So, I support the unions, if you do as well...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporttheunions/
sign the petition.
Peace,
David
BTW, locally I prefer the GOP, but nationally....I'd have to be suicidal.
The bailouts are coming fast and quick to cash-strapped private developers in New Jersey:
Gov. Christie announced this morning that the state will invest $260 million in the stalled Revel Casino project, allowing work to resume next week.
Christie made the announcement at a ceremony at the unfinished Revel site to sign legislation turning over control of this struggling gambling mecca’s casino district to the state and revising regulations on how business is conducted here.
On top of his support for a bailout of Xanadu, Christie is quickly becoming a great benefactor of private developers. The economic merits of helping either of these projects aside, Christie has now demonstrated where his priorities lie. Private developers should be given government assistance, while public infrastructure investments must be stopped due to a lack of funds. It seems that ensuring that private developers not pay for the costs of their business mistakes is more important than ensuring that New Jersey has viable transportation infrastructure in the future.
Maria CA February 24th, 2011 2:30 pm As a veteran teacher of 23 years, I see Chris Christie as a shameless opportunist. As a public employee, he himself gets the best retirement benefits and healthcare policies all paid by the taxpayers. My average salary throughout the 23 years was about $4,500.00 a month. I have worked with some wonderful students some of whom had serious learning and emotional disabilities.Additionally, teachers do not get free health insurance. The premium that is paid by the school district is a part of the salary package and often the raise that we don't get which goes to the increase in health care premiums. And, this is the final thank you we teachers get. As for me, it's time to get out and let the teacher bashers educate their own children, or send them to private school. Teachers educate our future generation. They are heroes!!!!
janie2 NJ February 24th, 2011 2:35 pm When Governor Christies proposes that he and the entire NJ legislature take a 15% cut in pay with no increases for four+ years, reduce their perks, and pay a certain percentage for their benefits, then maybe I will start to have a modicum of respect for him. Will it hurt the N.J. politicans who are the real "welfare kings"? No, it won't. Most of them have additional sources of income. For example, our esteemed Governor is entitled to a federal pension for the U.S.A.G spot he held, and Mrs. C. earns $400,000+ per year. Instead of targeting teachers, (most of whom are women, so it is easy) I would suggest that our Governor and the NJ Legislature try to consolidate the following: NJ School Districts NJ Police Departments This is just a few groups (small towns) in our great Garden State that continue to offer duplication of services at an enormous cost to the taxpayer. You won't see this happening in NJ. Teachers are an easy scapegoat. Just remember, none of you who posted your glee at seeing teachers getting their "comeuppance" would have been able to do so if your parents, grandparents etc. did not have a teacher. I might add that I am not a NJ Public School Teacher but I do have an enormous respect for the majority of these dedicated individuals.
Figaro Marco Island February 24th, 2011 2:35 pm Let me see, in the Bush years we start two wars and pile up deficits by cutting taxes to pay for the warfare. In 2008 Republican neglect triggers a financial system freeze up. To keep ours, and the worlds economic system from total collapse the Democrats throw money at the banks and uses government spending to shore up a failed financial system. More deficits. Property values plummet and the Feds drive interest rates to zero. State and Local Government revenues dry up. Interest rates fall to never before seen lows. Government pension plans can no longer be supported because of the revenue drain and the near zero interest rates. So our brilliant electorate put the Republicans back in charge. And what do the Republicans do, they blame government employees for the problems they themselves created. Now they can continue their 30 year war on the working class. The end of their arrogance may not be pretty, class warfare always has a bad outcome, it's happened before here, and it's now happening in the Middle East. If the Republican war against the American worker continues, workers will have no other option but to take up arms and take to the streets. The Republicans are trying very hard to start the next American Revolution.
Just thought I'd put up a few comments from other sources. To give you folks some idea of why this so worries me. I mostly don't talk to my old Army friends or state and county worker friends much anymore as that talk almost always turns to talk of the next civil war, armed insurrection, that sort of thing. I think we the American people are probably within spitting distance of such a thing, and being on disability I'm not looking forward to it. With luck it just passes me by, but having seen war, I'm not looking forward to seeing it again, or being a refugee or just one of the starving. Watching my neighbors tear each other apart over a bag of rice donated by some country other than ours. A lot of Americans are looking for a reason to tear this country apart, and I am seriously worried that this just might be the start of it. Talk of revolution is everywhere, and it's damned depressing. Peace, David
Christie Bails Out Another Private Developer
ReplyDelete2 Feb
The bailouts are coming fast and quick to cash-strapped private developers in New Jersey:
Gov. Christie announced this morning that the state will invest $260 million in the stalled Revel Casino project, allowing work to resume next week.
Christie made the announcement at a ceremony at the unfinished Revel site to sign legislation turning over control of this struggling gambling mecca’s casino district to the state and revising regulations on how business is conducted here.
On top of his support for a bailout of Xanadu, Christie is quickly becoming a great benefactor of private developers.
The economic merits of helping either of these projects aside, Christie has now demonstrated where his priorities lie. Private developers should be given government assistance, while public infrastructure investments must be stopped due to a lack of funds. It seems that ensuring that private developers not pay for the costs of their business mistakes is more important than ensuring that New Jersey has viable transportation infrastructure in the future.
Tags: Bailouts, Chris Christie, Development
Maria
ReplyDeleteCA
February 24th, 2011
2:30 pm
As a veteran teacher of 23 years, I see Chris Christie as a shameless opportunist. As a public employee, he himself gets the best retirement benefits and healthcare policies all paid by the taxpayers. My average salary throughout the 23 years was about $4,500.00 a month. I have worked with some wonderful students some of whom had serious learning and emotional disabilities.Additionally, teachers do not get free health insurance. The premium that is paid by the school district is a part of the salary package and often the raise that we don't get which goes to the increase in health care premiums. And, this is the final thank you we teachers get. As for me, it's time to get out and let the teacher bashers educate their own children, or send them to private school. Teachers educate our future generation. They are heroes!!!!
janie2
ReplyDeleteNJ
February 24th, 2011
2:35 pm
When Governor Christies proposes that he and the entire NJ legislature take a 15% cut in pay with no increases for four+ years, reduce their perks, and pay a certain percentage for their benefits, then maybe I will start to have a modicum of respect for him. Will it hurt the N.J. politicans who are the real "welfare kings"? No, it won't. Most of them have additional sources of income. For example, our esteemed Governor is entitled to a federal pension for the U.S.A.G spot he held, and Mrs. C. earns $400,000+ per year.
Instead of targeting teachers, (most of whom are women, so it is easy) I would suggest that our Governor and the NJ Legislature try to consolidate the following:
NJ School Districts
NJ Police Departments
This is just a few groups (small towns) in our great Garden State that continue to offer duplication of services at an enormous cost to the taxpayer.
You won't see this happening in NJ. Teachers are an easy scapegoat. Just remember, none of you who posted your glee at seeing teachers getting their "comeuppance" would have been able to do so if your parents, grandparents etc. did not have a teacher. I might add that I am not a NJ Public School Teacher but I do have an enormous respect for the majority of these dedicated individuals.
Figaro
ReplyDeleteMarco Island
February 24th, 2011
2:35 pm
Let me see, in the Bush years we start two wars and pile up deficits by cutting taxes to pay for the warfare. In 2008 Republican neglect triggers a financial system freeze up. To keep ours, and the worlds economic system from total collapse the Democrats throw money at the banks and uses government spending to shore up a failed financial system. More deficits. Property values plummet and the Feds drive interest rates to zero. State and Local Government revenues dry up. Interest rates fall to never before seen lows. Government pension plans can no longer be supported because of the revenue drain and the near zero interest rates. So our brilliant electorate put the Republicans back in charge. And what do the Republicans do, they blame government employees for the problems they themselves created. Now they can continue their 30 year war on the working class. The end of their arrogance may not be pretty, class warfare always has a bad outcome, it's happened before here, and it's now happening in the Middle East. If the Republican war against the American worker continues, workers will have no other option but to take up arms and take to the streets. The Republicans are trying very hard to start the next American Revolution.
Just thought I'd put up a few comments from other sources.
ReplyDeleteTo give you folks some idea of why this so worries me.
I mostly don't talk to my old Army friends or state and county worker friends much anymore as that talk almost always turns to talk of the next civil war, armed insurrection, that sort of thing. I think we the American people are probably within spitting distance of such a thing, and being on disability I'm not looking forward to it. With luck it just passes me by, but having seen war, I'm not looking forward to seeing it again, or being a refugee or just one of the starving. Watching my neighbors tear each other apart over a bag of rice donated by some country other than ours.
A lot of Americans are looking for a reason to tear this country apart, and I am seriously worried that this just might be the start of it.
Talk of revolution is everywhere, and it's damned depressing.
Peace,
David