NJECPAC Chairman Joe Coviello and Government Affairs Director Joseph Hovanec were invited to and attended a Town Hall Meeting in Paramus with Governor Chris Christie.
The Governor discussed many topics including the economic state of the State at the moment he took office. If he did not take immediate fiscal action the state would not make its Payroll by mid March, only three months later. As you can imagine the state was in much worse shape than any of us ever knew.
The Governor will be taking on teacher tenure in an effort to move to a merit reward system for good teachers, He will work to rein in the pension and health insurance costs of public sector unions, that if no action is taken will in itself bankrupt the state. He will soon announce the construction of many new Charter Schools. He spoke on his commitment to Autism, Road and Bridge Construction and his #1 goal is to bring New Jersey out of this fiscal mess and restore pride to the State.
Immediately following the Town Hall Meeting we were interviewed by the Newark Star Ledger and we appeared in the Fox News Channel's report of the event.
Facing huge budget difficulties, Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other states how to survive, by taking on the government-employee unions. Christie's battles with the teachers unions over the past year have crisscrossed the entire country and he has become somewhat of a star on YouTube. Last month, he was able to get the Democrat Controlled Legislature to pass to legislation to limit Arbitration awards for public employee unions to an average 2 percent annual increase.
New Jersey is not alone, other states have begun to take notice, including those controlled by Democrats such as New York, California and Illinois who are all facing fiscal calamities. They find themselves in the position to increasingly follow Governor Christie's example and rein in their Public unions benefit costs.
As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that sooner or later "you run out of other people's money." Read More
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