Posted on 03/03/2010 8:06:24 AM PST by Biggirl
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stepped out in front of 200 New Jersey mayors last week and placed budget realities right out there for everyone to see. Would leaders at the federal level have the guts to do the same?
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Its what any responsible leader would do.....hopefully this gets the exposure it deserves.....
Hope so too.
Christie has been very impressive. His speech, which I’ve seen transcribed, was very well done.
So 200 Mayors, all with massive budgets, then duplicate overlapping govt services no doubt at the county level, and state level, etc.. Streamline!
We need to clone this guy:
Chris Christie says “The time has come where we have to hold hands and jump off the cliff.”
Truly, a star has been born in NJ...
Freepers just breezing through these links, here’s a Governor giving an amazingly detailed (25 minute) and inspiring speech on spending and taxes and arbitration with the public sector/teacher unions (he got applause from the 100 mayors on that) WITHOUT ANY NOTES, WITHOUT ANY TELEPROMPTER!
Save this link for later... give it the time to listen to it. This guy is another Ronald Reagan.
Wow, 25 minutes-no notes and no Umh’s. I’m ready for the trip.
The liberal dingbat journalist types kept trying to trip him up and he swatted them aside like flies.
They would ask things like, "Don't you think it is brave to do the difficult thing to raise taxes in the face of serious deficits?"
And he'd respond, "Brave? Difficult? Every year for the last forty years the people of this state have been told that its "brave" and "difficult" to raise their taxes, and we've bravely done it to them every year. We are now the most taxed state in the nation. People and industry are fleeing in droves! How can you say we need to raise taxes again? We are not going to raise taxes. We are going to lower taxes, eliminate fees, streamline and slash regulation..."
I'm paraphrasing, but he was fantastic.
Wow.
Almost every time I read something about how liberals think and act I think of the word astonishing. Take the California financial disaster. Why is the government providing health care to Mexicans who live in Mexico but commute to California for health care? I know a Mexican who gets American Social Security from the US government, maintains a mostly unused US government and California subsidized apartment in Calexico (as a postal drop and to “establish” residence.) This man, who is honest about his situation, lives at a spectacular life level off the backs of Californians and US taxpayers. All of his and his families needs are met by checks from various California programs. He follows all the rules, except that even he admits his subsidized apartment in Calexico is a bit of subterfuge. “As a matter of fact,” he said, waving his hand around at the huge apartment complex, “most of these are unoccupied because we only come here to collect the mail and establish the residency requirement.”
So, the taxpayers are not only subsidizing the nearby Mexican residents of Mexico, but they are paying for those same people to “live” in California in very nice, but mostly unoccupied middleclass apartments.
Wow. How the heck did he get elected?
(And as a VA citizen, did I pay for that PBS union comercial?)
“Its what any responsible leader would do.....hopefully this gets the exposure it deserves.....”
Unlike the clown in the WH—who is neither responsible nor brave—Christie’s maintained positive performance ratings (even among Dems) after having delivered his tough message. I think the people are starved for leadership and sick and tired of all the pandering to interest groups.
If we’re fortunate, Obama will NOT pay attention to Christie and will instead continue down a path that virtually ensures a Republican blowout in the mid-term elections and re-taking the WH in 2012. Hopefully the Republicans at that juncture will have a leader willing to do for the nation what Christie is demonstrating is feasible even in a very blue state such as NJ.
Put a different way, if Christie can pull this off in NJ, then it is a viable approach to governing any state in the nation, including CA. Sad that Arnold didn’t use the same tactic in CA, but that’s water over the bridge.
Bump for later.
BFL
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