| As Rosi just posted, Governor Christie is crowing about job creation despite no evidence that the uptick in new jobs is a result of anything he has done, and that he killed thousands of permanent jobs while costing the state well over $100 million in killing the ARC tunnel project.
This comes on the heels of Alex DeCroce declaring that jobs are "on the back burner" for the Republican agenda (and after Christie's "economic" section of his website was essentially blank) and then making a stunning statement on unemployment benefits, only to turn his comments into a lecture on how other people should act.
So, as eloquently put by Democratic Party Chairman Wisniewski put it, Every Republican legislator should weigh in (no pun intended) on whether they agree with their leaders that jobs are on the back burner, whether "the mission is accomplished" and what their leader says about the unemployed essentially being lazy because of the good life of a few hundred dollars per week in unemployment benefits.
And he is right - these two men - Christie and DeCroce are two of the leaders of the NJ Republican Party. What they say represents their party's views.
Additionally, I'd like to know how the tens (or is it hundreds) of thousands of unemployed New Jerseyans who have been out of work for weeks or months (or years) and have been trying to find work feel about the Republican Party's views of the current economic situation. And more importantly, will they remember this come 2012? |
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