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Gov. Chris Christie Takes On The Teacher Unions (VIDEO)
Capitol Confidential ^ | 6/1/2010 | MichCapCon

Posted on 06/01/2010 11:05:09 AM PDT by MichCapCon

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gets in a heated exchange about education funding.

(Excerpt) Read more at michigancapitolconfidential.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: chrischristie; christie; govchristie; teachers; unions; video

1 posted on 06/01/2010 11:05:10 AM PDT by MichCapCon
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To: MichCapCon
I watched this on redeye this morning. Unlike the teleprompter in Chief, Christie can hold his own. The teleprompter would have had her thrown out and arrested.
2 posted on 06/01/2010 11:12:04 AM PDT by BBell
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To: MichCapCon
What's needed here is what Reagan did to the flight controllers.

What would happen if Christi fired all the teachers, dissolved the union, and turned every government school into an independent charter?

What would happen if after he turned every government school in the state into a charter school, and then gave all citizens and all businesses a tax credit?

What if, at the same time, he gave every business and citizen a MASSIVE reduction in property taxes?

What if this tax credit went to the student, educational fund, or school of the citizen's or business's choice?

What would happen if at the end of ten years every school in the state was turned into a private school and parents paid for their own kid's education with charity taking care of the poor.

What if at the same time state sales taxes were reduced by two thirds?

What if he **immediately** reduced zoning and other regulations so that independent teachers could open one-room schools in their homes? ( Imagine the reduction in the cost of schooling.)

I would just love to see a Republican with the gonads to do that.

3 posted on 06/01/2010 11:25:05 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: MichCapCon; All

discussed last week without the video but check out this thread- specifically the link at post #29- evidently this woman who’s complaining she does not make $83K makes almost $87K...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2521722/posts


4 posted on 06/01/2010 11:35:07 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: MichCapCon

Christie is such a hero.


5 posted on 06/01/2010 11:38:36 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: MichCapCon

mark


6 posted on 06/01/2010 11:38:45 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: MichCapCon

she says she works for 184 days (must be nice)... and gets paid ONLY $83,000 a year (she misspoke and said per day... at least i hope she misspoke). she earns about $451 per day

the average person in America makes roughly $42,000. the average person works 50 weeks a year and gets 2 weeks vacation. total days worked, not including vacation, 250. earned income per day: $168

and this is not taking into account the benefits teachers receive, which would be better that what the average person receives... and teachers do not contribute to their benefits package.

to me, seems the lefties in education are the ‘rich’ in comparison. maybe they should be placed in a special tax bracket... because they sure don’t seem to be paying their fair share.


7 posted on 06/01/2010 11:40:28 AM PDT by sten
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To: wintertime

What would happen?.... The liberals heads would explode.


8 posted on 06/01/2010 11:46:36 AM PDT by Bullish (Been to all 57 States.... Or is it 58?)
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To: MichCapCon

Can we clone him!? We need him in all 50 states...


9 posted on 06/01/2010 11:49:00 AM PDT by thefoundersrock (did you ever think you'd live to see the days...)
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To: Bullish
Their eyeballs would melt. :-)
10 posted on 06/01/2010 12:08:06 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: Deb
Christie is such a hero.

He sure is!

11 posted on 06/01/2010 1:37:57 PM PDT by b9 (P rinciple A uthenticity L eadership I ntegrity N ational pride)
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