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Chris Christie, the new Governor of New Jersey, is awesome. Last week Rush analyzed Governor Christie’s latest speech.  Here are some excerpts from what Christie said:

The political class — which unfortunately for us all of us are a member of. The political class is lagging behind the public on this.  The public is ready to hear that tough choices have to be made.  They’re not going to like it.  Let me not confuse the two.  But they are ready to hear the truth.  In fact, they find it refreshing to hear the truth and the pabulum that gets spewed sometimes about, “Don’t worry, I can save you from the pain,” they’ve been hearing that for a decade.  As we’ve borrowed and spent and taxed our way into oblivion.  We have done every quick fix in the book that you can do, and now we are left literally holding the

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You all know that these raises that are being given to public employees of all stripes we can’t afford, you all know the state can’t continue to spend money that it doesn’t have, and you all know that the appetite for tax increases among our constituents has come to an end.  And so the path to reform and success is clear.  We know what it is.  We just have to have the courage to go there.  What we’re doing is showing people that government can work again for them, not for us.  Government has worked for the political class for much too long.  There’s no time left.  We have no room left to borrow.  We have no room left to tax.

Wouldn’t it be nice if more politicians were as forth right and grounded in common sense as Chris Christie? Thankfully, it looks like Christie is going to follow through on his promise to save New Jersey from financial ruin. The Governor announced that he is forming a task force that will recommend 2,000 jobs currently held by government union thugs that can be privatized. After the findings from the Governor’s commission come in Chris Christie will actually CUT the size of government. As is to be expected, the unions are up in arms about this – they enjoyed their cozy relationship with the previous Democrat administration that played right into their hands. Christie apparently plans to go after the overpaid union fat cats instead of newly hired people – the ones who actually work. A politician in one of the most liberal states in the Union who deals with budget deficits and an economic downturn by cutting spending and holding the line on taxes – what a novel idea.

Tags: Chris Christie, Economics, New Jersey, Rush Limbaugh