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Chris Christie: Send aid now; cut later
AP via POLITICO ^ | August 31, 2011

Posted on 08/31/2011 4:22:20 PM PDT by maggief

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has reacted angrily to a fight brewing in Washington over whether Hurricane Irene disaster aid may need to be offset by federal spending cuts.

The Republican governor told a news conference Wednesday in the flood-ravaged town of Lincoln Park he doesn’t want to hear that offsetting budget cuts have to come before aid is distributed. He says no such discussion was held when help went to Joplin, Mo., where a deadly May tornado damaged 7,500 homes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: chrischristie; christie; christiedowngrade; federalaid; irene; rinochristie

1 posted on 08/31/2011 4:22:22 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Obama is going to visit New Jersey on Sunday , takes time to set up photo op and write the checks


2 posted on 08/31/2011 4:24:58 PM PDT by molson209
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To: maggief

A-Ha !

The RINO comes fully out of the closet !?

” FREE MONEY !!?? Where, where !? Gimme gimme gimme !”


3 posted on 08/31/2011 4:28:08 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: maggief
Why the country will crash. Always later, always somebody else, but not now, not me. Christie is good at giving “no’s” but not receiving them. Coulter needs to find a new darling.
4 posted on 08/31/2011 4:29:04 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: maggief

I hope our side is not stupid enough to try to ‘offset’ this. Just gives our political enemies too much ammo. Natural disasters should be handled offline. If we can do it with Iraq we can do it here.


5 posted on 08/31/2011 4:29:35 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: LRoggy

why do we have to give money

to Christie the moocher

PAY FOR IT.

Christie cry baby. Booh hoo. Why aren’t there NJ state emergency funds?

why isn’t there state insurance premiums.

WHy does the federal taxpayer have to PAY? it’s YOUR problem


6 posted on 08/31/2011 4:33:39 PM PDT by preamble
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To: maggief

Chris, If Obozo’s minions jerk you around on “Federal Money,” here’s an idea that would probably produce all the dough you need to cover the clean-up:
STOP SENDING ALL THOSE FEDERAL WITHHOLDINGS TO THE IRS FOR A FEW MONTHS. Keep that “money” in NJ.

I’d also activate the militia and NJ National Guard as Obozo will NOT be pleased.


7 posted on 08/31/2011 4:35:04 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
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To: maggief

Wait, aren’t there other countries that are going to send us food and aide? Oh, never mind.


8 posted on 08/31/2011 4:35:58 PM PDT by bgill (just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
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To: maggief

Chris, If Obozo’s minions jerk you around on “Federal Money,” here’s an idea that would probably produce all the dough you need to cover the clean-up:
STOP SENDING ALL THOSE FEDERAL WITHHOLDINGS TO THE IRS FOR A FEW MONTHS. Keep that “money” in NJ.

I’d also activate the militia and NJ National Guard as Obozo will NOT be pleased.


9 posted on 08/31/2011 4:38:00 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
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To: preamble

Please provide me the link to your FR post ten years ago when you told NYers to clean up the Trade Center by themselves. Then provide me the link to your FR post in 2003 when you criticized the Bush Admin for putting the Iraq War off budget.

Natural disasters should not be politicized. Our enemies on the left did that with Katrina. We DON’T LOWER OURSELVES to their level.


10 posted on 08/31/2011 4:39:51 PM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: maggief

I don’t recall any Federal funds being wired to Chicago after the fire. Look what a great, trouble free metropolis it has grown into./sarc


11 posted on 08/31/2011 4:42:08 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: maggief

I am with Mark Levin - Christie is a jerk.


12 posted on 08/31/2011 4:43:16 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: LRoggy

+1


13 posted on 08/31/2011 5:05:57 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Very saddening.............

This plus appointing Muzzie judges to the bench.


14 posted on 08/31/2011 5:21:18 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint /Palin, DeMint/Bachmann, DeMint/Cain, DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!!!)
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To: molson209

I have little trouble with Federal dollars being spent (only because we are forced to send the FEDS money) in a fair manner to help with infrastructure but I do not believe in tax payer money to pay for those who by their own free will did nor pay buy insurance for their own private property. Otherwise, why not use Federal money to pay everytime someones home burns down and they had no insurance??????? I pay a heck of alot in insurance yearly ( Home, car, disability, health, umbrella, malpractice, etc just to name a few) Thousands of dollars a year.


15 posted on 08/31/2011 5:35:32 PM PDT by therut
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To: preamble

AMEN!!!!!!


16 posted on 08/31/2011 5:37:26 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: All; maggief
Christie may have a point. I looked up New Jersey's federal taxes paid vs. federal spending received at the Tax Foundation.

For all 5 of the most recent 5 years of data, New Jersey is DEAD LAST with only 60 cents of federal spending per dollar paid in federal taxes.

They appear to be the top donor state as NJ ranked 48th, 49th or 50th (17 times!) every year since 1981.

17 posted on 08/31/2011 9:27:14 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
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To: Dick Bachert
STOP SENDING ALL THOSE FEDERAL WITHHOLDINGS TO THE IRS FOR A FEW MONTHS.

That's not a bad idea.

New Jersey is dead last, averaging only 61 cents returned for every dollar in federal taxes paid in the most recent 5 years of data.

That trend goes back 30 years.

18 posted on 08/31/2011 9:36:31 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
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To: newzjunkey

If you think Christie would ever do this you are fooling yourself. He has jumped the shark big time.


19 posted on 09/01/2011 7:07:09 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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