From ABC News:
Flood-stricken New Jersey residents look into government-funded home buyout program
The flooding in parts of New Jersey over the past few months left mounts of headaches for residents.
Countless residents from those affected areas came out to meet with New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection officials in Pompton Lakes Thursday night to learn about the Blue Acres Program.
The program is voluntary and it relocates flood-stricken residents who are considering government-funded buyouts of their homes.
It eligible, homeowners would be offered fair market value for their homes, using state and federal funds.
“I’ve been in this town 60 years,” said David Woll of Pompton Lakes. “So, I’ve been through enough floods.”
For 10-year-old Melina, who says she was trapped inside her Wayne home during the recent storms, it’s a tough decision.
“I like my school and I wanna stay in my school, but I don’t like the flooding,” she said.
Her family bought their Wayne home six years ago.
But the flooding problems have been worse than expected.
From CBS News:
Some New Jersey flood victims looking to be bought out by government
Flooding across New Jersey in recent months has many residents in those areas saying they’ve had enough.
Thursday afternoon, some flood victims met with New Jersey’s Blue Acres, a government buy-out program.
This is the second Blue Acres meeting this month at the library in Lodi, a borough that’s seen its share of flooding. The one-on-one meetings are closed to the media and flood victims from across the state can attend.
Some tell us while the program is voluntary, the buy-out offers are low and confusing.
“We had the sewage coming up through this pipe, which was insane,” Manville homeowner Brianna Lohr said.
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Lohr has begun the buy-out process and says even though she’s being offered what she and her boyfriend paid at the time of flood, she doesn’t care.
“Sign me up. I will sign the line. If we could get out today, we absolutely would,” she said.
Other residents in flood-ravaged neighborhoods say they want the full market value of their homes.
“They are saying that it is market value at the time of the incident, which is not fair,” Milford resident Leeana Jones said.
Jones’ life was turned upside down after Hurricane Ida damaged her Milford home and sent water into the basement.
She says she can’t get more funding to raise her home like others and her credit’s shot after making repairs.
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Shawn M. Latourette, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, oversees the federally funded Blue Acres program. He says the rules are mandated by Congress.
“That is tied to fair market value at the time of the event, and it is one of those issues of bureaucracy that is a bit ignorant of or not attuned to the realities, the facts on the ground,” he said.
Glad to see NJ tackling the tough issues, height and weight discrimination protections. Really though, when are we going to move on to the tough stuff, we need to expand discrimination protections to those who modify their bodies through tattoo, piercing, hair coloring, or otherwise. In a recent survey of HR execs, 78% said they would be less likely to hire someone with a facial tattoo, outright discrimination. C’mon Murphy, be the first in the nation to normalize Post Malone. Call it the “No Ragrets” bill.
https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/new-jersey/2024/02/12/nj-may-expand-anti-discrimination-protections-based-on-height-weight/72574187007/
Oh never mind, SF and NYC did it first, makes more sense now.
https://www.legaldive.com/news/nyc-height-weight-discrimination-law-san-francisco-employment-law/701337/
Deflated opening down here, my office is closed.
First non-grim.
Real estate version of smash and grab. This was inevitable, no?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/squatters-are-taking-over-homes-all-over-nation-industrial-scale-and-turning-them
About an inch now sticking to the wet ground. School now closed….I may head over to the snow hill later before it all melts..
We wanted a society where anything goes, and now that is precisely what we have got.
From RE smash N’ grab, shopping without money, tent cities and high crime, the transformation of America that Obammy dreamed about is coming together nicely.
And your solution is a failed, corrupt, racist, real estate scammer
Fast Eddie says:
February 13, 2024 at 8:16 am
We wanted a society where anything goes, and now that is precisely what we have got.
From RE smash N’ grab, shopping without money, tent cities and high crime, the transformation of America that Obammy dreamed about is coming together nicely.
BRT: The video ( from yesterday) does look legitimate. I don’t know what the poster was rambling on about, but the video does look real.
I’m totally unprepared for the snow since Lib never updated his forecast.
3 B – From yesterday…
Even during this massive war on their doorstep Europe refuses to arm up for a potential battle with Russia. If any NATO member is invaded all NATO members are supposed to be ready and respond with boots on the ground.
News today..
“Some two-thirds of NATO’s 31 member countries are expected to reach the defense spending target of two percent of GDP in 2024, officials said Tuesday, almost double last year’s number.”
So it sill was just 1% of GDP or even LESS for the majority of NATO. They expect US Soldiers to do all the heavy lifting. Many NATO countries armies are more like the National Guard here part time soldiers.. They won’t be ready for a fight in Poland or Lithuania is Putin decides to reunite the land that between Kaliningrad and mother Russia.
We spend 3.5% of GDP on our military. It is 20 percent of the US federal budget…..
As Chuck Schumer says It will be Americans fighting if Ukraine loses…
Is that how a reasonable president should persuade NATO members to do more, and how to convince potential enemies to not test NATO’s unity? Of course not. But it’s what a narcissistic bully does to impress himself and his followers.
Juice: Europe always expects the US to do more, and then their citizens criticize the US at the same time. Away from the Poles, the Finns, and the Baltic countries , I am not sure many of these countries young men would be up to fighting. Perhaps I am wrong. The Russians have put the prime minister of Estonia on their wanted list, due to her outspoken support of Ukraine, and her getting rid of Soviet WW 2 memorials.
Can confirm that the military is not a viable career path in any of the countries named. I always found it so strange that kids here can have a “career” in the military. Preferential discounts on durable goods, home financing, etc…
I know to people who have done much better than they would have in the private sector remaining career military people.
This is def a US thing only.
3b, it was just the first link that came up when I searched. Who knows what the heck the guy was talking about. Some sort of anti-jewish paranoid rant. For those that missed it, Ukrainian person with Down Syndrome is on the front lines and appears to have not a clue what is going on.
https://twitter.com/search?q=ukraine%20down%20syndrome&src=typed_query
No One: You are right, no way to behave but, they should not need to be persuaded in the first place. Once the Russians invaded Ukraine, that should have been the wake-up call to increase military spending.
Jon Stewart has returned to The Daily Show (Mondays only). Some of best news of 2024. Some level of sanity and hilarity returns..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ
here’s a different video fof the kid.
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1756503062334640428
No One says:
February 13, 2024 at 9:22 am
“Is that how a reasonable president should persuade NATO members to do more…”
As a matter of principal, I agree with you that presidents should act ‘presidential’. But fact is, none of the ‘reasonable’ presidents prior to T had any success in convincing the 70% of NATO members that fail to meet their financial commitment, to meet their their financial commitment. So for me personally, I no longer care how the president delivers the message to our mostly useless, deadbeat ‘allies’.
Estonia is a small, advanced, and quite free country, much like a number of former USSR colonies. I hear it’s become a tech and finance hub. I know it’s quite pretty to visit. Biden should make some noise about Russia’s threat. The Russians want to arrest their Prime Minister unknown reasons, probably because she supports Ukraine and tore down some Soviet Military monuments in Estonia. Her party supports free trade and low taxes, classical liberalism, the stuff the Republican party now disdains under Trump. I wonder if Trump will open his big mouth and welcome Russia to capture Estonia’s prime minister?
While they don’t have a horde of men to send into battle, they are physically in the front lines with Russia and have been in NATO for 19 years. Undoubtedly military assets can be forward positioned in Estonia, which is probably the biggest contribution they can make.
Take Turkey, which is generally a shit NATO partner in terms of behavior, it’s biggest asset is its position, and willingness to allow other assets to be there and fly over there. If they weren’t in a good spot relative to US interests, they’d probably have been told to go to hell a long time ago. Instead they keep getting cash inflows. But the US gets room to maneuver at times in return.
The US can’t flip geostrategic partners like Donald Trump flips wives.
There was an infographic showing the percentages that all NATO countries pay for in order to be members. I guess they posted this to show why Donald Trump is complaining about how little they pay.
What I never knew is that Israel isn’t a NATO member. Anyone know why?
I visited Tallinn in high school. Really wonderful. Across the water from Helsinki.
grim says:
February 13, 2024 at 7:25 am
Real estate version of smash and grab. This was inevitable, no?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/squatters-are-taking-over-homes-all-over-nation-industrial-scale-and-turning-them
Good. Make this so unpalatable so that houses go on the market and the youth can have a reasonable chance of owning vs being rent slaves to boomers.
Ten 428
Every member of Chuck Schumer’s family should go, including him, before he sends any of our young kids into a battle they don’t need to be in.
As Chuck Schumer says It will be Americans fighting if Ukraine loses…
Bystander says:
February 13, 2024 at 9:54 am
Jon Stewart has returned to The Daily Show (Mondays only). Some of best news of 2024. Some level of sanity and hilarity returns..
Saw that last night. Worth a few laughs.
Boomer Remover says:
February 13, 2024 at 9:51 am
Can confirm that the military is not a viable career path in any of the countries named. I always found it so strange that kids here can have a “career” in the military. Preferential discounts on durable goods, home financing, etc…
Yup, then when you become a cop after your stint in the military, more preferential discounts on durable goods, home financing, etc. Hell, you can even shoot innocent people, claim qualified immunity, and get back pay.
https://www.nj.gov/dca/hmfa/consumers/docs/hb_policefireretire_fs.pdf
Snow total: Cedar Grove- 8 inches, according to my wife. (Bless her)
Phoenix: Israel is not in Europe. And away from that, it just would never happen for a multitude of reasons
No One – A few years ago the Buckingham Palace reception and other NATO meetings where the rest of NATO laughed at Trump?
Narcissistic and a bully he was still right. They do need to do more. Is it now too late perhaps? Why can’t they do more for their neighbor? They haven’t made the investment. The rest of NATO expects our one Ammo plant in Pennsylvania to supply all the 155 mm shells?
“The US can’t flip geostrategic partners like Donald Trump flips wives.”
LOL, priceless.
3b says:
February 13, 2024 at 10:24 am
Phoenix: Israel is not in Europe. And away from that, it just would never happen for a multitude of reasons
Investigated a little. Yeah, I agree. Looks complicated.
Just something I had assumed. You know what happens when you assume..
The rest of NATO expects our one Ammo plant in Pennsylvania to supply all the 155 mm shells?
Scranton, Pa vs Russia. And the irony of Slow Joe being born in Scranton and giving back to his hometown with unlimited jobs at the Ammo factory.
So many were laid off at the Dunder-Mifflin facility in 2013 when they closed down the mill. Rumor has it Dwight and Michael took jobs there, and that Pam is a WFH consultant for the plant.
3b says:
February 13, 2024 at 9:53 am
No One: You are right, no way to behave but, they should not need to be persuaded in the first place. Once the Russians invaded Ukraine, that should have been the wake-up call to increase military spending.
They would, but they need the extra cash to pay for compressed natural gas @3X the price they were paying before. Either that or scrape their frozen baby off the floor with a spatula.
Phonix – Don’t be silly. Those jobs are not for Americans.
The plant however is hiring a HR Generalist (must speak Spanish) to interview the day laborers to work at the Ammo plant in Scranton. No worries about INS raids either….
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4d465b8513167c44&tk=1hmhjf9oqjqub807&from=serp&vjs=3
Juice,
Salary – $16/hr.
Speaking of inflation.
In October, NATO’s senior military officer, Adm. Rob Bauer, said that the price for one 155mm shell had risen from 2,000 euros ($2,171) at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to 8,000 euros ($8,489.60).
Inflation: Consumer prices rise 3.1% in January, defying forecasts for a faster slowdown
Food, rent, mortgages, services, labor, supplies and parts all off the charts. Gasoline is still one dollar higher on average per gallon than in 2019. Add no borders, two wars, crime infestation and a vegetable for a president and let’s see how the left manufactures 81,000,000 votes again.
I’m pretty sure the left and center can find 81m people eager to vote against a raging, gleefully lying, narcissistic asshole as they did last time. They’d rather vote for a half-dead person than Trump.
re: “rather vote for a half-dead person than Trump”
You can choose left or right but you will take a bite from the shite sandwich.
No One: If the Democrats had a viable VP in Harris , there would be calls of Biden needs to step down by the Democrats establishment. As it stands now, Harris is even less popular than Biden, and do they have to stick with Biden.
As for the Republicans and supporting Trump for President again, incredibly stupid. That’s the state of US politics today.
IRA transfer question…
Moving an account so I can invest it more 155 mm artillery shells.
I forget should I liquidate first to cash then transfer or transfer the assets directly? Which is the cheaper choice? Docs and FINRA are not clear on fees.
For anyone who is a pasta/bread enthusiast, I stopped by Castle Valley Mill in Doylsetown PA. They sell a lot of heritage grains that they grow and mill themselves. The flours have been amazing. You take whatever recipe you have and swap about 10 to 15% of their flour in and all of the sudden, your stuff tastes 10 times better.
https://castlevalleymill.com/#
They should make an physical artillery shell ETF
3b – re: Kamala…. Well sexism is alive and well that is why she is not trying to push sleepy joe out of the way..Kamala may not appeal to voting women, that is perhaps one of main reasons sleepy Joe cannot step aside as it was Women who gave Trump the presidency in 2016 and well gave it to over to Biden in 2020.
Since when Regan was first elected in 1980 the voting gender gap has completely reversed, a higher proportion of women voting than men in each of the last nine presidential elections.
82.2 million women voted in 2020
73.7 million women voted in 2016
72.5 million men voted in 2020
63.8 million men voted in 2016
3b,
Re: Harris
She is the worst VP pick of all time. Abrasive, phony, lacking knowledge on world stage and horrendous orator. She inspires no-one. Pence was at least a decent public speaker.
For Gary (and anyone else):
This went on sale about 6 weeks ago, finally got the final sales price, any guesses?
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/44-Old-Orchard-Ct_Cedar-Grove_NJ_07009_M65341-25348?from=srp-list-card
Original asking $675,000
Well, since the middle class is paying for them who cares? W3 are giving them away for free. each one is equal to a 2012 Camry that will last another 10 years.
Juice Box says:
February 13, 2024 at 11:19 am
Speaking of inflation.
In October, NATO’s senior military officer, Adm. Rob Bauer, said that the price for one 155mm shell had risen from 2,000 euros ($2,171) at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to 8,000 euros ($8,489.60).
1987
Eight fitty.
Harris is simply the left’s version of Sarah Palin, stupid useless, and can’t even go read a script.
Bystander: Agreed on Harris. I would add arrogant. I would rather Biden as a figure head President with him being controlled from behind the scenes, than Harris as President, she does not listen to her own advisors now, and dismisses reports/ briefs produced for her to familiarize herself with a particular subject. Multiple staff member departures since she took office.
Juice: Harris is waiting , and I think she figures sometime in the next few months, Biden makes another series of blunders/ gaffes/ missteps and the pressure to step aside becomes overwhelming. I believe at that point , Harris assumes she will be the candidate. After all she is ready to lead!
Juice: I don’t know if the women give their vote to Biden this time. They may just stay home.
Juice ~12:38pm
It all depends if what you got in the IRA are proprietary investment of that Financial Institution.
If you own well known common assets they will transfer easily in the ACATS system or slower by snail mail, no need to sell.
If you own something proprietary like a Stable or Investment Fund even if is like a wrap of a popular fund like a Vanguard or Fidelity then they are sold before transfer.
1987 Condo,
750K?
Bystander 12:50 PM:
But, can she spell potato? :)
11/5/2024 – Election day choices will be Harris vs Hailey.
Regardless who wins. You can bet if you eat at the White House you will have some great Byriani Chicken, Nams and Samozas.
No more cheap McDonald Burgers or Ensure bottles.
Leftwing,
Whenever you want I’ll show you my Mansion and Yacht. I know you are jealous because you are staying in that crappy apartment over the bowling alley in Paterson.
BRT
That video is messed up. In my town there are young people with Down syndrome who work in grocery stores as baggers and pushing carriages out to people cars or in fast food places asking if you want a soda refill And carrying extra sauces and napkins. How could someone with Down syndrome get though basic training and weapons training? That guy is just cannon fodder. And it makes you wonder how much training are the new conscripts getting.
Libturd, leftwing, et. al.,
Is this the beginning of a correction?
Hahaha…
Fast Eddie says:
February 13, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Libturd, leftwing, et. al.,
Is this the beginning of a correction?
Fast: Inflation numbers this morning were hotter than expected, so May rate cut might be off the table, and this is soon after the market digesting that March cut in rates was not coming. The market wants rate cuts, the sooner the better, even though the sconomy “appears” to be chugging along. That’s my take.
beer – re: “How could someone with (insert 4-F status here) get though basic training and weapons training?””
FYI – If you are lucky you get 17 days of instruction and you are good to go.
Last I checked the UK effort to train was something like 30,000 soldiers known as Operation Orbital which had to move out of Ukraine because they were getting blown up. It’s somewhere in England now. 10,000 soldiers every 6 months.
Skinny on actual Training in Ukraine..
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1164935413/russia-ukraine-war-foreign-veterans-train-ukrainian-soldiers
3B,
I don’t think it is chugging along at all. My (useless) brother-in-law, who has been chronically unemployed for two decades, failed to get a renewed contract this month. They apparently go by 12-18 mo rule. Contractors have to leave or you need to offer FT apparently. They told him that might come back to him in 3 months. Same thing happened to my manager. Ran into him other day and he was working BoA contract. They let him go every 1 year and he has to wait 3 months to see if renew. He is late 50s and all he can find. This guy ran our trade entry system for 25 years at old IB. Now, he is doing mind-numbing application inventory reporting.
To be clear, I now have two brothers unemployed and now my bro-in-law. It is now me and my much older brother-in-law works for govt. security detail. He has never been laid off in 30 years. Says alot.
Sometimes you go with what you got.
Hold my beer says:
February 13, 2024 at 2:59 pm
BRT
That video is messed up. In my town there are young people with Down syndrome who work in grocery stores as baggers and pushing carriages out to people cars or in fast food places asking if you want a soda refill And carrying extra sauces and napkins. How could someone with Down syndrome get though basic training and weapons training? That guy is just cannon fodder. And it makes you wonder how much training are the new conscripts getting.
Bystander: I don’t think it’s chugging along either, that’s why ai said it “appears” (in quotes) to be chugging along; that is the consensus of the “experts” / economists etcLots of white collar layoffs, inflation still high, credit card debt is huge, and a few other things. But, what do I know.
Bystander: Is that a Fed/ State on contractors having to be offered full time positions, and is it in all industries?
3b, I have not contracted in 10 years but I was allowed to remain for two years then got FT offer around 2014. I heard laws changed in 2015/2016 to stop employer from skirting around labor laws related to temp 1099 workers. That is when W2 became only way to land contract job. I heard Microsoft implemented the 12-18 mo rule and play it hard. Looks like lemmings at banks followed it. Other may know more.
I thought we agreed CC debt was where we expect it to be on a relative basis when factoring for wage and goods inflation. No?
Bystander: Thanks. I had no idea how that worked.
Boomer: Perhaps it was, but to me , debt is debt, and over 1 trillion in CC debt outstanding, seems like a staggering number to me, no matter how it’s rationalized.
Is there a convenient place online to confirm the credentials of a current or retired Middletown Township sargeant?
That Cedar Grove house will sell for $799
1:55 wishful thinking.
Lax: Some women may stay home.
Juice
3-5 days is ridiculous. I wonder how the ones trained in the U.K. survival rate is compared to the 1 week wonders.
What were the odds this would happen?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13079821/The-cost-legalized-gambling-Disturbing-new-survey-shows-half-sports-betters-Connecticut-problem-gamblers-just-two-years-law-allowing-enacted.html