N.J. Corruption and Pension Meltdown.

April 30, 2011 at 10:45 A.M. "Foucault, Rose, Davis" was altered as to spacing and one word was removed from the text. These "errors" are not found in a previously printed version of the essay. I will do my best to repair the harm done to this essay and several others as part of the protected cybercrime campaign from Trenton.

April 29, 2011 at 10:25 A.M. My short story "God is Texting Me!" was altered as to spacing and other "errors" were inserted in copyright- and Constitutionally-protected writings. My "on-demand" television service was obstructed this morning by "Error 100." Strange calls -- from "Marcel" at Time/Warner perhaps! -- will be received throughout the day.

My essay examining Roger Scruton's aesthetics was altered as to spacing, evidently, from a public computer. I will do my best to continue writing from multiple locations in New York. I have reason to believe that New York's Public Library computers may have been hacked into in an effort to target my writings. If this is true, New York city may not be amused by the tactic. The Cuban American National Foundation should know that such methods are not acceptable in this country. ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles.")

John Reitmeyer, "State's Pension Warnings Ignored: Funding Gap Widens Years After Fixes Found," in The Record, April 27, 2011, at p. A-1.

New Jersey's decades of corruption and theft -- the "shenanigans" surrounding pension funds, for example -- has created a genuine financial crisis for residents of this unfortunate state. The money simply may not be there when many state employees retire. ("New Jersey's Pension Funds Are $54 BILLION 'Short.'")

"New Jersey's unfunded pension obligation has grown by 350 percent in just the last five years, accelerating even after a special gubernatorial task force called for reforms to be a 'top priority.' ..."

" ... the underfunded obligation has grown to $54 BILLION as of the most recent accounting, and many of the task force's top recommendations[,] including a 'no more pension holidays' warning, have largely been ignored by lawmakers."

"Politicians in Trenton have also largely disregarded other warnings issued by that task force, including recommendations that an 'affordable' benefits structure be created to ensure long-term stability. A call to 'stop the abuses' by politicians themselves has also been side-stepped, and lawmakers passed a 2007 bill that allows elected officials to retire and collect a pension without leaving office or forfeiting a salary."

Politicians (like Ms. Weinberg) still beat the system by retiring while continuing to work "on the public tit," as Mr. Sacco would say. The media should "take a bat" to these abusers of the public trust.

Only $2.2 billion has been put towards the state's pension obligations. Politicians in recent years have skipped payments into the system, quietly, mysteriously vanishing funds or "uncertainty" concerning the amounts actually deposited in pension accounts, have created a more profound crisis than anyone anticipated.

People living in New Jersey are paying an increasingly heavy price for a failed court system along with the most corrupt political boss culture in America. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Thefts are blatant and shameless in New Jersey. Incompetent members of the judiciary, like Hudson County's Judge Tolentino, allow for corruption or are too inept and/or sold out to do much about this mafia activity. Police departments and prosecutors are coopted or bribed. The result is a failure of the mechanisms that are supposed to monitor governmental structures in order to serve the public. In Mr. Nixon's phrase: "The public gets shafted." ("What is it like to be censored in America?")

There is no point in reform efforts in Trenton with the ingrained culture of corruption in place. Mr. Christie noted this reality as a crusading U.S. Attorney. A system in N.J. makes people's jobs depend on "pleasing" political bosses and their mob-like enforcers. ("Does Senator Menenedez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")

Ordinary state workers may be called upon, say, to spy on family members or help politicians to steal public funds. They will keep quiet about such matters out of fear of losing their jobs. ("Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!")

Mr. Holder and Mr. Christie, please give this matter your immediate attention. If you do not, then the people of the Garden State are heading for a hard fall.

Sources:

Ginger Gibson, "Christie Criticizes Justice Over Public School Funds Ruling," in The Record, April 27, 2011, at p. A-4. (N.J.'s unelected Democrat Supreme Court is rewriting the school budget for Christie.)

Ted Sherman, "Informant Sentencing is Delayed Once More," in The Record, April 27, 2011, at p. A-4. (Mr. Dwek has bribed a few more N.J. politicians and judges, probably.)

Richard Cowan, "Freeholders Object to Clerk's New Aide, Say Passaic Hire is Political Patronage," in The Record, April 27, 2011, at p. L-1. ("Carmelo P. Sacarangelo," a Republican "capo regime" has allegedly placed an "attractive" so-called "confidential aide" on the public payroll -- one "Kristin Corrado" -- over the objections of county freeholders. Geez.)

Scott Shane, "Director Petraeus to Face Different Culture at the CIA," in The New York Times, April 28, 2011, at p. A10. (A suicidal struggle within America's intelligence community seems to go unperceived by most domestic media, but is being carefully monitored by counterparts in the world amazed at America's self-destruction. Notice the "error insertions" here and America's decades-long paralysis in coping with New Jersey's public threat to the Constitution.)

Andrea Alexander, "Rumona Cleared of Ethics Charges: Panel Delays Ruling on Energy Project," in The Record, April 27, 2011, at p. L-3. (Scott Rumona, Esq. cleared in politically-tainted Assembly ethics probe.)

Elizabeth Bumiller & Mark Landes, "In Realignment of His War Council, Obama Shuffles Pentagon and CIA," in The New York Times, April 28, 2011, at p. A11. (Obama appears increasingly baffled by the intelligence community's Vatican-like culture of secrecy and alliances against legality.)

Scott Shane, "Guantanamo Detainees' Lawyer Seeks a Voice on Wikileaks Documents," in The New York Times, April 28, 2011, at p. A16. (I may be getting some help from Wikileaks! All assistance is welcome.)