Why did Chris Christie want to be governor of New Jersey?? The wingnuts around the country love him but WHY? This one man, this buffoon, is gonna kill a project that has been in the works for 20 years. This tunnel project, linking NYC and NJ under the Hudson River, would have provided 6,000 immediate construction jobs and as many as 40,000 jobs after completion! This is not small potato's people! Christie cares about NJ?? I don't get that feeling at all do you? Think about it, the largest public transit project in the nation, rejected by this asshole governor of NJ!
The long-planned project, Access to the Region's Core, was projected to cost 8.7 billion with the federal government and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey each paying $3 billion, and New Jersey paying $2.7 billion plus any overruns.
Recent federal estimates place the total cost between $9.8 billion and $12.7 billion. On Oct. 7, Christie said he would kill the project but then agreed to mull over the matter for two weeks after U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood flew to Trenton for a meeting.
Federal officials then laid out a number of possibilities, such as low-cost, long-term federal financing, and alternate plans that eliminated portions of the project, such as a connection that would have created a nonstop journey for riders from Bergen County. But New Jersey officials believed the more parts peeled away from the project, the less likely it would be able to achieve its goals.
So while this gov. was campaigning across the country for people like Meg Whitman(loser), things here in NJ heated up as the unemployed waited with baited breath to hear this govs decision. Sounds like he cares not a bit about his residents and their lack of employment woes....
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat and major tunnel supporter, said one option from the federal government would have taken New Jersey off the hook.
"The federal government presented Gov. Christie with a number of financing options that would limit and even eliminate New Jersey's responsibility to pay for cost overruns on the ARC tunnel," Mr. Lautenberg said in a statement. "The federal government demonstrated its strong commitment to building this tunnel, but it was clear from the beginning that Gov. Christie planned to kill this project no matter what." There were options to go ahead with this project that would help thousands get back to work and Buffoon man STILL said NO??
A spokesman for Mr. Christie could not be reached for a response to Mr. Lautenberg's statement.
The project became a symbol of the ideological wedge that divides the country as it tries to recover from a deep recession. Republicans have argued for spending cuts and debt reduction, while Democrats have pushed for infrastructure projects as investments in the future and to put people back to work.
Which sounds better for New Jersey today in this economic environment?? You can cut spending and reduce debt but what good is that if people aren't working and contributing to the state through their income taxes, sales taxes, etc. What happens to us then? More tax cuts for the rich because the thugs believe in trickle down economics? Another jump in our property taxes because the towns are broke and we the middle man must support our school systems because the Governor cut 800 million from the education budget? Seniors on fixed incomes don't get their rebates this year yet still must pay their portion of school tax through their exorbitant property taxes? But because Chris Christie stopped the biggest project in the country that would have put thousands to work, we are right back to square one. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and soon move from NJ because there is a job killing governor at the buffet table who doesn't care about us!
