(M)an: Dude! Don’t New Jersey voters understand that they
are supporting irresponsible conservatism by voting for Chris Christie? Don’t
people realize what it means that Chris Christie is going to be joined by
former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani this weekend on his campaign tour that is being funded heavily by
the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National Committee?
(D)ude: Man! Rudy Giuliani was that mayor of NYC who did not
respond aggressively enough to the World Trade Center bombing that took place
on February 26, 1993, clearly eight years prior to the September 11, 2001
bombings that injured 6,000 and killed 2,977 victims.
M: Dude! The 1993 World Trade Center bombing claimed the
lives of 7 victims, including thirty-six-year-old secretary and mother-to-be
Monica Smith and her unborn child. Do the people of New Jersey remember the granite
memorial fountain honoring the 7
victims and how it too was decimated on September 11, 2001? Do they remember
the inscription on that fountain built in 1995? “On February 26, 1993, a bomb set by terrorists exploded below this
site. This horrible act of violence killed innocent people, injured thousands,
and made victims of us all.”
D: Man! Do the women and the African American voters in New
Jersey not understand that the “three balanced budgets without raising taxes”
boast on Chris Christie’s campaign website does not reflect their best
interests? Do they understand that as governor, Christie has to balance the
budget every year and wants to too to the detriment of the working poor and the
middle class? Realistically, do women and minorities and the poor really think
that “without raising taxes” is triumph for them? Do New Jersey folks not get
that Christie and his running mate for Lt. Governor, Kim Guadagno, are in
office for the sake of the wealthiest New Jersey families?
M: Dude! Christie and Guadagno also boast on their campaign
website, “best private sector job growth in 11 years” and I wonder if the
people of New Jersey know the significance of public sector job growth for the
upkeep of a striving working class and similar trends within the middle class,
which depends on public sector job growth that the Democratic Party has been
trying desperately to introduce through The American Jobs Act that Christie is
clearly not in favor of and in fact stands behind the Republican Party
obstructionists who, by the way, will have remained constantly on break for
most of November 2013.
D: Man! Chris Christie and the Republican Party are acting
like there is contention between them, which is in actuality a façade. As being
against The American Jobs Act, Christie is standing against the most vulnerable
Americans which includes the people of New Jersey who are trying to make ends
meet and could indeed succeed in doing just that with the assistance provided
to them via The American Jobs Act.
M: Dude! Public sector job growth as described and proposed
in The American Jobs Act will help in preventing teachers from being laid off
and we must remember how Christie and Guadagno are very active in trying to get
teacher unions and police and firefighter unions to give up their hard earned
pensions slowly and steadily by introducing injustices like having them pay a
significant fraction of their pensions into their healthcare coverage and
towards balancing that very same budget that Christie boasts about having
maintained and balanced for three consecutive years.
D: Man! That’s essentially what’s behind the boast,
“landmark pension and benefit reforms that saved taxpayers $120 billion” that
is also listed as a strength of Chris Christie’s on the website promoting him
and Lt. Governor Guadagno for another term. The Democratic Party’s Barbara
Buono will not balance New Jersey’s budget on the backs of union pensioners and
will, instead, be upfront about the fact that those taxpayers that Christie
sides with on all issues are in fact the upper crust of New Jersey society and
predominantly wealthy who need to contribute something in return for all
Americans to achieve their dreams and actually begin to aspire once again.
M: Dude! The American Jobs Act is fully paid for but Chris
Christie still doesn’t back down from misleading constituents that the
President’s long-term deficit reduction plan is a failure and gives falsifications
in order to support the blatant untruth. Christie’s misinformation makes me
think about what’s currently happening to the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare: Chris Christie is saying erroneous things about the implementation
of the healthcare marketplace by scaring youth in particular and every age
group in fact with statements like, “The President told people that if they
liked their health coverage, they wouldn't have to change it, but that is not
true. The real problem is people weren't told the truth. The White House needs
to square that with what was told to the American people and told to the
Congress beforehand. You can see all the problems with this and what the
federal government wanted us to do ... to take up this burden ourselves without
telling us how much it would cost or telling us what authority we would have to
run our exchanges.”
D: Man! Democrat Howard Dean of Vermont said it clearly. The
former governor of Vermont, Dean explained how Obamacare promotes consumer
protection through federal regulations, which, by the way, Chris Christie
doesn’t want and in fact rallies against if you listen carefully to his
rhetoric. Well, anyways, going back to Former Governor Howard Dean’s
assessment, the general rule of thumb for insurance companies is to be spending
at least 80% of what they bring in on healthcare specifically.
M: Dude! Exactly! The people who are having to change
insurance plans are not being targeted themselves by the federal government,
rather their lacking health plans are being discovered as inferior and in need
of replacement. Obamacare is protecting consumers from having to pay exorbitant
prices for subpar coverage and care. And Chris Christie doesn’t favor
government regulations, like the majority if not all the members of the Republican
Governors Association, which Christie is scheduled to preside over if he wins
reelection.
D: Man! Chris Christie also boasts on his campaign website,
“lowest growth in property taxes in 2 decades” and that he and Guadagno have,
“cut taxes on small business”… but I would think The American Jobs Act would be
a far more income equitable solution for New Jersey constituents to want to
accept by voting for Democrat candidate for NJ Governor Barbara Buono on
Tuesday, November 5, 2013.
M: Dude! Barbara Buono will make sure that, like listed
already in The American Jobs Act, there are tax cuts to assist small businesses
in New Jersey in hiring and expanding further while preserving the integrity
and the existence of the working and middle classes in the United States. This
last point is crucial and ought to get New Jersey voters to wake up and smell
the indignity of stats revealing such injustices as the top 1% of families
taking in 95% of the income gains post-Recession, and that the nutrition
assistance cuts that the Congressional Republicans imposed before going on
vacation themselves Friday, will hurt 559,000 people and 16,000 veterans in New
Jersey alone.
D: Man! What about the parents who will disqualify for SNAP
benefits because of Representative Eric Cantor’s loophole that they must find a
job before they can qualify?
M: Dude! That’s just the beginning of the hellishness Eric
Cantor wants to throw at able-bodied adults who rely on safety nets like SNAP
to supplement their income that otherwise would not afford them food. And let’s
keep in mind that 90% of the food bought with food stamps is not junk, but vital
must-haves like fruit and veggies, grain products, and meats and dairy. And
Eric Cantor is promoting a “culture of poverty” where states too will have an
incentive to harass and disqualify parents from SNAP benefits, according to the
New Jersey Star-Ledger Editorial Board.
D: Man! The states have the incentive of keeping half the
savings made from disqualifying parents from receiving food stamps due to
inability to find a job immediately, regardless of high rates of unemployment
and the obstructionist Congressional Republicans blocking all of President Obama’s
researched, bipartisan proposals and taking an astonishing number of holidays
and breaks on the backs of working class constituents like us!
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