Chris Christie, Beached
I knew of this story about "the government" "closing the beaches" and Gov. Christie being seen enjoying the empty beach with his family/friends. Being a lifelong California beach kid, I'm somewhat sensitive to such activities. I've seen similar things out here. When they covered the story on the tv I had my wife check it out. What I didn't know was how callous his comments were to the media when asked about it. Did anybody else hear it? I really got a good laugh about how elite he sounded. They even had the lifeguards blocking the entrances to the beach to make sure the public couldn't go on them. Unbelievable.
Lump them all in the Looters Party.
Christie is a great example. If only the voters would learn from it.
He is a looting pig! I have felt that way since he was kissy face with OBLAMO after hurricane Sandy.
Sir Christie of Jersey most definitely proved he ranked as one whale of a guy among the better of our betters during his Hurricane love fest with His Majesty O the Great and Powerful.
Watch this tribute and weep, you have only one vote, little teeny tiny person, you~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTtz...
But Christie's actions are not in support of individual liberty and free markets. He is a statist republican and worse than worthless just like the Dems and many other statist republicans.
It will now become exactly what it is supposed to be under the rule of fools, a "Venezuela on the Hudson" if you will. Now these "Progressive" Democrats can really do the damage they have been planning and desire......
I for one, will be moving to a state that has at least some semblance of sanity left!! Any ideas?
The holdup wasn't his problem, and he was doing his part, we're seeing the slow/steady decline of the social state. We have a few heroes like Chris Christie and Scott Walker pushing needed-reforms on their state budgets, and the "looters" and "cronies" are the ass-hat legislators that won't take something away from someone that bribed them with a campaign donation.
Watch this play out in Illinois, the leftist media is going to portray that as an evil Republican governor taking food away from a baby, when the sticking points are really public employee pensions, education subsidies to districts bought & paid for by the teacher's unions, and Medicaid subsidies.
There is no clause in the bill of rights guaranteeing access to a beach in a state park. Obama started that BS with closing monuments on Capitol Mall and actually hiring Rangers to keep people away from them - rather than just leave the statue there and let people look at it.
Ultimately, he forced a deal, the legislature re-opened the state government, and the beach re-opened by the 4th. He didn't do that as a looter, he did it to prove a point, let the pictures float in the newspaper, and start the outrage by the people to force a budget compromise.
Always keep in mind, the ass-hats in the legislatures are loyal FIRST to the 'donors'. To the people and votes - a distant second. These are not rocket scientists, to be honest, I know quite a few of them, I can't recall a single one of them that seems like a 100 watt light-bulb in the 'brightness' category.
We see this at the national level with the anti-military-spending crowd, when truthfully, there is really only a couple of spending items that bring dollars back in government revenues - military spending and transportation (roads / airports / etc.) and certain types of infrastructure that increase future commerce. All-in, that stuff is about 6% of federal spending though. The social welfare stuff - around 78%+. If we really want to balance the federal budget, we can scrimp and save all we want out of that discretionary 6%, but even if we eliminate it, we still have deficits. Nothing will change until we take a very sharp pencil to entitlements.