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.