New Jersey is Adding Jobs. Imagine How Many More We’d Have With a Sane Legislature!
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
New Jersey got a little positive economic news on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the Garden State gained 59,100 private sector jobs in 2012. It represents New Jersey’s best year of job growth in 12 years and corresponded with a 12.5% jump in fourth quarter home sales over 2011.
And Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick (R-Union) was quick to credit his Governor’s policies:
The latest report on job creation is another positive indicator that New Jersey’s economy is showing sustained improvement. The economic policies put into place by the Christie administration over the last three years are helping people get back to work. These employment gains, along with the latest news on improving revenues, are strong indicators that our state’s economy is improving.”
Cool, right? But also kind of pathetic at the same time. Not Christie’s performance… the situation in general. Do the comparative analysis and imagine the potential for job growth if we didn’t have a bumbling central planner in the White House? Or a decade-old Democrat legislative majority in Trenton that made NJ the most taxed state in the union?
We should be doing better, Save Jerseyans, but the sad truth is that we won’t with a seismic shift in the legislature’s composition this November. I’m saving my champagne for that magical day; here’s hoping it doesn’t turn first. New Jersey Republicans have been loathe to engage this particular point because their Governor is an incumbent. Unfortunately, we can’t take back the whole State House without finding a compelling way.
