The new Republican face of the week is Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. After constantly saying “no” over and over when questioned whether he will run for president, Christie is possibly having a change of heart. Added into the mix of current candidates, Christie would surely shake things up. His anti-worker stance in New Jersey has been popular among conservatives, but hated by many others. Here are 5 reasons why Chris Christie would be a horrible president.
1. War on Workers - As we look around the country, the war on workers has grown. Conservative governors such as Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Rick Scott in Florida, have stepped on the average worker and union member as they’ve seen their rights stripped away at every turn. Chris Christie is one of the names on the list that has gone after union rights. In order to get his budget under control, instead of asking the wealthiest members of his state to contribute, Christie attacked union members and forced them into pension and health care cuts and froze their raises in the future.
2. Anti-Education - Like many other conservatives, the attack on public education is nothing new. Republicans look to privatize schools, manipulate the curriculum and cut more spending out of their budget to preserve the tax breaks for the wealthiest members of their state. Christie has cut over $1 billion in public education since coming into office, which effects both teachers and students. Public education cuts have more to do than just tightening the budget, they are also a great way to break apart public sector unions. Public school teachers are part of a larger public sector union, which are one of the top contributors to Democratic campaigns. Like his Republican friends, Christie looks to destroy unions in order to weaken the Democratic party, even at the expensive of working Americans.
3. Destroying Social Security - Out of all the government programs, none has stood the test of time and been as successful as Social Security. Before the great President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, over 75% of seniors lived in poverty, today that number is less than 10%. Chris Christie has followed the GOP stance on Social Security and calls for privatization and raising the retirement age. Currently, seniors over the age of 65 receive benefits. Christie and the Republicans have looked to raise the retirement age to close to 70, forcing the elderly to work even longer despite the average life expectancy in the US to be only 73. While Democrats look to preserve the program, Christie and the Republicans look to destroy it.
4. Christie, of course, loves the rich - While middle-class families lost their property tax rebates, got kicked out of health care programs and schools lost over $1 billion in funding causing massive tuition hikes, Chris Christie pushed to give tax breaks to top income earners. The “token” line of defense for Christie and the Republicans is that if you lower taxes, businesses will want to stay in the state, build and create jobs. This is proven to be false on many occasions. Many pharmaceutical companies have left Christie’s state of New Jersey and headed for states like California and Massachusetts not because of the tax rate, but because they have better research and development centers. Cutting taxes on the rich at the expensive of the middle-class is not just wrong, but deplorable.
5. His Health - When discussing a political candidate, people should stay away from personal matters unless it would really be detrimental to the office. Chris Christie has been criticized, and rightfully so, for his out of control weight problem. Christie has had a history of medical problems, and was even taken to the emergency room in July because of severe breathing problems and an asthma attack. Obesity is one of the leading causes of heart failure, and Christie is the perfect example of someone who needs to take better care of themselves. The issue with Christie’s weight has nothing to do with his politics, but maybe instead of trying to take care of the country, he should try to take care of himself first.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
5 Reasons Why Chris Christie Would Be A Horrible President
This post from Addicting Info hits on all the points as to why our Governor, Chris Christie, would be a disaster as president. The post is not mean-spirted, just a matter-of-fact telling of how it is. Christie maybe the latest GOP flavor of the day and making people sit on the edge of their seats waiting like eager children for a double scoop of Rocky Road ice cream but the bottom line is, he is on the wrong side of many issues that are important to the average person.
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He could start the third World War with his tongue !
Your article is so off base it's childish!
Obama= socialism
Christie=capitalism
Americans believe in Capitalism.
Obama is the worst president in history
he is destroying Our Country .
Many whom voted for Obama realize what a mistake that vote was. Many Democrats and Independents
will vote across party lines to save our country!
Wow! This article is just ridiculous. What ever happened to publishing facts? What happened when Christie asked the NJEA to have teachers contribute 1% to their benefits? When he asked them to take a 1 year pay freeze? They said no to all negotiations. There was no money left so the school budget was cut along with many other tit sucking expenditures. The schools have individual bloated administrations & don't turn out the best students. More to come.....
Anon 1- Christie is not a polished politician who tells you what you want to hear. You need to get tougher skin (or ears) because the truth is really ugly. You need to stop worrying about trivial things like how abruptly he speaks. If you'd like to contribute something of substance than start typing.
Obama the worst Pres.? What a load of crap. GWB takes the cake. Look what he did in 8 years compared to not even 3 years Obama has held office.
You people like to make a lot of noise, but you sound like a bunch of raving lunatics expecting Obama to work miracles.
It doesn't help that your main objective is to obstruct so that Obama will fail. That disgusts all of us who want what's best for the greater good. Republicans only care about winning, not what will help Americans.
You are desperate and looking for any alternative than the current Republican candidates.
Thankfully the more you scream the more those who have been quiet are now standing up to your nonsense.
Christie is an over inflated wind bag and has not accomplished anything without the help of the democrats in Trenton.
The republicans are obstructionists and are the creators of the economic mess in this country. GWB is the stupid oaf that should get the blame for our current mess not Obama. Noisy republicans need to look in the mirror and look back to the Clinton administration and the surplus economic conditions he left this country in....the republicans squandered it....they are nuts in Washington today,,,,totally nuts !
Comical article.
Obama smokes , and you are worried about Christie who does not smoke.
Christie is trying to save the pensions from bankruptcy and Democrats NJEA are forcing it to go into bankruptcy by not allowing teachers to contribute more to save it.
Christies is trying to bring back businesses to NJ that were chased away from high corporate taxes which was making it hard to hire employees. Through lowering taxes we compete with other States and countries to attract them to NJ to put our residents to work, and spend money here. Democrats want to keep them out by taxing them so high they will not operate businesses here. This applies to small business also. That is why you see vacant store and buildings all over. They can't afford to be in business here.
Democrats are taxing to a demise , which is not funny.
Who ever said only Democrats were teachers and members of the NJEA or only Democrats were union members. COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
Beginning to think all republicans are crazies, in fact with statements like those, am convinced they are totally off the wall. No reasonable arguments just lots of blasphemy from the unintelligent who cannot reason so thrust out there the nonsense the republicans are becoming famous for. Idiots, most of them.
Smell the coffee crazies, unions have members from all walks of life and all party affiliations !
Has Hank Williams Jr. moved to Majestic Ave??
That Majestic chick is as nutty as they come!!!!!
Hey 1:39 p.m. 10/4,
Did you ever look in the mirror......what did you see ?
That's what I thought cause there's nothing to see....NADA
I'm glad he's not running. Stay right here and do the dirty work in NJ. Lord knows we have plenty of garbage to clean up. I don't care how much weighs....really? he can move crap uphill and work along side Democrats.. Kudos to the few mature politicians in NJ who work together for the common good.
I'm a little in the dark about the so called Majestic chick so not understanding why she is relevant to this posting.
Do we need to get personal here? Whatever feud is going on should stop.
Its obviously not constructive and takes away from an earnest debate.
I'm getting a little tired of the digs going back and forth and frankly find it very obnoxious and childish on both sides.
Oh boy, must be hitting nails on the head, rattling a few feathers, so the Democrat starts calling names. I'd like to meet this person on Majestic you continually talk about, seems to be a person who seems to intimidate you and who you credit for every great post.
By the way no one said every NJEA member or Teacher were Democrats but guaranteed most are. Many crossed party lines and vote the RIGHT way to save their pensions and realize who is helpping them and who is not, they just don't tell you.
5:57 I know "the chick" as you say, She is a very respectable person liked by everyone and would not act nor write in any disrespectful way. Those who post nasty remarks about her or her family obviously don't know them or just fear their stance in the community. They are all very, very well liked.
Anon 6:01: I hate to burst your bubble, but why do you assume the person going after the Majestic chick is a Dem? Don't you know there are plenty of Independents posting here as well as disgruntled Repubs?
And your comment about the NJEA and how you guarantee most teachers are Dems is another assumption.
Why would they cross party lines to vote the RIGHT way? You don't make any sense.
Anon 6:47: That's really funny. Well liked? I guess it depends on which ones in the family and who you ask.
Let me put it this way; Some are really nice and good people and some are nuts. Just like every dysfunctional American family.
7:11 You say that as an anonymous person, quite cowardly. You surely do not know them.
Anon 9:59: Yup! I'm just as cowardly as you.
Look, let's get real. Anyone who reads Mike's blog can detect a certain style of writing that shows up in numerous posts, under numerous names and or Anonymous, that all come from the same person. She is the sole example of transparency within the current crop of Middletown hacks, but not in a good way. She loves to call out people by name, but acts outraged when the favor is returned.
What do you mean Anon 6:47 by "fear their stance" in the community? Who is "they"? Fear what? Do we have something to fear? I mean other than spreading falsehoods about various members of the community or issues of concern to the community, what should people who live in or work in Middletown fear from "they"? Could "they" cause someone to get hurt? Or lose their jobs? Please elaborate.
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