For doing the right thing, the Garden State’s Chief Executive is sure to face the wrath of those who believe government knows best:
As politicians spend America into the fiscal abyss, Republican Gov. Chris Christie has a novel idea: Freeze spending. For such statesmanship, watch him be demonized like no one before.
In his first inaugural, President Reagan noted the spending constraints that individuals face and asked, “Why then should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?” And in the most famous line from that speech: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
New Jersey’s new governor, the successor of so many corrupt chief executives, is taking action that will make him, like Reagan, the focus of pure hate from those who think what taxpayers earn is Monopoly money to be treated according to the whims and desires of politicians, bureaucrats, union bosses and other power players.
Stand tall, Governor, we bloggers have got your back.
(H/t: Jennifer Rubin.)
Let the Revolution begin!! Maybe, history is now calling on each of us to find our destiny in life. 2010 could be the year for each of us.
Trust government? I don’t think so. Step away from the TV & step into the streets.
There is a new book just out is about a small town in America that stands up to federal tyranny & ends up starting the 2nd American Revolution.
It’s a must read for each of us. Let the People be heard & make ur own destiny. It’s that powerful.
http://www.booksbyoliver.com
Reagan? Didn’t this country end up with some of the biggest deficits in our history after 12 years of Reagan/Bush? Reagan charged everything on a massive credit card while he was President and Bush road his coattails and took the fall. And are you counting another Republican Christie – Christine Todd Whitman as one of those “corrupt chief executives”? Ms. Whitman’s answer to the problem was to borrow money from pension funds, which only heaped on and added to the problems NJ has today.
It’s nice that “bloggers have his back”, but frankly, it’s more up to the citizens of NJ to support his efforts, not the blogosphere.
Um, Kevin, didn’t Reagan have a spendthrift Democratic House for all eight of his years in the White House? And it’s Democrats in the New Jersey state house who are squealing about the cuts.
Dan, there is no point in confusing the liberal progressives with the facts. They have no concept of how the government functions.
Reagan? Didn’t this country end up with some of the biggest deficits in our history after 12 years of Reagan/Bush?
Actually, they were dwarfed in comparison to the deficits run up by the Obama Party and by Barack Obama.
Since you fully endorse and support the latter, your whining about Reagan and Bush is nothing more than complete and total hypocrisy.
And it was a Democratic Congress that lied to Bush 41. They conned him into reneging on his pledge of no new taxes by promising they wouldn´t increase spending. He gave in and they spent more. Today´s Democrats are still the same, Tax and Spend.
An after thought; for conservatives the bitter pill is increased taxation, for Democrats the bitter pill is having to live and conduct business within their means.
3.Um, Kevin, didn’t Reagan have a spendthrift Democratic House for all eight of his years in the White House?
Yes, Dan, Reagan did. They apparently also stole his veto pen as well. Spending went way up during the Reagan years. And yes, not nearly as much as the Obama years so far.
Go back and check the record, Pat. Reagan vetoed some spending bills which were overridden. But, as a percentage of the economy, spending did not go way up.
Dan, I’ll looked over some of the record. Reagan’s vetoes were overridden a total of nine times. Perhaps a good portion of that was for spending. For six of the eight years, the Senate was in Republican hands. And I don’t believe during any of the eight years either house had a veto-proof majority of Democrats.
I’m sure that, as a percentage of the economy, spending did not go way up. However, spending did outpace revenues during Reagan’s years. Contrast that to the Clinton years, where revenues increased about as much as it did during Reagan, but spending increases were much less. I will credit that to a Republican Congress, who kept spending in check.