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While D.C. Burns, NJ Tries to Rise from Its Ashes
Vocal Minority ^ | 3/23/10 | EricTheRed

Posted on 03/23/2010 4:19:25 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority

I suppose every cloud has a silver lining. While the President and Congress put in motion their agenda to bankrupt the nation and put every human living within our borders dependent on the state, NJ Republican governor Chris Christie signed a bunch of bills yesterday in Trenton, making good on his promise to reform the Garden State’s broken pension system.

For those of you not familiar with NJ politics, the state has been reeling in billions of debt. For years public employees - particularly school teachers, administrators, and superintendents - have gotten union-guaranteed fully paid health care benefits and pensions. Public officials like mayors and even emergency personnel have been able to turn decades of unused sick days into six-figure payouts at retirement, as well as generous pensions. Not to mention that the Garden State has had "double dipping" problems - people holding two government jobs (e.g., mayor and school administrator) and collecting two salaries, two benefit plans, and two pensions.

No governor has had the balls to do anything about this unsustainable situation - until Christie came into office.

Kevin McArdle at NJ 101.5 has the story. There’s video available at the link:

Posted: Tuesday, 23 March 2010 5:01AM
CHRISTIE SIGNS PENSIONS AND HEALTH BENEFITS REFORMS INTO LAW (WITH VIDEO)
Kevin McArdle Reporting

Governor Chris Christie has signed his first bills into law. Last night, Christie signed the three measures designed to save taxpayers billions by making pensions and health benefits for government workers less generous.

“The passage of today’s set of bills is a solid start to reforming our pension system and I applaud the Senate and Assembly Leadership and the entire bipartisan efforts of the legislature for taking this necessary first step,” says Christie. “It is clear that our state can no longer

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: education; newjersey

1 posted on 03/23/2010 4:19:25 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
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To: EricTheRed_VocalMinority

You know, I’m thinking this country is going down... intentionally (thank you Obama).

Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. We can regroup into our individual states and start over with two countries, as was the idea of the civil war.

We have gotten too big... too many people coming in that don’t belong here. Just sayin... maybe a fresh start??? And it wouldn’t be easy. But the original intent was STATES’ RIGHTS and you’ve got to admit, we’ve certainly lost that.


2 posted on 03/23/2010 4:26:38 AM PDT by Reagan69 (The only thing SHOVEL-READY since BO's stimulus has been MICHAEL JACKSON (tammy bruce))
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