This is the lib who was hatin’ on poor Chris Christie last week saying he wanted to smack him upside the head or something and calling him a punk. In this video, he’s attacking Christie again and God takes exception.
Lightning Almost Hits Christie Foe On TV: MyFoxPHILLY.com
HT Hot Air
July 8, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Christie has no further need of endorsements:)
July 9, 2011 at 12:34 am
Something tells me that, if God was planning to smite anybody, it would be Christie. After all, he's given public workers a huge pay cut while having more $100,000-plus earning cronies in his administration, cut funding to public transportation while misappropriating a police helicopter to go to little league ball games, and has slashed funding for education, charity care and (potentially) Medicaid for poor families while giving the super-rich a billion dollar tax cut. Didn't Jesus say something about not exploiting the poor? I'm pretty sure he also said something about it being hard for a rich person to enter Heaven.
July 9, 2011 at 3:24 am
Patty Bonds sent my a video showing a guy being hit by lighting not once, but twice! He survived! Scotju
July 9, 2011 at 5:34 am
@Andrew Mason: Make sure that "Something" is not the devil. If you remember, the devil fell like lightning from the sky.
Mary De Voe
July 9, 2011 at 2:17 pm
So is Christie the new Corapi? Hmmmmmmmmm?
July 9, 2011 at 2:23 pm
"…he's given public workers a huge pay cut"
Like the rest of the world has experienced. Yet again, public workers thinking they should be above the economy. Sheesh. As for education, how sad art and music classes will not be available.
July 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm
JM, yeah I don't know how the economy will survive without painters and musicians.
The horror!
July 9, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Guess it's kind of, shall I say, refreshing to see an arrogant liberal getting "smitten" (and without any actual bodily harm) for a change instead of all the good, hardworking, self-reliant, conservative Christian folk who seem to have borne the full force of God/Nature's wrath this year (tornadoes, floods, wildfires, etc.) Most of the time, it seems nature doesn't play "fair."
Elaine
July 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm
@Andrew Mason;
As an NJ state worker I fully support Christie.
There has been no pay cut for state workers. The contract has yet to be negotiated. But there was a pay cut under the Democrat Governor Corzine. What has happened is that Christie and Sweeney (the man in the video and a Democrat) joined forces passing legislation for state workers to pay more for health benefits.
As for the helicopter ride, I fully support our Governor seeing his son's baseball game. It's a helluva lot better than when McGreevey was using the helicopter to meet his gay lover at the beach.
State funding has actually increased for schools. During 2009 the schools received extra money from the the Federal stimulus package, that funding was eliminated for the 2010-11 school year which reduced the overall aid for schools. However, State funding increased but not enough to compensate for what schools received from the Feds the prior year. It's all online.
What he does want to do is stop funding the ABBOTT schools with money from out of district taxes. Twenty years of funding redistribution has proven that money is NOT the problem with inner city schools.
$100,000?? You'd be amazed at how many state workers make over 100K. The Star Ledger has the stats… knock your socks off.
Lastly, charity does not come from the government. Since you're not sure exactly what Jesus said about the poor try reading a Bible, it'll clue you into what charity really is, too.
July 10, 2011 at 1:13 am
Anonymous: I wasn't the first one to say that God was smiting somebody, in fact it was the original poster who did so and I was just resonding.
JM: If you'll read my first post, I said that Christie has cut pay for public workers while giving his inner circle a record number of $100,000 jobs. Think how much money the state would have if his entourage wasn't so large and well-paid. Also, art and music aren't the only thing suffering. Many schools have had to lay off regular teachers, increasing class sizes, and poorer districts will undoubtedly have to close schools to make ends meet. This isn't about extras, unless you consider educating poor people to be an unnecessary expense.
July 10, 2011 at 1:39 am
Anonymous (2): How nice that you support him. Apparently you don't support him enough not to hide behind anonymity. Christie increased worker contributions to health care and pensions without increasing pay. The unions gave things up, including pay raises, in return for their good medical and pension benefits. Sweeney worked with Christie because he thought that the governor would be honorable, apparently that was a mistake because Christie kicked him to the curb the second he no longer needed votes. If I were Sweeney I'd be angry too.
As for education, Christie has cut funding to many districts while keeping them from raising property taxes to compensate which has led many schools in my area at least to lay off teachers and cut programs. Federal funding is irrelevant, and in fact our governor has jeopardized it with his "mistake" on Race to the Top funding as well as his mishandling of federal transportation funds that got us sued by the feds. I don't know where you live but here things are going very poorly for public education. Abbott exists for a reason, by the way, you can't underfund the program for decades and then try to eliminate it because it's not working. Poor districts have higher per student spending because parents there can't hire tutors or afford special academic programs and those burdens must therefore be carried by the school district. It's not that teachers in Camden et al. are greedy and overpaid, in fact they probably make less than teachers in most districts and suffer more for it.
Public education is not charity, it is an obligation of the government to provide for the general welfare. It's not in the best interests of society to have a "poor class" full of people who can't even get a grade school education. Jesus says in Mark 10 that his followers should give all they have to the poor. He also said elsewhere that whatever you do to the least of men you do to him. I don't know how Jesus will feel about being denied charity care so some rich guy can buy another yacht.
July 10, 2011 at 4:09 am
Andrew:
First of all, you obviously don't get that the "smite" thing is a joke, but considering the sanctimony dripping from your keyboard it's understandable that you don't understand humor.
Anyway, you said, "he's given public workers a huge pay cut," to which it was pointed out that no, in fact this is incorrect. You completely moved the goalposts in your response, which demonstrates that like most libs, you're intellectually dishonest.
And can it with the Scripture quoting, especially since you don't quite get the "thou shalt not bare false witness thing."
July 10, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Paul: If you found yourself paying more for healthcare without a corresponding raise in pay, I'm guessing that you'd consider it to be a pay cut. Certainly your take-home pay would decrease, which is what matters when you're trying to make ends meet. That's not moving the goalposts, it's just reality. If you want to talk about intellectual dishonesty, let's talk about Christie's tactic of painting unionized workers as greedy monsters who can afford to lose a sizable chunk of their income during a recession. Dismissing me away as a "lib" just because you don't like what I'm saying is also quite intellectually dishonest. This isn't about politics, it's about working families being treated like garbage and exploited because the governor wants to make this state a playground for rich people. I'm not even sure what you mean with the "bearing false witness" thing, I don't think that I lied about what anybody said or did, so you'll have to enlighten me before I can respond. As for "sanctimony," perhaps you should talk to the Anonymous poster who accused me of biblical illiteracy because I said that God doesn't favor the rich over the poor.
July 10, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Andrew,
Christie doesn't have to paint union supporters as greedy monsters, they do that all by themselves!
Don't expect any pity from me because you have to pay a few more dollars for health insurance and for that you expect to get a wage increase; do you not realize that you already pay far less than most people do for those lavish benefits?!
If you really want to know who it is that does not care about working families, take a look at any Union official! Let's see, have any unions cut the amount of dues one must pay them? of course not!
-LisaC
July 10, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Anonymous: Yeah, it's so greedy to ask for a wage sufficient to afford living and raising a family in the state where you work. I don't know if you live in New Jersey, but it's quite expensive here and I doubt that most public workers want to commute from Pennsylvania. Unions need money to advocate for their members, I know that some people would rather rob them of their funding so that they can't advocate and employers can step all over the rights of their workers but you can't begrudge the workers for having a problem with that. Perhaps the governor should decrease the size of his entourage, or better yet give up his own salary like Corzine did, and put that money toward paying people who actually do their jobs. I'm not a public worker by the way, nor am I part of a union. The unions gave up a lot to get those benefits that they are now being expected to relinquish, many times they were asked to give up pay increases in return for concessions that they are now being vilified for taking. If the governor has the money to just lower taxes on the rich by a billion dollars, he certainly has the money to make good on promises that the state has made to its workers over the course of decades.
July 11, 2011 at 12:33 am
Dismissing me away as a "lib" just because you don't like what I'm saying is also quite intellectually dishonest. This isn't about politics, it's about working families being treated like garbage and exploited because the governor wants to make this state a playground for rich people.
Yawn. If the best you can do is come up with is trite cliches and silly class warfare talking points, it makes it rather an easy decision to dismiss anything you have to say.
July 11, 2011 at 2:14 am
@Andrew Mason. First,let me say that God is perfect. Perfection needs no "correction". "Unions need money to advocate for their members, I know that some people would rather rob them of their funding so that they can't advocate and employers can step all over the rights of their workers but you can't begrudge the workers for having a problem with that." My union paid $50.00 per day to any person who would go door to door stomping for the election of Jim McGreevey. The first thing McGreevey did was go to Ireland and send the New Jersey taxpayers a telephone bill for $77,000.00 among other things too indecent to mention. My union dues were used to campaign for someone I would not have voted for. How come???
Mary De Voe
July 11, 2011 at 2:22 am
@Andrew Mason "Public education is not charity, it is an obligation of the government to provide for the general welfare." Taxes belong to the taxpayer even while being administered by the administration. To deny some citizens public funding for education because of their beliefs is unconstitutional and taxation without representation.
Mary De Voe
July 11, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Paul: Are you from New Jersey, or do you just know what FOX News tells you about what's going on here? If anybody's waging "class warfare," it's Christie and his rich benefactors who have systematically destroyed the programs that keep poor people afloat while refusing to touch the stuff that benefits the already rich. This is getting tiresome, if all you can write is that I can't be taken seriously because I don't parrot what you hear from conservative talking heads.
Mary: When did I say that God was in need of perfecting? Unions should have restrictions on their political influence just as corporations should (and don't), but I'm sure that plenty of CEOs put money that they made off the sweat of their workers into the election campaign of McGreevey's Republican challenger and the Supreme Court recently decided that they can do so without any limit so why shouldn't unions have the same right? After all, corporations only have all that money to spend on influencing elections because they underpay their workers for the price of their labor. If I worked for a corporation that used the fruits of my labor to support Christie then I would feel just as bad as you did about the union and McGreevey.
The government cannot enforce a systematic inequality of education, which is what they're doing by underfunding the school system. Schools in rich districts can get by without so much state funding, while poor districts will crumble and fail. Why should students in rich districts get a substantially better education than students in poor districts, based solely on the fact that they live in an area with a larger tax base? That's what happens, even under the joke that they've created out of Abbott, and it will only get worse when Christie succeeds in killing Abbott. It's the poor who are being taxed without representation, as they pay their share of taxes (perhaps not income tax for the truly poor, but sales tax and property tax) and get to send their kids to dilapidated schools that have textbooks from the 60s. I didn't even go to an Abbott school, my school neither sent nor received funding, and yet some of the textbooks that I used had names in them from the time when my father was in high school. In one class there weren't even enough books for the number of students. How much worse must it be in places like Camden?
July 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Andrew,
Several times now I have had my contribution for healthcare increased without a corresponding pay increase. It happens all the time.
Welcome to life.