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JerseyCityPower wrote: THANKS to ALL who support the WAR ON TERROR for eating up OUR tax dollars to continue illegal war after endless illegal war! THANKS! Shut the LIBRARIES DOWN! NO HEALTHCARE for ANYONE! MORE WAR! MORE WAR! ENJOY THE COLLAPSE OF THE USA! THANKS EVERYONE!

This is by no means a defense of the total waste of money on war mongering or that the Pentagon's huge military budget has not been slashed this year. However, as far as I know, none of the Jersey city taxes on property, water bills, etc or NJ tax were appropriated to warmongering. We need to keep asking our local government to get its fiscal house in order without federal help and figure out where the waste is on other projects/payouts/etc that take precedent over libraries and figuring out how to contain costs. I hope you will focus some of your attention to the corruption and waste on the local level.

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dontstealmyrocks wrote:
Well, there you have it kiddies. No money. Cuts to the NJ state library = cuts in Jersey City included:


Disproportionate cuts in state support would jeopardize $4.5M in federal aid
Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 3/17/2010 1:01:00 PM
?Database initiative would be axed
?Cuts hit libraries disproportionately
?Broadband funds jeopardized
For FY 2011, the state of New Jersey has proposed a drastic cut of 74% in library program funding from the FY 2010 appropriation, which State Librarian Norma Blake (the 2008 Gale/LJ Librarian of the Year) calls "unprecedented and disproportionate to other Departments? losses." The cuts could jeopardize $4.5 million in federal funds.

Moreover, the state has proposed that Thomas Edison State College, the distance learning institution that also houses the New Jersey State Library (NJSL), be merged with the New Jersey State Museum and governed by Rutgers University starting July 1, 2010.

Broad cuts
In a widely circulated message, Blake delineated proposed cuts:

$1.449 million, all the funding for databases under the much-praised New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI)
?$4.299 million, all the funding for Network Aid, including delivery, databases, interlibrary loan, and continuing education
?$1.170 million, all the funding for virtual aid, including databases and the public library JerseyConnect Technology System.
?$3.5 million in per capita state aid, nearly half of the allotment, leaving $3.676 million
Beyond the cut in federal aid, Blake noted that "if the cut to JerseyConnect is maintained, the State Library cannot accept the $7.5 million Broadband funds if awarded."

The State Library, she wrote, has begun talks with the New Jersey Library Association regarding their mutual concerns.


So expect no libraries & no services ...word has it more layoffs are coming in the library system in 3 mos. of full time staff.

And more libraries are due to close...just saying...

And who cares? We'll just put the books anywhere!

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That film looks very much like it is in the Jersey City main library. When is that librarian's shift? She looks pretty hot. They better not lay her off.

JerseyCityPower wrote: The yuppie-hipsters of downtown who are NOW crying because THEIR pockets are NOW being OBVIOUSLY picked by crooked politicians--have not the energy, nor true desire to drive a true revolution. It's embarassing to them. Where were they during the start of the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq? In the streets? Or, did THEY benefit from the wars? BUT..now..their taxes are additionally being raised and there is a pathetic 'revolution'. I wish I could have been there to see these events. Oh well......I guess we get what we deserve. ENJOY THE ONCOMING MISERY PEOPLE!

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Jerseycityguy wrote:
I wonder if he was just a plain nut or how he feels about woman in general?
You know that most Indian woman are not allowed to walk with the husband side by side but must walk behind them like a dog.
If this guy is on a work visa after he does the time he should be deported back to India.

The guy was a pervert and/or retarded -- needs to be locked up forever.

Keep the racist ignorant feelings to yourself eh? I love the generalization "most indian women" -- yeah whatever.

So I guess I can say most American men treat women like sex objects, have multiple wives and prefer to have sex with underage girls?

This is of course true of all men because a small group of extremist Mormons in Utah behave that way.

Jerseycityguy wrote: I wonder if he was just a plain nut or how he feels about woman in general? You know that most Indian woman are not allowed to walk with the husband side by side but must walk behind them like a dog. If this guy is on a work visa after he does the time he should be deported back to India.

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New2JCHeights wrote: OK, so what is the next step for those opposed to this pipeline?

Word has it that they are too big for us to fight. But one could surely start fighting back by looking for alternate sources of enery And spreading the word about this targedy in the making regarding this NOT welcomed pipeline, and the horrible things they do to our neighboring landowners. There are plenty of alternates...just saying... http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=Cw ... ls%2Bnj%26lid%3D582571913

New2JCHeights wrote:
OK, so what is the next step for those opposed to this pipeline?

JackieCruise wrote: Many JC politicians make me ashamed to be of Irish lineage. They can kiss me blarney stones.

stepanstas wrote: Steve Gold took great shots. I saw him getting a shot of just about everything that goes on. Classic.

Charon wrote:
Grego won't be working in any library. He's doing the same job he's always done at City Hall (albeit badly).

I hear he spent Thursday and Friday checking up on City staff as to whether anyone came in because of the snow. An attendance monitor for a $230K payout, a full pension and another salary via the library payroll.