There’s an AP story in Monday’s Asbury Park Press announcing that the state assembly is holding a hearing in Trenton to allow the public to voice it’s ideas on New Jersey’s problems. When is the hearing? Tuesday. That’s right, they are allowing one day’s notice. Most people read the paper at night since we taxpayers have to work during the day. So for us it isn’t even a day. This is more evidence of the contempt these people hold towards their own constituents. If they really wanted to hear our voice they’d give us at least a few days to make plans. Reservations are required to testify so I’m sure they’ve already booked it up with their shills in the unions and other people who live at the expense of the taxpayer.
I can’t make to the hearing, but if I could I would read off this list of state agencies:
- Administrative Law, Office of
- Advisory Committee on Police Standards
- Board of Public Utilities
- Brain Injury Research, New Jersey Commission on
- Building Authority
- Capital City Redevelopment Corporation
- Casino Control Commission
- Child Advocate, Office of the
- Civil Service Commission
- Clean Air Council
- Cancer Research, New Jersey Commission on
- Commission on Higher Education
- Commission on Science and Technology
- Comptroller, Office of the
- Council on Local Mandates
- Delaware River Basin Commission
- Developmental Disabilities, New Jersey Council on
- Division of Rate Counsel
- Economic Development Authority
- Educational Facilities Authority (NJEFA)
- Election Law Enforcement (Campaign and Lobbying Disclosure)
- Emergency Management
- Energy Master Plan
- Environmental Infrastructure Trust
- Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMERPA)
- Garden State Preservation Trust
- Global Warming
- Government Records Council
- Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
- Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma
- Governor, Office of the
- Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (NJHCFFA)
- Higher Education Student Assistance Authority
- Highlands Council
- Historic Trust (NJHT)
- Homeland Security
- Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency
- Housing Resource Center (NJHRC)
- Information Technology
- Inspector General, Office of
- Interstate Environmental Commission
- Lottery
- Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization and Consolidation Commission (LUARCC)
- Medicaid Inspector General, Office of the
- Motor Vehicle Commission
- Meadowlands Commission
- New Jersey State Board of Mediation (NJSBM)
- New Jersey Network (NJN)
- Pinelands Commission
- Pinelands Development Credit Bank
- Professional Boards and Advisory Committees
- Public Defender, Office of the
- Public Employment Relations Commission
- Real Estate Commission
- Redevelopment Authority (NJRA)
- Schools Development Authority
- Spinal Cord Research, New Jersey Commission on
- State Casino Reinvestment Development Authority
- State Commission of Investigation
- State Employment and Training Commission
- State Ethics Commission
- State Parole Board
- State Police, New Jersey
- Statewide Independent Living Council (NJSILC), New Jersey
- Transit, New Jersey
- Transportation Trust Fund Authority (TTFA)
- Turnpike Authority
- Victims of Crime Compensation Agency
- Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
You could shut down 80% of these without anyone except the people on their payrolls noticing. This state is not serious about cutting any spending. They think the problem is that revenues aren’t high enough, as evidenced by their plan to put up tollbooths on the interstate highways, including I-195. They also want to raise the gas tax, one of the few taxes where we aren’t the highest in the country.
Sometimes I wish Belmar could secede from New Jersey.
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