President Obama's Weekly Address 5/16/15: Creating Opportunity for All

In this week’s address, the President highlighted the importance of expanding opportunity for all Americans -- a principle that has guided his work throughout the past six years. This past week, the President attended a summit at Georgetown University where he discussed issues like poverty and inequality, and what we can do to ensure everyone gets a fair shot. We’ve seen real results in this area, but there is still more that can be done. And lack of opportunity is not the only barrier to success. That’s why, on Monday, the President will travel to Camden, New Jersey to visit with local law enforcement, meet with young people, and hear directly about efforts to build trust between the police and the community in a city that has faced one of the highest crime rates in America.

After Receiving $41.1M Tax Subsidy For Economic Development And Job Creation Campbell's Soup Co. Announces Layoffs

Nothing like wasting tax payer money on corporate welfare when the money could have been used for other more important things like education, health care, property tax relief, infrastructure....

Once again Governor you definitely have your priorities straight!.

Campbell's Soup Co. Announces Layoffs: MyFoxPHILLY.com

CAMDEN, N.J. - Campbell's Soup Co. plans to lay off about 770 people worldwide, Including about 130 people at its Camden headquarters, in an effort to reduce overhead and improve efficiency.

The reductions will be phased in over the next two years and will result in a savings of about $75 million dollars.

The cuts include about 10 percent of the company's workforce in Camden, its longtime headquarters.

Fox 29's Steve Keeley has more in this Wednesday morning live report from "Good Day."

Fair Haven's Halfacre Sets Gerry Straight on Tax Info

It seems that Fair Haven's Mayor Mike Halfacre may not be very happy with his Republican counter-part in Middeltown based on a comment that he left on another blog site that posted Gerry Scharfenbegerger "Middletown Tax Info" email.

In his attempt to make it seem that he was doing a good job at managing Middletown's finances, Scharfenebrger as usual compared apples to oranges when he tried to compare Middeltown to Fair Haven by writing the following:

"Middletown has one of the lowest tax rates in the region. While we are currently at 35 cents, Fair Haven, for example, is almost 49 cents and Little Silver is over 50 cents."

Halfacre picked up on this misnomer with the following comment:


"Fair Haven's tax rate was 49.1 cents in 2007. Our rate is 45.8 in 2010. Over that same time frame state "aid" was cut nearly in half.

Comparing tax rates town to town does not give an idea of fiscal soundness, as every town is different. Middletown's budget is ten times Fair Haven's. They supply vastly different services. For example, FH does not have a swim club, housing authorities or facilities, etc. the list goes on and on"


Thanks Mayor Halfacre for pointing out to Gerry what many of us on the other side of the isle have been talking about for years now about him. That is, he likes to make broad and sweeping apples to oranges comparisions between Middletown and other towns such as Atlantic City, Newark, Camden and now Fair Haven, towns that have little in common with Middeltown, to make points about how well he and his friends have run Middletown.