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Life In America's Most Dangerous City About To Become "Living Hell" As Layoffs Of One Quarter Of Government Labor Force Begin
Life in Camden, NJ has never been fun. Frequently ranked as America's most dangerous city, whose only claim to fame are the corporate offices of Campbell's Soup, Camden is about to get even more dangerous as it is among the first to experience wholesale cuts to its government labor pool. Bloomberg reports that "as many as 383 workers, representing one-fourth of the local government's work force, are expected to lose their jobs, including about half the police force and one-third of the city's firefighters." It seems cuts have already commenced: "police officers are turning in their badges as part of deep municipal layoffs that began Tuesday." It's a good thing then that unlike the rest of the world, New Jersey does not (yet) have surging food inflation as otherwise one may be tempted to argue this could be a rather interesting hot spot in the future, especially with the local police force deciding to find better pastures even as it starts collecting 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
Firefighters are planning to march to City Hall on Tuesday, and Mayor Dana Redd is planning a noon news conference to talk about the layoffs in a city facing a huge budget deficit and declining state aid.
The officers began turning in their badges Monday as it became clear that no last-minute deal was going to save many jobs.
Located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Camden is rampant with open drug-dealing, prostitution and related crimes. More than half of Camden's 80,000 residents, mostly black and Hispanic, live in poverty.
The anti-crime volunteer group Guardian Angels also says it will patrol Camden, as it has Newark, where there were major police layoffs in November.
The fire department, meanwhile, has already been relying on help from volunteer departments in neighboring towns. Interim fire chief David Yates, who retired Jan. 1, has warned that that layoffs will increase response times.
A local pastor says "the fear quotient has been raised," and a police union took out a full-page newspaper advertisement last week warning that Camden would become a "living hell" if layoffs were not averted.
Of course, this being Camden, the only thing that could really push the city to recreate the living conditions of Hades would be a surge not so much in the price of food, or even iPads, but crack cocaine. And according to the Chairman there is substantial slack in the drug production vertical. Which means there are at least a few months before Camden becomes ground zero for what happens when surging inflation and insolvent municipalities mix with curious consequences.
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Who's going to put the abused wife in jail after she beats her husband to death in his sleep with a frying pan. She'll never have anyone to tell her how wrong she was.
And who's going to go after the mob that loots and burns HRM Lloyd Blankfein's tiny bungalow? Egad, the peasants are revolting!
Who's going to put the abused wife in jail after she beats her husband to death in his sleep with a frying pan. She'll never have anyone to tell her how wrong she was.
Or someone to listen to her self defense defense. We can't put you in charge if everyone is guilty of a crime.
Black Swan?
No, Robert De Niro (Godfather II).
Importantly, who will pay all those salaries for guards, cooks, wardens, etc? Without the prison carousel, many rice bowls will be broken. And who will man the DUI checkpoints? The mind REELS! Think of the Chilllren! Won't someone think of the CHILLLRENS!?
You lookin' to get back into the shit, RafterMan? Love the nom de blog. Get some.
Oh, the humanity!!!!!...**sob**
Exactly. This is what birmingham was facing when it cut its sheriff dept... basically said if anything big happens, we'll call in the national guard. Essentially, let the federal government/state pay for it. This plan will work to a certain extent for a limited duration... at some point, the guard will be stretched too thin and uncle sugar's pocket book unwanting to dole out more money (despite a general intent to control).
Hey Man,
Uncle Sugar's got a printing press backing up that pocket book. It'll never get empty.
It can do zero to infinity in under 10s too; depending on which bank is standing there 'hat in hand', natch. Flash. Don't blink or you'll miss it!
I don't understand what the problem is here. I thought everyone owned equities and are experiencing a wealth effect.
I heard 1/2 the city recently purchased H&H Imports stock.
..And I heard Harry was opening a new store in one of the Camden malls that caters to his "other America"....
I think there is a good opportunity for a Guns and Ammo superstore somewhere in the City......background checks could be a little tough though to pass....
You surrender your Second Amendment rights when you cross the Ben Franklin Bridge.
Let me know where you're setting up. I'll put a Bill's Bulk Beer and Liquor store right next to yours. Partner up on a 'We buy Ghould' store and really clean up on some premium-free PMs!
I like it!
You really think you could compete with the already available guns/booze/drugs?
Um, no. Wait up.
Nothing "legal" can compete with the real market.
So everyone wants to see cuts and give backs. I wonder how many of these jobs would have been saved if the unions agreed to 15% pay cuts and give backs on benefits. Ahh, never mind. I am not giving anything back. Plenty of food stamps to go around, and I am now on vacation for 99 weeks. Lets see. Stop paying my mortgage and buy a MacBook Pro and take a cruise. Yes sir, socialism is great.
Yea Yea Yea. We get that - hear it all the time. You cannot give up enough, until you get to parity with slave N. Korean and Chinese Labor. Or Vietnamese, etc. The endgame of your simpering 'just one more concession' is global slavery. I say the solution is 'let.it.burn.' Run it till she blows!
What is next, Jubilee or MadMax? I'm willing and waiting to find out.
those jobs could have been saved had we raised the taxes on the wealthy. Funny, how the tone changes from those f'ing oligarchs to those f'ing government employees. Get a clue, when TSHTF, we are all going to be staring at the guy holding the bag of money.....not cops.
I suspect when TSHTF money won't mean shit.
"Game over, man ! Game over !"
Why are the police and firefighters always among the first to go? Why not start with the fatcat(*) administrators, planners, and various other busybodies instead?
* I realize all muni employees are fatcats, but it amazes me the "first responders" are almost always the first on the chopping block
Because the fatcat(*) administrators, planners, and various other busybodies are the ones makeing the decisions and they are not about to fire themselves or cut their own benefits.
Simple, eh.
Indeed, indeed.
Firemen and police are also the best carrots to dangle in front of the masses before fleecing them for more $$$.
EXACTLY!!! Hey Campbell? Need to have your employees get to work safely....
Queue the canned laughter. Forgive me for doling out humor with a spoon but this cracker doesn't want to bowl you over.
Jeez, your bowl runneth over!
That's all the insight needed to understand how the cuts are made..
Exactly how we got increased sales taxes here recently...
+1
Instead of cutting the "Gays with Beagles Association" funding...they pick on the most important parts of government to scare the public into agreeing to pay more or tax more...
Hey, Beagles are people too, you know
Police are important?
Agree. It's the first play in the playbook on how to scare a city into accepting a tax increase. Nationwide teachers, police and firefighters combined make up less than half of municipal payrolls but somehow cost cutting proposals always have them taking 90% of the layoffs.
"Shock and awe."
Instill fear in the voters ( in order to extract the desired tax or fee inceases when the electorate eventually cries "uncle" ) by reducing those emergency services which occupy the front line. The "assistant deputy director of [ fill in the useless municipal appendage; said position occupied by a relative of a city pol ]" and like "officials" are covered by the old political saw: Forgotten, but not gone.
This is because the people are more impacted and upset by the loss of security and education than administrators. This is an attempt to influence public perception and their willingness to pay new higher taxes.
Let the people of Camden vote with their feet. If they stay, they accept the new status quo. If they leave, Camden can restructure government costs to better appease them.
The least desirable towns and cities will be the first deserted.
Camden's already been deserted. The folks who are still there can't leave--they've got nowhere to go and no money to fund the trip.
On the plus side, it may become a truly free city if the trend continues.
The least desirable towns and cities will be the first deserted.
The least desirable towns and cities are already deserted.
Actually, I am rather grateful for the water treatment employees, the public works folk who keep the creek from clogging and flooding the streets and homes, the social workers who soothe the mentally ill and remove abused children from rough homes and get them to a helpful place, the people who clear the road after an accident or a fallen tree, even the city planner who rejects the 4 story brick building plan in an earthquake zone next to a small one story wooden family home. Doesn't mean there isn't waste and some ridiculous fatcat benefits and pensions, but not all muni employees are your enemy. Just saying . . .
Hear, hear. Well said.
They used to be called "neighbors."
+∞ Best comment today!!!
Indeed Michelle.
I see the SEIU has unleashed the trolls this evening.
Doesn't mean there isn't waste and some ridiculous fatcat benefits and pensions, but not all muni employees are your enemy. Just saying . . .
There's nothing ridiculous about your overseers overcharging you for services which could be better provided by the public sector. Fraud and abuse make good business sense from the point of view of the public servants who hold a monopoly in vital services.
You could hire Blackwater at the low cost of 90k per mercenary annually. Random shootings at no extra charge. Free markets!
I could hire anyone I wanted to hire in a free market. Sarcasm does little to make up for your lack of a salient point.
You can hire anyone you want right now; they are called bodyguards. You will probably want at least two in your free-for-all nirvana. I'm sure they will be much cheaper than your share of tax burden for your local police force. Just hope the other guy doesn't have more bodyguards than you.
You can hire anyone you want right now; they are called bodyguards. You will probably want at least two in your free-for-all nirvana. I'm sure they will be much cheaper than your share of tax burden for your local police force.
Of course it would be cheaper. The elimination of bureaucracy and the presence of competition in the market would guarantee a lower cost for protective services just like it does for any other good or service.
Just hope the other guy doesn't have more bodyguards than you.
The people in my neck of the woods are quite reasonable -- they almost never try to kill me. So, unlike you, I don't spend a lot of time quaking in my boots for fear of my neighbors.
What kind of airline security did we have prior to 911? Why are mall security guards a joke? You get what you pay for.
You might be surprised what your neighbors do when they realize there is no law enforcement. Good luck, Rambo.
What kind of airline security do we have after 9/11? It's a joke.
What kind of airline security did we have prior to 911?
The government made it illegal for the airlines to place private guards on planes and for pilots to have guns. If the government had not stopped the airlines from protecting their interests 9/11 might not have happened.
You might be surprised what your neighbors do when they realize there is no law enforcement. Good luck, Rambo.
You might be surprised what your neighbors do when they no longer have the millstone of government around their necks. Try not to be too jealous of their productivity and hapiness.
Funny thing about guns; Arizona is wide open. You can carry without a permit there, easy to buy guns. But the only guy who had one at the massacre was the crazy guy.
Kinda 'blows away' your theory that guns are always the answer.
Kinda 'blows away' your theory that guns are always the answer.
But I never said guns are always the answer. It's the government that says guns are always the answer. If the government didn't back up their monopoly with brute force who would deal with them?
In any case, it remains true that if the government had not made it illegal for airlines to use armed guards and/or arm the pilots the poor folks on the planes on 9/11 would have had a good chance of foiling the terrorists' plot.
"But the only guy who had one at the massacre was the crazy guy."
Who had attended a previous get togethers with the congresswoman, a constituent, who had a "thank you letter" from her in his safe. Who had been brought to the attention of the sheriff of Tuscon numerous times. Who was a 911 Truther.
So what is it with democrats, crazies and guns?
Maybe a ban really is in order?
Your solution to the municipal debt crisis is raising taxes that is it? I refuse to pay more taxes, what do you do then, extract them by force? Perhaps you will need to hire XE prior to me.
Because police and firefighters make up most of city/county employees, and usually get the largest wages.
Maybe its not a konspiracy. Maybe when you want to cut city employees this is what happens.
What do firefighers do except wash their shiny new fire trucks and eat potluck dinners, while fighting a fire every month or so?
And seriously, who hasn't caught the police parked behind some donut shop, cars side by side, wolfing down glazed donuts and drinking coffee, and bullshitting for who know how many hours?
Firefighters helped stabilize my child when she had a seizure, save lives at car accidents, assist with hazardous spills, and oh yeah, put out fires. Fortunately, there aren't many fires.
Yep, lots of donut shops and coffee stops for the police. But they are in visible places that at least inspire better driving behaviors in the vicinity, and are often across the street from the local saloon and the frequent flier DUIs. I wouldn't rather they be in an office writing reports. Better to do some of the paper work in a more visible setting.
The Fed screws with your life a lot more than your local firefighters and police.
Test cases for implosion popping up everywhere.
Club of Rome models are reaching end of model-space. Too much data, so now select groups will be tested for response to unpleasant stimuli.
Africa/Middle east for food.
Iceland/Zim/Ireland..... portugal, spain, greece.... for economic starvation
Now "inner" cities for drug supply shortage.
What a plot. Boggles the mind. And it's reality, not fiction.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-callousness-of-pornography/
Experimental rats of the world unite!
"Test cases for implosion popping up everywhere."
don't forget Argentina for bank closures and massive monetary devaluation while limiting the people's access to their money in the banks ...
Good point Bronzie. Add Australians for ATM failure, Indian's for massive Onion Price Spike (I'm totally serious), Gazan's for ritual abuse and humiliation, Afghanis/Iraqis for male subjugation, Europe for Islamo fear mongering.... longish list when you really get into it, eh?
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-callousness-of-pornography/
i didn't know people still do cocaine. prostitution is up?
Two industries that are truly recession-proof. Soon, they may need to add those numbers into the core CPI.
Microcosm of what a true welfare state looks like. Adam Smith figured this out a few hundred years ago.
No soup for you! One year!
"99 weeks of unemployment benefits"
So... they just transferred the costs to the rest of us. We just bought more debt. I guess we should sell some more treasuries. Oh, and buy them back next week of course. Because spiraling debt is the answer, baby!
Camden - come for the drugs, hookers and crime; stay because the few remaining cops will never find your body.
Camden could go volunteer fire. And use the sheriff for real crimes. And most sheriffs departments do have posses believe it or not. At least ours does.
But, no, that is never an option.
Of course if drugs were legalized then everyone could lay off half of their police forces and close half their jails and we'd all be better off as a result. End prohibition!
ask china how that worked out long ago...
Or I could just ask you, since I don't know China. Is there a pro prohibition story in here somewhere?
China, Opium and the British East India Company are a fascinating piece of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
This trade was devastating to the Chinese but very profitable to TPTB. It was forced on the Chinese by the end of a gun, using the military might of the "Drug Dealers Countries". It is one of the major reasons China is communist. It is also the reason why China won't allow "Christian Missionaries" into the county.
The following is a partial list of the major US Opium Drug dealers in China. Forbes (yes that family), Coolidge, Delano (grandfather of Franklin), Russell, and many more....... the list reads like the "who's who" of America.
"The more things change the more they stay the same."
Mao cured all that shit in '64. And I do mean faster than a cat can lick it's ass it was cured.
For all his faults, he was a real A to B, straight line sort of guy.
No one could turn perfectly useful steel tools into pig iron faster than our beloved Chairman!
Ask Portugal how it worked out very recently.
I don't know Portugal either. How did it turn out? Gotta link?
The story's received a great deal of attention. I'm no big fan of Cato overall, but this is a good start...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ for sourcing and providing material for idiots to read so they wont be so fucking boringly ignorant....
I find ignorance both refreshing and exciting! Would you like to buy some Treasuries? Look! They have the word 'treasure' built right in! You'd be a scurvy dog not to buy a hogshead worth!
I didn't junk you, but that was tack-less.... he or she is asking questions, either ignore or answer... but don't ridicule, bad form.
Bwa ha ha!
What the fuck did *I* get junked for? Posting a frickin' informative link at someone's request.
No pleasing some people...sheesh. XD
Don't let it get you down, wait till the unsolicited advice giving stalkers show up.. bwhaaa
Think of it as a badge of honor since there is no thumbs-up to click on. We'll both be junked on these comments here shortly.
3 - 2 - 1 ....
I junked us both.. Didn't hurt a bit, well, my self esteem is suffering a little.. Ha
Decriminalizing drug use but leaving drug traficking a crime, is just so f*cking stupid. If it's ok to take drugs, why is it not ok to sell them?
F*cking Leviathan. Can't do anything right.
Obviously. So many of those police and prosecutors are enforcing laws against made-up crimes. Drugs use, mainly. Eliminate all laws against victimless acts (ie., in which there is no citizen complainant to come forward and articulate the specific way in which he was harmed) and watch how much of the bloated police-state evaporates away.
Yes...but there's a downside.
One of the obvious (and less widely publicized) goals of maintaining a police state is to provide employment and corralling of otherwise suplus population.
Think about what would happen to the unemployment rate if we let our drug offenders out of prison. In addition to the former inmates, also out on the bricks would be all the relatively high-paid prison workers.
Young human males are wired for violence. A society that can't find them something to do isn't going to work well.
If the US would implement a policy of autarky--high tarriffs would be a good place to start--we'd soon have plenty of decent-paying factory jobs for those guys. Sure, American-made goods would cost more nominally, but I'd accept that penalty in exchange for a return of the middle class.
You're falling for the lump-of-labour and the what-is-seen-and-what-is-not-seen fallacies here.
The costs of maintaining these prisons and 'justice' system at their current levels is huge. That money has to come from somewhere - if it hadn't been confiscated from that somewhere, that somewhere would have spent it on other goods and services, creating alternative value-creating employment.
It's like saying that we should pay people to dig holes and then fill them up again, to "provide employment and corralling of otherwise suplus population." No. All you're doing is destroying value.
I agree in one sense.
As long as the investors are prepared to settle for a lower annual yield, SURE their investment vehicles will hire more workers.
Although as long as the "affluent" class believes they deserve 5% returns on their liquid, there's nothing left to pay the assholes on the corner.
So let 'em shoot each other, hawk crack, and suck dicks. It's a good way to go. We're really all here for the rich guys, anyway. Higher yields are well worth the price of bodyguards and home security.
Property rights make for a healthy society.
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I may be mis-interpreting you - in which case, my apologies - but it seems to me you're suggesting that the "So let 'em shoot each other, hawk crack, and suck dicks. " situation would continue if drugs were legalised.
Obviously, the dick sucking would continue (and who would want THAT to stop, anyway?), but the massive profits that arise from the drug trade's illicit nature would disappear - and thus so would the crack-hawking and gang-rivalry-induced shootings.
"...if it hadn't been confiscated from that somewhere, that somewhere would have spent it on other goods and services, creating alternative value-creating employment."
+ 1 million (inmates)
Ben Bernanke, being from the private sector, and Obama, being from the public sector, will save all the fine folks in Camden.
Not.
And Lloyd Blankfein, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jamie Dimond, et al. will all pitch in to help, too.
Not.
This will be a great case study of the sucess of the 50 plus years of welfare as we know it...how it has succeded in the inner cites and how it has turned life around for so many downtrodden folk....a real success...thank you LBJ...and Franklin for that matter...
The alternative is the burning down of cities.
the 10th virtuous circle of hell: austerity = unemployment = foreclosure = bankruptcy = tent cities = QE = austerity = ....
Bulldozers are going to be busy across the US. Many Municipalities are going to either fold and many will merge to cut costs.
Exactly. What's with all this wrist-wringing? Camden stopped working 50 years ago. The subsidies are now ending. It's a good thing. Shut it down, and bulldoze it so they'll leave.
Where do you think "they" are going to go? Maybe your neighborhood?
I have subsidized housing in my neighborhood and it works because my city is viable.
Where should Camdenites go? Wherever they can.
They just gotta get their a$$es up and out of Camden.
Can't they just erase the GPS coördinates like they did it in the Simpson movie and place a dome over it?
Somebody better get in touch with Paul Kersey!
More Bread and circus needed to control the masses.
Fuck the police. Honestly if it was the most dangerous city in America obviously they weren't very effective before they had the layoffs. (there must be one "most" dangerous city in the U.S. but why New Jersey, instead of say somewhere along the mexican border?)
I expected more of this view at ZH. Why aren't all the people who usually condemn the onrushing police state here cheering for more police layoffs? Seems like 'cognitive dissonance' to me. lulz
+10
I suppose I am more struck by what is cut rather than the cuts themselves. I'm all for bloated governents slimming down. I just think it's a bit amusing that the most common tactic is to cut services first and keep bureaucrats enshrined. Seems like it should be the other way around.
Bureaucrats like who? I'm curious, just who exactly are you talking about? Which departments and how much percentage wise? I'm honestly curious. Thanks.
1/4 of employees = 383
Total employees = 383 x 4 = 1532
45% of police = 168
Total police = 168/.45 = 373
Percentage of total employees who are police = (373/1532)100 = 24.34%
33% of firefighters = 67
Total firefighters = 67/.33 = 203
Percentage of total employees who are firefighters = (203/1532)100 = 13.25%
Police and firefighters make up 37.59% of the employee roster. Of the 383 employees being cut, 235 are police and firefighters. 61.36%.
Which departments are the other 148 employees from?
Well, I'm still not quite understanding your point. (Not your fault, I'm just thick.) Personally, I think the police and fire dept are generally overstaffed, and every other department is generally understaffed. Further, the police and fire dept. typically are your costliest units, so cuts in those departments are going to be more effective both immediately and long term considering pensions.
well, when you put it like that....
It is a good foreshadowing of a world where your personal protection depends on you alone. This is probably not a bad thing to be thinking about; at the very least you may want to roll the idea around in the back of your mind. Reality is quickly gaining on us and will overtake us soon.
ITG
Is it really that simple? I decry local police departments receiving military equipment, APC's, M16's, survelliance drone tech and I am now for laying off local police forces. Wow, that is the best you can do, your level of simplistic logic and drivel is astounding. Reductio ad absurdum to the max.
That's because (most) police have no interest in battling/preventing crime. Why....that would involved due diligence and respect for property! Not to mention one of the overweight deadbeats could get hurt.
After all, it's so much easier to sit on the side of the road & write traffic tickets.
Finally, some much needed slack on the overcrowded prisons.
Where are we going and why am I in this crappy chinese handbasket?
Not just Camdem. San Jose, Oakland. Will those laid off cops become security clerks roaming parking lots and standing in front of banks and malls? Cruising neighborhoods paid for by residents directly? How long until mafia and gangs of other ilks start the shakedowns and protection payoff demands? The future really is looking bleak unless you're a bankster. Then you're protected for making free money. And Citi couldn't even do that. Incredible!
yeah n Oakland its been goin down...
trust me, murders and shootings every day n the good and bad parts of town...
the same for most of the Bay Area...
all bad....
Not in Woodside yet; lots of high walls and iron fences.
Many homes include a large pasture or helipad as well.
How long until mafia and gangs of other ilks start the shakedowns and protection payoff demands?
That's been in progress for years. It's called "government."
Perhaps all the poor laid off cops could form their own gang, take care of each other and hide each others crimes and predations, and carry on as an extra-legal paramilitary group specializing in tax collection for the state, extortion and random 'roid violence?
ZH, shhh, don't bother us with trivialities.
Son't you know American Idol has it's season premiere?
St. Vincent will solve it.. this is all part of his plan. The ways of our stupid drunk irish fuck are mysterious indeed.
all i know is the equity markets r all up...
the recession ended n 2009...
and, and,...oh fuck it...
better head for the sewers...gas to expensive for the hills....
recession...2009?
You mean the 2009 Fat Finger Incident?
The stock market is up so at least their pension is secure. [/sarcasm]
good luck to all you daredevils who are going to try and ride this thing out in a big city on the coast -
Some cities are economically viable and some aren't. Camden, N.J., for instance.
Shut it down.
Harry- Maybe you can get tax relief for opening one of your factories or showrooms there?
http://www.entendance.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=737&p=14812#p14666
Harry Wanger is thinking about moving his urinal cake factory from Guangzhou, China, to Camden, New Jersey.
Can you smoke urinal cake? I suppose if you crushed it you could sell it as mentholated crack.
Let them smoke cake?
LOL!
Great! At least I'll know what the funny taste is in the Tomato Soup
Is that kind of like yellow cake?
Yes, after it's used once or twice.
yes, but this cake doesn't piss off presidents and out CIA operatives
Life expectancy of any retired municipal employees living in Camden will drop, decreasing the pension obligations. Also, fewer new employees will live long enough to vest. More cops will die, and they will likely be vested since the new guys got the axe. This will further reduce pension obligations.
Can anyone point a link to where their annual budget reports are stored, if available on the web. I really don't understand how the hell a city can be run that badly, and want to know where the money is going.
just open free herion/cocaine stations and empty all the jails.. watch crime drop by 70%
cut 70% of sheriffs, cops, county narcs, detectives, prison guards etc.
Camden is going to demolish its prison...they built it on the waterfront (Delaware River) 25 short years ago. Brilliant.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/camden_riverfront_prison_demol....
They used prime real estate? On the waterfront?
"Camden, NJ - We put the CON in condo!"
Doubtful if waterfront in that particular town, on that particular river, was premium real estate.
Glass-Steagall is the standard. Camden is one example of many. Indeed it will only rise.
Cali isn't much better, and in aggregate, much worse. (of course)
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17222
Tunisia as well
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17225
More on Tunisia
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17219
More on food crisis in general
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17199
THE DEATH OF LONDON’S ROMAN EMPIREhttp://www.larouchepac.com/node/17214
Real physical economy and metrics under Glass-Stegall standard or monetary metrics with monetary printing or monetary austerity?
The choice is clear. Barack Paul is wrong.
http://www.ci.camden.nj.us/attractions/events.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Ty8iE7AxA
My favorite quote... couldn't find a good clip:
They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
yes, sir!
God Bless You Brother! get ready.... when the police force for half the nation gets cut... the whole gun carry issue will have a whole different meaning!