Christie swings back at Rand Paul: It’s your state that’s vacuuming up federal tax dollars, not mine

Hot Air ^ | JULY 30, 2013 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[sgtyork]

Now one time, just one single time, New Jersey is getting some money back (mind you, we are still sending more out than we’ll be getting back

Look, you’ve been tolerating big government and high taxes (e.g. democrats) for decades. You obviously like this financial bleeding. Christie could have approached this as with realism and appreciation for small government and frugality. Instead he discredited his own party for all this boodle.

TO BENEFIT ALASKAN FISHERIES
the VA Manhattan Medical Center
$4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida;
$3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center
$1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.

but wait...

$58.8 million for forest restoration on private land.
$197 million “to… protect coastal ecosystems and habitat impacted by Hurricane Sandy.”
$10.78 billion for public transportation, most of which is allocated to future construction and improvements, not disaster relief.
$17 billion for wasteful Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), a program that has become notorious for its use as a backdoor earmark program.

TEN BILLION FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION !!!! Doesn’t that make your devastated citizens feel better??!?!?!?!

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/01/02/the-pork-filled-and-expensive-nonrelief-sandy-relief-bill-n1477710

Your governor threw a tantrum for this porkulus....
So its another step to financial armageddon and New Jersey makes it a big one.

[pepsi_junkie]

Funny how everyone piles on New Jersey for getting disaster relief once. Disaster relief. The same stuff that goes to Florida, Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, etc every year. Year after year. Do you rail against that and want to shut the program down? Maybe you do, I haven't heard a lot of people saying that here though. So now New Jersey gets hit hard and some is being sent here and suddenly because (let's admit it) you don't like Chris Christie people who live here are considered pigs at the trough and leeches on society. Remember too that NJ pays MORE than it GETS so we are the opposite, we pay your bills not the other way around. DO I like paying your bills? Hell no. Get your hands out of my pocket; go ahead, start lobbying to shut down the government programs your state gets. I don't have to because in NJ we don't have any worth speaking of, we're 50th in fenderal funds received per capita. The opposite of a leech, we're pumping all of you up.

But when my state gets hammered and we get our own money back (we're still not breaking even mind you) you all get on your soapboxes in righteous indignation and call me a liberal because I want to keep my tax dollars in my own state. Basically you are defending the system where my money goes to your states and your pork. Good conservative principle, that.

[pepsi_junkie]

It's really quite simple. Imagine you and four freinds decide to each contribute $10 each month to a pot for a given back to the friends at the end of the month. But for some reason, at the end of every month four of the friends take out $11 and you get back just $6. Congratulations, you are New Jersey.

Now one month you get hit with a big hospital bill. The end of the month comes and you say "guys, I know you always take $11 but I really need my money back. Okay, maybe not all of it. Maybe I could at least take $8 or $9 back this month?" and all your friends screamed "Liberal! Sponge! Thief!" That's what's going on here.