By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
There’s no way to spin the suck, Save Jerseyans.
We’re not in good shape.
That’s the state of affairs confirmed by today’s report state labor officials; New Jersey lost 6,400 jobs in March 2015 and its unemployment rate ticked up to 6.5% after having added 9,200 in February.
Yes, the cold weather delayed seasonal hiring, and sure, February’s revised numbers aren’t terrible.
But economic growth is a competitive game, and when your state consistently lags the national unemployment picture by a point or better, then it’s time to look for an offensive variable (in this case, our worst in the nation tax climate) as the reason for our consistent under-performance. The answer: we aren’t competitive!
Court-dictated pension and education spending is part of the problem; cumulative, constitutionally-enshrined bad decisions are also to blame.
We’ll keep saying it until Trenton develops a consensus around reality… and our fellow citizens wake the hell up…
The state is dying.
TOO high taxes? Too many non-workers leeching off the workers?
Atlantic city people
That Christie guy should def be president.
Rooney blusters: “We’ll keep saying it until Trenton develops a consensus around reality.”
Why not simply hold your breath instead? It’ll be so much more fun to imagine you turning blue and then collapsing on top of your keyboard, Matt.
Thank your taxes
It’s a tax and spend lib state…they are all going down
Look at your Senators. That is your electorate.
No one is waking up. I work for the state now, why? Regulations killed commercial construction in this state. I’m super conservative, and I see more spending now than under the last two democrats. I wasted my vote when I voted for christie. Was hoping he would fix civil service, it’s a joke, nothing. Hoped he would make it so I wouldn’t have to pay union dues, nothing. I almost think he likes the unions as useful tools
Thank you governor pant-load!
Good job Chris, just think of how much harm you can do on a national level. You are one self-serving jerk.
My property taxes in NC are $8000 a year less than NJ.
Education and pension spending caused jobs to decline? I’m deleting this page. Another Christie mouth piece.
Hight taxes and strict gun laws is why I will leave and take my money with me.
The taxes
Greed an unfair trade agreements mostly greed…
Governor Krispy Kreme