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LETS SEE BUY A HOUSE WITH SEWER PROBLEMS AND NOW TRY AND SELL THE HOUSE REAL SMART PEOPLE HERE.
Let's also see a discussion about how much Federal entitlement money these indigent residents will suck down from the Treasury. Why don't we just carpet-bomb this place once known as Camden? I resent having to continually support the non-native and native riff raff who came up there to rape the country and do crimes.
The racists are out early this morning. If the state would give Camden a fraction of the attention they pour into Newark and Jersey City, we wouldn't have this bad a problem. We need Statehood For South Jersey.
The Cherokee housing project with a PGA Tour golf course was scuttled by nitwits among residents who filed suit. That was a billion dollar plus project. Developers now breathe easily as they could have lost their shirt in Cherokee during the recession. Campbell is redeveloping the office project and wants to acquire the dilapidated Sears building to demolish and is waiting for the city to condemn it as prospective tenants say they would buy if Sears is gone.
"Attention?" I believe that Camden gets plenty of "attention," especially from the folks that rank worst cities in America. Camden always seems to get plenty of "attention" from them. It's a Grimm's Fairy Tale down there - I seriously don't know what to even suggest we do as a state down there. It's very sad.
The only way you will bring Camden back is to get business and industry to move back into that City, you need a tax base, Public housing is not a tax base It's a tax drain.
Camden will not be solved because government props the people up in Camden with subsidies and other entitlements while essentially denying private building without government subsidy (with all the restrictions in place for low income housing who would build without subsidies). Rent control and income restrictions provide NO incentive for private investment.
So Camden will continue to decay. They have no tax base and still prevent private development because it is bad for the residents there. In all honesty you need to displace a large portion of Camden (ie replace the poor people) for the city to have any chance. Otherwise it continues as a never ending publicly financed ghetto.
Some voters will stick to Democrats until their dying breath, literally. Just utter foolishness.
Camden is beyond repairable. I was driving through there once to go see a concert and was literally scared for my life. Camden makes North Philly look like heaven.
Another Democratic stronghold with major issues. What else is new?
People who support this type of revitalization forget one very important aspect: What happens to the low-lifes that ruined the neighborhood once it's fixed up? They get shipped to neighboring stable communities via government housing vouchers. Now all the tax payers who paid for the revitalization get to inherit the misery.
People better start waking up to that fact before it's their community that needs the face lift.
Dont worry, Corzine has it under control, oh wait ...guess not. The bottom line is that it does not matter. This is the type of situation that needs Governor involvement, not things like the SEPTA strike in PA. Unions suck and are simply greed public blackmail artist. Camden is full of real people trying to live safely. Fix citys like this, before giving anymore money to greedy union thugs.
And the residents continually vote for candidates that represent the party that has helped keep them in this mess! Go figure!
Yo Eddie, are you that naive that Willie Brown said no thanks to your 7 million? You can't even get the state to function. Still no budget Some commissioner of baseball you would be. Can't even balance a checkbook. What a knucklehead.
Yo Eddie, are you that naive that Willie Brown said no thanks to your 7 million? You can't even get the state to function. Still no budget Some commissioner of baseball you would be. Can't even balance a checkbook. What a knucklehead.
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