NEWARK — Wealthy people are moving out of New Jersey. A study by the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College was commissioned by the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
While other studies have examined migration of people with high incomes, this is the first to look at wealth.
It finds that between 1998 and 2003, there was a net gain in state wealth of $98 billion. Between 2004 and 2008, there was a net loss of $70 billion due to the affluent moving away.
My column looks beyond the obsequious and superficial headlines about First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign — and shows you which left-wing forces are driving her aggressive public policy initiative (so aggressive, as I noted the other day, that she paraded her poor daughters’ body mass index in public for the cause).
Remember: Big Government programs “for the children” are never about the children.
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SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs bill won’t add many jobs
WASHINGTON – It sounds great: A big jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed victory and please Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But there’s a problem: It won’t actually create many jobs.
Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would work only on the margins.