Corzine's Palin Problem - and each NJ Citizen's $60,656 bill

A spokesman for Jon Corzine was quoted in the Associated Press attempting to use the typical New Jersey bogeyman argument against Christie by invoking Sarah Palin:

For their part, Democrats in both New Jersey and Virginia were eager to link their rival GOP contenders to Palin.

"Her positions are certainly consistent with where Christie's been," Corzine spokesman Sean Darcy said. "They would both deny a woman the right to choose and they oppose new gun control legislation. And like Palin, Christie's staked out Conservative right-wing positions on rejecting the federal stimulus money, which would create thousands of jobs."

The first thing about this quote is that it is so trite that it boggles the mind that any intelligent human being could believe it. However, that clearly doesn't represent a lot of people in New Jersey because they routinely fall for this drivel. Let's get something straight. Two of three topics referred to in this quote (gun control and abortion) are federal issues. The governor of this state really has little say in the matter and therefore their position amounts to mere window dressing for partisans.

As for "rejecting federal stimulus" money, I think that a large number of New Jersey residents would like to hear in detail what stimulus money is coming to our state. Along with that, we would love to hear what the corresponding debt load assigned to our residents would be especially since the citizens of this state receive roughly 61 cents for every dollar we send to Washington (from the Tax Foundation). So, following that reasoning, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the average citizen now owes $37,000 dollars because of the stimulus that didn't stimulate. Given New Jersey's productivity in government contribution, that equals a debt load of $60,656. Sure, let's talk about that Mr Corzine.

But all of this is really silly. Talk of abortion and gun control is just changing the subject and may be fine during the good times. But these aren't good times. And frankly, we have plenty to talk about. Namely, Jon Corzine's record. He can trash Christie all he wants but he now has a real record and interestingly enough, that is the last thing he wants to run on.

He doesn't want to run on his ethically challenged relationships while negotiating multi-million dollars contracts with unions. He lies to the people about saving money this year in the budget which is far more than the last budget Gov Codey submitted. He doesn't want to run on the massive debt he has added to our state and its choking debt service. And he doesn't even want you to see him in person because he only looks and sounds halfway decent after an ad agency touches up his photo, voice and adds music. This man inspires no one. He has not led this state and has been and utter and complete failure. His claim to fame of being a successful businessman has been thoroughly debunked by his complete lack of business sense. That is the record we should be discussing.

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