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    Aug 2, 2012, 07:11 AM
    It seems we have the ability to offend anyone
    Not content with offending the locals with his banal hero worship, Australian Treasurer and sometime deputy Prime Minister has offended the american state of New Jersey
    Offended New Jersey says Treasurer Wayne Swan's a working-class zero | News.com.au
    So swanny is doing his swan song today, giving us another reason why he should not be elected again
    Oh swanny, how I love you, how I love you, my dear old swanny
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    Aug 2, 2012, 07:34 AM
    Wow! He says NJ is where "people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life?" I guess he thinks the show "Jersey Shore" is reality. And I thought Mitt was being silly for some of his recent pronouncements.

    There was quite a movement back in the 80s for NJ to adopt "Born to Run" as its officlal state song. But I think the lyrics doomed that effort:

    Baby this town rips the bones from your back
    Its a death trap, it's a suicide rap
    We gotta get out while were young
    `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
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    Aug 3, 2012, 03:35 AM
    Before I had an opportunity to spend my working days in NJ ,I thought it was a smelly highway on the road south to Florida. I work in a technology and science corridor that rivals any in the nation and the world. NJ is a global epicenter of the pharmaceutical industry with 15 of the world's 25 largest pharmaceutical companies having major facilities there .They would not be there if there wasn't a vibrant and talented workforce to select from.

    New Jersey is a great state!
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    Aug 3, 2012, 04:55 PM
    Sounds like a workers paradise Tom, just the place swanny should be
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