Christie: $tuff it, O ‘Can’t afford’ stimulus By S.A. MILLER, Post Correspondent Last Updated: 5:39 AM, July 10, 2012 Posted: 1:13 AM, July 10, 2012
'Don't send me any more mo ney to hire public employees ... They're expensive!' — Gov. Chris Christie, yesterday, on Obama's stimulus plan. WASHINGTON — No more public workers — please! That was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s alarmed reaction to President Obama’s push to send states another dose of stimulus money to hire teachers, firefighters and police. “Please don’t send me any more money to hire more public employees. Please don’t,” implored Christie yesterday in a speech at the Brookings Institute, a liberal Washington think tank.
“I’ve got plenty as it is, and I don’t need any more, and they’re expensive!” said the brash governor, who won a hard-fought showdown with teachers unions over benefits and pensions. Temporary federal aid to hire permanent state and local workers, he argued, only leads to huge budget shortfalls or layoffs when the stimulus money runs out. “I have the highest property taxes in America to begin with,” said Christie. “Where’s this money going to come from to pay these folks afterwards?” Obama offered up the second stimulus as part of his re-election campaign. He promised that it would reboot the stalled recovery by growing the public sector, which he insists is doing worse than the private sector. Christie’s address to a national audience easily could have been a stump speech in the presidential race, as he described how his “New Jersey approach” should be a blueprint to end gridlock in Washington........................>>>>.....................>>>>...............Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/christie_tuff_it_CL0DqztACCGVPDRmvqZryN#ixzz20DGdKi73
But it's free money, the government just prints it, so Governor Christie should just take the money and be happy that the National Government was nice enough to send some in his direction. Yeah, that's it...
Christie isn't supposed to be concerned about what to do with the public sector jobs created from federal stimulus after the stumulus money runs out. That is a political argument for a later date. The president need to get re-elected NOW. He doens't care how the states deal with the financial burden of these public union employees put on the taxpayer. Schenectady County deals with bloated local government bureaucracy by telling the property owners to grab their ankles
Well it's also logical not to hire people that you don't need, I know noble concept. If there is going to be stimulus there should be alternate uses for it if your states staffing levels are already appropriate.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Well it's also logical not to hire people that you don't need, I know noble concept. If there is going to be stimulus there should be alternate uses for it if your states staffing levels are already appropriate.
Money from the Federal Government comes with too many strings attached and when the free money runs out how does the state pay for the unfunded mandate.
The federal government is $15 trillion in debt and operates at a $1 trillion annual budget deficit. That is not to mention the unfunded mandates in the years to come. So I ask - what money? It doesn't exist. Excepting money from the federal government is excepting debt. Just another card in the house of cards.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
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