New Jersey put a rethug in the governors house last year. I was willing to give Christie a chance like most here, but just like when we elect a republican president, we eventually regret our decision to "give the other guys a chance". It's the same old song and dance, republicans can't govern and dems have to come in and clean up after them. Corzine was on the right track but the people were to impatient, they didn't want to give him the 4 more years he needed. So we are back to the same old rethug shenanigans in NJ. This my friends is what will happen all over this country if you don't give the dems a fighting chance. If you turn your back on the democrats when they are just beginning to make the changes and not give them the time they need, then it will be back to square one.
This was in my email today, read it and see for yourselves what I have to look forward to for the next 4 years. Maybe the liberals can do what the teabaggers are trying to do ousting Menendez"because they don't like how he votes". We could call for impeachment of our Gov. before he breaks the backs of the middle class in NJ for the sake of the rich. Same old, same old tired rethug way of governing....
With his poll numbers dropping and editorial pages across the state calling him out on his backward priorities, Governor Christie's administration is doing everything it can to distract New Jersey voters from the middle class crunching cuts and property tax increases he has proposed. No one is disputing that we are in a tough budget situation and action is needed. But the Governor continually tells us his budget imposes shared sacrifice on everyone in New Jersey, yet approximately 42,000 people who make over $400,000 will pay thousands of dollars less in taxes than they did last year. The rest of us are left with crippling property tax increases as a result of the cuts to our local schools and towns. As many as 134,000 low income seniors will have to pay an additional $310 for their prescription drug plans in addition to a doubling of their co-pay.
After a week of legislative hearings where many of these budget fallacies were exposed Christie and his treasurer had a new talking point, that Democrats were trying to make a political issue out of the tax increase. If Chris Christie thinks priorities like protecting poor and disabled seniors, supporting families struggling to pay their property taxes and keeping our class sizes at rational levels is a political issue he couldn't be more wrong.
To make matters worse, at the same time he is taking money out of our pockets, he wants to send tens of millions of dollars back to Washington by refusing federal matching funds for after-school programs, homeland security and library funding amongst others.
All across South Jersey towns are laying off township workers, there are HUGE cuts in the budgets because of HUGE cuts in funding from the state, especially for schools. Which means property taxes go up to make up the difference. When I moved here 20 yrs ago my property taxes were 1,600, they are now 4,000 and expected to rise again. The average for our state is around 7,000. It's insane! I need to move to Delaware....
