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Kean: Corzine hurting higher education
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterBLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Former Republican Gov. Tom Kean tends to be more circumspect about criticizing Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, even while he’s the favorite target of members of his own party. But Kean, perfectly aware of the ups and downs of gubernatorial opinion polls, said that he thinks that Republican criticism of Corzine is legitimate.
“It’s not unfounded,” he said. “The state’s not in great shape. Taxes are too high, we’re losing people and businesses. We can’t sustain that. We’ve got to be a state that’s expanding and creating jobs, not losing jobs.”
Kean, who after his second term expired in 1990 went on to become president of Drew University before retiring in 2005, said he recognizes the need to cut the budget, but it’s the programs Corzine has chosen that bother him.
“I have no problem with his cutting the budget, but I do have a problem with the cuts he’s selected that are going to take it out on higher education. I think the future of the state these days is college education is like a high school education… I’m really not happy with that.”
Kean said that, for the small amount trimmed from the budget, state universities suffer a great deal.
“They don’t do a lot, but they have a major impact,” he said.
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An Obama presidency promises expanded government spending and higher taxes; generally speaking, a more socialist form of government. New Jersey's present condition is what the USA would look like if Obama wins. You'd see businesses leaving in droves, people taxed nearly to death and a middle class desperate to leave. Only problem is, unlike NJ's middle class that continues to head for the borders, Americans in the same overtaxed condition would have nowhere to go.
MC Squeeze, you ask why other states can do things cheaper and more efficiently and the answer is easy - pay to play. In NJ, one party has almost exclusive dominance of the political field. The result is that it costs over $2 million per mile of road construction in this state while the national average is less than $200,000 per mile.
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"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
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Tom Kean's just about the only person in New Jersey to find a space to the LEFT of Comrade Corzine.
I dont see the logic...
in the consistent attacks from the farthest right on a man of integrity who brought pride and growth back to New Jersey. If Tom Kean announced he was running against Corzine next year it'd be over for the Democrat.