The Save Jersey Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on Vineland Educator Doubles As Porn Star

Dan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:52:29 GMT

This thread is useless without pics...

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Comment on Daily Save Jersey Briefing - Humbug Economics

Jesse O. Kurtz — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:46:13 GMT

Governor Jon Corzine continues to show what a CEO of Goldman Sachs does. They squeeze as much short-term gain from an asset or institution as they can. Little to no concern is given to the long-term health of an institution or asset. Those Goldman Sachs buys like to "suck em' dry," as the old adage says.

Governor Jon Corzine's pension payment deferment plan is ridiculous. This is the latest proposal from the Trentonian strategy to put everything off till tomorrow. Pushing financial burdens on to future generations is criminal. It is akin to economic servitude. All young people and our sympathizers need to stop this latest Corzine scheme.

Comment on SHOCK VIDEO: Obama's Attorney General Grilled by Congress Over Mark Rich Pardon

NYSmike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:47:20 GMT

Didn't Dick Cheney at one time in the past do business with a nation when it was forbidden?

Comment on Mitt Romney: Automakers Must File for Bankruptcy

Alexander Shlepakov — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:17:57 GMT

The American auto industry is well worth saving, for many reasons. One reason is that for the past decade Detroit has made heavy investment and steady progress in improving its competitiveness, what it calls “altering the DNA” of American cars. US automakers spend $22 billion annually on plants, equipment, research and development. Breakthroughs are at hand in developing alternative fuel propulsion systems, and our national well-being and security depend upon seeing them through to completion.

If we allow U.S. automakers to go under out of anger, resignation, or ideology, it will only mean all the work and investment of the last decade will be ceded to our foreign competitors instead of being plowed back into the U.S. economy.

Another reason is the industry’s importance to the job market and the wider economy. Automobile manufacturing directly employs a quarter of a million workers and indirectly about one in ten U.S. jobs are related to some degree to the automotive sector, according to GM estimates. So the effects of a collapsed U.S. auto sector would not be limited to Detroit – they would be magnified as the ripples spread to related industries.

If we allow U.S. automakers to fail, millions of retirees depending on auto company pensions will be at risk and auto manufacturing jobs will disappear. The ripple effect won’t end there; millions of jobs in related sectors, such as U.S. manufacturers of steel, aluminum, iron, copper, plastics, rubber, electronics, and computer chips, will also feel the pain.

Worse yet, the promise of a meaningful future for American manufacturing would fade. As that promise dims, the role played by manufacturing jobs as a passport to the middle class would likewise disappear. Alexander Shlepakov

Comment on Mitt Romney: Automakers Must File for Bankruptcy

Jesse O. Kurtz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:56:22 GMT

I am already getting in arguments with someone near and dear to me over who should bear the Republican standard in 2012. She thinks Rommney and I want Bobby Jindal. We shall see.

Comment on Conservative Activist Grover Norquist Applies for Bailout Bucks

Dan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:04:23 GMT

why do i have more faith in Norquist's 'joke' than what the lame ducks will come up with?!

at which point should we start flying our flags upside down? i'm pretty sure the uaw bailout will put my property in 'extreme danger.'

Comment on Assembly GOP Shows Its "Pulse"

scarletknightfever — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:23:31 GMT

good for decroce. i feel like our side is finally fighting back.

Comment on Mitt Romney: Automakers Must File for Bankruptcy

Steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:50:02 GMT

Too bad he got it wrong on the BIG bailout (TARP)

Comment on VIDEO: A Moving Tribute to the American Solidier

Bullmoose1952 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:49:58 GMT

Anyone who views this and does not cry, is not breathing!

Comment on BREAKING NEWS: WAYNE BRYANT GUILTY

A Knight in Scarlet Satin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:07:58 GMT

“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers."