What exactly did Corzine do for the state? Had he done anything to prepare for a storm. Or better yet what did he do for the state period.

Spent it on bills, I got mine, $508.00, the amount that was credited to my taxes. Came from my mortgage escrow account. Greatly appreciated!!

Never happening, he is a loser and a bs artist. most Americans will see right thru him, and mainly, don't want to go back to the dark ages,which the conservatives want. It will be fun to watch him if he runs, the conservatives salivating over him but not realizing the conservative agenda is not what people want. they do want progress on mistakes made by society and the federal government. Economically, he may have some good ideas although we have not seen theresults in the jobs market. the problem is that conservatives are too ideologically dogmatic, so that take for example gay marriage, this would create many jobs but they are opposed on some sort of principal, or take legalization of MJ, this too would create thousands of jobs and tax revenue we could use in our towns, but they hate it so they won't allow, but the things they like, like gambling, oh that we can have the more the better or booze, drink up lads, but only what the conservatives like. this attitude is what costs them the election now and in the future.

Paul Krugman is a serial liar and Democratic Party mouthpiece so I interpret his criticism of Governor Christie in a positive light

Christie begged for money for an unprecendented natural disaster. He created odd/even days on gas to shorten lines and didnt look to make it a permanent situation as Obama does with his initiatives.

Im not sure how Christie or anyone in NJ could have prepared for Sandy. We've never been hit by something like that before.

My greatest issue w/Christie is that he didnt run for president for 2012 when we really needed a candidate to face our destructive president.

So Jules, you want to share some detail about why you think Krugman is a liar? What exactly has he "lied" about?

Or is this because Mary Matalin called him a liar when Krugman said Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan was a “voucher” program that didn't cover preexisting conditions?

Ryan's plan would change the current “defined benefit” structure into a “defined contribution” structure where seniors would receive a voucher from the government they would use to help pay for a private plan. That's why this plan is commonly referred to as a "voucher" program, and thus Krugman is completely accurate in referring to it as such.

Here's a hint: when a political consultant, right or left, calls out someone as a liar you should probably take it with several grains of salt. When a political consultant calls out a respected economist as a liar for speaking rationally in his subject of expertise without offering any evidence that that is the case then you should probably change the channel.

Christie did a great job after Sandy. But, listen to him: 'gimme, gimme'...He sounds like the type you're knocking. Be consistant TCG

You know TC, when you have a president that does not operate in the best interest of the people which I think we now have with OBAMA, you have to lower yourself to try to get the ALL POWERFULL to support the people in need, Christie did what he thought would avoid any possible way for this president to hold this state hostage and try to tarnish a republican Gov. because you know that would have been the spin this admin would have taken and probably counted on...I’m sure OBAMA was disappointed at the respect he received from our Governor, I know it was hard to watch..

They're retiring...

it makes sense to leave. It's not going to get better under Christie and unfortunately we have him. that is part-time, as he will be running for the Presidency, for this year and 4 more. there is no hope for a better future under this tyrant.

will the last person to leave NJ turn out the lights?
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/more_residents_are_leaving_new.html#incart_river_default

You're going to hurt your back bending over backwards trying to blame Obama for New Jersey's problems. By the way, the governor you revere so highly has had nothing but praise for the President of late.

All the money that the crazy GOP governors turned down for rail and infrastructure under the TEA Party?
California got it. State of the art high speed rail connecting the state through the central valley is continuing at break neck speed bringing instant jobs from engineering to labor instensive slots to all manner of materials and supplies.
Governor Jerry Brown, who Gov Christie called a 'tired old retread' has vigorously proposed a $18-B twin tunnel project to move water from the delta in the north to the parched south and agriculture rich central valley region of the state to be paid for by municiplaities and agriculture that want the resource there by saving the general tax payers the expense of the very progressive project that assures prosperity, jobs, and continued progress on in to the next century!
Thanks for asking!

BillBalls, do you really think California's going out of business? What kind of American are you that you would gloat over such a possibility? Especially in a state like New Jersey where things are going very poorly in terms of foreclosures and unemployment. California's lights look pretty bright from from this JCP&L area.

Meanwhile, in NJ? This governor lost some $500-M in fed educatioin grant money, scrubbed the tunnel project and had to return $350-M (can you add?) while the Tappan Zee bridge crumbles he refuses to particpate in a project to replace it when the bridge was a co financed deal in 1950 to begin with between NY and NJ?
In response to the severe flooding in the Passaic valley he has not considered restarting the tunnel project to alleviate the misery.
All this mind you as he says nothing of the skewed budget projections that the dems argued that now range in the $125-M range and climbing the gov is in denial about.
As Jerry Brown took a tax increase initiative to the voters that was carried that is being used for education, health care for young and old alike, police/fire, and infrastructure.
( BTW-In response to Chrities insult Brown challeneged Chrisite to a three mile run. Brown is still waiting for a response.)

Jerry keeps spending and California is on verge of bankruptcy. Amazing Stewie never mentions that the movie industry is making more movies in Canada than California because its cheaper. Unless they can get funding from the UAE. Oh, and by the way Stew, when municipalities have to pay for something, that means the taxpayers.

uhm jacks and balls? thats really not accurate you see? It was the republicn ahnuld who bought a recall election against Gray Davis of the double economic hit of the manufactured power shortages that killed 14 people in elevators, ambulances in grid lock and other related incidents, grid operators that were eventually charged with crimes.
After 2 terms, the governator left the states economic condition worse, alot like Bushco did.
Brown comes along who is known to be a fiscal hawk and sets about to stop the red ink, goes to the People and gets a tax increase passed, you cant say that about Chrisite or NJ voters.
So far as runaway film production is concerned, Hollywood stages are booked solid.

So why are you blaming Christie? By your logic, its Corzine and MacGreevey fault! With you Stew, its always the last guy's fault when the last guy was a Republican and its the current guys fault when he is a Republican. Obama is 4 years in, you are still blaming Bush. Funny, with all of Obam's tax cuts, why do we still need to raise the debt ceiling?

uhm? cause christie is the governator that you elected?
and re: the debt ceiling? cause the the republican congress busted the budget and now has to pay for their bill, but instead want to skip out on it so instead of wrecking the full faith and credit of the soveriegn an economic crisis can be averted by constitutional means?
I mean just because the gop and its extreme elements are fiscally suicidal doesnt mean the republic has to allow them their determined economic suicide run does it?
US government indebtedness has been the norm in the financial history of the nation. The carriage of debt in Western Europe and North America by governments has been normal for the past 200 years, so the US situation is not unique.

The US has only been "without a debt or deficit" for under 1% of its legal existence since the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
Debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War and under the Articles of Confederation led to the first yearly report on the amount of the debt ($75,463,476.52 on January 1, 1791).
Every President since Harry Truman has added to the national debt expressed in absolute dollars. The debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since March 1962,[1] including 18 times under Ronald Reagan, eight times under Bill Clinton, seven times under George W. Bush and three times (to August 2011) under Barack Obama.
wikipedia

OK, so again by your logic it is the democratically controlled State Senate and Assembly that is creating all the problems, not the governor. You can't have it both ways when it is convenient for your argument. By the way, when the man you elected as President presented his only budget (by the way, Constitutionally it's supposed to be done annually), it was voted down in the Democratically controlled Senate 97-0. What does that tell you about your hero Obama? Can't blame the Republicans for defeating that one.

by my logic, the republican party are free wheeling spenders that are pikers that hand the bills off to future generations calling the dems tax and spenders when the gop are just gvt bloatting spenders that advocate for less taxes on the uber wealthy while at the same time sending other peoples children off to unfunded off the books perpetual war and then deny health care and job benefits to veterans and the most needy in our society under the guise of fiscal conservativism and then refuse to pony up for Sandy reief for NJ/NY/Conn cause it fits in nicely for the timing of their obstructionist agenda that is relegating the gop to minority party status under the law to appease an 8% minority and as they do these and more, the rest of us will not have it and you cant stand that because we just trounced the right in no uncertain terms and set the agenda for the future that you cannot abide by, by my logic

You won the election and won the last election and had the Senate and House for two years, yet blame the Republicans for everything. Pass a budget and we'll talk again. You keep saying that the Dems are fiscally conservative, yet taxes keep going up. Remember when Obama said he was only going to raise taxes on the 2%? I guess what he really meant was that he was going to raise taxes 2% on everyone. You can bob and weave around the facts all you want Stew but this is and has been Obama's economy. And stop inhaling Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown's second hand smoke.

ok jack, one more time again the gop under Bushco took the historic Clinton surplus and blew through it while at the same time creating the LARGEST DEFECIT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD which is to say they are terrible at economics, and now that the gop has created the mess they obstruct any effort to reconcile the books even if today they have to destroy the full faith and credit of the republic any way that they can conjure. the rest of us get it, but that doesnt mean we have to allow it. one way we do not allow it is be ending the Bushco wars based on a pack of lies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1FZWML6wA the gop lied then the gop is lying now amd it is time for the gop to go the way of the whigs, the US is out of Iraq, afghanistan is next and the US is not going to entertain the rights penchant for perpetual wars, and the economic viability of the US will be the result and you know it and cant stand it, we are right, you are wrong, we will prevail in due course but the gop will never recover from any of this.

There is your problem. You get your news from Youtube. We are not out of Iraq and they want to send more troops to Afganistan. And your Sec of State froze on Benghazi and the new candidate doesn't even want to use sanctions against Iran. Yet you ignore that THIS administration continues to create the greatest deficit. Make all the excuses, blame Bush all you want, but this is all Obama. You blame Christie for the misdeeds of the past Dem governors, yet you blame past Presidents for this administrations failing. Why do you keep ignoring the fact that Obama just raised taxes on everyone? Are you with the complicit media?

well jack, there you go again. the reality of the matter doesnt evade you, its just that refuse to acknowledge the facts, the gop is reckless when it came to the economy in the past, is now, and cannot be allowed to continue to attempt to push the nation and state for that matter in to default.

And the reality that you fail to admit is that the NJ Dems spent recklessly give sweetheart deals to their sweetheart (remember Corzine and his girlfriend - the head of the Communications union?) I am not saying the GOP in recent years has been as fiscally responsible in the past, but the Dems have never seen a handout they didn't like. And once again in your comments, you blame the repub governor for the state's woes, yet you don't blame the president. Your logic is absurd, it is better suited for the left coast.

jack lest take it from this direction, the current state budget projections are described as being unrealistic. now, if that were the 1st time we heard that would be one thing, but the dems have been saying it for quite awhile now and what do we here from the governator? that the ones tasked with accounting for the monies are wrong? that the dems are jockeying for politcal advantage?
and along comes a natural disaster that coumponds the problem, and now what do we hear? oh, its those people in DC?
But even if Mr Christie is even half right on these then what pary tell is his strategy to deal with them?
nada zip bupkiss

And how was it any different when Corzine or MacGreevey was in office? It wasn't and that's my point.

It was far worse when Corzine was in office. We had a higher budget, no property tax caps, no limits on COLAs for the pension system, workers contributed less to the system to cover their health insurance costs, we had a massive structural deficit and the man was trying to raise taxes.

Brown predicting California will see budget surplus After years of red ink, the governor says that California's $96.7-billion general fund is now poised to end next year with a surplus. LATimes.com

Massive tax hikes tend to lead to short term increases in revenue. But don't worry b/c that won't last and California's unemployment rate which currently is at almost 10% will rise as those high taxes chase more jobs out of the state.

Gov. Jerry Brown: California's budget deficit is gone
Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that California faces no budget deficit for the first time since the recession.
"This is new. This is a breakthrough," Brown said.
But Brown allowed that the state still faces fiscal risks, notably uncertainty in the federal government's fiscal affairs and the still-unknown cost of federal health care reform.
"It is best to maintain a very solid budget and a good reserve...or we'll go back to the boom and bust, borrow and spend," he said

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/01/gov-jerry-brown-no-more-deficit.html#MTRecentEntries#storylink=cpy

Sure Stewart, it is gone now. It won't be gone in a couple years when the state gets left holding the bag for that $100bn high speed rail line that is going to run at a massive operating loss that the state will be subsidizing from now til the end of time. It won't be gone if 2x as many California residents keep leaving the state as residents of other states move to the state along with all the businesses and jobs they create. California is a mess, it is a mess b/c of high taxes, high levels of regulation, too much spending and everyone who is fed up w/ that moving to places more business and taxpayer friendly. But you go ahead and keep drinking the Kool Aid if it makes you happy.

@Bill: What do you mean "private property owners have no rights to their properties"? Please name ONE red state where a) there are no local property taxes on property "owners", and b) you can do anything you want with your property. Please consider joining the reality-based community. We'd love to have you.

B@B – I can name you a ton of states, counties, & towns where your rights to your properties are severely restricted, some of them down to what color you can paint your house and how high your grass can grow. But let me just make this very clear to you B@B. There are two types of people in America. Those who have been run over by the government for the greater good, and those who will be run over by the government for the greater good. Clearly, you haven't been hit yet!

There is a few of wise,old saying that we’d all be better to remember and understand:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
2) The government can give you nothing it first doesn’t have to take from someone else.
3) The 10 scariest words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.

Our founding fathers NEVER intended the government to be used to push someone’s ideology down someone else’s throat! Sure we need some central control, but when that central control is reaching into every facets of our every breath it has gone way too far. BTW, I hope all American women are taking advantage of their “free” birth control now! Free my foot, just the cost has been shifted from them that use it (which is fine by me) to every wage earner and consumer in this country. Yea, that’s really fair! When will someone start paying for me? Wahhh, Wahhhh, Wahhhh, why can’t I have a free cell phone, a WIC card and cheap property taxes too?

hahahahahahahahaha Glen Beck hahahahahaha that guy is a joke who spreads propaganda and BS to make money off of morons who believe him.
hahaha hope you bought the Glenn Beck Doomsday kit because according to him American would have been in ruins 3 years ago

Poor BillBalls just took that thimbleful of credibility and flushed it away forever. Glenn Beck: hahahahaha!

Christie ran on cutting taxes and addressing the defecits public employee contracts, education, etc, and what did we hear during the SOU about those?
If you read the editorials in the news, the majority of those remark that Mr Christie did not address these at all.
Nor did Mr Christie outline any solutions to the public employee fund that a succession of governors have not contributed to in their budgets, that has resulted in a credit downgrade?
But the kicker is that it is on Sandy relief that the Gov is most recognized for right now and ironically it is his party in congress that stiffed New Jersey! With a governor who has friends like that in his party and congress who needs him or them, he cant get anything done, oh sure he can stomp and shout, carry on and pout? But the net result is more people are leaving NJ than any other state and they have been for several years, and that is very telling indeed.

Stewart, you don't pay attention much. Christie has done a great deal to address the deficits, taxes & pensions starting w/ cutting spending, freezing COLA's for the pensions til it becomes more solvent, putting in the property tax rate limits, etc... Has he done enough? Not in my opinion but he did far more than any in recent memory and unlike his opponent, he didn't run on a platform of more taxes and more spending which would drive more people out of this state at a faster rate. You don't like how taxes are driving people out of this state then stop voting for candidates who promise more taxes & more spending. Stop voting for Democrats!

Roundup: Christie media blitz, N.J.'s $123M budget shortfall

The Record: Numbers don't lie
The Record
State revenue projectsions for the remainder of the fiscal year appear overly optimistic.

Herald News: Revenue projections look too rosy
Herald News
THAT TAX cut Governor Christie talked about much of last year is not looking very likely. We don't know what the governor will say about cutting taxes in his annual State of the State address on Tuesday, but his speech is scheduled five days after the ...

The Record: The spirit of Jersey
The Record
IT IS not what Governor Christie said Tuesday that was disappointing; it is what he did not say. This was not a State of the State, but rather a Spirit of New Jersey address.

Stewart, again you don't pay attention much. He came in and Corzine left him an $8bn structural deficit. Seriously, if you have a problem w/ deficits then how about you support a governor who cuts waste, cuts dead weight, cuts spending and cuts the deficit for once in your life.

You have your facts wrong because according to Romney, Christie didn't go to PA to campaign for him hence he lost the election. He stayed in NJ and took care of the residents here.

As far as job creations go, you might not be reading too much. Are you aware, the Amazon is building distribution center in Robbinsville? Will create hundreds of full time jobs and construction jobs as well. You will have to start paying taxes on your online purchases but so be it.

I was out of work for 2.5 years, there are jobs in the state. But if you are a prima donna and don't want to get your hands dirty then so be it.

BTW I am highly educated and know there is a time that you need to reinvent your self to make money, however, we have become a society of entitlements.