five States In Record Numbers (Illinois, CT, NJ, CA, MI)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/americans-are-ditching-these-five-states-record-numbers
So those low cost states can keep those losers…good riddance.
Damn, more I think of it, the more I realize how many losers left jersey to go live down south. Low cost locations are like a magnet for losers, only place they can make it after choosing the wrong path.
Not enough college-educated people in Wayne to merit a Whole Foods. I wonder if they know about the holders of secret degrees?
https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/customers-education-not-why-whole-foods-doesnt-have-wayne-store-company-says
Last century I used to love watching the Bills lose all those consecutive Super Bowls. This year I’m rooting for them.
Fake news.
An executive from Whole Foods doesn’t know where the owner of this propety got this from. Hence, the owner/developer was pushing his agenda with false information.
The Original NJ ExPat says:
January 7, 2018 at 11:32 am
Not enough college-educated people in Wayne to merit a Whole Foods. I wonder if they know about the holders of secret degrees?
https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/customers-education-not-why-whole-foods-doesnt-have-wayne-store-company-says
Must suppress……. does not fit narrative….
OPINION REVIEW & OUTLOOK
The Marrakesh Climate Express
A Governor’s green policy adviser has a giant carbon footprint.
By The Editorial Board
Jan. 5, 2018 7:24 p.m. ET
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order in 2016 on telecommuting, noting that letting public employees work remotely can “reduce transportation-related greenhouse-gas emissions.” And those emissions do add up, especially if you commute from Morocco to Washington—as the Governor’s senior climate policy adviser, Chris Davis, has done since August.
“ Heather and I have hoped to expose our two boys to life overseas and an opportunity to act on that long-held goal recently materialized when she was offered a teaching position [in] Marrakesh, Morocco,” Mr. Davis told his colleagues in an email last summer obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner. Lucky for him, “as our climate work has grown increasingly international in scope, the Governor asked me to continue to help build those networks from abroad.”
When Mr. Davis traveled from Marrakesh to New York to Washington for work this fall, he incurred more than $3,700 in taxpayer-funded expenses. He emitted more than 4,500 pounds of carbon on the journey, according to a United Nations flight emissions calculator. The Governor’s office also approved $2,082 in expenses for Mr. Davis’s expedition from Morocco to Germany in November.
Mr. Inslee’s office must have anticipated that the climate adviser’s travels could raise constituents’ eyebrows. Mr. Davis’s official job description got a rewrite, and it’s peppered with adjectives like “international” and “global.” Before he embarked, he huddled with his boss, Keith Phillips, and Jaime Smith, the Governor’s executive director of communications, to develop talking points “if asked to explain Morroco [sic],” as Mr. Davis put it in another email.
Mr. Inslee’s office repeated these points in response to our queries about Mr. Davis this week. “Most importantly, this is about the governor choosing senior staff in whom he has confidence and trust,” spokeswoman Tara Lee wrote. She added that “the nature of his work is travel intensive and global,” and, “notably, a large part of Chris’ portfolio has always included international collaboration.”
Call it a version of we’ll always have Paris. The Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris global climate pact, but Mr. Inslee and other resistance governors still want to enforce it themselves.
This Marrakesh climate express is all the more noteworthy given that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is under fire for a trip to Morocco in December to promote U.S. liquified natural gas. Critics claim Mr. Pruitt has no role on trade policy, but LNG exports carry legitimate environmental implications. Natural gas is the least carbon-intensive traditional energy source, and Morocco relies heavily on coal for electricity, so American LNG could cut its emissions.
Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, nonetheless asked the EPA’s inspector general to “review the purpose of Administrator Pruitt’s travels to determine whether his activities during each trip are in line with EPA’s mission ‘to protect human health and the environment.’” Perhaps Washington residents should ask who is paying for Chris Davis’s intercontinental carbon emissions.
I have a FB friend from HS, actually a friend of one my best friend’s brother. He grew up a seemingly normal Irish Catholic. Somewhere along the way he converted to Islam. We’ve had some discussions over the years. Inadvertently, I guess, he added me to some Muslim FB messenger group chat (I’ve only lurked), but it is fascinating to read the posts, they mostly just fight with each other, it’s been going on since November 28th. Just to give you the breadth of the conversation, here are the first and (currently) last posts to the thread:
First: Today is Giving Tuesday for the Homeless.
Please read sincerely my friends and consider. I have 2 small , beautiful and young children. They need their Dad at work and with good housing. There is a homeless crisis in this country and my family has been touched.
Last (most current): Satan. Watch your language. Get out of the group. Others appreciate. Osman Ibrahim left the conversation.
Fake degrees?
Fake news.
BTW, lots of English language, seemingly propaganda, videos are mentioned in the FB group chat from this place. Be careful, you might get radicalized:
https://www.facebook.com/imamomarsuleiman
That’s why you are so unlikable. People leave these states and you deem them all to be losers. So obnoxious,ignorant,and,arrogant.
This made me laugh:
Imam Omar Suleiman is the President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and a professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University.
^^^ Do you think he is related to the OctoMom?
Hey, BJ Pumps wife just sent me a FB friend request!
This is exactly what I was alluding to yesterday. Anyone that wants to do drugs is doing it. Just because you make a law stating that something is illegal, spends billions every year trying to enforce it, doesn’t mean it’s actualky stopping anyone from doing it. So stop wasting taxpayer money. Republicans always complain about reckless spending by the govt, do you understand that the war on drugs is the most reckless spending of them all. You get nothing for it, just money pissed away. Maybe it’s part of the republicans plan of “make work,” because honestly, it’s equivalent of paying people to dig ditches that serve no purpose.
You missed the whole point. Legalization in Colorado and other states is what led to the invention of THC oil and making it commercially available. Now, all of the sudden, kids who never abused marijuana in school are doing it every day. This problem didn’t exist prior to legalization. So in short, you’re wrong
BJ Pumps is never wrong, and never sorry. He learned that from his Dad.
[Verse 1]
My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn’t leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don’t blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me “Pumps.”
[Verse 2]
Well, he must o’ thought that is quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a’ lots of folk
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red
And some guy’d laugh and I’d give him head
I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named “Pumps.”
[Verse 3]
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My wrist got limp and my IQ got lean
I’d roam from street to street to hide my shame
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I’d search the ho houses and bars
And handy that man who gave me that awful name
[Verse 4]
Well, it was Wits End bar in mid-July
And I just hit Van Houten and my throat was dry
I thought I’d stop and have myself a dump
At that old saloon on a street of crud
There at a table, pulling his pud
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me “Pumps.”
[Verse 5]
Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother’d had
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye
He was big and bent and gray and old
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: “My name is ‘Pumps!’ I have to dump!
Now you’re going to watch!!”
[Verse 6]
Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he didn’t blink, to my surprise
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
Well I busted my sphincter right down my slacks
And liquid poop started soaked in the floor cracks
Kicking and a’ gouging in the poop and the blood and the beer
[Verse 7]
I tell you, I’ve been really scared
My Nana was the only one who really cared
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss
He went for his pud and I pulled mine first
He stood there lookin’ at me and I saw him smile
[Verse 8]
And he said: “Son, this world is rough
And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn’t be there to help ya along
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you’d have to tighten your sphincter or die
And it’s the name that made you smoke a bong
[Verse 9]
He said: “Now you just pooped one hell of a load
And I know you hate me, but I have to hit the road
So why don’t you do the right thing and pick up my tab?
But ya ought to thank me, before I book
For getting deported because I was a crook
Because I’m the son-of-a-bitch that named you Pumps
[Verse 10]
I got all choked up and I let go my pud
And I called him my pa, and he called me a dud
And I came away with a different point of view
And I think about him, now and then
Every time I post, and lie, and pretend
And if I ever have a son, I think I’m gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Pumps! I still hate that name!
@NoceraBV
Today’s must-read: “The Corleone family had the awareness and vigilance to exclude Fredo from power.
“The American political system did not do so well.”
Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo
But unlike the Godfather character, the president of the United States is backed by powerful people enabling him.
DAVID FRUM
JAN 6, 2018 POLITICS
@tonyschwartz
Trump has moved to a level of irrationality and delusion that go far beyond anything I observed while writing “The Art of the Deal.”
And he was deeply irrational and deluded back then.
@mtaibbi
Have the words “I am a very stable genius” ever been uttered outside a mental health facility?
Puzzy, puzzy, puzzy, where are you?
We have to push some fake news…
The economy’s going well
The Dem party is going to hell
We need some ammunition
If all is going well
And our bias won’t sell
What are we to do now?
Ignore the national economy
As well as Security
And make up something new now
Ignore your 401Ks
Also take home pay
Trump must be crazy
Our party car is in a ditch
We have no votes to impeach
And midterms will yield no difference
Didn’t Kanye also say he is a very stable genius?
Year One:
Trump – 1
Liberal misfits – 0
LOL! Liberals suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome just don’t know how to handle President Comacho. #UnhingedDemshttp://dailycaller.com/2018/01/06/hollywood-director-judd-apatow-melts-down-over-trumps-stable-genius-tweets/
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/06/hollywood-director-judd-apatow-melts-down-over-trumps-stable-genius-tweets/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA
It’ll be interesting to hear how the Dems pitch a return to a sh1tty economy, higher unemployment, higher taxes, more citizens on foodstamps, stifling regulation, a stock market crash, recession, and going back to being international puzzies with open borders to the US voters.
Oblama; 8 years, 3 accomplishments:
Made school lunches inedible
Health insurance unaffordable
And police lives unimportant
Wow, I’ve been reading the number of companies that are giving their employees bonuses and raises based on the tax cuts! Thank you, President Trump!
Democrats: “Trump hates blacks!”
BLS: “Black unemployment hits lowest rate in 17 years!”
Democrats: “Oh.”
Any questions?
E cigs led to this, not legalization.
“You missed the whole point. Legalization in Colorado and other states is what led to the invention of THC oil and making it commercially available. Now, all of the sudden, kids who never abused marijuana in school are doing it every day. This problem didn’t exist prior to legalization. So in short, you’re wrong“
lol, watch the local honey industry now collapse as NJ now is going to regulate beekeepers to death. This is the reason I won’t start a hot sauce business on the side. Too much crap and they just make it more expensive with this nonsensical regulation.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/post_416.html#incart_river_home
Poor Bills.
BRT why don’t you join those other losers who left NJ. You can start your business in one of those loser states.
3b – Don’t you have a new turn on vinegar and water you wanted to bring to market as well? Oh, that’s right. You’re just a generic douchebag with no aspirations.
BRT why don’t you join those other losers who left NJ. You can start your business in one of those loser states.
A little m/c ride up the PCH. No complaints (Today)
BRT why don’t you join those other losers who left NJ. You can start your business in one of those loser states.
Because the pizza sucks in those loser states. I should just go back to illegally selling it at a farm.
The guy who owns Sriracha started his business selling out of a barrel after immigrating from Vietnam. Later, he bought a crappy white fan to deliver to restaurants. These days, he’s bringing in hundreds of millions…all without ever taking out a loan.
That would have never happened in NJ. In fact, we would have fined him $500 and encouraged him to get on section 8 afterwards.
BRT Understand. I was just being sarcastic.
haha, I know. Just ranting myself on the overly restrict nature of doing business in NJ.
BRT it’s the price you have to pay to live in such an incredibly prosperous amazing state. Inhabited by buff beautiful wealthy and sophisticated people.
While factually incorrect, the gist of the sentiment is spot on…..
Grab them by the puzzy says:
January 7, 2018 at 12:58 pm
@mtaibbi Have the words “I am a very stable genius” ever been uttered outside a mental health facility?
https://nypost.com/cover/covers-for-january-7-2018/
sad thing was, I was going to build a nice looking wooden bee hive this summer.
No time limit on Oprah’s campaign speech at the Golden Globes. Apparently all white males are guilty of raping a black woman 70 years ago.
Oprah’s cunt is chock full of dust bunnies.
WTF? Gary Oldman? Isn’t he a straight white male? Another Russian hack?
Oprah would beat Trump
No contest