Gov. Christie Brags About State Layoffs: Unions Are Trying To Break The Middle Class

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 02:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSz1ufQ4T64   Posted on YouTube: February 23, 2011 By YouTube Member: thinkprogress5 Views on YouTube: 293   Posted on DU: February 24, 2011 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 557

 

Gov. Christie Brags About State Layoffs: ‘Unions Are Trying To Break The Middle Class’

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) has been gaining lots of attention at the moment for his attempt to strip collective bargaining from many of his state’s public employees, essentially busting their union legislatively. But he is far from alone among Republican governors in trying to take a pound of flesh from his state’s working people.

Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), for instance, proposed a budget yesterday that holds property tax rebates for seniors hostage to benefit cuts for public employees: if public sector workers don’t agree to the cuts, property tax rebates don’t go out. And of course, Christie has rhetorically bashed teachers’ unions since he came into office, in order to score political points. During an appearance on MSNBC today, Christie actually bragged that his state leads the nation in terms of public sector layoffs, claiming that “unions are trying to break the middle class”:

USA Today recently said that New Jersey has shed by percentage more public sector jobs in the last year than any state in America. And the reason we’ve done this is because our government was bloated and too big at every level…In New Jersey, we’re not trying to break the unions, the unions are trying to break the middle class in New Jersey, through the expenses. And they’re close to doing it.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/23/christie-brag-break/

[Kurovski]

1. A typical case of a right-winger accusing others of doing what they themselves are doing.

Projection is the number one tool of the right wing and has been for decades. Completely transparent at this stage of history.

Even the dullest operative is capable of carrying out projection, which is a form of lying when the individual is fully aware of what's being projected.

Gov. Fred Flintstone is fully aware that he is lying. Maybe he needs a call from a "Koch" brother.

[Generic Other]

2. definition of a scab

[Angry Dragon]

3. I think it should read republican

[Plucketeer]

4. I sincerely believe that Christie

Is a legitimized "enforcer" for the wealthy Dons that are taking over this nation. He even LOOKS the part, in Hollywood fashion. :puke: