Nothing easy about this — and it does not appear that anyone will come out unscathed. The state is facing a shutdown as the majority Democrats in the Assembly feud with the governor and the GOP offers a slew of unfathomable cuts. No one wins, especially the citizens of New Jersey.
The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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On the contrary, remember the last shutdown, when the guv said \”all non-essential personnel stay home\”? If they are non-essential, they should stay home FOREVER. Besides, for those of us who commute soth or route 1, it\’ll be nice to get all those speeding state cars out of the left lane!