Happy Thanksgiving and the Grinch

Heartfelt wishes to everyone in the State of New Jersey for a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving!!! Safe travels to all!

That being said, I can't help but wonder about Governor Corzine and his Friday work policy for Thanksgiving. He apparently will travel to California today and get back in time for work tomorrow. He will be visiting various state employee locations to show them he had to work to so they shouldn't mind.

This entire thing is a little off. It comes across as a show to convince taxpayers that he is serious about fiscal responsibilty. But the strange thing is that if he was serious, he would be looking to offer a significant number of these state employees retirement packages to cut the budget long term. As with most of the fiscal policy of this Governor, I always feel slimed as it never seems serious. And it is frankly unfair to offer pretend fiscal frugality on the back of a bunch of loyal state workers. They haven't created these problems, they just applied for and took jobs as offerred and do their jobs as best they can.

How about it Governor? Can we get serious at some point?

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