9.26.26 Seth Grossman WPG Radio. Teenage Criminals. Republican Socialism. Crowded Airports. Vote Now.

https://youtu.be/_n5dtHlJ2XY?si=UKw0Crdz0tqKRBku We have a crisis with dangerous teenage criminals. And political leaders who don't even talk about it. Republican Socialism in Atlantic City is as bad as "Democratic Socialism" in New York. Crowded airports are a sign of success. Look how the government ruined trains and buses! Jewish Harvest Holiday of Sukkoth (Tabernacles): Full Moon. High Tides. Bad Storm and Coastal Floods Today. Vote now! Request a ballot from the County Clerk. Republicans are doing a great job of running Atlantic County. However, its Republican state legislators are as out of touch and socialist as any Democrat! SETH GROSSMAN: The Republican Party has great officials and candidates here in Atlantic County. Jeff Van Drew is one of the best member of Congress in the country. Joe O'Donoghue is doing a great job as sheriff, and Joe Giralo is the best county clerk we've had in years. Denny Levinson, and Republican commissioners, formerly freeholders like John Risley and June Byrnes are keeping taxes and spending under control in county government, however.... Last Wednesday, Atlantic County's Republican State Senator Vince Polistina spoke for a full hour during his monthly interview on the Harry Hurley radio program. (WPGTalkRadio 95.5FM). He didn't mention the four Atlantic City teenagers who stole an SUV in Longport and killed people in Mays Landing five weeks ago. Or how they had long criminal records and were arrested for stealing another car just two months before! Five weeks ago, on Saturday, August 22, four teenagers from Atlantic City stole a Mercedes SUV G Wagon in Longport. They refused to stop for police and drove through Somers Point and Egg Harbor Township to Mays Landing. They then drove at a high rate of speed in the wrong lane into oncoming traffic. They smashed head on into a car carrying Robert Barr and Alice Stilwell of Egg Harbor Township and killed them instantly. At least one of those teenagers had a long criminal record. He had also been arrested in connection with the theft of another car several months before. However, he was released to commit further crimes--including one that caused two people to die. That story was posted on our website last September 5. Click this link: 9.5.26 Seth Grossman WPG Radio - Liberty and Prosperity And it now looks like nobody will be punished for causing those deaths. Police are now saying they don't know which of the four teenagers was behind the wheel when the fatal collision took place. One was 18 years old, and the others were younger. It seems likely that a juvenile under the age of 18 will be blamed. That way, nobody will be punished as an adult for killing two people. This is a crisis. Dozens of dangerous teenage criminals in Atlantic County are roaming free because there is only one juvenile jail in Atlantic County, and it holds only 26 inmates. Also, New Jersey laws do not require that dangerous teenage criminals be kept in jail until they are no longer dangerous. Laws must be changed. New juvenile jails must be built. And we must also develop long term solutions. We need to change welfare programs and public schools that enable and promote a culture of crime and violence. We should even consider raising these children in orphanages instead of fatherless homes. However, nothing will change if our state legislators won't talk about solutions. Above Image: Republicans and Democrats unite to bail out the failed Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City--a perfect example of Republican Socialism. Republican Socialism in Atlantic City is as bad as Democratic Socialism in New York! State Senator Vince Polistina instead spoke of bringing "collective" development and government "partnerships" to Atlantic City. Polistina said that Atlantic City's future depends on getting AtlantiCare to build a bigger hospital and for Stockton to run a bigger college. And to pay for all this, we need New Jersey government, through its EDA or Economic Development Authority, to borrow and spend a lot more money. How is this different from Zohran Mamdani's "Democratic Socialism" in New York? As with all socialism, this "Republican Socialism" also fails when it runs out of other people's money! The latest example is that Sheraton Hotel in the middle of Atlantic City. That hotel is a failure. So now all the politicians, Republicans and Democrats are talking about how they can have us pay more in taxes to save it. Why is the Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City going out of business? As realtors love to say, the three most important things in real estate are #1 location. #2 location, and #3 location. The Sheraton Hotel by the Convention Center in Atlantic City is a failure because was built in an awful location in the middle of nowhere. Yet because it is still inside Atlantic City, its hotel and restaurant customers still have to pay all of the extra Atlantic City "luxury" taxes that are charged in the casinos. Why? Back in the 1980s, Republican State Senator Bill Gormley got a federal government grant to build a $5 million train station there. That is why we built a new train station in the middle of nowhere. Gormley So the government built this train station in the middle of nowhere, and that was a failure. Then Gormly got the state to borrow about $268 million to build a new convention center in the middle of nowhere in addition to the mostly empty Convention Hall on the Boardwalk. Another part of that deal was the new Sheraton Hotel. It was built right next to the new train station and convention center in the middle of nowhere. Senator Bill Gormley and other state politicians then tried to fix the problem by building a new "corridor.". They said, "We have to somehow connect this failing train station and the convention center, and the Sheraton Hotel to the Boardwalk and the casinos. What can we do?" First they spend lots of money on free jitneys to take people to and from other parts of town. Then they said, "Let's borrow and spend a few hundred million dollars , give out a bunch of tax breaks and build a "Corridor "to connect them. And so they then built the Tangier Outlets and a bunch of restaurants. Of course that was another big failure, and most of them are now closed. And how did we pay for them? Well, Bill Gormley came up with something absolutely brilliant. At that time, all of the Atlantic City casinos were giving absolute free parking to anyone who parked in their garages. And this was a big boom to dozens of stores and restaurants all over Atlantic City. But Bill Gormley put an end to all that. He came up with a $2 tax on free parking! That killed dozens of stores and restaurants all along Atlantic and Pacific Avenues. This is a classic description of socialism. This is where the economy is run by politicians. This where failures get rich if they are backed by politicians and where people who succeed are taxed out of business to pay for the failures. So its hard for Republicans to complain about Zoran Mamdani and his Democratic Socialism when they give us the mess of corruption and incompetence called Republican Socialism! So what should we do with the Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City? At some point, you can't tax successful businesses to bail out failures without causing real damage to the economy. You can't expect government to do the things its supposed to do if it has to pay for so many things it has no business doing! As former astronaut and former Eastern Airlines CEO Frank Borman said, "Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell!" We need to let failures fail, so that successes can succeed. If you put all this stuff up for auction, somebody will buy it and somebody will do something with it. Years ago, somebody actually made money with the Margate Elephant! Or here's an idea. Let's set up museums demonstrating the failure of socialism. Or monuments to failed socialism so these failures can at least teach some lessons. We can use Atlantic City's failed baseball stadium, the train station, two failed convention centers and the Sheraton Hotel! Seth Grossman at Atlantic City International Airport (ACY) Last May. After Spirit Shut Down. Before Most Breeze and Allegiant Flights Began. Crowded airports are a sign of success! Don't ask government to fix them! Use ACY and other smaller airports. I understand the stress and inconvenience John DeMasi went through flying from Philadelphia to Nashville last week. First his charter flight from Philadelphia was delayed three hours. Then, on the way back, his flight got diverted when the air traffic control equipment failed in Philadelphia. However, overcrowded airports are a sign of success. It is a sign that airplane flights are cheap and convenient and more people than ever are flying where they want to go. We don't want the government to mess it up. First, remember that there are usually easy work-arounds. Avoid big, overcrowded airports like Philadelphia, Newark, and Chicago. Fly out of smaller airports. Use the Breeze flights to West Palm Beach or the Allegiant flights to Punta Gorda. Or use Frontier Airlines and fly out of Bordentown. Remember how people the government ruined trains and buses. Just over a hundred years ago, America had the fastest, cheapest and most comfortable railroad service in the world. We also used to have fast and convenient bus service in New Jersey. Now, hardly anyone uses them. That's because the federal government started taking over and controlling the railroads in the early 1900s with so-called Progressive Democrats like Woodrow Wilson. And then state government ruined most bus service here in New Jersey during the 1960s. Above Image: Old City Hall and Public Service Bus Station Near Tennessee Avenue in Atlantic City around 1968. Before then,...