WRRB/Telegram District City Council Forum 10/18
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This forum is for all district council candidates; all candidates are here
today. Format: 14 total questions, 4 questions across districts (for all
candida...
6 months ago
5 comments:
Lower taxes? Not at all! This opinion piece only tells half the story. Gov. Christie is cutting the state budget by cutting aid to schools and municipalities. Those towns have been forced to respond by laying off teachers, police officers, and firemen- thus making the community dumber and more dangerous.
At the same time, the municipalities are all raising their local property taxes to help cover the state shortfall.
So, the whole story is that we in NJ are getting taxed MORE for less services. Great job, Gov. Christie!
See:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2010/03/gov_chris_christies_real_budge.html
That article is a bit short on details. It's pablum style politics. What are the solutions, and what are the consequences of his solutions?
Laying off cops, firefighters and teachers does not nec. make the community more dangerous.
Cops and firemen insist on summer time vacations in their union contracts. These summertime vacations mean fewer cops and firemen during the months. Is the community more dangerous in the summer with fewer public safety employees? If yes, then obviously our public safety officers could care less about public safety vs. summertiem vacations????...i guess?
A few more students per class also does not nec. translate into a dumber community.
The public sector is too bloated and we need across the board cuts in all depts. We could start by paying firefighters fire- fighter wages when they are fighting fires. When not fighting fires we'll pay them DPW wages for working on the city's infrastructure.
Some communites in other parts of the country are considering merging police and fire with a resultant synergy that will reduce total rank & file numbers.
Times are a changin' Advances in technology always change the job market. Why should the public sector be immune from these changes?
A little bit of advice to you folks who think b/c you re in education and public safety....people who are not in these fields are becoming more fed up with your antics by the day. Change has come to the Big 3 auto makers and soon it will come to the Big 3 municipal work groups.
sorry Bill, my sister and every other parent I know in Jersey is fed up with this clown, which is why he has such low favorability ratings. My sister's school district is laying off every school librarian. thats just dumb, and it WILL affect the kids' education - having some stay-at home moms "filling in." he is becoming the Republican Jim Florio, an out-of-touch governor who governs by dogmas. The idea that less cops in Newark will not negatively effect crime is laughable, especially for me who grew up next door to Newark's projects. Just when Newark is starting to turn a page under Cory Booker's new tactics borrowed from Rudy Giuliani, some dumb ass GOPer has to ruin it. NJ is extraordinarily wealthy, perhaps behind only CT, you have to blend a raise of taxes with prudent trimming, not destruction of schools or laying siege to cops. My prediction is a one-term gov. they hate this guy down there.
Spoken like someone who is on the public payroll??????
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