I’m thinking that maybe your win record isn’t very good because you seem to have a lot of anger towards your fellow man. Maybe some introspection is in order.
This letter is too long and filled with too many blatant over simplifications to pick apart the whole thing. But let’s do a couple:
First, there are democrats and republicans in the state legislature. Second, in the last 32 years, we’ve had 16 years of Republican governors and 16 years of Democrat governors, an even split. Third, I live here too. I travel all over NJ and I actually do not see solar farms “as far as the eye can see”. In fact, I’ve only seen them covering existing parking lots (keeps cars in the shade too) and in an area that used to be a contaminated junk yard (technically you can’t ‘see’ them) I’m down at the beach all the time and I’ve scanned the horizon. Never once have I seen a wind farm. What I also did not see was any outrage at all when the last republican president opened the Atlantic cost to oil exploration. An embarrassing hypocrisy. The largest percentage toll increase that NJ has ever seen was pushed through in the middle of the night by then Gov Christie (a Republican).
You’re worried about leaving your grandchildren debt but not about leaving them an almost irreparably damaged planet? I’d take some debt over mass migration any day of the week.
If you listen to the entire speech by former President Obama, I know I know too much work to do that, you would know, and agree with, exactly what he said. Businesses in the US were moving their operations to foreign nations (that’s bad) and he was chastising them because they made their fortunes using the second to none infrastructure that was build by all of us. In other words, taxpayers. The highway system that allows them to move product, the telecommunication system that allows them to engage in commerce. All built by tax paying citizens. So when he says to a company that has been successful in the US and is moving to a foreign country “you didn’t build that”, he is absolutely right. And there isn’t a member of today’s Republican Party who wouldn’t agree.
My income tax hasn’t really changed in 25 years. The sales tax in NJ has remained the same for decades. My property tax has increased of course but that has been due to a head spinning increase in property values. Imagine that, the state you hate has incredibly high property values. Go figure. I did get dinged on my ability to deduct my state property taxes from my federal taxes, but that was capped by President Trump his first term. That stung a bit financially, but I’m not writing the Coast Star about it.
There is so much more in there that is inaccurate and oversimplified. There are also some points in there that are more or less accurate. That’s the point. If you run again, this time try looking at the world from more than just your own personal perspective. The world is a complex place full of conflicting needs. If you are willing to take off the blinders and let go of the us versus them mentality, you may be successful. We’re all in this together. And a candidate that actually understands that and doesn’t engage in nonsense partisanship, would get my vote.
Thank you for the laughs. I wasn’t trying to be funny though, just telling the truth. But these days the truth is such a rarity, maybe it’s kinda funny?
That doesn’t surprise me at all. When youre willing eat all the obvious s*#% they feed you, you start to get indigestion. I am hopeful, and it seems like this, that people are starting to see that the guy who can ‘fix everything’ is actually is just a sad, lonely, and desperate old huckster behind a curtain.
Keep digging my friend. Facts aren’t concepts. They’re facts.
Nice job getting a plug in at the end there. Shameless.
Right and wrong aka (Name deleted by Editor.).
I get a kick out of the beginning of your post you say Jim Beams letter is too long!!
If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black!!😂
True. But a letter that long and full of inaccuracies disguised as an attempt at witty sarcasm, requires a long response. Which you didn’t read. Which I don’t expect you to. Because we live in a world of sound bites and talking points. Anything that challenges a comfy belief system, is ignored.
If using sonar kills whales, then the navy and the oil industry have killed more whales than Col Sanders killed chickens.
So the sonar used to map offshore wind farms kills whales. But the sonar used by ocean floor mapping vessels, oil companies, and the military doesn’t kill whales? Ok, got it.
The length to which partisan politics will go to blatantly ignore obvious hypocrisy is truly amazing. Come on you right wingers, I know you are smarter than that.
I assume this means Mr Bean is planning on running for office. Again.
It’s a classic and often used political tactic. Publicly proclaim a laundry list of grievances, imply that you alone know how to fix them, casually refer to an email address with a catchy tagline, gauge the response as a sort of exploratory exercise, rinse, repeat.
I hope he does run. The last few election cycles in Belmar have been kinda boring. He may have more luck now grabbing on to some of Trump’s manufactured anger. But beware, it’s harder to pretend to be a man of the people when you openly surround yourself with the world’s wealthiest elites.
So, on second thought, steer clear of ol Donnie and his oligarchs.
Great letter – let’s see how many carachters take it seriously in this weeks Coast Star “newspaper.”
He has my vote. No wait, that’s what everyone I voted for now does!
I’m thinking that maybe your win record isn’t very good because you seem to have a lot of anger towards your fellow man. Maybe some introspection is in order.
This letter is too long and filled with too many blatant over simplifications to pick apart the whole thing. But let’s do a couple:
First, there are democrats and republicans in the state legislature. Second, in the last 32 years, we’ve had 16 years of Republican governors and 16 years of Democrat governors, an even split. Third, I live here too. I travel all over NJ and I actually do not see solar farms “as far as the eye can see”. In fact, I’ve only seen them covering existing parking lots (keeps cars in the shade too) and in an area that used to be a contaminated junk yard (technically you can’t ‘see’ them) I’m down at the beach all the time and I’ve scanned the horizon. Never once have I seen a wind farm. What I also did not see was any outrage at all when the last republican president opened the Atlantic cost to oil exploration. An embarrassing hypocrisy. The largest percentage toll increase that NJ has ever seen was pushed through in the middle of the night by then Gov Christie (a Republican).
You’re worried about leaving your grandchildren debt but not about leaving them an almost irreparably damaged planet? I’d take some debt over mass migration any day of the week.
If you listen to the entire speech by former President Obama, I know I know too much work to do that, you would know, and agree with, exactly what he said. Businesses in the US were moving their operations to foreign nations (that’s bad) and he was chastising them because they made their fortunes using the second to none infrastructure that was build by all of us. In other words, taxpayers. The highway system that allows them to move product, the telecommunication system that allows them to engage in commerce. All built by tax paying citizens. So when he says to a company that has been successful in the US and is moving to a foreign country “you didn’t build that”, he is absolutely right. And there isn’t a member of today’s Republican Party who wouldn’t agree.
My income tax hasn’t really changed in 25 years. The sales tax in NJ has remained the same for decades. My property tax has increased of course but that has been due to a head spinning increase in property values. Imagine that, the state you hate has incredibly high property values. Go figure. I did get dinged on my ability to deduct my state property taxes from my federal taxes, but that was capped by President Trump his first term. That stung a bit financially, but I’m not writing the Coast Star about it.
There is so much more in there that is inaccurate and oversimplified. There are also some points in there that are more or less accurate. That’s the point. If you run again, this time try looking at the world from more than just your own personal perspective. The world is a complex place full of conflicting needs. If you are willing to take off the blinders and let go of the us versus them mentality, you may be successful. We’re all in this together. And a candidate that actually understands that and doesn’t engage in nonsense partisanship, would get my vote.
har-har-herdee-har-har…
Thank you for the laughs. I wasn’t trying to be funny though, just telling the truth. But these days the truth is such a rarity, maybe it’s kinda funny?
I don’t even believe the truth anymore…
That doesn’t surprise me at all. When youre willing eat all the obvious s*#% they feed you, you start to get indigestion. I am hopeful, and it seems like this, that people are starting to see that the guy who can ‘fix everything’ is actually is just a sad, lonely, and desperate old huckster behind a curtain.
Keep digging my friend. Facts aren’t concepts. They’re facts.
Nice job getting a plug in at the end there. Shameless.
Right and wrong aka (Name deleted by Editor.).
I get a kick out of the beginning of your post you say Jim Beams letter is too long!!
If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black!!😂
True. But a letter that long and full of inaccuracies disguised as an attempt at witty sarcasm, requires a long response. Which you didn’t read. Which I don’t expect you to. Because we live in a world of sound bites and talking points. Anything that challenges a comfy belief system, is ignored.
If using sonar kills whales, then the navy and the oil industry have killed more whales than Col Sanders killed chickens.
So the sonar used to map offshore wind farms kills whales. But the sonar used by ocean floor mapping vessels, oil companies, and the military doesn’t kill whales? Ok, got it.
The length to which partisan politics will go to blatantly ignore obvious hypocrisy is truly amazing. Come on you right wingers, I know you are smarter than that.
I assume this means Mr Bean is planning on running for office. Again.
It’s a classic and often used political tactic. Publicly proclaim a laundry list of grievances, imply that you alone know how to fix them, casually refer to an email address with a catchy tagline, gauge the response as a sort of exploratory exercise, rinse, repeat.
I hope he does run. The last few election cycles in Belmar have been kinda boring. He may have more luck now grabbing on to some of Trump’s manufactured anger. But beware, it’s harder to pretend to be a man of the people when you openly surround yourself with the world’s wealthiest elites.
So, on second thought, steer clear of ol Donnie and his oligarchs.