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Originally Posted by RcktS4
The most important liberty I have is my right to choose for myself what I see as important. Personally, I think that the idea that Forrester was going to 'clean up the corruption' would have gotten my vote in an instant if there was any part of my being that believed it.
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Precisely! You're not hearing what
I'm saying.
You're NOT choosing for yourself. In this state, others are choosing for you!
You can choose for yourself what's important. Nobody is suggesting otherwise. Where we need to draw a line is between what we want personally, and what we force someone else to go along with or pay for. When what someone wants is a thing that another person has to pay for, that's when things get ugly. What's happened here is that in the process of voting for public policy for things that we individually want, instead of running our own lives, we have legislators doing it for us. That's given rise to corruption out the wazoo.
And puh-leeze don't tell me that New Jersey's school districts are superior in terms of quality to others, if you factor in the cost of them. Have you looked at your property taxes? Based on what we're paying here, all our kids should be rocket scientists. Sadly, the majority of them can't make change for a buck without a computer doing it for them, nor tell the difference between homonyms or where apostrophes are supposed to go, like "book's for sale".
As for Forrester, I think he's a schlub. But he's not the communist that Corzine is. Something is seriously wrong with this state. We continually find ourselves in a hole, and yet inexplicably insist on voting again for the legislators who have shovels in their hand, as though they won't dig the hole deeper.
It's amazing, really.