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Why New Jersey Got Billions Less Than New York in FEMA Disaster Aid After Sandy

2018In the two-and-a-half years since Superstorm Sandy, while the Garden State has struggled to recover, many people have puzzled over the question of why New Jersey has received substantially less federal aid than New York, even though both states suffered roughly the same amount of damage — close to $37 billion. Much of the focus has…

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Posted: July 9th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Chris Christie, Christie Administration, Community Development Block Grant, Department of Community Affairs, EPA, FEMA, Hurricane Sandy, Monmouth County News, Superstorm Sandy | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

One Comment on “Why New Jersey Got Billions Less Than New York in FEMA Disaster Aid After Sandy”

  1. Joe Sinagra said at 8:55 pm on July 9th, 2015:

    For every $1 paid to the Internal Revenue Service, NJ received in return 68 cents in a mere federal pittance, ranking the state 48th in the nation. New Jersey residents and businesses paid nearly $37 billion more in federal taxes than the government sent back to the state in 2013.

    It is another share the wealth scam. Because residents of this state are deemed wealthier then say Mississippi residents, the citizens of the Garden State pay more to account for those residents that are considered poverty stricken. The state of Mississippi receives $4.89 in federal spending for every $1 it paid in taxes. I would think the less NJ gets back, the higher taxes rise, thereby forcing more of its own residents to live below the poverty level.

    According to the 2010 census New Jersey’s population was 8,791,894 with Mississippi’s population at 2,967,297.

    Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, said the state does not have the kind of heavy military presence that attracts federal dollars. “So unless our state gets poor, or there’s going to be an unprecedented military buildup in the next several years, we’re not going to be able to fundamentally change this dynamic.”

    Perhaps if Jon Corzine, Rush Holt, and Frank Pallone worked harder to save Fort Monmouth we may have qualified for more.

    Since Super storm Sandy, many people are perplexed over why New Jersey received significantly less in federal aid than New York, even though both states suffered roughly the same amount of damage . . . around $37 billion. New Jersey received just $1.7 billion in FEMA public assistance, compared with $7.7 billion New York received.

    Unless the people of this state start demanding their representatives work to represent them, or start voting them out they will continue to have a government that is not run by the people, but a government that runs the people.

    Government representatives feel the office they hold is their job, because the citizens who are getting short changed allow it to happen.

    As long as the parties continue to create divisiveness among its constituency, those constituents on both sides of the aisle will suffer while arguing amid the chaos.

    From the County level all the way up to the Federal level it needs to stop being about the party, but about those elected with the best qualifications and intentions to represent the will of the people.