New poll: Voters dislike Corzine, toll hike

The residents of this state are becoming increasingly tired of the arrogance and incompetence that the governor and henchmen are displaying. They have a total disregard and contempt for the citizens and seem to betray them at every pass.

Just as GWB damaged the Republican Party, Corzine and his crew are doing it for NJ. Give them a little more time and New Jersey will return to Republican leadership.

Tick…tick…tick… It’s becoming inevitable that there will be a dramatic changing of the guards during the next election.

Here is an opinionated comparison of the two:

A Parodic (but Scary) Comparison of George W. Bush & Jon S. Corzine

1) GW was born on July 6, 1946. JC was born on January 1, 1947. They are both 61 years old.

2) GW is a Christian, Episcopal turned Methodist. JC is also Christian; a Methodist turned Church of Christ.[1] However, neither seems to behave very Christianly in their practices.

3)GW made off-color jokes about Italians and Jews. JC also made similar comments, such as “Italian contractors making 'cement shoes’ and Jewish lawyers getting them out of jail”.[2]
 

4) GW lost several job positions after the companies he was in charge of failed. JC was forced from Goldman Sachs in January of 1999. “When Corzine was promoted in 1994, the firm was hemorrhaging $200 million a month in losses in proprietary trading, which Corzine oversaw… Apparently, those bankers got their way in January, 1999, when Corzine was dethroned in a palace coup by investment bankers”[3] 

5) GW’s #2 man has initials that are D.C. He is a Dick! Dick Cheney. He was part of the old political regime and partly responsible for many of our current federal woes. JC’s #2 man’s initials are also D.C., he happens to also be a Dick! Dick Codey. He is a 30-plus year career politician who helped create many of New Jersey’s financial problems, as acting governor he did nothing to correct these. It’s only now that he is expressing a desire to help change things. Why the sudden change?

6) GW is happily married and whose wife says nice accolades about him. JC is recently divorced from a 33-year three child marriage and whose e-wife recently felt that Jon “showed poor judgment early in his political career in making endorsement deals with controversial Democratic leaders”[4] and said, “all I could think was that Jon did let his family down, and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too”. [5]
 
 
7) GW has a pet dog named Miss Beazley who lives with him. JC has Carla who lives in his building.

8) GW sometimes feeds Miss Beazley her favorite foods. JC sometimes feeds Carla her favorite types of union contracts – extra meaty.

9) GW started a war on terror and performed many suspect acts using the power of his office. JC started a war on the middle-class and performed many suspect things while in office.

10) GW has wealthy family and friends and cannot relate to the stresses of average households. JC has forgotten this family and friends; became wealthy and cannot relate to average people. “But Jon Corzine apparently had no more interest in pursuing the matter of his past with long-lost relatives than he had with New Jersey political reporters.”[6]

11) GW seems to have a delusional belief that he, and he alone, knows what the right thing to do is and that his decisions are the correct ones. He ignores the please of the commoner. JC seems to have a delusional belief that he, and he alone, knows what the right thing to do is and that his decisions are the correct ones. He ignores the please of the commoner. While at Goldman Sachs, Corzine ignored the directions of the firm’s partners, and even the Goldman Executive Committee, which contributed to his ouster. “He had been helping to orchestrate the bailout of a huge investment fund that was collapsing... Other banks had agreed to go along with the proposal, but he could not persuade his own partners at Goldman Sachs... Over their objections, he committed $300 million of Goldman's money to the bailout, an amount matched by each of 10 other banks - but $50 million more than had been agreed upon by the other members of Goldman's executive committee.”[7] Jon Corzine also felt he was a better union contract negotiator that the State Contract Negotiators. This decision will cost the State millions of dollars every year. Both men appear to be loose cannons.

12) GW suppresses information from the citizens and his office even records over or loses electronic information that should be preserved for possible inquires. JC uses public money to fund reports, suppresses the information in these reports and tried to push an unpopular and detrimental proposal onto the residents of his state without full disclosure. It just so happens, that the funded report is claimed to support his proposal that was telegraphed in the February 22nd, 2007 State Budget Address. To date, no ‘official’ bill has been produced, yet this plan is supposed to go into effect in mid-March.

13) GW had his daddy fund most of his business initiatives and his rise to political power. JC spent $63 million of his own money to buy a US Senator position and it is claimed that he personally donated large sums to county Democratic Party offices so that he could steal the last Gubernatorial nomination away from Dick Codey.
 

14) GW is claimed to use his powers to perform investigations on political rivals and people deemed a threat to him and his administration.
JC is suspected on using his powers to perform investigations on political rivals and people deemed a threat while possibly also having peaceful protesters arrested and their Civil Rights violated at a public forum that he was hosting.
 

15) GW started a war with a sovereign nation that was an immediate threat to our country. This was done with false and misleading information being distributed. This war will cost each civilian tens of thousand of dollars over the next several decades, numerous loss of life and a fractured and weakened economy. JC started the war on the middle-class by proposing a bogus debt reduction scheme and floating false and misleading information. This scheme will cost each resident tens of thousands of dollars over the next eight decades. There will be loss of jobs and a fractured and weakened economy.

16) GW started the war in Iraq, which also is claimed to result in at least $14 billion of unaccounted losses. Additionally, special no-bid contracting firms, such as Halliburton, have made billions of dollars from this war. JC started the war on the middle-class by proposing a bogus debt reduction scheme that will divert more money that what is currently lost in Iraq to ‘select’ law firms, patronage jobs in the sham Public Benefit Corporation, possibly $80 billion of interest to be paid to ‘select’ or preferred banks and brokerage houses by the remaining New Jersey residents. The bond is now purported to be around $37.9 billion, with a simple 30-year 6% loan amortization, the interest alone would be $43.9 billion and monthly payments would be $227 million. At 30 years, there seems to be little money left over for infrastructure repairs. A 75-year bond would double this amount – making this total package exceed $120 billion!

17) GW likes to be surrounded by YES men. He stages press conferences to avoid answering questions that have not been pre-screened. Anyone who challenges him will be escorted away. JC likes to be surrounded by YES men. He stages press conferences to avoid answering questions that have not been pre-screened. Those who challenge him may be escorted away.

18) GW has betrayed the citizens of America for foreign and political friends and big oil interests. JC has betrayed the citizens of New Jersey for union friends, State employees, political allies and big business. He speaks of helping the needy but his actions show otherwise.

19) GW seems to thrive in the excitement of achieving a goal when others try to stop him. Much like when an adult tries to tell a child not to do something, but they will do anyway. JC also seems to thrive in the excitement of achieving a goal when others try to stop him.

20) GW believes that history will cast a favorable light on his administration. That it will not portray either him or his administration as one of the worst president candidacies in U.S. history. JC seems to believe that history will cast a favorable light on his administration as well. The damages inflicted on the south by Hurricane Katrina were approximately $81 billion. The Toll Road bond and its accrued interest will far exceed that value. Only a delusional person could believe that such a man-made disaster would warrant favorable reflection, right?

21) GW believes that God told him to strike at al Qaeda and to end the tyranny in Iraq. He seems to believe that he is an earthly instrument of God. Could this be Divine Presence or Schizophrenia? JC only knows if God spoke to him. Perhaps he is smart enough to keep quiet on this matter. But based on the other similarities between these two men, God probably has spoken to him, in his mind. The $100B question is, which of the horsemen is he - Conquest?

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[1] Voter’s Domain, http://www.votersdomain.com/profile.php?tid=72

[2] Around Jon Corzine's Roots, a Casual Indifference to Ethnicity, by Ivan Peterson - NYT 4/09/2000

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DC1F3FF93AA35757C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[3]How Greed Changed Goldman, by Lisa Endlich - BusinessWeek 3/15/1999

[4] Corzine's Mix: Bold Ambitions, Rough Edges, by David Kocieniewski/Patrick McGeehan – NYT 11/02/2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/nyregion/metrocampaigns/02corzine.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=joanne%20corzine%20divorce&st=nyt&scp=1

[5] Corzine's Mix: Bold Ambitions, Rough Edges, by David Kocieniewski/Patrick McGeehan – NYT 11/02/2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/nyregion/metrocampaigns/02corzine.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=joanne%20corzine%20divorce&st=nyt&scp=1

[6] Around Jon Corzine's Roots, a Casual Indifference to Ethnicity, by Ivan Peterson - NYT 4/09/2000

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DC1F3FF93AA35757C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[7] Corzine's Mix: Bold Ambitions, Rough Edges, by David Kocieniewski/Patrick McGeehan – NYT 11/02/2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/nyregion/metrocampaigns/02corzine.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=joanne%20corzine%20divorce&st=nyt&scp=1

CORZINE AND BUSH SHARE THE SAME LOW APPROVAL RATING! 

Also, if one watches the Penn & Tell BS show, there is an episode on PETA. It stated that PETA was killing just as many animals or more than what the local animal shelters do, they even installed a huge walk-in refrigerator to store the dead bodies after the animals were killed. It turned out that the local animal shelters had a higher animal placement and return rate than that of PETA. PETA also passively supports the A.L.F. or the Animal Liberation Front which is a group that advocates the bombing and torching of animal shelters.

I used to belong to PETA & WWF (WWF is great!) when I was in my 20's. After privately researching them, I left PETA because I felt that they were a group that just took advantage of people's sympathy just to get money. I also remember a few years back when PETA held a rally in Fishkill, NJ demanding that the town change their name because it promoted harm to fish. They didn't know that the work 'kill' is a synonym of the word 'stream', hence 'fish stream'. IMHO, PETA is not a group to follow as they are still driven primarily for money. They seem to get their followers, who mostly are animal lovers (which I am) upset to the point where they would do actions (harmful) that they would not normally do without PETA’s influence.

If state officials want to bring in PETA to protect the animals, why don’t they bring in a private auditing group to protect the residents against moronic legislators? Why don’t they bring in Amnesty International and attach them to the prison system? There are a bunch of high-publicity groups that could do the job or sit on the boards of many state departments. We could let PETA join the DEP in a volunteering fashion and fire 25% of the DEP workers as they would not it would be needed since PETA could use a volunteer workforce.

Just because the State PTA took influence over the Department of Education and the legislators doesn’t mean that other organizations should be added to the state’s departments, does it?

For some reason, after posting the above entry, I have been unable to make last minute corrections to it. Not sure why?

I can edit this and others, just not the one on top.