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Newark – Big Apple’s rotting façade

July 21, 2011 21:35

Newark is the largest town in the state of New Jersey. It is filled with crime, drugs and poverty. RT reports the hard truth of a city right in the back yard of the Big Apple.

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MK Ultra 25.08.2011 14:01

I worked in Newark for many years and, even back when things were good, it was one of the biggest and worst dumps in the US.  It's biggest industry (besides welfare and drugs) was car theft.  Newark was the car theft capital of the country.  I left the area a decade ago and haven't gone back but I can just about imagine what it must be like now.  Heavens help us all!

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Mr.M 31.07.2011 05:13

And this is american city. You saw that there live more blacks than whites. There was just white policemen in the street. Also similar scene we can see in the Detroit where every year increase the number of blacks and reduce a number of whites. So what output we can do? More blacks and hispanics more drugs and crime.
In big american cities most of blacks and hispanics live in ghettos where crime and drugs more than in palces where white americans live. You know it. And white people don't want to live near african americans and whites don't like come to places where nigers live because they don't want to be killed or robbed. 50% crimes in USA implement by blacks. In the time when blacks not more then 23%.
P.S. Americans don't you think that this is a time to become a dominate nation in USA again?

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24/7 Wall St 22.07.2011 13:40

1. New Jersey
Taxes paid by residents as pct. of income: 12.2%
Total state and local taxes collected: $85.9 billion
Pct. of total taxes paid by residents: 79.5%
Pct. of total taxes paid by non-residents: 20.5%
New Jersey residents have a higher tax burden than those of any other state. As a percent of their income, taxes in the Garden State were 12.2% in 2009, nearly double that of Alaska. Like Connecticut, much of this tax burden comes from state residents who commute to New York City and pay taxes there as well. This illustrates how a state resident contributes to the tax base of multiple states. Although not reflected in the percent of income residents pay in state and local taxes, it is nonetheless an additional burden commuters have to bear. According to Tax Foundation, the state has the third-worst environment for business in the country, with a corporate tax rate of 9%. It also has an above-average sales tax, as well as one of the highest rates in the country for cigarettes and liquor.by 24/7 Wall St. Staff
Thursday, July 21, 2011

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David Chappelle needs to tell this story 22.07.2011 04:06

This is an old story. Since the 1970s Newark has been on the decline
Crime, Drugs and hi taxes for business does not help.

It was not Wall St. it was the state and the unions that killed Newark.
It was the criminal justice system that did not protect the people.

As soon as gentrification comes from the India or Bangladeshi
commu nity the people scream that they are being robbed of a place to live.

Hispani cs came from New York and set up shop and did well
Blacks in the NY NJ area still want the free ride. The goose that laid
that golden egg for 25 years died.
Its tough love. Get Queen Latifa to return to Jersey and rebuild the ghetto
that made her a queen.
Face it there was work they would not want to work
Welfare & thinking of Welfare made Newark what it is



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Wilson Boozer 22.07.2011 01:35

Newark is hardly alone among big cities in the US in having to deal with decay and unemploymen t. It started in the 'sixties, when jobs began to disappear with plant closings. You can add such cities as Youngstown and Detroit, as well as Chicago and even San Francisco and a host of others. Capital from the US was exported to create plants and jobs in other countries, which also had the effect of creating a "balance of trade" deficit, further impoverishing the US. Kids took to the streets to gain an income, and crime followed in the form of drug sales and abuse, armed robberies and prostitutio n. But the ultra-rich were happy, for tax laws supported their activities, and they grew even richer. Ain't America wonderful?

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