Christie says, "We all must share the pain"

by: lfurman

Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 01:50:56 PM EDT

What pain is he asking the poor suffering masses who make over $400,000 per year to share? The pain of sunburn from a few extra days at the beach on the French Riveria? A few more days jetlagged? An additional hangover?

But Christie's priorities don't  surprise me. He is a Republican. His economic policies are the same failed economic policies of Hoover, Reagan, and George W. Bush. We need to listen to Keynes, Daly, Stiglitz, and Krugman.

That's exactly what Obama must do, and what Christie must do. Christie is doing the opposite: Eliminating jobs.

Certainly he must eliminate corruption. He should eliminate double dipping. But he shouldn't be firing teachers.

How will our children compete against the Chinese and Indians in 10 or 20 years? How can we compete against them tomorrow?