Don't fool yourself too much here. What you're saying is true of NJ in general re: flight and how hard it is to just get by. However, my memories of Asbury Park are those where one couldn't park one's car for four hours without the window being smashed in by a crackhead. I had my own car window smashed in, not six feet from where I was standing all night long. Generally by the child of one of the so-called low-wage 'workers' that lived there. The place was a section 8 madhouse.
I watched a 'family' walking down the street while mom watched the kids throwing rocks through the windows of businesses and her children beating the glass windows on the cars parked on the side of the road with a piece of rebar. This in broad daylight about 12pm on a Saturday. Kids 12yrs old at the max. A citizen tried to stop these kids and the police were called. Guess who the police hassled... Joe Citizen that was trying to make it a better place, they actually threatened the guy with some bull about menacing a child. These weren't children, they were animals, raised just like their animal mother wanted. I watched almost every Friday and Saturday night as at least two police cruisers sat accross from Pizza Plus and just sat idly by as near riots took place. "Low wage workers" in traffic lanes, throwing bottles at the passing cars, basically wilding in plain sight. Stabbings, shootings, they just watched it happen. They should have sand bagged a .50 cal on that corner and started cleaning up the gene pool. Instead, I'm betting that scumhole is still in business. Good riddance to bad trash. I've only recently heard that I might be able to go visit my friend the business owner in town as a lot of the crackheads are finally leaving and without a 20yr old car, I might be able to trust parking my current one on the street for an hour or so. I haven't been back to visit in almost ten years...I worked in town for five. Be careful what you wish for. The rosy eyed view of multiculturalism isn't very sharp vision in the context of Asbury Park. Just as with Red Bank and Freehold, the rising rents will clean the town out and make it a safe place to be again. The poor bastard that took my job in town was beaten pretty badly just outside the door of the busines while he was trying to just work and mind his own business. The housing market and rent prices are out of control in NJ, but fixing prices and handing people housing won't do a thing for anyone but lower the quality of life overall. I've served in law enforcement, I've worked nights in the club scene, and I've served many years as a volunteer with EMS and fire depts. Until you yourself have seen up close and personal how people live and behave in subsidized housing, you shouldn't wish for this to happen. If you actually have seen how they live under these conditions, you are a fool to wish for it for Asbury Park or you live a safe distance from town. Go up to NYC and see what de-regulation of rents has done for the city. It's simply stunning. I worked up there for six years recently and it's actually safe again in major sections of Brooklyn of all places. This is due to having neighborhoods turn over to people with jobs, who get up every day and have respect for what they've earned. It's too expensive to pay rent on public assistance...and it's working. If you never saw Asbury in it's 'prime', go take a drive through Camden or Trenton, they are both in their public housing, subsidized program glory still. Better yet, leave your windows down so the 'citizens' can come right up and thank you, personally, for making their subsidized lives so wonderful. Gee, why doesn't Corzine live in Trenton? He's perpetuating this caste system of economics like any good Democrat, yet he and his family aren't living two blocks from the capital building. I wonder why? The economic bubble will eventually level out, it's how the machine works. If you start handing things to people, it becomes a cancerous growth on the economy and serves no one. On 7/22/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends, > > From a purely BUSINESS perspective, what happens when SO many Moderate > to Low Income People are Chased OUT of our Area, that there's a Severe > Shortage of People to RUN Businesses which REQIRE them? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
