A strange tale of proportions, both large and small, has emerged in New Jersey. Newark mayor Cory Booker is living for one week on foodstamps, just to show that people in poverty are struggling to get by, and that the government is not giving them enough to live on. In contrast, Governor Chris Christie, who could get by without eating for one week, is cutting back on government so that people do not have to rely on foodstamps in the first place, nor feel compelled to live off government more than they have to.
Christie went on “Oprah” to tout education reform for all New Jerseyans, including the Newark school district. Wearing his furry wet fleece through thick and thin, Christie stood by his state when Hurricane Irene then Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey. He cut property taxes for three years in a row, and he helped designate his state as “Number One” for corruption busting. He demanded teacher tenure reform and blocked excessive federal boondoogles which would have cost billions that taxpayers could not pay. He pushed for pension reform, saving workers retirements without ruining the state or breaking the state’s entitlement funds.
While mainstream media pundits are still asking the Governor if he “weighs too much”, Christie still asserts, and rightly so, that government “does way too much.” I think that the Garden State and the United States would prefer a Big Governor who supports limited government as opposed to a little leader who boasts about Big Government.
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