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The Associated Press reports:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie starting taking victory laps Friday, touting a landmark employee benefits deal that requires public workers to contribute significantly more for pension and health benefits, bringing them in line with private sector workers.
In interviews with major media outlets and on talk shows, Christie suggested politicians in Washington could learn a thing or two from New Jersey.
“I am going to guarantee you when it’s finished (it) will become a national model and will be hailed across the country as an example of bipartisanship that the president and the Congress can only aspire to,” Christie said of the legislation.
“It’s a monumental accomplishment, it really is. Very few states have done anything this sweeping in one piece of legislation,” Christie told the AP, calling underfunded pension and health care obligations “the core problems of government spending in the country.”
“Christie: Washington Should Learn from NJ”
how to abuse taxpayers by taking publicly funded helicopters to a child’s baseball game to a publicly funded limo to go 100 yards … ? that Christie?
What a blowhard, for one NJ pension funds have been grossly underfunded for years and the recepients of these pension funds are starting to realize they won’t get what they were promised in any event so giving back something they were never going to get is nothing.
He really is an obnoxious pig, I really, really regret hoping he would win. Corzine was a disaster now we have this jackass.
“how to abuse taxpayers by taking publicly funded helicopters to a child’s baseball game to a publicly funded limo to go 100 yards … ? that Christie?”
Compounded by the fact that he is so fat, the chopper probably burned through more fuel than normal for that type of flight. As did the limo.
And for the record, the cast of Jersey Shore is from New Jersey. Nuff said.
And I know by heart, without cheating the words to every single Bruce Springsteen song.
Unfortunately, he now hates me.
If the Huckster Huckabee and Drugster Limbaugh can do it, so can Christie.
The root cause of NJ’s legendarily high property taxes is we have too many towns and school districts. NJ has 566 municipalities, 591 school districts with schools, and 13 districts without schools. We have a town with a busy airport (Teterboro) that has extremely low property taxes for it’s 39 residents and several hundred businesses. Corzine tried to introduce legislation to force all towns to merge into entities not smaller than 20,000 which was dead in a week. Of course, forcing towns to merge isn’t a good scapegoat, whereas calling teachers greedy is. Christie keeps talking about shared sacrifice. His staff is paid several hundred thousand more than Corzine’s above and beyond Christie’s salary increase. He calls teachers greedy even though their average salary is less than a quarter of his. Everyone’s property taxes have gone up since he took office which was his whole rationale for election.