[QUOTE=njbchbum;295075]gov christie's halo has tarnished quite a bit in my eyes - enuf so that he could be responsible for my husband and i becoming florida residents!

his reforms include rolling back our pensions by 9% and will require us to pay at least 30% of our medical insurance costs...he had the legislature approve a bill that revised the state's current year contribution from 3 bil to 1 bil and then only required that a payment of a half mil be paid to the treasury...he has made no effort to reduce the payments that employees are required to have deducted from their paychecks though...so what's good for that goose is not good for his flock!

he has targeted the pension and benefit plans of the public employees and teachers but is not touching the plans that belong to the state police, regular police and fire or prosecutors or judges...judges retire at full pay - which is over $150,000 and supreme court judges earn over $200,000.

i accepted an early retirement incentive when i left the state2 yrs ago - and i had to sign a contract when i did. it made me swear not to seek state/municipal emplmt for a minimum period of 3 yrs from the date of the retirement. in exchange for that i was granted a reduced pension amount, and health/dental/prescription ins which i pay for - which health insurance will cease when i am 65 and required to enroll in medicare and pay for that.

gov. christie rails against the public employees and the retirees, yet he fails to criticize the previous govs who failed to make payments to the state pension funds [between 1993 and 2008], he fails to criticize the previous govs whose staff negotiated the public employee contracts [they all bowed down to the unions in hopes of getting their support and votes], and he rants that the taxpayers of nj can't afford to pay their taxes because of the union contracts and pension fund deficiencies!...yet he is playing the same bloody game of underfunding his pension contribution like the other govs did!...and he fails to recognize that the public employees/retirees he is screaming about are also nj taxpayers!!!!!

he is just another politico who has been thrust into the limelight and is loving every minute of it. he is just another politico who speaks to whatever crowd is listening. and he is just another politico who speaks out of both sides of his chubby little mouth.

i wish he would run for president - so we could get him the he** out of jersey!



As a public union employee I can understand why you don't like the Governor of NJ, but tough decisions had to be made and it can't just be the private sector employees who are out of work and with declining salaries to keep paying for the state employees who don't want to give an inch.
I know it's personal to you and hence you hate the idea of living with less real income, but plenty of the rest of us have the same problems and it's just the new reality. The age of entitlement has to end.
I'm sorry for your financial downturn; nobody likes is when it happens to them. The market will bear only what the market will bear.
It's a brave politician who will stand up to the public unions who wield so much political power, and pump so much of the union's money into Democrat coffers.