Fill up $22 for less than 10 gallons. Ugh.
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Sophie is watching for Annie, who is in a Tiger Mart on Route 13 in Maryland during our pit stop. The pups have been pretty good, though Rosie doesn't look all that happy.
We're 180 miles into the trip.
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Day 1 of vacation starts late and wet. Weld set the alarm for 5, but didn't hear it — and, for the first time this week, the dogs decided to sleep late.
Once on the road — at 6:51 — we found that the roof storage was unbearable (the wind rushing under it, making it sound as if we were on an airport runway.
Plus, it's been raining the entire ride.
We're about 100 miles and two hours into a 425-mile (or so), nine-plus-hour trip and I already need some ibruprofen.
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I don’t envy Jon Corzine. He inherited a disastrous budget situation created by a decade and a half of neglect and self-deception (on the parts of lawmakers, governors of both parties and taxpayers), began the process of reform and then gets smacked in the face by the worst recession in years.
So balancing the budget has been nearly impossible.
That’s not to say that he hasn’t made things worse by seeking to avoid confrontation. He has. Armed with a set of powerful tools — the governor of New Jersey is among the most powerful executives in the country — and faced with a Trenton culture that has allowed entrenched politicians to amass far more power than they are entitled to have, he too often has folded his hand, giving in to the legislative power-brokers.
That said, we need to be honest. He has done more budget cutting than any governor in years, slashing programs that cut across a host of constituencies that should be Democratic power centers. The cuts are problematic — aid to the state’s colleges and municipal governments, to its arts programs, to the DEP — and some may have been avoided with a) earlier and more aggressive budget and government reform during his first two years in office and b) targeted increases in taxes.
But the alternatives being put on the table right now — and this could change — by his chief rivals (Chris Christie and Steve Lonegan) are unlikely to address the deep-rooted budgetary problems we face.
Welcome to the first of what I hope will be a recurring feature, The Saturday Shuffle, whereby I turn my iPod onto shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play:
I think the Souza track came with my laptop as a demo song, because I don’t remember ever buying it.
