Vigilante wrote:

Once again. A person on this thread specifically targeted a group of people in Hamilton Park(NOT VAN VORST) and lied. If you have problems in VVP that's your problem and I guess the 20x20 ft. dog run ain't working. Once again, if you are so sure of what you say come find all that poo in HP. YOU CAN'T!!

+ 3.

It would be impossible to back track all over your dog's free running path to see where your dog may have pooped. I must be in the "10%" of HP residents also...

Vigilante wrote:


The truth is you just left a steaming load of crap on this thread. You are just one of many weirdos who seem to harbor some kind of pathological jealousy about the neighbors who gather and socialize in Hamilton Park. Plain and simple we do clean up after our dogs so stop spreading lies to move forward your bizarro agenda. I can guarantee that 90% of the people who complain on this kind of thread go nowhere near Hamilton Park.

GrovePath wrote:
Terrifying home invasion reported in Downtown Jersey City
by Charles Hack
Sunday February 03, 2008, 8:52 PM

Police were called to the home at 10th and Monmouth streets on the report of a home invasion at 11:10 p.m. Thursday, reports said. The 38-year-old resident told officers that she and her two children, of unspecified age, were awakened by two men in the bedroom where they slept, police said.

They then drove off in a black sport utility vehicle, reports said.

Anyone with information about the robbery and burglary can call the confidential line at (201) 547-JAIL.

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scooter wrote:
ok this is really my last post - but my bad, emergent... you're right.

However, for what it's worth the taxes I paid in the city were pretty much right in line with what I'm paying here, almost eerily so... so a) in my experience there wasn't much of a difference and b) either way that one poster was pulling that 1/10 number out his kiester

and ianmac, I hope you get your tower, maybe newport can secede and have no school district whatsoever.

alb wrote:
b) The trillion-dollar question is, obviously, what the mortgage market problems and other problems are going to do to the financial services community as a whole.

Example: the Asian markets slump in the late 1990s and the post-9/11 slump didn't do much to hurt the real estate market here, but, of course, the 1987-1992 real estate tax form bill/savings and loan crisis hurt the market here quite badly.

One good thing is that most financial people remember the 1987-1992 and understand how we got out of it, and I think that increases the odds that we'll muddle through this time around.

On the other hand, what we had going for us in the late 1990s and in 2002 is that Clinton and Congress were doing a good job of controlling budget deficits, which gave us extra wiggle room.

Now, we're running up a lot of debt, and I think it's hard to know how all of that extra debt is affecting the mortgage markets and the rest of the economy.

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Your taxes and mine provide more in subsidies to the rich (hundreds of times over in comparison to housing subsidies to the poor) - SEE Corporate Welfare. There is no comparison when one compares the problems created by the affluent versus the poor.

I don't think this is true. Here are some programs that are subsidies for the poor that are quite large (not an exhaustive list):

Cash payments:
Earned Income Tax Credit
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Payments in kind:
Medicaid (~$330 billion in 2005)
State Children's Health Insurance Program
Food stamps
Housing assistance
Energy assitance

Maybe you can post a list of corporate welfare programs.

To be specific, I compared housing subsidies for the poor to corporate welfare and the costs therein, not government aid to the poor. As for corporate welfare, it is generally accepted to mean any government spending program that provides unique benefits to specific companies or industries in the way of direct grants, tax breaks or other specific preferential treatment. Some examples include agricultural subsidies (a good portion of which goes to large corporate farming concerns), R&D grants to private companies, trade barriers, tax preferences (i.e. tax credits awarded to large public companies ), to mention a few of many . Should you wish more information on this issue, you can search out the Cato Institute (No I am not a Libertarian), as they have been wrangling the government on this stuff for years.

Your taxes and mine provide more in subsidies to the rich (hundreds of times over in comparison to housing subsidies to the poor) - SEE Corporate Welfare. There is no comparison when one compares the problems created by the affluent versus the poor.