Posted on 01/23/2011 9:05:31 PM PST by minervx
I'm a conservative in the staunchly liberal state of New Jersey. When I was in high school, I campaigned for and voted for Chris Christie. I've written and debated extensively about the necessity of the budget cuts in education that were made. Public education is a left-wing indoctrination center, and as a result, we get a new crop each year of liberal students. I am now in college, which is even more liberal than high school.
The substantial budget cuts that in education that Chris Christie had to make are painful, but he should not be scapegoated for them. * Christie, in 2009, walked into a yearly $11 billion deficit, and the stimulus funds that the state received were already used up. He's closing that hole. * The state constitution requires a balanced budget and cannot simply just print money. * If the cuts aren't made now, as a natural consequence, larger, more devastating cuts will have to be made later. * Teachers unions are corrupt in NJ and Christie is fearlessly taking them on * The education problem is not funding. It's the fact that it is over-bureaucratic, the students arent hard-working enough, and tenure makes teachers complacent. Education needs reform rather than funding increases. * Teachers should just accept Christie's proposal of a temporary pay freeze and having to pay 1 1/2% of their salary toward their health benefits. While I have respect for teachers generally, they are by no means "underpaid". Teaching is a low-stress job that requires little relatively low educational skill, with pension, summers off, winter and spring breaks, etc. It is better than most other jobs and teachers who feel they aren't making enough money are doing it for the wrong reasons then. * The unfunded liabilities of the pension entitlement system are colossal, and need reform, which Christie is working on. Public employees will have to accept a small cut in their pension or they can allow the system to go bankrupt and they wont have any pension in a couple of decades. * NJ is the most taxed state in the country, and that resulted in billions of dollars in wealth leaving the state. Christie has vetoed every single tax increase that reached his desk and proposed a property tax cap to be imposed on local governments.
Why must liberals be so myopic and expedient.
Clearly, Chris Christie is a great governor.
The guy is definitely fun to listen to.
Why would he accept an invitation to attend a function from the Communist in Chief for a Communist in Chief?
This guy is probably good for New Jersey, but he definitely has some pretty scary flaws.
I suggest you keep a careful eye on him.
Welcome to Free Republic,
LH
Their Marxist/Communist agenda is clear, is it not?
Amen. He may be considered a "conservative" in NJ but in FREE AMERICA methinks he's just another RINO with a yen to be POTUS and impose NJ style gun control on the rest of the nation. That would outlaw all hollow point ammo just for starters....
And you learned punctuation and how to form sentences from New Jersey schools?
Kinda’ speaks for itself here, doesn’t it?
Even more frightening, Christie is the ultimate panderer when it comes to Muslim terrorists.
It is bizarre. Totally inexplicable.
Good job at being a dick.
Pretty sure what happened is that the OP’s formatting failed and it was intended to be in a bullet point type of format. But that would require some critical thinking to see. So....
I could say that they are consequences of cognitive dissonance and opportunism, respectively, but I think we know that there is a much deeper pathology at work here...
And Just as clearly. you are still campaigning for this loser.
If Rudy Giuliani or Michael Bloomberg were governor of New Jersey, they would be doing the same thing and few people would be lionizing them as a Great Governor because they could simply add and subtract.
Christie is NO conservative. I repeat, he is NO CONSERVATIVE. Unless your definition of Conservative includes Giuliani and Bloomberg. Or Christie’s political ally, elitist RINO Tom Kean Senior - another guy from Christie’s home town of Livingston.
See:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0111/emerson012011.php3?printer_friendly
Christie has an insidious connection with radical Islam as this article points out.
In keeping with this article’s premise, Christie said the Mosque at Ground Zero was a “local” issue. He also said illegal aliens were not breaking Federal Laws. Curious in light of his plans to appoint Islamic radical Mohammad as New Jersey’s first “Cadi” in the Superior Court of Passaic County. Mohammad is an attorney and 70% of his business deals with “immigration issues”. Further Christie’s buddy has connections with the kind of people in the Islamic Community who support the Mosque on Ground Zero.
Additionally, Christie is no friend of the Second Amendment.
He appointed a liberal, anti-gun Democrat Paula Dow, as his Attorney General.
Just last week, Christie was the ONLY high level “Republican” to sit in on Obama’s Lovefeast with Dictator Chu. The GOP Leadership in Congress refused to attend due to Red China’s Human Rights record.
But hey, if you have problems with radical Muslims, why should you have a problem with a Communist dictator?
Christie was ALSO a supporter of Castel in Delware, an outstanding RINO.
So, I heartily wish liberal RINOs would stop trolling for this creep as a Presidential candidate on this forum. There are REALLY very FEW of the principles this forum stands for that Mr. Christie supports.
Not really. A LOT of politicians, both Republican and Democrat will go a whoring after any big money source, and face it, Arab Oil Sheiks have LOTS of OUR petrodollars to throw around to back candidates willing to pander to their agenda of allowing the Islamization of America.
My guess is that is ONE reason the Muslims have gained usch a foothold in Europe.
We KNOW its one of the reasons Wahhabists have taken over Islamic Mosques, Madrasshes and Imams in the west.
Welcome to FR.
I’ve been on FR a while...
Was about your age when I found this site, and campaigned for Murray Sabrin during his Gubernatorial bid.
Christie is no great shakes, and he isn’t a social conservative, nor truly a fiscal conservative.
Seeing the cost of higher ed in NJ today, it’s a disturbing trend toward forcing ever greater numbers of NJ high school graduates out of the state,... my first fulltime year at a state college cost a total of 8800 excluding books, not that long ago.
Look into the Young Republicans Club at your Uni,
http://www.crnc.org/site/c.npIUKWOrFkG/b.5791879/k.B8E5/Find.htm
or the Libertarian Caucus,
http://www.lp.org/campus-organizations#state-New Jersey
or Young America’s Foundations,
http://www.yaf.org/CampusProjects.aspx
or check out the NYC Young Republicans if you are in the north of the state, they know how to party...
Some NJ conservative/libertarian blogs you might enjoy:
http://www.ajjan.com/
http://njrereport.com/
http://blog.tomevslin.com/
and of course Jared Kushner’s politickernj.com website, because he needs your ad-clicks reveneues to support his 600 million dollar loss at 666 Fifth Ave...
and check out this blog, it’s abandoned, but it has the best NJ related blogroll on the net:
http://njfiscalfolly.blogspot.com/
All politicians in NJ are dirty, Christie only looks clean because he was the inquisitor, no doubt there are skeletons in that closet.
regards,
IMHO, some things are unforgivable.
ML/NJ
To all the replies, appointments are quick and impersonal. Of dozens of state appointments, it would be a hyperbole to say that appointing 1 muslim makes Christie a radical muslim. This does not change my view of him on the whole.
It would be hard to name a governor with a better fiscal record.
Look, I'm willing to take your assertions at face value, but comparing Bloomberg to Christie is nonsensical.
Bloomberg would most certainly not be facing down the unions and attempting to balance the budget without tax increases. Don't let your apparent dislike of Christie blind you to his good points.
By the way, this is not an endorsement of Christie for national office; just a reminder not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Is he working hard for your right to carry?
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