Chris Christie Slaps around Teachers union thugs.

[bpcnabe]

Quote from Hello:

Its about time someone stood up to thse thugs, the average teaching salary is now 55,000 a year in new jersey and they get an automatic 4.9% per year raise. On top of that they dont have to pay anything for full medical and dental coverage, and can hold onto these benefits for life, and retire after 25 years of work.

If you were to calculate full medical and dental on a family of four at roughly 15k a year, which is low balling it, that would put an average teachers salary at about 70k per year, when you combine that with their retirement benefits after 25 years, you would have to earn atleast 150k a year in the private sector to earn what a teacher is making. In order to make 150k a year in the private sector you can bet your ass you also would not be only working 8 months of the year.

The teachers union in new jersey could have taken a 1 year pay freese and paid 1.5% of their salary to their medical coverage, this would have saved the state 700 million, and saved virtually every single teachers job, instead the thugs in the union rejected it and now are facing massive layoffs. These people obviously have no concern for the teachers, or the children, it is only about helping themselves, and raping taxpayers at the same time, for far to long we have allowed teaching unions to use our kids as a pawn in what could only be compared to a hostage negotiation by teachers.

Watch this instand classic where Chris Christie rips this union thug apart.

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1 billion minus 820 million equals 280 million?

Maybe he shouldn't cut education funding after all.

 

[Hello]

Quote from bpcnabe:

1 billion minus 820 million equals 280 million?

Maybe he shouldn't cut education funding after all.

I noticed that long before you did, you cant really fault him for making a simple wording error when he is quoting all kinds of numbers. Bottom line is that New Jersey Teacher Unions got an extra 800 million, combined with a kick in the ass they didnt even see coming.

 

[Hello]

Quote from nutmeg:

I heard that too but didn't bother to recheck. His prior budget comment which I think he referred to and included in later observations was how he arrived at that number.

I heard it too, it is in the first video, it seems pretty nondescript to me.

Feel free to point out a way in which that would have benefited him, and he would have gotten away with it.

 

[nutmeg]

Quote from Hello:

I heard it too, it is in the first video, it seems pretty nondescript to me.

Yikes, I can't believe I recheck this.

Corzine spent 1b.

Chrisie cut the budget to preserve 820 m of that 1b. Plus he added another 280m which means Christie 's education budget allocation was higher than Corzines.

 

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Quote from nutmeg:

Yikes, I can't believe I recheck this.

Corzine spent 1b.

Chrisie cut the budget to preserve 820 m of that 1b. Plus he added another 280m which means Christie 's education budget allocation was higher than Corzines.

He didn't preserve 820 m, he cut that from the education budget compared to the year before, which had that Corzine/Obama gift factored in. That's why all the teachers are pissing and moaning and sticking needles into their little Christie voodoo dolls.

But he makes valid points that seem lost on public union members in that I (or you, etc) have to pay for these employees benefits packages BEFORE we take care of ourselves (real estate and sales taxes) while they continue to expect the status quo to remain. Some people need that kick in the ass.