GrovePath wrote:
I don't want to see any Jersey City bars closed -- I just see it as a double standard that the Jersey Journal published that L.I.T.M. was the bar where the couple drank all night before the husband bludgeoned his wife to death. I know there are laws about bars and bartenders over-serving but I can't remember hearing of any ever getting into trouble. It just seems like it should be part of this story -- since the DWI off-duty cop had a blood alcohol level that was over three times the legal limit even though he wasn't tested till several hours after this tragedy.


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NONdowntown wrote:
If Astor Bar gets shut down because of this, Pete Ilvento's pizza recipe goes with them.

And i will blame you, GP.

wibbit wrote:


stop being so ignorant and talk out of your ass. $7k is ok salary in china when you compare the cost of living there. In shanghai (the most expensive city in china other than hongkong), a nice meal costs $2.

wibbit wrote:


Most chinese are living just fine under those salaries, i would say probably better than lower-middle class in the US. It's only when you go for all luxury, then sky is the limit, but that's true anywhere in the world.

Factory campus is common and most workers prefer it that way, because the housing and amenites are usually a lot better and more convenient. Plus the company usually offer steep discounts on rent/food to their workers living on campus. This is not the 1920s anymore like you imagined in the movies, with dark factories and evil bosses whipping their workers. Everything is globalized....

NNJR wrote:
The hate is strong in this thread. How about everyone just agree to hate everything.

deathmask wrote:
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ratslayer wrote:
demographics, moron

Ever heard of the Baby-Boom Generation?

Most of these folks had hit their 20s & 30s --their crime-doing years -- in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Many died. Many went to jail. Many got their shit together in the 90s, joining the ever-prosperous legit system crated by progressive dems and reps. Also, follow-up generations just didn't have the numbers to maintain the mass crime wave of the 60s-80s ...

Oh, thanks for clearing that up.

But wait, England also had a baby boom after WWII and their crime rate is skyrocketing and has been since the early 90's when ours started dropping.

How do you explain that moron?

injcsince81 wrote:
Soshin just got bored with the Union Of European Socialist Republics, so he came to the US to try to sow Socialism here.

injcsince81 wrote:

Loser.

GeorgeWBush wrote:
Soshin-

So you were working illegally and somehow it's what, America's fault you weren't being paid better?

Maybe you could have tried not taking a big hot dump on the laws of the country that was serving as your host.

GeorgeWBush wrote:

If $5 was so awful, you could either a)do what other law-abiding people do and work legally (gasp!) or b) go wherever you are already legal and work there.

GeorgeWBush wrote:

Obviously you chose to go with option c), which was stay in this country and work illegally. I guess waiting in line and following "rules" is for other people. Not soshin, right?

GeorgeWBush wrote:

I find it repugnant that you have the nerve to work here illegally (paying no taxes, incidentally, into programs that I am sure today you would demand be used to help the "less fortunate") and then have the balls to try to tell others how they should or shouldn't be spending their capital.

The way I see it, you owe the system a boatload of Social Security & Medicare payments, as well as some income tax.

injcsince81 wrote:
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soshin wrote:
As for construction jobs, why should a construction company hire unskilled Americans at minimum wage when they can have skilled Mexicans at below minimum wage?

Ever try living on minimum wage? It's harder than staying on benefits.

1. Of course they shouldn't. They should hire the Mexicans because they are smarter, harder working, more motivated, and cheaper. You just proved my point. Until the "poor Americans" get off their asses, they'll have their lunch eaten by the Mexicans, Indians, Chinese (insert your Developing Nation here). Exactly how it should be.

2. Yes.

And I went hungry sometimes, but I went to school. So now I can compete with (insert your Developing Nation here). At least I hope so.

JSalt wrote:
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deathmask wrote:
excellent!

the left likes to talk about how many people we have in prisons in the U.S. what they don't talk about is the fact that since the justice system started getting serious about keeping violent criminals locked up, the national crime rate has plummeted.

it's so obvious. they just want to stay blind to reality.

these two "gangbangers" can spend the rest of their life banging gangbangers behind bars.

I don't know what gives you the right to speak for "the left," but as a part of "the left," I'm happy to see people like this locked up.

I just don't think we should be clogging the system with kids caught with a little bag of pot.

Reggay wrote:
Try A-1 at 973 672 4525 or American Tank at 973 678 6108. It should cost inside of $1500 as long as it is a 550 gallon or smaller tank, does not have a leak, and is easily accessable. Also, there may be aaditional charges if it has to be emptied.

GrovePath wrote:


In Camden, 44 percent of the roughly 80,000 residents live in poverty ? the highest such rate in the nation, according to the study.

Roaring20s wrote:
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soshin wrote:

Access to a decent free education and proper funding of family planning clinics would be a start.........

It's not even a start. You need to incentivise education. We have free schools (shitty but free nonetheless). Any kid who wants an education will make sure s/he's there every day and doing his/her homework.

Just my humble opinion but school should be mandatory for both kids and adults up thru 4 years of college. Screw working these minimum wage paying jobs. They're just keeping people poor. Even if you lived in Podunk Iowa you can't really support yourself on $6.00/hour.

I also think that if you're not pulling a minumum B average, you should 1) go on probation for 1 year; 2) after the first year and no improvement, receive 1 warning to pull your grades or your kids' grades up or else lose your entitlements and finally 3) after 2 years and no improvements, lose your home, your foodstamps, etc. If within a 5 year period, you turn your attitude around you get another shot to make it...but only 1 shot. You fail the second time, you're outta the game.

America used to be a country to producers...now we're just a nation of whiners. Look at the whines and cries over this topic alone.

I for one would not mind one iota paying thru the nose for 30 years or whatever it took to erase this gimme gimme mindset if it meant that at the end of 30 years, illiteracy, crime, substance abuse and poverty were erased. I don't know about the rest of you but I think it's a small price to pay.

Yes, there are flaws with my opinion I admit but at least I've done something productive instead of bitching about why do they get this and I don't.