David W. Chen, "Corzine, Tough Sell for 3 Years, Works to Connect With Voters," in The New York Times, March 10, 2009, at p. A1.
Patrick McGeehan, "With Merck Deal, New Jersey Braces for Big Drug Industry Job Cuts," in The New York Times, March 9, 2009, at p. A24.
Charlie Savage & Scott Shane, "Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers," in The New York Times, March 9, 2009, at p. A1.
Little about New Jersey surprises people. The Garden State is identified with political corruption and mafia control of courts as well as political institutions in many parts of the world. Former Governor Jim McGreevey -- the New Jersey version of Jimmy Walker -- was a wonder to us all, capitalizing on a culture of "pay-to-play," spreading government money on friends like jelly on toast. The economic consequences of years of massive theft and incompetence, corruption among bribe-taking, connected judges and politicians are now all-too visible:
"Mr. Corzine is unlikely to win many friends on Tuesday, when he is expected to propose a series of difficult steps to help the state close a $7 BILLION budget deficit: raising income taxes among the wealthiest residents, demanding that state workers agree to a wage freeze and take 12 UNPAID days off, and reducing spending by billions [except for the mafia perks]. Small wonder then that Republicans are optimistic that they can win their first statewide election since 1997." [The state's unpayable debt is $32-36 BILLION.]
For the sake of the residents of New Jersey, I hope Mr. Christie becomes governor and continues his crusade against political corruption. The culture of heinous abuses of public trust, theft, violations of people's lives must be brought to an end. New Jersey must be lifted out of the Tammany-era politics of clubhouses and organized crime intimidation. The results in misery and suffering for the unhappy people of New Jersey will only get worse before they get better:
"One of the more flattering things New Jersey has been called is 'the nation's medicine chest.' [Don't drink the water or breathe the air.] But that is becoming less appropriate as the roster of giant drug-making companies based in the state dwindles."
New Jersey has lost manufacturing jobs, the service industry is repelled by the state's associations with corruption and government criminality, publicly sanctioned torture, and child porn that are the result of Trenton's incompetence and Hudson County's "boss system." The place is simply disgusting to businesses looking for an image-boost. Not only are businesses afraid to go to New Jersey, but visitors are sporting face masks to endure the moral stench of palpable corruption and evil. In more ways than one, New Jersey stinks.
"On Monday, two of the biggest pharmaceutical companies with headquarters in New Jersey, Merck and Sherring-Plough, anounced plans to merge and eliminate about 16,000 jobs. That anouncement came just six weeks after Pfizer, based in Manhattan, said it would buy Wyeth, which is based in Madison, New Jersey."
This job loss adds to the generalized "loser culture" of suburban New Jersey. Cranberry fields appear dismal and bleak to prospective businesses hoping to escape the political raw sewage of South Jersey. I urge you to reconsider any plans to establish a business or long-term residence in New Jersey's mafia-controlled towns and cities. North Jersey is just as bad or worse than Camden. On the other hand, the Xanadu mall is beautiful. The only trouble is that no one can find it nor even a construction site indicating where the mall may someday exist. It is even more difficult to find the $2 BILLION that have now vanished in connection with this project, much of this money is taxpayer money.
In addition to these 16,000 jobs, there will be about 4,000 more jobs lost, at a minimum, through collateral effects of this corporate flight and economic depression. This is besides the 3,000 "positions" Corzine predicted would be lost. In other words, fewer leeches on the taxpayer's tab is the promise. The reality is that Trenton takes care of its own.
In the midst of New Jersey's tragic and visibly failed experiment in privatizing government and socializing organized crime, the state's legal profession has become a global joke and horror story. When students in countries from all over the world are taught what law and judges must not become, they will point to New Jersey. They should.
Particularly corrupt and a total disgrace is the state's highest court. One member of this court has been subjected to ethics charges, probably at the secret request of a colleague subject to influence from political bosses. Another member of the court is, allegedly, affiliated with the state's organized crime factions in real estate and construction. The state Attorney General is incompetent and ineffective. ("Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
How's Mr. Prisco doing, Stuart? China's recent detention of a controversial civil rights attorney on tax issues was reversed, presumably after his agreement to repay any taxes due. This attorney was not raped, censored, assaulted, subjected to hypnosis or drugging, disbarred nor was his money stolen from his office and home as he was slandered to friends and family members. To the best of my knowledge, his television signal and phone service were left alone. Michael Wines, "Without Explanation, China Releases 3 Activists as New U.S. Ambassador Arrives," in The New York Times, August 24, 2009, at p. A4. (In New Jersey, Xu Zhiyong, Esq. qould be far worse off.)
It is not simply N.J.'s obvious and out-of-control criminality, but the bankruptcy of the institutions that are supposed to contend with the problem that sickens people. New Jersey courts and police are too often complicit in heinous criminality. The continuing liberty of Tuchin and Riccioli being a case in point. Senator Bob? ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics" and "Mafia Influence in New Jersey's State Police.")
People assume that state police officers in New Jersey are in the mob, often correctly. Amidst all of this "success," New Jersey's Democrat-controlled courts and the NJSBA refuse to acknowledge a problem or make any effort at desperately needed reforms. This is unwise. The imminent loss of another $2 BILLION in the Xanadu swindle and other on-going catastrophes makes it plain that it is essential to put an end to N.J.'s "pay-to-play" culture along with the state's thriving, well-protected child porn and child-prostitution industry, even if this results in more unemployment among mafiosi. ("We don't know from nothing" and "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey.")
Judges or legislators with a fondness for child porn, like Neil M. Cohen, Esq., will have to seek elsewhere for their satisfactions. ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Neil M. Cohen, Esq. and Conduct Unbecoming to the Legislature in New Jersey.")
August 25, 2009 at 4:14 P.M. I am still experiencing difficulties at this site with fake notices from "Google" (which are not very convincing) and other obstacles intended to censor or suppress my writings. Images are blocked. The number of visitors to this site cannot be determined. (25,000-30,000?) I cannot see my own books on-line. My t.v. signal is regularly disrupted and telephone service is cut off without explanation putting lives at risk.
After all, many of the unemployed in N.J. will simply get one or two jobs with local government, along with their deceased relatives. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead," "Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
