Why Corzine lost

Dear Editor:
So it looks as though the residents of New Jersey finally had enough with high taxes and runaway corruption. I congratulate and offer Governor Elect Chris Christie good wishes and God Bless him on his miraculous victory.
Just remember why the good citizens of New Jersey elected you to Governor and never forget.
Here are a few facts and grievances that determined Governor Corzine’s political demise. Every budget year, at every State of the State speech, we were told by the Governor, that the State is in bad financial times, ultimately blaming the residents, instead of New Jersey’s political seedy track record of financial malpractices, abuse and corruption.
We were continually told to tighten our belts. The State is billions of dollars in the red, with increasing doom. How many times did we hear that the State’s Homestead Rebate Program was in danger and being decreased or completely concealed? This repetitious nonsense has become a total bore. These individuals use the same language of threats and ultimatums with different voices to preach as a street soothsayers stressing that the end is near, if we don’t change our ways. This miserable reiteration, which accuses the average citizen of New Jersey in creating this fiscal downfall, is absurd.
The truth of the matter is very simple, we deserve what we elect.
We allow ourselves to be used and manipulated by these State Government vampires, who have the unique uncanny knack of blaming others, to hide their lack of skills, inabilities, intelligences, greed, selfishness, fraud and dishonesty.
The New Jersey politicians, on all levels of government created this explosive inflated abomination of financial ruin, which is relentlessly plaguing us without a logical sensible antidote? Wasn’t it their insatiable hunger for self indulgence, nepotism, holding multiple high paying jobs and increased corruption that formed all inept and inefficient policies of exorbitant wasteful spending?
Here are just a few additional standard descriptions of fiscal squandering? There’s positively more, but the list is too long to mention. Even with a team of accountants the budget is so complex, with hidden loopholes and secret phantom monetary expenditures that we could only scratch the surface of the so-called legalized thievery. Some dubious items are, secret non-bidding contracts, pay to play, which eventually trickles down to the expense of the taxpayers, no show or unnecessary jobs, top heavy executives with bogus responsibilities, overblown leases, private use of government vehicles, over priced equipment, expense accounts, no checks or balances, all the while communicating habitual deceitful lies.
The problem with New Jersey is the existence of the intellectually challenged egotistically biased political system full of hopelessly dense gluttonous politicians. They refuse to acknowledge and eliminate corruption for the good of the State and its people. Unless we banish these ruthless unprincipled contemptible, vile, shameful members of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government this yearly financial fiasco will continued to breed deficits, negatively affecting all our lives. Raising taxes during a recession is absurd, yet they continue to endorse this system of economic ruin.

William P. Frasca
Jersey City, N.J.

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