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Anti Federalist
05-23-2010, 12:25 AM
Comments are encouraging.


Record crowds flood Trenton to protest against N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, budget cuts

TRENTON — Fury over Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget cuts echoed outside the Statehouse today as record crowds flooded the capital to protest the rookie Republican — and warn Democrats against backing his agenda.

http://media.northjersey.com/images/8kx00kza.jpg

The protesters — most from public worker unions and progressive groups — numbered 30,000 to 35,000, according to the State Police. They clutched signs labeling Christie a "loser" and calling for his ouster. They started chants: "They say cut back, we say fight back!" and "We are not the problem!" They even mocked the governor’s affection for working-class hero Bruce Springsteen.

"I don’t know how you can save New Jersey by shutting down our firefighters, police and teachers," said Zein Maya, a West Orange resident and Newark firefighter.

"He’s just picked us as a scapegoat. We just feel so targeted," said Lauren Sheldon, an English teacher at North Hunterdon High School who lives in Pennsylvania.

Though the rally was the culmination of months of animosity between Christie and unions over cuts to pay and benefits, speakers cast the fight in broader terms, linking it to historical causes from women’s suffrage to civil rights.

"It is the beginning of a new political movement in this state, one that stands in opposition to the kinds of cruel and unnecessary cuts that are devastating New Jersey," said Chris Shelton, a vice president with the Communications Workers of America. "One that says to all elected officials — if you want our support, you have to earn it."

http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/052210_rally.html?c=y&page=2

Warrior_of_Freedom
05-23-2010, 12:27 AM
Finally, vengeance for all those years of brainwashing and poor teaching practices. Suck on my balls, NJ teachers! Most of them only care about getting that cozy government job with a tenure with government benefits and a nice fat retirement. They are also upset their sugar daddy, Jon Corzine, is out of office.

RM918
05-23-2010, 01:24 AM
Specs, Joe and I should head down there. We can take'em!

MsDoodahs
05-23-2010, 01:33 AM
Finally, vengeance for all those years of brainwashing and poor teaching practices. Suck on my balls, NJ teachers! Most of them only care about getting that cozy government job with a tenure with government benefits and a nice fat retirement.

That cracked me up!

Chieppa1
05-23-2010, 03:07 AM
Can't stand these people. Elitist teachers thinking they are so fucking important I should help pay your $60K a year. I've learned more in my 3 years reading this forum then all my 8 years of high school and college about the real world, politics, economics.

Ruining New Jersey.

Stary Hickory
05-23-2010, 03:09 AM
Yes they only care about the children that's why they bankrupted the state...wait...that doesn't make any sense.

Union scumbags

Bman
05-23-2010, 03:18 AM
Here's a close up of one of the protesters.

http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/baby_crying_closeup.jpg

Bman
05-23-2010, 03:22 AM
Hold on I found a video.

YouTube - I want my milk!!!!!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6ESs11HfQ&feature=related)

devil21
05-23-2010, 04:01 AM
This calls for:

YouTube - LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc)

LibForestPaul
05-23-2010, 06:06 AM
Can't stand these people. Elitist teachers thinking they are so fucking important I should help pay your $60K a year. I've learned more in my 3 years reading this forum then all my 8 years of high school and college about the real world, politics, economics.

Ruining New Jersey.

Lets stir the pot ...

$60k ???

http://www.myshortpencil.com/teachersalaries.htm
Total Compensation = salary + "add-ons" + benefits + pension
teacher can expect to earn total lifetime compensation of $3.29 million from a 30-year career (in 2003 dollars). That's an average of $109,800 per year worked, or $67.44 an hour.

i.e.
You and I work, we fund our own retirement.
Teacher, police, unionized city worker, tax payer funds their retirement. Guaranteed 1/2 pay after 20 yrs.

JohnEngland
05-23-2010, 06:43 AM
"Record crowds flood Trenton to protest against N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, budget cuts."

<cough> Greece </cough>

Don't you just hate public sector unions? So out of touch with economic reality. They run countries into the ground and still demand bacon. I'm not typically one for banning things but these public sector unions are surely a threat to national security via economic destruction... Better yet, allow them to exist but just don't use tax-payer money to fund them (though this won't happen because one party depends on them for winning elections).

hugolp
05-23-2010, 06:47 AM
"Record crowds flood Trenton to protest against N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, budget cuts."

<cough> Greece </cough>

Don't you just hate public sector unions? So out of touch with economic reality. They run countries into the ground and still demand bacon. I'm not typically one for banning things but these public sector unions are surely a threat to national security via economic destruction... Better yet, allow them to exist but just don't use tax-payer money to fund them (though this won't happen because one party depends on them for winning elections).

Exactly. Unions should be a non-government organization. Unions should be a workers organization, not a government organization like they are now.

easycougar
05-23-2010, 07:09 AM
http://media.northjersey.com/images/8kx00kza.jpg

lotta red in that crowd

devil21
05-23-2010, 04:44 PM
http://media.northjersey.com/images/8kx00kza.jpg

lotta red in that crowd

IIRC, the AFSCME wears the red shirts. SEIU wears the blue. Notice lots of both in the crowd.

t0rnado
05-23-2010, 04:52 PM
Those idiots actually think that they're entitled to our tax money. They're the ones that are bankrupting NJ by stealing billions of dollars and in return, doing next to nothing.

JamesButabi
05-23-2010, 05:19 PM
Thats what happens when your compensation has no competition or market mechanisms at work. Everyone expects increases without improvment.

torchbearer
05-23-2010, 05:21 PM
they should double their budget and give themselves a raise.

JamesButabi
05-23-2010, 05:28 PM
they should double their budget and give themselves a raise.

We should all work in the public sector and make $100,000. That way everyone makes a fair amount and nobody makes more than anyone else. Would pretty much be a utopia.

PeacePlan
05-23-2010, 05:37 PM
It going to look like this all across America after the collapse.

michaelwise
05-23-2010, 09:18 PM
Public sector unions should be illegal and legislated out of existence.

Fredom101
05-23-2010, 09:26 PM
It's amazing how idiotic the talk is out here in CA about school funding. Teachers are saying the state government doesn't care about education! WTF!? As if government EVER had any intention of providing an education!

And, the teachers' solution? MILK THE PEOPLE FOR EVEN MORE TAX MONEY! Brilliant.

Brooklyn Red Leg
05-23-2010, 09:42 PM
Christie needs to get it across to these morons that its the high-end bureaucrats, not the teachers, that are mostly the problem. If the blood-suckers at the top of the food-chain had a weed-whacker taken to their paychecks to be a little more realistic, then there wouldn't be things like 'budget shortfalls'. Its amazing that the stupid sheeple are doing the bidding of their union bosses who make scads more money and have far more perks than they can even dream about. Its also the way to co-opt them to make them understand its not THEM that's being targeted, but the bloated bureaucracy that is eating regular working Americans alive. :mad:

specsaregood
05-23-2010, 09:55 PM
//

Anti Federalist
05-23-2010, 11:39 PM
This calls for:

YouTube - LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc)

Lulz, I've seen that video posted a hundred times before, but never watched it until today.

Is she for real or is it a gag?

AGRP
05-23-2010, 11:44 PM
How much time and money was spent busing and brainwashing children to join?

Surely, every union in the state was there as well.

Brian4Liberty
05-24-2010, 12:16 AM
Perhaps they should look for jobs in the private sector?

Pauls' Revere
05-24-2010, 12:23 AM
"Those people hopelessly dependent upon the system will fight to protect it"
-Morpheous (The Matrix)

YouTube - Matrix is a system (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQozTxQSiE)

HOLLYWOOD
05-24-2010, 12:27 AM
IIRC, the AFSCME wears the red shirts. SEIU wears the blue. Notice lots of both in the crowd.

AFSCME

The narcissistic ME crowd... always about ME.

The shits in the works... look what's coming another huge BAILOUT FOR GOVERNMENT and Foreigners. The only way I see stopping these lunatics is a complete TAX PROTEST and not giving Washington DC any more tax money

Democrats prepare to pass war, government funding bill without Republican support
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/98305-dems-prepare-to-pass-war-spending-measure-without-gop-support

While Republicans are balking at the idea of including the education funding with $33.5 billion for the war, the inclusion of the teacher fund — which could save as many as 300,000 jobs, according to its proponents — could make House liberals take a second look at the package.

Senior Democrats in the upper chamber and the Obama administration are looking to attach to the war bill a $23 billion fund to help state and local governments stave off teacher layoffs.

Of the $59 billion in the measure moving through the Senate,

$33.5 billion is for military operations and will go toward funding Obama’s plan to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan by 30,000. The Senate measure also has
$13.4 billion for compensation to Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange,
$6.2 Billion for Foreign Aid and
$5.1 for domestic disaster aid.i
$5 billion included for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a provision that Republicans considered to be “global bailout” money.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) plans to offer a floor amendment attaching the
$23 billion teacher fund to the package.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has pushed Democratic leaders to include the money for teachers and another $3 billion to help state and local governments stave off cutbacks to police, firefighters and early-education workers.

Another $100 BILLION borrowed... and what the HELL are we bailout out Haiti and Israel again in BILLIONS.

Absolute Lunacy in Washington DC and We The People get to pay for all of this!