Where's Joe Wilson to shout, "You lie!"

Wonder what all those Ocean County voters are thinking now?

Exactly how different would the election be if you could re-do your vote now?

"I can tell you this: I will not balance this budget by increasing taxes."

That's EXACTLY what we all voted for. Go Chris Go!

"Many of you pushed me during the campaign to be more specific about when we would cut taxes and by how much, and I refused to do that. Now you see why," he said.

Because he was and remains clueless?

"There's no reason for them to be fearful," Christie said when asked specifically about state workers.

He's either crazy or lying.

"That's EXACTLY what we all voted for"

Actually, 49% voted for that. And anyone who believes there are enough state workers and programs that can be cut to make up $8B without tax cuts is definitely crazy. Asset monetization, here we come!!

As I, and most experts note, the only way to save money is to consolidate. Its not "route our corruption" its not state workers, its not even state spending...we simply do not need State, County, Local, and School Board jurisdictions. There is no reason why there needs to be police departments in Sea Isle, Wildwood, Cape May, Avalon, Stone Harbor, etc...when we could easily develop the County Sheriff's office. This is a Democrat and Republican problem. There are more school districts than towns and more towns than needed. I know we all love local control, but it is what is driving people out of the state.

campaign operative democrats posting on here as though they care about taxes or spending restraints. They write as though Christie failed already and the guy got elected two weeks ago and hasn't taken office yet. "We remember" is especially pathetic - like he cares about, or even remotely understands, the good people in Ocean County who would vote for Christie again and again over Corzine. He's probably some angry dem hack who lost his job as an aide up in Jersey City to some criminal who got busted by the guy they hate - successful prosecutor Christie.

People have to learn to take responsibility for themselves and stop relying on government. Law enforcement and education need to be significantly cut. Our tax dollars should only go towards fighting the most serious crimes such as actually rape, murder, robbery and terrorism. The drug war is lost and I don't feel my tax dollars should continue to fund police to fight it. Many of the sex laws I feel the same way like prostitution.

I think we should eliminate the entire Motor Vehicle Commision. People are driving whether they have a license, a registered vehicle, valid inspection or not. The only people it benefits is the government. The driving test is a joke to begin with.

Public high schools should be completely eliminated except for children with learning disabilities. The rest can work from home or public library using their computer to reach their hs diploma.

Christie, who blamed the fiscal mess not just on the economy but on the past eight years of Democratic governance - singling out former Gov. Jim McGreevey, whose fiscal management he called "obscene"

I am encouraged and support Christie, but I have to scratch my head at his comment above.  If Christie thinks McGreevey's fiscal management was "obscene," (and I agree with him there), why did he name McGreevey's State Treasurer to his transition team? "

We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work!"
- FDR's Treasure Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, in 1939, on 8 years of New Deal spending as an attempt to end the Great Depression.

" If Christie things McGreevey's fiscal management was "obscene," (and I agree with him there), why did he name McGreevey's State Treasurer to his transition team?"

Because you can fool some wingnuts all the time, and all wingnuts some of the time.

Now watch Chris Christie make a liar out of Lincoln.

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"Public high schools should be completely eliminated except for children with learning disabilities. The rest can work from home or public library using their computer to reach their hs diploma. "

With all due respect this is one of the most horrible suggestion I have ever seen. I would rather live in a nation where an education is secure (as Madison and Jefferson expected) as opposed to reliying on the masses to educate themselves. That, as we all know, would be a monumental failure-our kids are behind now can you imagine what would happen if you simply cut away schools?

SJBlue: "I would rather live in a nation where an education is secure (as Madison and Jefferson expected) as opposed to reliying on the masses to educate themselves."

Let's leave aside for the moment your snide elitism regarding the "masses." If you knew anything about American history in general and the history of public education in this nation in particular, you would know that in the days of the Founders most folks were educated at home. There was no such thing as "public" schools - even the universities were private institutions.

Public schools, as such, did not achieve any organized prominence until after the Civil War.

"That, as we all know, would be a monumental failure-our kids are behind now can you imagine what would happen if you simply cut away schools?"

Unfortunately we are at a point in time when the "masses," as you refer to them, very likely lack the ability and the time to instruct their own children, insofar as most of them are products of a public school system that went down the toilet shortly after the rise of the teachers' unions.

The way out of this morass, of course, is to abolish the NJ Department of Education, outlaw the teachers' unions in NJ and then obliterate (actually, ignore) the directive of the SSC regarding the Abbott districts.

In such an environment, individual school districts would have the freedom to decide how best to educate their children - free from the encumbrance of the state government and the self-serving teachers' unions.

of course, none of this will ever happen. And education in NJ will continue its sad decline.

Its not snide, I am apart of the masses. Using the "computer" and libraries are great tools, but you and I both know that leaving education up to oneself is dangerous. So much mis-information exists that to encourage the non-structured system advocated is dangerous. Schools themselves when they are effective they encourage far more than simle classroom learning thye encourage social development and accountability. Madison and Jefferson thogh they lived in an era when many learned at home, they were aware (as you should be) that the vast majority of successful people were formally educated. Madison in virtually all of his personal diaries lamented at the lack of access to education in general. To compare thier education to modern day and say what was good enough for them is good enough for us is short-sighted. It would be the same as saying they fought a war with muskets so so can we...times and technology change.

"The way out of this morass, of course, is to abolish the NJ Department of Education, outlaw the teachers' unions in NJ and then obliterate (actually, ignore) the directive of the SSC regarding the Abbott districts."

What he really means to say is put everyone in a time machine and send them back to the eighteenth-century.

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