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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Another Broken Christie Promise

Jersey Jazzman: Another Broken Christie Promise:

Another Broken Christie Promise

Remember when Chris Christie told all of us public workers here in New Jersey that we had no choice but to accept his broken promises reforms?
“What this legislation will do will be simply to save the pension system for all of those retirees and public workers who are counting on it,” Christie said. “The only way to do that is to control spending -- there is no magic wand. But affordability comes at a price: There are choices to be made and sacrifices to share." [emphasis mine]
We teachers and cops and firefighters and social workers and nurses and DPW workers and everyone else has to "sacrifice," or our pensions were going to disappear. Straight-shootin' Chris was just telling us saps the truthwe had been denied for so long:
At a town hall-style meeting in Camden County, Christie Tuesday said the state has