Camden, two other New Jersey towns, among nine U.S. cities going broke

This is what the people of NJ get after paying all those high taxes? Wow!!

There are ,give or take a few.300.000,000 people in this country.You mean we can not stop this Bull bull bull.

North Bergen Mayor congress man and board of education member Sacco....triple dipping!!!!! making close to $500k a year!!!! biggest crook!!!!!!

Harrison, Salem and Camden of NJ have managed to waste their funds through nepotism, fraud, no-bid contracts and plain old simple corruption. Camden was so bad it had to be taken over by the state as if it were an abandoned child. These corrupt and inept politicians should all go to jail!

more and more and more and more fuel to the fire to get illegals.

stop visas. employ only our people. stop the visa program cold

mean time let the grievences pile up.

We aint going no where. watching the globalists and there broken system fall to pieces. red bull was another globalist fantasy of having a soccer league to attract internaitonal teams.

You globalists better start abandoning your crap. gig is up its a broken system.

99 percent want full restoration of sovriegnty and domestic economy and culture.

Camden and Harrison are very run down and dilapidated cities (I have never been to Salem). Both have suffered from the decline of industry and their status as ports for either shipping (Camden) or rail (Harrison). Being relatively grungy cities, they do not attract much gentrification and urban renewal is costly since their tax bases are overwhelmingly poor and/or are businesses that were given tax breaks to move in.

New Jersey has had a problem this way for a long time. The mantra for decades was "growth". State politicians of either party were desperate to draw in more businesses and people, but in the end the tax incentives never fueled the necessary revenue growth to cover the expenses of the enlarged population. More people bring in more taxes, but they also cost more in services.

This is nowhere more evident in places like Camden, which has an unbelievable crime rate, but cannot afford to maintain even the police force that they have, much less increase it.

Meanwhile, the wealthier suburbs are in no better shape. The more affluent population is less prone to crime, but also demands more in terms of municipal services. The township I grew up in was Republican-controlled but had runaway spending because the residents expected only the best schools, athletic programs and community services. Being rich, they did not want anything less than the best and that drove property taxes ever higher.

The towns, cities, counties, states that are at the brink... they are all safe havens for the illegals. Just send them back home and there will be lotza savings as opposed to spendings. No dime is spent on betterment of Amercians but to butter the local illegal population for the vote bank. Somehow, America is bring down its own fate...

People... choose the right representatives... not because he/she is from your race or ethnic group.

I know a few people in Camden some lived beyond their means but to this day never understand WHY they moved there in the late eighties when things were bad. A friend went there to visited and told me she hated it, was so depressing and never going back. It's time the people of those towns find their backbones, clean up dodge town, kick the crooks politicians out and find some who actually give a #$%$ to help their community. If this how people behaved by not doing nothing to help themselves, families, friends, communities than I'm afraid it will become contagious till every towns end up same way. We already have most of the country owned by other countries because we're broke, jobs been outsourced for years since the early 2000's, spending beyond our means for example.....buying a house that is a million dollar while having an income of less than $100,000.00 with four mouths to feed, cars/gas, utility bills, clothes, insurances, childcare/etc. Time that those people stop living beyond their means, stop hoarding 2 dozen credit cards. I have seen some people whipping out 20 to 30 credit cards in stores. The American Dream is supposed to be about living comfortable while being financial secured not exactly rich. Now it's more like a nightmare where everything around is going for broke accept the those gated communities where the rich/wealthy lived in.

Camden doesn't have any money? No wayyyyy! This is groundbreaking news!

Harrison is just a pawn in Newark's revival. Build a stadium in a town which is basically Newark, and then leave that town to foot the bill, while you cash in. If anything Mayor Booker in Newark should look into helping Harrison develop the area around Red Bull Arena. There was supposed to be a retail and entertainment district put there as well. Not only is the area there perfect for that sort of thing, but it would benefit both Newark and Harrison. If Newark can't kick in the dough, then the state should. NJ should make sure that its largest city and the surrounding area is propped up as well as possible. There are some good things going on around there. Also, Red Bull Arena is an AWESOME place, and it would be a shame to see the growth stagnate.

it funny how all the cities are in the east coast,highest taxes,infested with tolled roads,but they always have money problems

Nothing can fix Camden, or Harrison, or Paterson, or any other crime-riddled city. This is a fact, despite spending zillions of dollars on "the poor" since The Great Society daze. They say money cures everything, but apparently not in these cases. Dare I ask the question: why? What is wrong with this picture? Could it be that handouts breed dependency?

So they are going to have a new soccer stadium but few police officers and firemen?! hahaha ha... WOW, How ridiculous. Sounds like a great, safe town to move to- lets hurry!

giving away free stuff to welfare #$%$ people who would rather suckle on the government teat, illegals, and general liberal share the wealth idiots, bailing out companies who don't deserve it. there is why we are broke. more taxes would only lead to more wasting.

Camden should be given to China as a "gift" for holding a trillion dollar US debt.Or declare it as a federal district, it should not be part of hardworking Jersey.

I've seen the lofts on the Camden waterfront. Are they now at a huge discount?

This is bad news for NJ communities like mine which have more than their share of program addicted families moving out of cities like Camden. Thanks to illustrious NJ State legislators who concocted a scheme years ago to empty urban areas of the criminal element, the suburbs are now overwhelmed by skyrocketing gang, drug and crime activity local police cannot handle. The only solution to this problem is a temporary declaration of marshal law and suspension of civil rights for those involved in criminal activity. Otherwise, the ship will sink.

One of the bad choices of cities with severe financial problems is to spend less on education. This ensures students of getting inferior educations which will hamper them in later life and probably increase teh crime rate.

We might consider havingfunding and directionof educatoin coming from Washington.

W.

I thought the Camden Acquarium and the performing arts center would revive Camden!

Spending, spending, spending, and they wonder why they're broke.