New Jersey Love it or leave it.

May 10, 2020

 Murphy has reinvented that old slogan that Democrats used to hate to hear from Republicans.

 Only he substituted New Jersey for America when someone criticized him for his mishandling of the pandemic.

 It is very difficult to tell who the worst Governors are in the United States these days but the one defining factor is that they're all Democrats.

But since we live in New Jersey where Murphy is celebrating the 77% approval rating our choices are very simple: shut up and do what we're told or move out.

Murphy of course is just stupid enough not to have noticed people have been fleeing the state for more than a generation, partly because of policies like his that made it unaffordable I live here.

Senior citizens in the past only had to worry about starving to death under a fixed income but under Murphy we soon learned that it is even more deadly to have stayed in any of the nursing home he sent sick people to live in.

As in 1930 Europe people who remained behind soon learn the error of their ways.  At some point once you get stuck here you get to die here too, and you don't have the option of moving to another state.

Those who what are polled by Rutgers-Eagleton obviously didn’t reach anybody in a nursing home, or at least, did not get to them while they were still alive – talking instead to those hiding under the beds and least at-risk of dying. Had these poll takers talked to people at most risk, Murphy might have seen much poorer numbers.

Rutgers-Eagleton has a poor reputation, often employing broke political science students who either have no interest in getting the facts right or have a built-in bias they learned in the classroom.

These students call hundreds maybe thousands of households and will gather the opinion of anyone who they can manipulate into talking into them. Most people hang up on them or tell them to fuck off – giving you a good idea of the actual sampling these polls represent.

Only those already very motivated want to be bothered during dinner or are so scared to death by media body counts their opinion is often skewed by a desperate confidence Government doesn’t deserve.

People hear reports of their grandmothers and grandfathers dying and presume they are going to be next and so if they don't have confidence in Murphy then they are hopeless suicides.

Murphy’s mishandling of the pandemic may indeed drive more people out of the state than his abortion of a millionaire’s tax because so many people have been so damaged by the psychology of fear they will be afraid to live any city where they believe the virus might once again strike.

It is not clear how people can have confidence in a governor who in a panic destroyed their businesses and took away their jobs and helped turning nursing homes into graveyards he should have otherwise tried to protect.

But people should not be surprised since Murphy follows in the footsteps of other Wall Street executives who managed to totally screw up the state economy.

Murphy will soon get his wish and see a max exodus from New Jersey to states like Texas and Florida, following their jobs in the 21st Century version of a trail of tears.

The government’s overreaction to the pandemic has taught people to be strangely self-reliant even as they wallowed in terror of catching the bug. They learned they no longer need to live in the same cities where their jobs reside and can work remotely. They won’t have to pay for parking, tolls to go on highways or bridges, or pay exorbitant ticket prices for trains Murphy can’t get to run on time – or in some cases – at all.

The smarter people already can foresee the train wreck of Murphy’s economy.

Highways had not been producing tolls for revenue. Atlantic City casinos – which fund schools and programs for seniors – have been closed. Stores and services that might have generated sales tax have been forced closed at gun point, leaving the state only one solid source from which to raise revenue: a massive increase in income tax, and not just from millionaires.

Unemployment roles already bloated by bad government decisions will get worse at schools, local government and state government start laying people off to cut costs. Services that were piss poor before will become non-existent.

This is Murphy’s last legacy. I wonder how Murphy's poll numbers will seem then as people flee the state to get away from him and his money-grubbing machine.

Yeah New Jersey love it or leave it!