January 18,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, As inauguration day approaches for president-elect Donald Trump, NJ politicians continue to make fools out of themselves. While some are sitting out the inauguration, others are protesting or criticizing Trumps cabinet picks.
Yesterday “environmental advocates” in New Jersey leveled scathing criticisms of Trump’s cabinet picks and issuing warnings that environmental protections stand to be significantly weakened under his administration. They were accompanied by former governors Jim Florio and Christine Todd Whitman who called on all sides in the state’s 2017 gubernatorial race to draw up plans to counteract environmental deregulation at the state level. State level , folks this is New Jersey who are you kidding?
This is the same Christine Todd Whitman who stole money from New Jersey Pensioners, and who initiated the Pension crisis we currently find ourselves in with her actions. This is also the same Christine Todd Whitman that as head of the EPA and assured rescue workers that the air was fine at the World Trade Center site post 9/11.This is the same Jim Florio who looked to tax New Jersey out of business before it became fashionable.
New Jersey is by all negative measures, taxes, quality of life, cost of living, job growth leading the nation in failure.
Recent reports suggest 37% of people in N.J. are among the working poor and New Jersey leads the nation 5 years in a row for the state with the most people moving out of. New Jersey’s Pensions are in crisis, drug addiction is rampant, crime is on the rise, cities roads and bridges are dilapidated. The reality is if you live in New Jersey you far bigger things to worry about than who gets sworn in on January 20th. Maybe politicians who do not attend the inauguration will donate their days pay to the state to help pay for some of their mistakes. Otherwise we suggest its time to get to work and do your job.
