and guess who has to pay for them?

I DON'T understand how 38% of public employees think he's doing a good job!

well, I guess masochists are all over the place.

But, with him attacking the AFSCME people, the cops, unemployment benefits, TAX paying families on their way to citizenship, new toll roads, I don't think it's a wise idea to contribute to his reelection campaign.

52% without pain of cuts hitting yet. This man will go down as the worst governor in the history of NJ.

for whatever its worth, the idiotic public employees who didn't stand by Corzine deserve whats coming to them.

Who's runing in the republican primary for governor in 2013?

52% is more than he got in the election you freaks. Hes got pluralities among Independents and Democrats. You morons think its 1966 and the unions can intimidate people. Despite your hope of return to a Socialist paradise the Berlin Wall has fallen in New Jersey and Chris Christie is the man who knocked it down. Why don't you cockroaches go back to sucking a little more of my tax money while you still can before Chris throws your butts out!

By the way, two above posters should be known as "Pensioners", meaning they have delusional conspiracy theories about Chris Christie and Steve Sweeney cutting their benefits, just as the wacko "Birthers" think Barack Obama was born in Kenya and the loony "Truthers" think George Bush blew up the WTC.

Our governor is making tough decisions and politically anti intuitive decisions which the public and specifically tax payers appreciate. Chris Christie is taking the hard bumpy road to making New Jersey a more liveable state, more affordable and more responsible.

Chris Christie could have come in and made excuse after excuse why he could not keep to the heart of his campaign promises, but he did not. He could have allowed pork barrel patronage to continue and capitalize on it through deal making and campaign funds, but he did not.

His style is what we identify with and is articulated without polish or spin. What I see in our governor is a man who understands the big picture and is fearless in the face of opposition. He will demand the status quo to redefine its terms.

He said new Jersey is broken and he would fix it. While polls should be taken with a grain of salt, it appears that the people understand the old saying that you cannot make an omlet without breaking a few eggs.

I don't think teachers get paid too high, but over all, things need to change. We can't afford to be paying police officers 80k on top of benefits and pensions.

ProgressiveDem:

I just don't see how Christie could beat out the combined efforts of Florio, Whitman, McGreevey and Corzine.

He is going to be remembered as one of the best governor we had in many years. if not the BEST!.

New Jersey is broken and he is going to fix it. The exagerated salaries, multiple jobs and enormous accumulations of money in various pensions and other benefits all of them paid by the taxpayers can't continue.

The governor knows he was elected by the people to serve the people. To stop the constant "FRAUD" of the taxpayers money is a good start.

He got the message and now POSITIVE change is coming to New Jersey.

Keep it up governor. you are in the right track.

Go get them Chris don't back down we are behind CHANGE IN TRENTON

Governor Donovan is no friend of the taxpayer please dump Donovan.... Caliguire would be better

Whatever you're drinking, I'll have a double.

He's popular now because of the contrast in style over milquetoast-ish Jon Corzine.

Corzine had brains and a good heart but was missing his balls.....Christie has balls and a halfway decent brain but no heart.

Christie is already screwing up our environment and the fallout from that will be thousands of sick and dead New Jerseyans in the future.

Christie will indeed mess up the state and make us look more like California.......it's a shame that the Democrats don't have the guts to fight back against this bully. Then again, many of the Democrats are machine hacks just like Christie is.

A pox on both your houses.

Meanwhile, the ordinary unconnected working person will continue to be totally shafted by this governor.

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Over the past several years, we've been pressing our town and school system to run a tight ship, in anticipation for stormy days and to abate higher taxes. Our school staff had been cut down to the bone, where additional cuts will come out of special services, music and sports, something we really don't want to do.

The problem I have with former Gov. Corzine's original decision, and now backed by Gov. Christie, is that our town was overtaxed last year by $3.4M. The monies that we paid last year were to have been used to help abate property taxe increases this year. Now, we find ourselves losing that equal amount from state funding - since we have that as an excess. This now means that we will effectively be taxed twice, since now we will have a rate increase to offset the decrease in state funds.

We're a town that had been trying to do everything right and now we are being penalized for our fiscal prudence. We saved our money to use this year, our tax money, not with these cutbacks, we are now faced with a 4% tax levy to make up for shortages. If our town was inefficient, like most, we would have spent all the money and asked for more. THIS IS DOUBLE TAXATION TO US - as other towns enjoyed their state money, money they paid to the state and got back. We paid money to the state and are now having it TAKEN BACK!

If former Gov. Corzine did so many things wrong, why is Gov. Christie following through with one of his other plans?

This no different than Pres. Obama's continuation and implementation of the former Bush administration's TARP program.

Gov. Christie and the state Republicans should not be allowed to comment on the Pres. Obama's handling of the TARP program, as Gov. Christie is managing his initial year in a similar manner.

DO THE RIGHT THING AND PROTECT THE WELL RUN SCHOOL DISTRICTS!