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How is this about Christie? He can't tell a town what to do with their money and their contracts. And there's nothing in this article that says anything about Christies response to this move by the town of Denville.
What response are you speaking of? The point is imagine Denville teachers had gotten a 13% raise over three years. Christie would be out with his political rhetoric before the ink dried. His lack of response is exactly the issue here. Politics at it finest. Keep playing politics its ok with me but believe me people are seeing through it. His approval rating would be much better if the shared sacrifice line was actually true. Until then it doesnt mean much to most normal people.
Local news also reported Christie's operating State budget $2 million dollars more than Corzine's.
Who is making the sacrifice for this budget?
Why are the people of NJ not able to vote on Municipal and State budgets?
greedy unions? remind us all on why the pensions are now unsustainable? I'll give you a hint? State raiding the funds and not making payments. I also love how everyone says the get 4% raises a year...................try its 4% over 4-5 years...less than cost of living raises. Everyone loves to throw out the fact that teachers have July and most of August off....um who's fault is that? The teachers? No, the state madates 180 days of school. You think these teachers applied for these jobs on monster.com? You can;t walk off the street and become a teacher. These teachers have 4-6 years of schooling.
I also love how Christie is going to try to stick it to the unemployed after July 1st by taking away 50.00 a week from them and is using the whole even the unemployed must make a sacrifice. Was it the unemployed that raided the states unemployment fund of over 4 billion dollars? No they didn't. Christie isn't some sleek tough politician, he's going after easy targets. HE could be cutting out a lot more overlap in trenton rather than wasting time with teachers etc. I'm sure the layoffs of 10-20 thousand teachers, cops, firefighers, NJ Transit and state workers is really going to work wonders on the unemployment rate in NJ. I'm sure it's going to slam the states unemployment fund even more.
and He knew damn well that cutting municipal aid would result in property tax increases. He knew this was going to happen all along.
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