Gov. Chris Christie: The courage to do what's right

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njdudeabides

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/opinion/avlon-christie-sandy-aid/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

One of the most popular figures in American politics by members of both parties today is Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ). People like him because he has done a good job in New Jersey, he does not care about politics, and he tells the truth. While democrats lead America down a road to decline and republicans back away from a fight, Governor Christie is fighting for what is right in this world. Governor Christie's blunt style is a turn-off to some who prefer politics as usual, but it's refreshing to those of us who believe a human element is missing from politics today. Governor Christie has the courage to do what's right. He had the courage to cut spending by 9% here in New Jersey. He had the courage to fight for increased school choice for high school students and historic tenure reform. He had the courage to fight to cap property taxes. He had the courage to fight to reform our broken pension system. He had the courage to veto higher taxes and cap and trade. Now, he has the courage to fight so those affected by Hurricane Sandy can rebuild. It is crucial that the affected areas rebuild so people can get back to work and families can return to their homes. Sadly, the speaker of the house and the congress have failed to help out in what Governor Christie and others are fighting for.

The Stranger

Not saying who is right and who is wrong here he is for the rich land owners along the coast. Do you think any middle class folk are going to see one penny of any money, h*ll no! This money will go to rebuild the Million dollar plus homes and beaches (businesses owned by millionaires) along the coast of the Rich. Some of these families have owned property/businesses there for generations and every big storm get rebuilt by the tax payers.
When I grew up along the coast and they were filling in swamps along the shore and turning them into developments with million dollar homes us locals used to laugh because we knew they would some day be washed away and now they are swamps again and they want to redevelop SWAMPS, in some instances the STATE took BEACH property where we used to hang and homes worth 10's of millions of dollars are now there, this is what will be rebuilt not your relatives home of the middle class. I seen it before and it will happen again.
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Shooterman

Sooner or later, Ol' Krispy Kream will piss in Dude's Post Toasties, and Dude will be forced to find another hero to push for '16. :lol:



Sorry, Dude, couldn't resist.
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kramarat

Quote from: Shooterman on January 03, 2013, 05:00:43 AM
Sooner or later, Ol' Krispy Kream will piss in Dude's Post Toasties, and Dude will be forced to find another hero to push for '16. :lol:



Sorry, Dude, couldn't resist.

The last image I have of Christie.....................is of him hugging Obama, and saying what an outstanding job he did on the Sandy response; a few days before the election.

I haven't heard anything about the Sandy damage since. I assumed that everything was fixed and back to normal.

The Stranger

In the end even Christy follows the money trail and it leads to the Million dollar plus homes along the beach. I lived in-land during Andrew I think it was and lived in a middle class area and you know what we didn't get one penny in grants or low interest loans yet the coast was replenished with McMansion on our buck. It's reality dude. I as well as a few other neighbors had trees crush our house in two and the rest was damaged by water from the rain.
Why no criticism of NO RED TAPE by Christy?  It's been two months now and he' still waiting, huh who would have thunk? How many trips has Obama made back since the photo op?
"Every man is like the company he keeps."
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your Future"

Shooterman

Quote from: The Stranger on January 03, 2013, 05:14:18 AM
In the end even Christy follows the money trail and it leads to the Million dollar plus homes along the beach. I lived in-land during Andrew I think it was and lived in a middle class area and you know what we didn't get one penny in grants or low interest loans yet the coast was replenished with McMansion on our buck. It's reality dude. I as well as a few other neighbors had trees crush our house in two and the rest was damaged by water from the rain.
Why no criticism of NO RED TAPE by Christy?  It's been two months now and he' still waiting, huh who would have thunk? How many trips has Obama made back since the photo op?

Krispy Kream can almost walk on water, or at least float on water.

After Rita smacked SE Texas and SW Louisiana two or three weeks after Katrina, there were still 'blue roofs' on houses for years. Poor folks or middle class, though.
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Patriot

Quote from: The Stranger on January 03, 2013, 01:42:17 AM
Not saying who is right and who is wrong here he is for the rich land owners along the coast. Do you think any middle class folk are going to see one penny of any money, h*ll no! This money will go to rebuild the Million dollar plus homes and beaches (businesses owned by millionaires) along the coast of the Rich. Some of these families have owned property/businesses there for generations and every big storm get rebuilt by the tax payers.
When I grew up along the coast and they were filling in swamps along the shore and turning them into developments with million dollar homes us locals used to laugh because we knew they would some day be washed away and now they are swamps again and they want to redevelop SWAMPS, in some instances the STATE took BEACH property where we used to hang and homes worth 10's of millions of dollars are now there, this is what will be rebuilt not your relatives home of the middle class. I seen it before and it will happen again.

I don't know where you get the idea that the money is for the rich.  Are you aware of the extensive damage to many small business and homes that were worth far less than a million dollars?

raptor5618

I liked a lot of things that Christie did in the past but that thing with Obama and now blaming Boehner and the Rep party for all the problems with getting money to NJ seems to say that he is all for the government solving every problem and to hell with wasting money as long as some of it goes to Jersey.   Seems like he is ready to join the Dem party to me.  That bill was more for other things than it was for helping those who were affected by Sandy.  Yet not one word expressing disgust that they tried to cram that pork in the bill causing it to be slowed down. 

Respect what he has done for Jersey but do not believe he is a small government type of guy.  Oh I think we need more politicians that speak to truth as they see it.  I think he was wrong in this case but in others he made no excuses for doing what he was elected to do.  Too many politicians are much better at talking without saying anything.
"An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity."

The Stranger

Quote from: USAPatriot on January 03, 2013, 07:36:14 AM
I don't know where you get the idea that the money is for the rich.  Are you aware of the extensive damage to many small business and homes that were worth far less than a million dollars?

I still have friends in the area that I talk to regularly. Yes I grew up right in the heart of the Jersey Shore and had business' there for more then a decade. I remember as a kid and my early years whenever there was a storm Bradley and Lautenburg walking the beaches whining for Aid. I remember the photo ops they had with the machines repairing these folks back yards. Most went to rebuild the beaches in front of the Multimillion dollar homes. I worked in many of these homes and know tax money rebuilt many and will do it again, these folks get low interest loans or even grants.
There are entire neighborhoods in Ocean County that are gone, they were swamps when I was a kid and they filled them in and make lagoon developments. Some of these are already being rebuilt with tax money.
I remember the North-easterner of 1992 when oil tanks and furnaces were floating down ocean ave in Pt. Pleasant and I know none of the smaller homes getting aid from the government because I worked in many at the same time the township outlawed floor heaters and these folk had to get a C of O and couldn't without central heating. Some of these homes were bought up by local realtors who turned them into rentals because people couldn't afford to repair them.
I was giving low interest loans thru my business as well as a HVAC manufacture. These folks were thrown under the bus and will be again wait and see.
Some of the arcades have been in the same family on the boardwalks for a hundred years and have made hundreds of millions over the years why should tax money replace/repair their businesses?
I'm angry because the little guy will get the shaft and Obama and Christy will get their photo ops.

http://www.app.com/viewart/20121120/NJNEWS/311200029/Study-N-J-beaches-30-40-feet-narrower-after-storm
I don't know if you know this or not but you have to pay for beaches in NJ. And this here town of Mantoloking there isn't a house there for under several million on the beach side and the PUBLIC ISN'T ALLOWED on the beach in front of or around these homes. It's like their own little country club kept up with tax money.
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mdgiles

If you can explain all the pork in the rescue bill - like billions for Amtrack, or 100 million for Alaskan fisheries (I think Alaska was out of Sandie's path) then I'd support Christie. As it is there is more pork than rebuild in the bill. And I'm sort of tired of using tax dollars to rebuild people's sea shore homes ANYWHERE. How much intelligence does it take to understand that if you build your house on the shore, you're at risk of damage. So instead of getting flood insurance and paying every month, they ignore the danger, keep the money, and scream for tax dollars, the minute the storm roars in.
"LIBERALS: their willful ignorance is rivaled only by their catastrophic stupidity"!

Patriot

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Quote from: mdgiles on January 03, 2013, 10:39:42 AM
How much intelligence does it take to understand that if you build your house on the shore, you're at risk of damage. So instead of getting flood insurance and paying every month, they ignore the danger, keep the money, and scream for tax dollars, the minute the storm roars in.

Many houses and businesses destroyed were not right on the beach.  Also, this storm was not of the type that a reasonable person would have expected, so your questioning the intelligence of people not being adequately covered by insurance is not reasonable.  In many of the communities such as Sea Bright, structures that had stood for decades and are now wiped out.  I'm not making a case for blanket tax dollars.  Alternate means such as SBA loans have been used in the past.  But sitting back and denigrating those people is not right.  (If you do denigrate those in NJ, then it would logically apply to those in other areas like Staten Island.)

Darth Fife

Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy happened over 2 months ago, and Gov. Christie is just now getting upset about the lack of response by the Federal Government?

What's his problem? He did a photo op with Obama 2 months ago (just in time for the election! :rolleyes:) and Obama assured him that he would cut through all the Red Tape and get the areas affected the assistance they needed.

Of course, that was 2 months ago... (and prior to the election).

Why did he only attack Boehner and the Republicans when I'm sure he is savvy enough to know that the real reason for the delay in the bill was the tons of pork piled on it by the Democrats?

Methinks he protesteth too much!

The only thing Christie is doing is playing politics and trying to pre-position himself for a run for the White House in 2016. My only question is, is he going to run as a Republican or a Democrat? :rolleyes:


raptor5618

If he is planning on running for president it certainly is not going to be in the Republican party.  His most recent tirade against the party is probably pushing things a bit too far.  Of course the Republican party is becoming more and more like the Dem party and viewing other boards all the conservatives are registering as either independents or libertarians.   

He sounded like a whiny Dem during his rant. I see him changing parties before he runs again for gov.  He is doing a good job for the state which is important and if he is a Dem he can stay there as long as the state lets him.  Not sure if they have term limits there.  But clearly he is not a good standing member of a party that theoretically stands for lower taxes and less government.   
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The Stranger

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Again why isn't the GOP yelling and screaming about the Billions and Pork. WTF is it with them. So now they're going to pass a bill that is pork ridden! :cursing: :sad: :confused: :angry:

Oblamer just passed a cliff bill with billions for Hollywood if he was so worried about NJ why didn't he add some money for the NE?
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"Show me your friends and I'll show you your Future"

raptor5618

I have to believe that the GOP has their fingers in some of that pork too so they have to keep their mouths shut. If that is not the case then they really are totally incompetent at doing the right thing.  If they have their fingers in it, well we as a viable nation are doomed. 
"An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity."