60 Minutes & Chris Christie's Class War on AFSCME Pensioners

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 06:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM1vtDdbK4   Posted on YouTube: December 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: SamSeder Views on YouTube: 653   Posted on DU: December 21, 2010 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 715

 
Sam Seder takes on the New Jersey Gov's one-sided interview with 60 Minutes last night. According to AFL-CIO NowBlog, "60 Minutes" producers never even contacted the AFL-CIO for input or comments. AFSCME President Gerald McEntee says Christie "is more interested in scoring political points than solving state and local budget challenges and getting the economy moving."

The fact is, hundreds of thousands of public employees, just like private-sector employees, have been laid off and taken pay and benefit cuts --- even as Wall Street executives lined their pockets with taxpayer money and took home huge bonuses. And as noted, much of the pension problem stems from the fact that politicians did not contribute to their pension funds. via newjerseynewsroom.com http://majority.fm

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[old mark]

1. Christie also just announced a replacement for the former NJ education czar, who he fired...

the new guy is from New York, has closed klarge numbers of public schools and established many charter schools in their place...Christis hates all unions, gets lots of money fron the rich, and I have no doubt he will run for President.


mark

[Charleston Chew]

2. part 2

Chris Christie, Obama & Shared Sacrifice: Where's the Wealthy's Share?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x537248

[ellenfl]

3. we need to change the meme.

it is actually consumers who create jobs, not big/small business. the more goods that you and i buy, the more employees are needed to fill our orders. thom hartman has that totally right. WE create the jobs by virtue of our buying power. that's the pushback we need to see from our media. jon stewart (:eyes:), are you listening?

ellen fl