Kyrillos: The High Cost of Corzine's Neglect of Economic Development

By Andrew Pratt | July 15th, 2009 - 5:19pm
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Senator Joseph Kyrillos, senior Republican on the Senate Economic Growth Committee, said today's report that New Jersey's unemployment rate surged to 9.2 percent in June shows the state is paying a terrible price for Trenton's inexcusable neglect of economic development over the last eight years. Governor Corzine should be calling the Legislature into special session to reverse the anti-jobs policies he has helped champion, Kyrillos said.

New Jersey Unemployment Surges to 9.2%Senator Joseph Kyrillos, senior Republican on the Senate Economic Growth Committee, said today's report that New Jersey's unemployment rate surged to 9.2 percent in June shows the state is paying a terrible price for Trenton's inexcusable neglect of economic development over the last eight years. In addition to having the highest unemployment rate in the region, Kyrillos noted that New Jersey led the nation in new jobless claims during the week of June 27."Increasingly grim reports show the painful consequences of eight years of leaders who have deliberately turned their backs on the businesses that create jobs," Kyrillos said. "New Jersey's unemployment rate continues to be far higher than any neighboring state's because Trenton enacted policy after policy that discouraged private sector job creation."Unemployment was well above 10 percent in numerous New Jersey cities during the first quarter including Atlantic City (14%), Trenton (18%), and Newark (13%), Kyrillos noted with sadness."Residents of our urban areas pay the highest price in suffering for the governor's neglect of economic development," Kyrillos said. "This Legislature should be in session today debating economic development measures that will start to bring jobs to our state's cities."Governor Corzine should start the session by calling for the repeal of excessive business taxes and apologizing for the state's clumsy mismanagement of economic development efforts during his administration," Senator Kyrillos said.Web: www.senatenj.com  Twitter: twitter.com/senatenj  YouTube: youtube.com/senatenj  Facebook: senatenj.com/facebook 

Hey, Joe since when did you care?

You have never been for anything but reelection and taking power. You use sound bites in an effort to win control but the motives have never been to fix problems only so the Republicans get their turn to raid the public trough, waste the money, give out the jobs and pad their pensions.  Do you think we are stupid?  You were there and in control when the State started to go to crap.

How about making a contract with New Jersey?  May I suggest this:

We the Republican candidates for Governor, the Assembly and State Senate, take a solemn oath that if you the electorate give us a majority in both the Assembly and State Senate, we will post and pass the following:

  1. We will pass 6-year term limits for the state legislature (If Senator's reaches the 6-year limit mid term, he will leave office and a new Senator will be elected in the November prior to the end of the 6-year term.)
  2. We will pass legislation for I & R to give back contol of our government to the people.
  3. We will pass the end all defined benefit pension plans for all elected and pubublic employees (including teachers and administrators). We will also end all health benefits for public employees that are no longer working.
  4. We will pass legislation to provide the service to the public from the the best and most cost effecive source.  That includes issuing capital improvements from "NON-UNION" contractors, to save NJ taxpapers' money.
  5. We will take the State out of Education and return control of the schools to the parents.  Passing legislation that only parents of children in the school can run for that school board.
  6. We will eliminate all business taxes and make New Jersey business friendly.
  7. We wiil pass legislation to rely on the market not government for the provision of all services.
  8. We will eliminate the "Office of Public Advocate" that only sues New Jersey and we pay for the office and the settlements. 
  9. We will ban Layers from serving as Legislators since that position is a "Conflict of Intersest."
  10. We will pass legislation that will eliminate County Government since it is a layer of bueracracy duplicating services and has little or no accountablity.

Additionally, I Christopher Christie promise that I would sign all of these bill into law without hesitation. 

We, each signatory, agree that  if you the voters give us the majority, we owe you these enumerated measures and that failure to comply with this contract will be deemed a felony under the RICO fraud statutes.  Minimum penaly is loss of Elected Office and Pensions and Benefits that are attached to the that office.

(Inserte signatures of all 121 Republican candidates)

Have a signing event on the steps of the NJEA across from the State House and make every Republican Candidate sign it.

Without drastic measures like this, you will never get New Jersey competative again.

 

 

"If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."  - Mark Twain

 

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