Bergen County has one of the last remaining blue laws in the United States that covers virtually all selling. The irony is that as one of the largest and most popular commercial shopping cores of the New York metropolitan area it is almost completely closed on Sunday (grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations, and restaurants are among the few businesses allowed to operate).
Repeated attempts to lift the law have failed as voters either, see keeping the law on the books as a protest against the trend of increased hours and days of commercial activity in American society, or simply enjoy the sharply reduced traffic on major roads and highways on Sunday that is normally seen the other days of the week.
Governor Christie is presently seeking to repeal Bergen County's Blue laws.
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Quiet is nice. While they were based in religion, long ago, Sunday is the most common day of the week that people are off work. So they probably are not a church and state thing.
ReplyDeleteWhat they are though is a bad message in a global competitive world. America is becoming a second rate nation and for a county to say every has to sit on their fat ass for a day and can't work is a bad precedent. It's a selfish law where we put our desire for peace and quiet above the hard work ethic that made this nation great so long ago. Nobody should be denied a right to work.