Assessment of Gov. Corzine was accurate

This is a letter to Greg Bean, executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. I am 52 years old, own a townhome, cannot find work due to the financial disaster that is upon us, and have lived in East Brunswick since August 1987.

By way of background, I am a 1977 graduate of the University of Maryland, where I majored in social and political philosophy. In college I had been a Democrat because my father had been, but when I began to work for money, I became a Republican.

I moved to New Jersey in 1987 and immediately became a Libertarian. Now I am an anarchist. I became that way when a state senator told me that the motor-vehicle registration-fee increase, which has passed its legislated expiration date, was not being repealed because the “legislators felt the state needed the money.”

Bankrupting the citizens of New Jersey, being corrupt, and plundering the wallets of suburbanites to fund Newark, Camden and Elizabeth, are the primary roles of the New Jersey executive, legislative and judicial branches. So much for representing the citizens, and so much for my background.

I have been reading several area newspapers for 21 years. Your “Coda” column, “Cabinet Position for Corzine Would Be a Huge Disaster,” in the Nov. 12 issue of the News Transcript, is the most accurate, concise and factual synopsis of any politician I have ever read in a New Jersey newspaper — and that includes work by my favorite columnist, Paul Mulshine.

Gov. Jon Corzine is an investment banker and hasn’t a clue. By the way, you have seen what investment bankers and their middle of-the-night, undercover of-darkness “securitization” schemes have done to the country.

I applaud your column because it tells the unvarnished truth.

Now for the bad part. No matter how bad it gets, if Corzine stands for re-election as governor, the citizens of New Jersey (not me) will re-elect him. The people just re-elected Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) who has done nothing in 30 years in Congress except get smoking banned on airplane flights.

Lautenberg is a do-nothing and always has been. We are last in money returned from the federal government for our tax dollars. It’s been that way for a long time, but the citizens of New Jersey continue to elect incumbents regardless of how bad they are.

Personally, I’d prefer Corzine to go to Washington where his lack of creativity can be spread all over. President-elect Barack Obama will take care of raising taxes and bankrupting the country the rest of the way anyhow, so if Corzine is there with him, it won’t really matter.

Again, I want to commend you for an excellent, excellent column in the News Transcript. In addition, your column tells a good story, in very few words.
Richard Dondes
East Brunswick