Chris Christie "Wisconsin a Class Clash"

[Joanne98]

Source: Politico


Chris Christie invoked Wisconsin's massive union-rights clash in his second annual budget address Tuesday, saying the protests are over a system with "two classes of citizens" — the people who get benefits, and the taxpayers who pay for them.

Christie hailed New Jersey as leading the charge for other states with the belt-tightening practices he prescribed in his budget last year. And now, he said, the Garden State will follow what he coined as the "New Normal" of spending as they have the money, to try to ease the crush of debt.

"In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives rich health and pension benefits, and all the rest who are left to pay for them," Christie said. "Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter. We are all facing the same problems. These problems are bigger than either political party. The promises of the past are too expensive, and the prospects of the future are too important to stay on the old, failed course.

"All across the country, Democratic and Republican governors are grappling with inherited budget deficits, skyrocketing pension and benefit costs, and state government cultures which embrace the status quo — no matter how destructive," head dded.





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Christie opens his big fat mouth!

Took the coward long enough!

[chelsea0011]

1. So he supports the public option for all?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Now that the rich have taken it all away from the private sector

they are going for the public & the stupid population is going along with it. Could that fat bastard actually tighten his belt???

[karynnj]

15. Does he have to have specially ordered belts?

[ProSense]

3. "the people who get benefits, and the taxpayers who pay for them." Leave it to Christie

to push the conservative meme that union members are not taxpayers.

Conservatives use divide and conquer rhetoric in Wisconsin union protests

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“We can no longer live in a society where the public employees are the haves and taxpayers who foot the bills are the have-nots,” Mr. Walker, a Republican, said in a speech. “The bottom line is that we are going to look at every legal means we have to try to put that balance more on the side of taxpayers.”

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Backing Unions Against Taxpayers

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I can see that the Democratic party base will love it, obviously, but in the battle for centrist opinion, does it make sense to align with unions against governors struggling to balance their books--that is, to align with unions against taxpayers? I doubt it.

Nothing obliged Obama to take this position. He could have recused himself, as he has on, say, budget policy. And it is one thing to offer comment in support of the unions, quite another to get his staff working in "close co-ordination" with the protesters. A shame he cannot be as forthright about long-term fiscal discipline as he is about the rights of public-sector unions.

[louis-t]

4. No, dumbass, the 2 classes are:

those who stuff wads of cash in their pockets and want the rest to pay for it, and the rest of us who pay for it.

[Jennicut]

5. What he really means is the Koch brothers versus the rest of us.

That is all this fight in Wisconsin is about on Walker's side.

[Newest Reality]

6. Well, that is a blatent lie.

Like, what else is new? Considering how ReThugs make things up, the only question is if he knows the real reason behind what is going on in WI, or is coming-up with creative excuses because, hey, why bother to find out when you are creating reality?

[Faygo Kid]

7. You mean the Koch brothers who get the benefits and I work to pay for them?

That's about right - but of course that's not what he meant.

[corpseratemedia]

8. how long before the "average" person..whoever that is..stops buying this bullshit?n/t

[Kennah]

9. Class Clash battles the Crass Slash

[MichiganVote]

10. Christie finally reveals his cognitive impairment.

[bongbong]

11. Christie is literally a fat capitalist pig

Having Christie as a government official at this time in history must be God playing a joke on the corporate-controlled USA.

[colbertforpresident]

12. Christie is

collecting a paycheck and benefits along with a pension from tax payers. He needs to give his up first before he asks anyone else to do it!

[sulphurdunn]

13. Class struggle is between

working people who have a pot to piss in and working people who don't, according to multimillionaire Chris Christie, governor of the 2nd wealthiest state in the Union.

[karynnj]

14. Gee - Didn't NJ's bond rating just fall - a few weeks ago

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/drop_in_nj_bond_rating_could_a.html

[6000eliot]

16. It's as if Piggy from Lord of the Flies was elected governor.

I hate this guy so much. I wish he'd run for president in 2012 just to get rid of him.

[blackspade]

17. FU Christie!

There are two classes of citizens, him and his rich corporate buddies who caused this whole financial mess and the other 95% of the country that has to suffer for it.