Chris Christie Brags About Cutting Pensions And Raising The Retirement Age In N.J.
GOP presidential contender and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie seems to believe that promising to go after everyone's pensions and social safety nets is going to help his waning poll numbers in the GOP primary race, because that's exactly what he was promising the voters during an interview on this Sunday's Meet the Press.
After pointing out that New Jersey is ranked 50th for business tax climate, 47th for doing business, 46th for growth in 2014, has an unemployment rate above the U.S. average and has has nine recent credit downgrades, host Chuck Todd asked Christie why Americans would want what he did in New Jersey for the rest of the country.
Christie of course proceeded to blame everyone but himself and the condition the state was in when he arrived, and said anyone can cherry-pick a single issue to try to make things look bad. Chuck Todd actually pushed back on the credit downgrades and pointed out that they were at least in part due to Christie cutting taxes too much and leaving the state without enough money to pay their bills.
Christie proceeded to attack those dirty hippie union thugs and the pensions that those greedy moochers would like to see honored:
CHRISTIE: That's simply not true.... You know what it is Chuck? It is these public sector unions who refuse to do even more compromising on pensions, and that's creating... if you look at the credit downgrades, they are all about long term pension problems.