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All fat boy has done so far is run his mouth. The results don’t match his overblown rhetoric.

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Foremost, Christie has claimed to be a budget cutter, “First, it continues to reduce government spending – below last year’s level in absolute dollar terms, for the second year in a row.”

What I see is a Budget Increase. From Page 95, the State of NJ expended $28.9 Billion. The 2012 budget is projected at $29.4 Billion, and increase of $500 Million. I use the “expended” figure because Governor Christie tells us to, because he is using ‘zero-based budgeting’ for the first time.

Secondly, last year Governor Christie announced he performed the miraculous task of balancing the budget he was given by the math-poor Corzine which hid a $10Billion Corzine gap. He balanced this, not with spending cuts, but by failing to pay the state pension debt. The debt didn’t go away, we now own roughly $100 Billion in pension liability, except we have less and less in the cookie jar to pay future expenses.

Christie, Where’s the Beef?