Gov. Christie: Nation turning into people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check

How many pounds is he carrying around?

He is not FIT ~ the thought of someone that big moving around like a President Obama or even a Mitt Romney is beyond me.

What else is new?

his very obese ass waiting 4 a jumbo sized meat lovers pizza lol

Thank you.

But with his comments, Christie opened the door wide and issued engraved invitations for this.

with that pizza and some Tums. A little later he will

I thought the same thing. The image of that lardass was the first thing that came to mind!

Waiting for his pizza and his next GOV'T check!

I would expect he's waiting for two pizzas, a bucket of hot wings AND some cheesy bread sticks. Hopefully later he'll be eating his own heart out. I really can't stand that man. I'd call him a douche, but douches can serve a useful purpose.

if ever anybody needed to get some exercise (other than flapping his big mouth) it's christie.

of government saying "Government's telling them stop dreaming, stop striving, we'll take care of you,"

posted by prosense earlier

Christie's problems worsen in New Jersey

By Steve Benen

April is proving to be an unusually unkind month for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).

First, Newark's Star-Ledger ran a lengthy, detailed report documenting the extent to which the governor's legislative proposals, executive orders, and agency rules were written, at times word for word, by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy far-right group that seeks to impose a conservative agenda in state legislatures.

Then, the New York Times helped shine a light on Christie's corporate welfare practices, in which the governor is handing out lucrative tax credits to preferred in-state corporations.

Today's revelations, meanwhile, may be the most controversial to date.


Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey exaggerated when he declared that unforeseen costs to the state were forcing him to cancel the new train tunnel planned to relieve congested routes across the Hudson River, according to a long-awaited report by independent Congressional investigators.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates for the tunnel to at least $11 billion and potentially more than $14 billion, the range of estimates had in fact remained unchanged in the two years before he announced in 2010 that he was shutting down the project. And state transportation officials, the report says, had said the cost would be no more than $10 billion.

Mr. Christie also misstated New Jersey's share of the costs: he said the state would pay 70 percent of the project; the report found that New Jersey was paying 14.4 percent. And while the governor said that an agreement with the federal government would require the state to pay all cost overruns, the report found that there was no final agreement, and that the federal government had made several offers to share those costs.

Even at the time, Christie's decision on this project in 2010 was hard to understand. Conservatives, who've become increasingly hostile towards American infrastructure improvements, cheered the move, but from a substantive perspective, the governor's decision was fairly characterized as "destructive and incredibly foolish."

But this new report casts that decision in an even more damaging light. The Government Accountability Office is a non-partisan research/audit arm of Congress, and it's reporting this week that Christie's rationale for his strange decision wasn't even true. It was a mistake to scrap a major public works project during a weak economy; it was a bigger mistake to explain the move with dishonest claims.

Also note, this didn't just hurt New Jersey -- the project was intended to alleviate congestion between Boston and Washington, D.C.

HOUSE!!! And yes One fat person can call out another fat person for being stupid.

stay in the dumps. About welfare all you have to look at is corporate welfare and the rich getting the hugh tax break. I hope people will not follow these idiots. Because if it was up to the republicans they WILL take all the social net away from all of us and give it to the rich. All the new deal that the democrats brought us will disappear because baggers are blaming the wrong people.

What other large group of the population regularly receives "government checks"?
I hope SS pensioners remember his comments when they vote.

sitting on the couch waiting for my check. And believe me, I will be voting for Obama.

But, I'm old and retired! What does Christy want us to do? Go mow our neighbors lawn for a for a few bucks or maybe wait on tables in their scooters?

What's the counter-point to his argument? Aren't we getting stronger as a country by helping people out during this time?

They would much rather prefer mass starvation than having to pay one nickel in taxes to feed or provide health care for a poor family.

He has a lot of room to talk --- not! This coming from a guy that can't walk 100 yards from his helicopter to the bleachers at his son's baseball game so he had to use a government limo for those 100 yards.

We have an aging society where boomers are beginning to retire and a struggling global economy where jobs are scarce. This naturally leads to more and more people needing to rely on social security, medicaid, unemployment and food stamps. If republicans like Christie want to reduce the number of people relying on such programs they need to get serious about doing more to encourage job growth, to keep good paying jobs in the US, to make sure employers provide a living wage and health care benefits so that families do not have to turn to government programs. Instead it seems their stance is to cut programs to those in need during their darkest hour, to abandon the minimum wage and allow corporations to continue to outsource and not provide health care benefits. And further to demonize those in need by calling them lazy free loaders. This is why republicans appear as cruel lunatics to anyone with even half a brain.

He probably only has half a brain to work with because the other half of his skull is filled with juicy fat. I guess that would make him a fat head.

Dummy.

Years ago I watched C-Span and I would see someone speaking out on a topic and the "audience" was sleeping,chewing the fat with their pals,playing games on their laptop etc. They hardly put it a typical 40 hour plus work week,nothing physical. I would like to see Christie(among others) do what many have to do working minimum wage. You see them doing yard work,laying down patio bricks,working check outs. They wouldn't have to get this so called handout if business would cough up more then minimum wage.
I would like to see Christie and company work for such paltry wages and NOT get a bit of help from the gov't.
As for the dreaming,striving bit today's workers have their share of battle scars. They can strive all they want but if a company decides to go the cheaper route,fire them and hire cheaper they will do it. Just doing well at your job does not guarantee you a job today. Striving also seems to often be a waste of time when you see your jobs flying overseas. The only jobs that stay here are THEIRS and even when they lose one election they climb right back in. They know what it's like out there in the real world and they don't want to deal with it. What with their easy hours,perks,benefits what isn't there to like? So until he walks a mile in the common laborers shoes he should just shut up.

That's a phrase often used by Thom Hartmann to describe the elite in America who are no longer working like industrialists used to work by taking risks and making things, but only want to make money with money.

Now all they can do is throw red meat to their base, damn the consequences!

n/t

around waiting for his government retirement check. the hypocricy is alarming.

It is his class that waits for its next government check.
The rest of us are staggering along without much help or recourse from the government.

Jus' sayin, there, Chris ...

What kinds of wage cuts has the governor experienced recently?

Is he making half of what he was making 10 years ago???

What would it take to make the governor say, "Fuck this shit!"

it takes one to know one, dude.

Government isn't telling anyone anything remotely like this fantasy of christie's. But what are the repukes telling people who desperately want to get back to work? Fuck you if you starve, the jobs are going over seas so they can be paid $2/hr for 75 hours of work/week and if they or their families get sick, then die and die quickly because we don't want to have to reach into our profit margins to have to offer you a living wage and health care in exchange for you showing up every day and working for us.

...(rich) people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check

That's what I thought.

Adjective mine...

...fyi I am a fat-fuck myself so spare me the poutrage...

It so reminds me of Spiro Agnew. With George W. Bush keynoting the conference one has to wonder if this was Christie auditioning for Vice President.

same type of "charming" personality

I'm sitting in front of my computer. In fact, I was just checking to make sure that my Social Security check was directly deposited in my account.

From the looks of this guy, it wouldn't appear his job involves moving his body too much.

Stuff it

the LIE that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.

both chrissy and scotty should be proud of the hundreds of billions they decided to "spend" well into our children and grand childrens future.

Reagan was wrong. It's not OK to be stupid.

No liberal has ever said anything like that.

that didn't work, so enter Chris with the old Entitlement Scheme. Wonder what Newt's Swan Song will be?

I hope you think of your words next paycheck you get from the NJ Government.

And the guy wonders why Bruce Springsteen won't return his calls in regards to the concert Christie is bugging Bruce to do in Atlantic City on Labor Day.

fucking gang that couldn't shoot straight in a toilet, much less a war; bunch of armchair sadists & sociopaths.

of course, if it was a food fight, Karl & Chris would be leading the charge of the tight-ass brigade, with Kiss' the Killer coaching this flock of has-been carrion-eaters.

of his straw-man.

"We'll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check,"

....as opposed to sitting in a comfy chair in the governors' mansion waiting for your next government check?

....you are one slimy fuckin' republican....you pukes fucked-up the economy, sent our good-paying jobs to Mexico and China, looted our treasury with tax-breaks and wars, corrupted our government, and when the American people need a helping hand to survive your economic mess, you piss and moan about it....

....the day is coming soon when fascist pricks like you will be strung-up by their pudgy thumbs....

I'm not waiting on a government handout. I'm looking for my next temporary job paying something less than $10 an hour. Actually I'm really looking for a job paying me what I made five years ago, before I decided to sit out the economic crisis in graduate school. Two years, I thought, was probably enough time for it to blow over, and there I would be, Master's Degree in hand... Now, three years after graduation, it's been a string of temporary, seasonal, part-time jobs and freelance gigs, none of which has paid more than about 50% of the hourly rate I got before the crisis began. For a variety of reasons relating to being a student and then my temporary employment situation, I'm not entitled to one cent of unemployment coverage in my state.

I don't even own a couch, got it? But I bet you have a nice, big, comfy couch, Mr. Christie. Maybe several.

What do you think people are going to do?

Asshole.

Thanks a lot, a-hole.

system. young folks too.

Chris, are you ragging on your peeps or are you projecting?

It;s the GOP that is conducting the war on women and giving away the country to the rich and the "corporate" type "people".

Obviously I'll take the advice about being a coach potato to heart.

to raise himself up with.

For him it's downright depressing to be reduced to such a thing.

Say 5%-8% of people on assistance are gaming the system, which might be high. Isn't it better to help 90%+ of people who really need it?

I hear this same talking point over and over and over and over.....it really pisses me off.