Christie Will Do for America What He Did for NJ

[ClydeR]

This is now..


Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie proposed pushing back the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare for future retirees on Tuesday as part of a plan to cut deficits by $1 trillion over a decade, an approach he said would confront the nation's "biggest challenges in an honest way."

More... (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/christie-proposing-overhaul-social-security-benefits-30303865)


This was last September..


The state’s credit rating was moved from A+ to A. S&P last downgraded New Jersey, from AA- to A+, in April. The agency warned Christie in June that if he followed through with his plan to cut the state’s payment to the pension system by $2.4 billion over two years in order to balance a massive shortfall in the budget, it would likely downgrade him again.

Christie went through with his plan to cut pension payments, and today S&P downgraded again.

More... (http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/citing_christies_pension_payment_cuts_and_budget_p roblems_sp_downgrades_nj_debt_rating.html)


One thing is for sure.. Christie's gamble of making Social Security an issue is a sign of desperation on the part of his presidential campaign.

[ClydeR]

"I don't know why Republicans want to insult Americans by pretending they don't understand what their Social Security program and Medicare program is," Huckabee said in response to a question about Christie's proposal to gradually raise the retirement age and implement a means test.

Huckabee said his response to such proposals is "not just no, it's you-know-what no."

"I'm not being just specifically critical of Christie but that's not a reform," he said. "That's not some kind of proposal that Republicans need to embrace because what we are really embracing at that point is we are embracing a government that lied to its people--that took money from its people under one pretense and then took it away at the time when they started wanting to actually get what they have paid for all these years."

Huckabee also said he wouldn't sign congressman Paul Ryan's plan to reform Medicare for Americans who are 55 years old and younger. "At 55, that still means if I started working, started paying in when I was 14, so for me that would be 51 years [sic] that I'd be paying in and suddenly you're telling me they're going to be changing the rules for you here."

More... (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/huckabee-bashes-republican-plans-reform-medicare-and-social-security_922159.html)

Huckabee is hoping to draw his GOP primary opponents into a debate about reforms to Social Security and Medicare. But the very last thing Republicans should do in their primary is be drawn into a debate of the issues.

[Tgo01]

Christie is going to close down every bridge in the US?!

He's got my vote.