N.J. childcare centers would lose $30M in funding under Christie's proposed budget

[nonperson]

Source: NJ Star-Ledger

NEW BRUNSWICK — It’s morning rush hour at the Greater New Brunswick Day Care Council, and the sidewalk is crowded with parents cradling sleeping babies and leading bleary-eyed kids into a converted church basement that has been the center’s home for 41 years.

After dropping off her 6-year-old son, Shakera Moore, 36, stopped to chat with the center’s director, David Harris, before heading to work at a homeless shelter.

"I would be lost without this place," Moore said. "They are like the grandparents you need when you are off working."

But Harris said he and other operators of government-subsidized day care centers and preschools would find it harder to keep their programs running under Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget, which would slash their funding by $30 million. He said that would prompt higher across-the-board co-pays and rates, and stricter requirements for parents to prove they are working — a problem for illegal immigrants paid off the books.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/subsidized_childcare_centers_t.html

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Chris Christie proposes cuts in child care for working families, on top of $5300 PER YEAR limit for working parents whose families qualify for Medicaid, on top of cutting property tax aid for the seniors and disabled, on top of massive cuts to education and essential services. On top of so much more. And with the cuts for middle class and poor citizens comes the mandatory Republican tax cut for the rich that Christie passed out to his very few particular friends.

I just don't know what to say anymore. When Republicans get gain power in one branch of government they find ways to get their agenda through no matter that they are outnumbered in a supposed co-equal branch and no matter how insane or how unpopular their agenda is.

Democrats, even when they have control of the executive and legislative branches, can only find a way to make excuses.

Read the rest at the link if you can stomach it.

[The Wizard]

1. Jumbo is just there to line his pockets

The working class can go eat shit and bark at the Moon.

[nonperson]

3. Shouldn't that be "Dumbo"?

But you're absolutely right about the rest.

Chris Christie is to New Jersey what Ronald Reagan was the America. And there is no way that can be meant in a good way. Steal from the poor. Give to the rich. The rich will let enough crumbs fall off the table for us to survive. Barely.

The one factor in trickle-down voodoo-economics equation they always fail to include is plain old human greed. And the rich bastards we have running this country are far beyond the point of basic human greed. They want it ALL for themselves and as you say the rest of us can go eat shit and bark at the Moon.

[The Wizard]

13. Jumbo

was the name of P.T. Barnum's biggest elephant. Dumbo was a loveable Disney character, a baby elephant with over sized ears.

[nonperson]

14. Your point is taken

Jumbo it is.

[rfranklin]

2. I haven't heard a word from NJ dems about beaching our whale of a governor...

The democratic party is so freaking lame. Anybody know of any efforts?

[nonperson]

5. With Sweeney vying for the title of worst politician every I don't see how

Sweeney and his South Jersey mentor, Norcross, as I'm sure you know, offered Sheila Oliver the Assembly Speaker position to help them oust Codey and they've been screwing up every since. Sweeney is obviously no match for Christie. Instead of opposing Christie's teabagger agenda Sweeney appears to be in a race to beat Christie to the punch!

The Democratic leadership in New Jersey is weak. Seniors and poor aren't equipped to fight on this level other than complain to their representatives and hope they listen, which they aren't or if they are they're unable to effect any change with the current leadership. Middle class New Jerseyans (those few left) are so focused on trying to maintain their tenuous place they're not interested in taking on the job of removing this incompetent, corrupt fool New Jersey was stupid enough to elect. That leaves Democratic leadership. See the paragraph above.

If I made a list of Christie's screw-ups during his first eighteen months in office alone any rational person would wonder how this clown is still in office. But there he is. And no one is willing or seemingly able to do anything about getting him out of office. So I'm waiting for the budget to come out just to see how bad it really is going to be and whether it's really time to get whatever we can for our home and get the hell out of the little corner of hell Chris Christie is creating in New Jersey -- except for millionaires who must think they've all died and gone to heaven.

[LiberalEsto]

6. The NJ Dem party is mostly corpocrats

in other words, they're not on the side of average people.

[nonperson]

7. That sounds a lot like the national Democratic Party

Not on the side of the average people. The people formerly known as their base.

[sakabatou]

4. MCLB: More Children Left Behind

[avebury]

8. Maybe the thought process is that if you do away

with affordable child care facilities, mothers will be forced to stay at home with their children and be subservient to their husbands/significant others. Of course it does not dawn on them that there could be single mothers that are trying to support their children. Rethugs are so short sighted.

[LynneSin]

9. In a state like New Jersey - if you don't have both parents working you'll be living on the streets

Taxes are ridiculous in NJ especially property taxes.

Yesterday in our local newspaper, the News Journal here in Wilmington, DE, some dumbass tea party idiot wrote a letter to the editor praising the job of Chris Christie and how we should have a governor just like him here in Delaware.

There was a comment section and the comments were funny as hell - mostly telling the idiot that if they think New Jersey is such a great state they should move there. I mean here in Delaware, our property taxes are much lower than NJ PLUS we have no sales tax on anything (I think it's 7% in NJ but I could be wrong). Also this year we have a budget surplus thanks to the good work by democratic governor Jack Markell. I mean how anyone can think Christie is a better governor than Markell is just NUTZ or one of the sheepies that follows the tea party blindly. We think the writer of the letter is both.

[Iliyah]

10. Think of the children?

Yea right, gopers don't care about children that are not theirs.

[nonperson]

11. It certainly sounds like New Jersey needs Jack Markell NOT the other way around!

Chris Christie is an unmitigated disaster. The only surplus Christie created is a surplus for millionaires who by definition don't need it.

Chris Christie has made it clear that the rest of us can go straight to hell as far as he's concerned. In word and deed.

[LynneSin]

12. They need anyone but Chris Christie

I hope the Dems have a strong candidate to run for governor