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Ocean City’s “Night in Venice”: OK To Be Proud of “White” America.
Above Images: July 26, 2025 Night In Venice, Ocean City, NJ. 17th Street Lagoon. Photo on Right By Craig Schenk and Published In Ocean City Sentinel, ocnjsentinel.com
Last Saturday’s Night In Venice in Ocean City was a true celebration of the American way of life. Thousands of people with bayfront homes hosting parties for friends and families. Hundreds of people swimming and floating in the lagoons. Healthy, fit, attractive people. Friendly, courteous people enjoying themselves. Everybody contributing. Everybody helping to decorate the houses, bringing their share of the food and beverages. Everybody feeling safe. This is the America we Boomers grew up with. Nothing to be ashamed of.
During your monologue, you quoted a typical “woke” critic complaining that America was “white” in the past. We should not be ashamed of that traditional America. That so-called “white” America ended slavery and created a nation that was so good that the rest of the world admired us, or was jealous of us. And half wanted to live here.
Those white Americans invited people from all over the world to enjoy our American dream. And they never asked much of immigrants. We just said, embrace our Judeo-Christian values. Just embrace our ideas of unalienable rights for each individual, government with the consent of the governed, our Constitution that defines and limits the powers of government. Do that and we can all live the American Dream together.
And the original message of our Statue of Liberty was that the rest of the world did not have to come to America to live the American Dream.
Any nation can achieve the American Dream anywhere by adopting those American values, traditions, and constitutional government. Poland and Estonia used to be poor, miserable Communist countries. Now they are among the wealthiest in the world. They are the same countries, except the embraced the same values, traditions, and government that once made America great. Meanwhile, Venezuela used to be one of the richest countries in the world. Then it voted for socialism and became poor and miserable.
I am glad to see that Americans are finally getting over our obsession with “Diversity”. America was never perfect. We never said it was. But those white Americans in the past created a wonderful country, and they created a culture and system of government that kept fixing problems, and recognizing and correcting injustice to make it better.
I am not at all embarrassed by the ethnic make-up of “Night in Venice” in Ocean City. It was a wonderful event and the people who put it together should not be embarrassed to say so.
I think the rest of America is starting to feel the same way. I think that is why the “woke” left was so upset with that American Eagle Jeans commercial with Sydney Sweeney. Using healthy, fit and attractive models to sell products again should not be “controversial.”
NJ “Property Tax Relief” Is Vote-Buying “Generational Theft”. Millennials and Gen Z Have Another Reason To Hate “Boomers”:
Many seniors have these forms sitting by their kitchen tables. They are not due until October 31, three months from now. But they are complicated. You should do it now. I’m a lawyer and it took me an hour. You need your 2024 and 2023 NJ state income tax returns and Social Security 1099a, your 2023 and 2024 real estate tax bills or 2024 and 2025 tax assessment statement. You have to calculate your eligibility income for both years using a confusing Worksheet A and Worksheet B. Click Here For Link To NJ Division of Taxation:
NJ Division of Taxation – Property Tax Relief ProgramsThese programs dish out serious money to people who fill out these forms. The Anchor payment can be as high as $1,500. There’s a roughly $200-$1,300 property tax freeze payment. There’s another Stay NJ benefit for half your real estate taxes up to a maximum of $6,500. I don’t know the details, but it pays to fill out and send in these forms.
None of these things do anything to cut real estate taxes. They do nothing to control the out-of-control spending that makes New Jersey property taxes so high. They don’t cut the cost of too many high-paid political employees in our schools and local and county government. They high costs of electricity, heating, illegal immigrant give-aways, diversity hiring programs, environmental rules, crazy laws and restrictions that put almost every business and property owner in violation of something, and high paid inspectors to enforce them.
All that spending is still out-of control, and real estate taxes still go up. However, the so-called property tax relief programs are designed to bribe Boomer homeowners, so they don’t care. Senior citizen property owners vote in larger numbers than any other voting group. They want seniors to keep voting for politicians who borrow and spend more.
Who is paying for these giveaways? Higher taxes for everyone else–mostly young millennials and Gen Z “Zoomers”. This is pure “generational theft.” Our Boomer generation are living in houses we bought for a fraction of what we sell them to young people today. The rule of thumb was to pay less than 25% of our income for housing. We paid almost nothing for health care– my dad was a dentist who charged $2 for a filling right up to the 1970s. Almost everyone could afford routine doctor visits including house calls, and there was “major medical” Blue Cross and Blue Shield if you needed surgery or went to the hospital. We paid for a year of college with a summer of work. There was no need for student loans.
And these kids watch us use our voting power to get this so-called property tax relief on top of this. Meanwhile, they struggle with mortgage sized student loans, houses that cost a fortune and ridiculous health care premiums that force them to pay for seniors and illegal immigrants.
So we now have a bunch of young people who are depressed and angry. They’re not getting married. They’s not having kids. They’re not buying houses. Many are living at home with mom and dad smoking dope and playing video games. And of course they vote for socialists because they want to burn everything down.
And actually, these property tax relief checks aren’t even helping seniors all that much. Businesses pay the high real estate taxes and they don’t get any property tax relief. So they raise prices. And so a lot of our property tax relief money ends up paying for higher prices we pay ot food stores, doctors, restaurants and retail shops.
And since a lot of people can’t afford prices at these retail shops, people are buying more stuff online. So shops are closing, whole malls are closing, and when they fail, they stop paying property taxes. So property taxes for everyone else go up even more!
Opposition to “Tyranny” of Taxation & Government Entitlement:
The City Council in Ocean City’s just voted to put a 3% tax on online rentals programs like AirB&B and Bookings dot com. This is a classic example of what we call tyranny in democracy. Voters get free stuff from the government by supporting politicians who pay for it by taxing somebody else. America was created with the idea of government by consent, not this. Government consent is where you don’t demand stuff from the government unless you are willing to pay for it.
the Ten Commandments say, “You shall not steal”. Voting for politicians to take stuff from somebody else and give it to you is stealing just as much as snatching a purse or reaching into someone else’s pocket and grabbing his wallet.
We Now Completely Depend On Federal Reserve To Set Interest Rates. Governor Whitman Killed Private Mortgages In New Jersey.
President Trump is claiming that Jerome Powell should boost the economy by cutting interest rates. This reminds me of what happened in the early 1980s under President Reagan almost 40 years ago. The Federal Reserve had very high interest rates back then. However, it didn’t matter to a lot of people because we had a lot of private lending. Instead of borrowing money from a bank, ordinary people would loan money out of their savings.
So if someone wanted to buy a house where mortgage rate were 15%, they would talk to someone who had saving in the bank getting 8%. So they would make a deal and hire a lawyer like me to write up the papers. Typically, the person with money in the bank would give a private mortgage for 10%. He’d get more money than getting 8% interest from the bank. The person borrowing money would be paying a rate that was one third lower than the bank.
That is how the economy boomed, even though the Federal Reserve had high interest rates. All that came to an end in the 1990s. That was when Republican Governor Christy Todd Whitman worked with Democrats to protect borrowers who didn’t pay back their loans. This included moratoriums on foreclosures. When they did that, lawyers like me advised clients not to give private loans. The risk was too great. If the borrow didn’t pay, the lender would never get all of his money.
So instead or being compassionate, Whitman and the Democrats were cruel. They drove private lenders out of the market. Now if you need a loan, you have to go to a big corporate bank with political connections. That bank is controlled by the Federal Reserve. And that bank can’t lose money. If its loans don’t get repaid because all of these “compassionate” lending laws, banks get bailed out by the government. Nobody bails out small mom and pop private investors.
By the way, New Jersey politicians did the same thing to landlords. Besides high taxes, state government made all these laws and regulations that make it almost impossible to get rid of bad tenants. So a lot of small investors with one or two apartments or an investment house got out of the landlord business. So now we have more and more big corporations with political connections renting out houses and apartments. They don’t care if they lose money from bad tenants because they qualify for all sorts of handouts from the government. But there aren’t enough of them so now we have very high-priced apartments and houses and a big housing shortage.
There are unintended consequences when government tries to be “compassionate”. It’s just like baseball or any sport. If a batter gets three strikes, he’s out. We don’t want the umpire giving him another three chances to hit the ball because he needs to win the game and keep his job so he can help his sick grandmother. You need rules in baseball… otherwise, there’s no benefit to people making good plays. No consequences for making bad ones. Government works the same way.
“Beach Replenishment” Is A Perfect Example of How Vilfredo Pareto’s “Political Economy” Ruins Democracies With Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
In 1906, Vilfredo Pareto explained that democracies are doomed to fail because people who steal from government are richly rewarded. However, people who try to keep the government honest get nothing but aggravation.”
Click Here For Link To Previous Post: In 1906, Vilfredo Pareto Explained How “Political Economy” Corrupts Democracy. – Liberty and Prosperity
Democracy lasted longer in America because Ben Franklin, George Washington and the other Founding Fathers knew that no government could be honest for long periods of time. That is why they drafted a Constitution to define and limit the power of government. America was great because we followed that Constitution until the 1930s. We had corruption, but government wasn’t that big or expensive, so few people were hurt. We haven’t followed the Constitution to define and limit government since the 1930s. Today, everybody expects the government to give them everything they want and fix every problem they have. Federal, state and local government today consume 40% of all income in America today. In 1907, government consumed only 7% of the nation’s income.
Beach Replenishment as a “Nuts” and “Unconstitutional” Mayors of towns along the Jersey shore are lobbying Congressman Van Drew to restore federal funding for “Beach Replenishment”. That want to spend $100 million each year to move sand from one place to another. This is ridiculous because storms just wash the sand away. Some beaches wash away. Others get bigger. Sometimes who islands wash away, and new islands appear somewhere else. For years, people build new homes when a house washed away. They moved homes closer to the water when the beaches got bigger.
Constitutional Violation: He claims it is “blatantly unconstitutional,” questioning the “national purpose” of forcing someone in a Philadelphia row home to “pay to protect a $2 million beach house in Longport” (referencing Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution).
The claim that we are “protecting valuable beaches” is one of the dumbest things I heard. If a $2 million beach house with an ocean view washes away, there will still be a beach! The only difference is that the next house down will have the ocean front view.
Lobbying and “Multiplication” of Waste (The “Van Drew Math”): He highlights the true cost of such projects through the political process: for Congressman Van Drew to secure $100 million for shore beach work, he needs 218 votes in the House of Representatives, a majority of 235. He needs 51 votes in the U.S. Senate. To be safe, he needs the support of at least 300 votes in Congress. To get these votes, he must support $100 million projects for each of them in their districts. Do the math. If you pay for 300 other $100 million projects, you are spending $30 billion. If we do that, we completely undermine efforts to get government spending under control.
Fill out those “Property Tax Relief” Forms. But Understand the Cost!
While critical of the property tax relief program, Grossman advises seniors to fill out the confusing forms to receive the benefits, acknowledging that “as long as they’re giving out the free money, I mean, everybody who has that form sitting on their kitchen table, they ought to fill it out.” However, he urges Boomers to consider “the damage that it’s causing the country and especially the young people.”
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