Christie: $tuff it, O ‘Can’t afford’ stimulus

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“Please don’t send me any more money to hire more public employees. Please don’t,” implored Christie yesterday in a speech at the Brookings Institute, a liberal Washington think tank.

“I’ve got plenty as it is, and I don’t need any more, and they’re expensive!” said the brash governor, who won a hard-fought showdown with teachers unions over benefits and pensions.

Temporary federal aid to hire permanent state and local workers, he argued, only leads to huge budget shortfalls or layoffs when the stimulus money runs out.

“I have the highest property taxes in America to begin with,” said Christie. “Where’s this money going to come from to pay these folks afterwards?”

“If the president and the Congress want to spend money on something that will create jobs, then spend money on infrastructure, which builds private-sector jobs,” he said yesterday.

Read more: Gov. Christie tells President Obama to keep his stimulus funds for more public workers - NYPOST.com

What part of that do people not understand?

 

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