The Day of Reckoning

Sam Tyler | March 16, 2010


Well Save Jerseyans, the day is here. At 12:59pm Chris Christie will begin his descent into political hell, also known as the New Jersey budget process. We had a nice little glimpse of the out-of-touch ideology and rhetoric that the Democrats will show for, oh the next 4 years, in February when Chris Christie pretty much tipped the Golden Calf of liberalism.

This budget is reality, everyone. Simply put, we've taxed people out of the state and now we face a shortfall of tax REVENUE that means that we have to cut spending and services. This hurts everyone.

This is no different than home economics though - we've maxed out our credit cards, we've taken a pay cut and we have to stop expecting 3 nights of dinners at a fancy restaurant and front row seats at Yankees or Mets games.

The days of spend now, pay later are over and Democrats still seem to think that taxation is our only and best option.

Well if we continue increasing taxes businesses and families will move - that's tax revenue that is literally LEAVING. That is the exact reason we have an 11 BILLION shortfall.

We can no longer subsidize needles for druggies, homes for the homeless, cars for politicans, lobster dinners for principals, welfare for the lazy and waste money on administrators and political patronages. We have literally taxed ourselves into a position where people will have to lose their jobs - there is no alternative.

Does it hurt? Yes. Was it avoidable? Yes. Can we avoid it now? Probably not.

Its time for the unions to realize that New Jerseyeans abhor them - the privileges and power that they have held on to for years is gone. They can whine and clamor about the children but when families are thinking about how they are going to afford their own houses giving more money to teachers to waste rings hollow.

The unions and Democrats are so out of touch that they believe that New Jerseyeans will stay here and continue to pay out the nose for corruption and pork. New Jerseyeans won't and they elected a Governor who frankly is, yes, a bully. Christie won't punt or wimper out because he doesn't care about his political future. He's results oriented and that means his job is to try to fix the state no matter the political costs.

Does he care about education? Absolutely. Does he care about saving union jobs and spending money mindlessly? Nope.

Chris Christie is going to do the job we hired him to do. We who are about to pay, salute him.


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  • Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:21 AM J. Joseph Rivera wrote:
    The NJEA is fighting this tooth and nail because they know they're going to bear the brunt of these cuts. The public education system in New Jersey is completely corrupt and a hot bed for nepotism, cronyism and patronage and has played a central role in bleeding the state dry. I couldn't believe the stories I would hear on my old blog from Paterson educators and administrators and how they had to hide their identities because they feared retaliation.

    There are no words to describe how huge it is that Gov. Christie has somebody like Bret Schundler in his corner.
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  • Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:40 PM BurlCoCon wrote:
    Whoa, whoa, whoa...Mets or Yankees? I don't think so...Phillies baby!!!!!
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