So the State and Federal tax revenues are down because the banking giants gambled with subprime mortgages which they then sold to pension fund managers. The funds lose a lot of money and instead of pressing the bankers for some of their billions, the GOP goes after teachers with a $50,000 salary?
Certainly Teacher Unions are partially to blame for schools not performing better but Union membership is at an all time low. The Financial CORPORATIONS are sitting on all time HIGH profits but teachers' unions and pensions are the scapegoat and target for budget cuts?
WHO VOTES FOR THESE PEOPLE? Fools who only watch Fox News?
How Chris Christie Did His Homework
Mark Peterson for The New York TimesBy MATT BAI
Published: February 24, 2011
Like a stand-up comedian working out-of-the-way clubs, Chris Christie travels the townships and boroughs of New Jersey, places like Hackettstown and Raritan and Scotch Plains, sharpening his riffs about the state’s public employees, whom he largely blames for plunging New Jersey into a fiscal death spiral. In one well-worn routine, for instance, the governor reminds his audiences that, until he passed a recent law that changed the system, most teachers in the state didn’t pay a dime for their health care coverage, the cost of which was borne by taxpayers.
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And so, Christie goes on, forced to cut more than $1 billion in local aid in order to balance the budget, he asked the teachers not only to accept a pay freeze for a year but also to begin contributing 1.5 percent of their salaries toward health care. The dominant teachers’ union in the state responded by spending millions of dollars in television and radio ads to attack him.
“The argument you heard most vociferously from the teachers’ union,” Christie says, “was that this was the greatest assault on public education in the history of New Jersey.” Here the fleshy governor lumbers a few steps toward the audience and lowers his voice for effect. “Now, do you really think that your child is now stressed out and unable to learn because they know that their poor teacher has to pay 1½ percent of their salary for their health care benefits? Have any of your children come home — any of them — and said, ‘Mom.’ ” Pause. “ ‘Dad.’ ” Another pause. “ ‘Please. Stop the madness.’ ”
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