Tens of Thousands of New Jersey Union Employees & Radicals March Against Budget Cuts (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 4:47 PM
New Jersey Becomes Greece…
Tens of thousands of union activists and radical leftists marched today to the State Capital to demand their extravagant pay checks and benefits.
My FOX Philly reported:
New Jersey owns the biggest tax burden in the country.
WCBSTV reported:
More than 30,000 angry New Jersey residents marched to the state capitol Saturday, delivering a blistering message to the governor in an effort to protect their turf and their paychecks.
At times resembling both a rock concert and a pep rally, more than 30,000 union employees and community activists gathered for a massive protest at the capitol to blast the governor.
“He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises,” teacher Anna Kimerly said.
It’s a budget they say cuts to the bone.
“Fifty thousand parents will be denied health coverage,” Bruce Davison said.
The emotions matched the size of the biggest crowd state police had seen in years, with signs calling Governor Chris Christie the biggest loser, a liar, and someone who duped them.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Texmom commented:
Hmmmm….a huge protest of socialist union instigated protesters attacking a conservative governor. What are the odds?
We are being manipulated beyond belief.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
The Left has always known that once you get the people addicted to free this, free that, sweet deals, and easy living, they will riot before they will go back to taking care of themselves and working for a living. The Democrats have been beating this drum for 50 years, and it looks like its paying off. Everyone loves the candy man…no one likes the dentist.
man_in_tx commented:
Now comes the fun! Most politicians fold like wet cardboard when exposed to this kind of left-wing radical protest backed by the full weight of the State-run media.
I hope that Gov Christie is made of tougher stuff — and that he has ways of pushing back, to include a no-surrender press conference where he calls out the leftist thugs for what they are.
wanumba commented:
Right on cue.
wanumba commented:
“He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises,” teacher Anna Kimerly said.
…….
Really?
Sickofobama commented:
30,000 union thugs?
Where’s Bruce Springsteen to play pity songs for them and he can cough up what the pigs feel they are being denied.
Don’t like it union thugs – get a real job.
Jennifer commented:
Like gov’t workers in Greece, they do not care where the money comes from as long as they get their full paycheck, full pension, and full benefits.
Lan Astaslem commented:
First, the government employees, then the unions, next the illegal aliens…got to keep those democrat voters happy!…(fat and dumb are already taken care of). Go Governor Christie!!
Jim commented:
The Jersey unions haven’t figured out that there is no more money. Same applies to Greece and California.
Robert commented:
They misspelled the sign at 00:14
Instead of reading
I (heart) NJ Parks
it should say
I (heart) NJ Perks
Chippy commented:
“He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises,” teacher Anna Kimerly said.
Christie is doing everything he said he was going to do. Period! This guy is the real deal folks!
Joan of Argghh! commented:
I’m prepared to state to every government employee that if they feel they have a right to demand more of my paycheck or else deny me the services they provide, then I feel perfectly okay with keeping every nickel of my paycheck and denying them the services I provide.
I am further prepared to start asking the postal carrier, the DMV worker, the occasional government worker I meet if they are prepared to firebomb me when I run out of money, like they’re doing in Greece. Because I want to know exactly who my neighbors are and I want them to think about where their ideas are taking them. I want to know where the lines are falling.
Just_Saying commented:
Obummer with federal funds to offer (after declaring that NJ is acting stupidly) in 3, 2, 1…
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NeoKong commented:
Teachers are moving to Pennsylvania where they will be respected huh….?
Let them go.
They will find out that not all teachers make over 60 grand a year plus benefits and pension for a nine month year.
Robert commented:
Maybe they should get the math and economics teachers
up there to figure out where the money has gone
and where the rest of them can get theirs from.
Maria commented:
They claim they were “duped”? I doubt many of those in the mob voted for him anyway.
Robert commented:
For a bunch of teachers they’re not very bright.
From the linked article:
“I don’t know. Can we get businesses to come into the state?” school counselor Joyce Trotman-Jordan said.
Sure, lady with three names. Why don’t you ask companies to come work in your state and give you more money, pay for your health care, and give you a big fat pension, after they do the same for the unionized employees they have to put up with.
And these people wonder why all the jobs have moved offshore.
Joylily514 commented:
Let them protest! It’s always hard when children have to be told, “NO!”, but one must remain firm.
archer52 commented:
Christie was voted in by taxpayers fed up with paying other people’s way.
He has kept his promise to them. I hope he keeps it up.
bear commented:
The lefty, anti-Americans are in panic mode. They must defeat actual Americans like Christie, or watch their phony, utopian, drug-crazed schemes evaporate, just as their phony, “green,” drug-crazed energy schemes are failing.
The cascade of failure is catching up with the marxists, just as it caught up with the Russians. Hopefully, there are still enough actual Americans left to defeat these scumwaffles.
The arrogance of the left is their “plan B.” By denying the will of the people they claim to represent, they expect to triumph.
Paul Revere is riding…..all patriots must awaken and heed his call. Vote!!
KR commented:
A lesson these union people need to learn:
There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Someone always has to pay.
They are more than happy to let the next generations pay.
crosspatch commented:
And I will bet there are several MILLION in New Jersey who are quite happy with the spending cuts and were not demonstrating.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Robert
May 23rd, 2010 | 5:30 pm | #16
Maybe they should get the math and economics teachers
up there to figure out where the money has gone
and where the rest of them can get theirs from.
Robert, Why so harsh? LOL!
Richard Bagg commented:
50 thousand parents without healthcare coverage??? I thought Obama and the rest of the commie bastards had that covered…
JPL17 commented:
How much more of this BS and bankruptcy do we have to put up with before we outright ban public employee unions????
Karen commented:
The town I live in put out a second 2009 property tax bill (in January of 2010) out to all homeowners (we voted against it but the usual suspects threatened police/fire layoffs would happen)…after they passed the second taxing of our properties, it was revealed that the money would be going towards underfunded/unfunded pension funds and NOT police/fire protection as advertised.
Can I just say that I have had it up to my eyeballs with this rip off. When Wall Street crashes and everyone’s 401k’s evaporate, who came and helped make them whole again? NO ONE!!!!!!!! We accept the losses and move on. We do not have our hands out begging our neighbors to hand over their hard earned money like these union beggars. They are shameless and immoral!!!! Stop sucking us dry!!!
These unions need to be setting aside money for their people and taking care of their own business and not waiting for a rainy day bail out from THE REST OF US!
I am sick of these fools.
The THEFT of the private sector middle class needs to stop!
manateespirit commented:
OMG, Karen, #27, do you live in New Jersey?
I thought we had bad here in St. Louis County, but your story is a true nightmare.
Robert commented:
Espresso Logic #24
Robert, Why so harsh? LOL!
Because I see stupid people. heh heh
This illustrates the entitlement mentality internalized in a whole class of people. They get plenty of money and benefits while the rest of us suffer, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
The money they think they have promised to them doesn’t exist. Just like in Greece, it ain’t there. And instead of dealing with it like the rest of us, they are out whining and crying like babies. And their only solution is to TAX RICH PEOPLE.
That’s all they have.
Not a thing from the “bright side” about how to actually fix the mess we’re in.
Might be something like,
‘All you cops and teachers aren’t going to have $100,000 pensions’
‘And everybody can’t have health care for free for life, you can start by paying for a doctors visit instead of a ridiculous $10 CO-PAY!’
‘And if you don’t start being a little more business-friendly and a little less greedy it will get even worse’
Marnie commented:
Funny, Sec of Def Gates is calling for Congress to hold back on generous pay increases for the troops. What do the troops do? Their fricking job. They sure weren’t out protesting. Suck it up and drive on.
Now, I hope those teachers get upset and strike. It would surely show, it’s all about the money, not the kids. That would be awesome.
Stay the course Gov Christie..
wanumba commented:
If they’d promoted private pension plans, they wouldn’t be on the streets crying about their worthless public pension plan.
Rose commented:
“LET THEM WEAR GREEK TOGAS!!!”
Karen commented:
No, I live in Georgia.
squeaky commented:
o’bumbles is lobbying congress for another 26 billion for teachers – maybe they’re just providing the dramatics.. a million and one excuses why everyone else has to make concessions while they’re untouched. how many billions were already pitched their way from the
stimulus.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/14/obama-administration-seeks-bailout-teachers-nearly-exhausting-stimulus-funds/
Landru commented:
Always the same stunt: it’s for the children! It’s for the environment! Save the parks!People will die!
Common thieves who should apologize profusely for the organized crime rackets they represent before the rest of us kick their asses. Instead they arrogantly presume to insist that they actual provide some useful “services” to anyone other than themselves as they demand further looting of the taxpayers to line their own pockets with. In the Soviet Union they were the apparatchiki, in Nazi Germany, the “Golden Pheasants”.
They can all drink paddy water.
wanumba commented:
Remember, it was the school teachers who led the Red Guard high school kid mobs against the Chinese people. The teachers turned the kids against their parents.
karenc commented:
Heres the real kicker the union will be spending millions on the 2010 election, instead of what they should be spending it on. These members should be protesting their own union bosses not the tax payers.
Big L commented:
Secy Arne Duncan has included $20 billion, acc to what I read into a Haiti-aid, Afghjan-appropriation bill.(should be approved fast)
The money is for teacher’s pay. So the protest for a lot of these Union thugs is just raw intimidation and moot.
For example in Calif the rest of the Unions workers will get all that they are due because somewhere in the contract the taxpayers are on the hook.
When they have these demonstrations the State should have the militia come out and clear the streets as it is just harassment of the people.Looks like the feds will get them the money.
Scott Wiggins commented:
GREECE, the non-musical, coming to a local government near you…The producer was heard to say, “we expect a long production run, maybe decades.”
jonyjoe101 commented:
No offense but public service was suppose to be a low-paying job. You shouldn’t expect to get rich working for the government. But now public service are the highest paying jobs in the country.
The politicians are the richest of the bunch, almost all the congressmen are millionaires. They no longer represent the regular people, they are the elite, the top 1 percent of the earners.
I feel no-pity for the overpaid teachers, for the police or firemen and there bloated paychecks wanting more pay raises. Don’t like your paycheck find another job in the private sector, that is what the rest of us do, we don’t protest. They look like the welfare recipients who think they are “entitled” to a bigger welfare check. I’s sure some of those protesters are on the clock, never heard of a union thug work for free.
MichiganVet commented:
Why aren’t these people out working a 2nd or 3rd job like the rest of us who lost their job?
Oh yeah, because 1) they’re union and 2) they ‘work’ for the government.
But isn’t the government “by the people and for the people”?
So if the people run out of money, then the government *has* to shrink! Just like a private business!
Scott Wiggins commented:
It’s been said before but…All government need to do a Walmart style rollback of revenue projections to 1990s levels…The first decade of this century was a lost decade for the American people financially…Stocks are treading water at highs that first occurred in the year 2000. And, we all know what happened to Real Estate. Americans fueled their last decade of consumption with cheap credit through housing refinances, equity lines, and credit cards. Now, most are heavily in debt…The same can be said of government. The cheap money is gone and it is not coming back…The Feds will merely print money and buy their own bonds…States and local governments can’t, hence they are facing a tsunami of bills coming due…The wise will make the adjustments that nearly all Americans are making to their spending plans…The Californians, and others will wait for someone else to take care of them. We’ll see how far that goes.
Eric commented:
Vote for Lon Hosford on June 8th, District 7 in NJ. Let’s net rid of Mr. Cap and Tax, Leonard Lance!
VOTE!!!
JB commented:
These bigots hate the fact that there’s a fat man in the Governor’s mansion.
Big L commented:
Check out
http://www.cato.org/adamschaeffer
The article is about the cost of education–the real cost of education.
It is called Policy Analysis no 662 Mar 10 2010
Titled: They Spend WHAT? The real cost of Public Schools by Adam Schaeffer.
The Cato Institute looked at 5 largest metro areas and the D.C. schools district.There they looked at real spending and reported spending on per pupil basis. They compared it to cost of Private schools. Finding was that public schools were spending 93% more than the estimated median private school.Ninety-three percent!
It is 22 pages, but put your thinker in gear and check it out. You will see how we are being lied to. Print it out and pass it around.
Opus #6 commented:
Boo hoo! We refuse to stop looting the treasury!
Martha commented:
A memo must have gone out or something. A couple of days ago, the SEIU were protesting the budget cuts in White Plains over cops and firemen getting laid off,
They are protesting the NY Gov wanting to furlough the state workers one day a week until the budget is passed, yet they do not want to give 1 inch, which eventually means lay-offs.
Ca’nt have your cake and eat it too.
Robert commented:
1. Liberalism-leftism
2. Entitlement mentality
3. Big-governmentism
These three elements form the core of the current fiscal and economic situation. As any combination of these three elements becomes more prominent in political advocacy, we are moved closer to fiscal insolvency. I would add the the latter two are not limited to the Democratic/Leftist axis.
But these three ideals are formulated not only in top-level politics, but become evident at many levels of the society. The teachers have become single-sided regarding these ideas, and are teaching this advocacy to the detriment of the country. Without public recognition of the virtues of conservatism, and balance of input, we can only continue down this one-way street into the cul-de-sac of national degradation.
The teachers, media, and left have control of all the levers of power, and are leading us to perdition.
brooklyn commented:
“He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises,” teacher Anna Kimerly said.
Well this is just another LIE, out of the many offered in this Union Puff piece.
How many of the thousands were PAID by the Unions to be there?
Why do Democrats lie so easily without shame?
The Unions, including the Teachers NJEA, have made a mess for all in NJ, and they still show how greedy they have become.
Very predictable, very sad.
Hopefully, Christie can remain strong to end this Democratic Partisan folly in NJ.
noislamocommie commented:
Man….man….man…how I wish I could of been there with an I (heart) Christie sign.
mrt commented:
In the spirit of Ronald Reagan,
Gov. Christie needs to go all air-traffic controller on their butts.
jerryl commented:
more and more these union thugs remind me of whats going on in greese
darcy commented:
Christie will hold firm; count on it. He will even dig-in-his-heels and proceed apace with the fiscal conservative agenda/policies he was elected to enact.
He’s a man of principle and his word, and he will not be cowed by a bunch of spoiled brat union leeches, sucking the life-blood out of his state!
Solaratov commented:
“Fifty thousand parents will be denied health coverage,” Bruce Davison said.
***********************************************************
Haven’t those people heard about obamacare? It’s gonna cover *everybody*.
What’s their beef?
/sarc/
Those people can get along on the same coverage – or lack thereof – that they demanded for everybody else. If they’ve got a beef with that, they can write a letter to obama.
fozzy commented:
“He has absolutely forfeited every one of his promises,” teacher Anna Kimerly said.
A teacher not knowing the meaning of the word forfeit. Is this ironic? I don’t know because I went to public school and never learned the real meaning of irony.
Ryan commented:
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/02/chris_christies_speech_on_budg.html
Um. . no, teach> He hasn’t.
Liz commented:
Losers. Half of them are probably illegal immigrants.
donh commented:
What a bunch of money grubbing slobs ! There hasn’t been this many overweight people in one place since Denny’s offered its free all you can eat buffet. Cutting the bloated ranks of government workers is not only necessary, it will help treat the obesity epidemic in America.
Jeff G commented:
It was once in a union 30+ years ago until two things happened – 1) a strike where our “strike fund” turned out to not exist as it was spent by higher ups in the union, 2)layoffs where none of the union leaders got laid off even though they should have. As I went looking for a job I looked for one without a union and was happy. They are just political arms of the Democrat party to pull money from a working class that is not needed. Hopefully Christie can hold strong.
TomC commented:
Last year, we received a letter from the principal’s office of my eighth-grade son’s school concerning his upcoming graduation ceremony.
The letter began, “Enclosed is four tickets for your son’s graduation ceremony.”
Perhaps New Jersey teachers and administrators should spend their time in remedial classes in basic English grammar rather than at protests in Trenton.
Irrational commented:
Hmmm….
Community activists are “angry” and gather to “blast” the Governor (ostensibly for what the governor is doing to them).
The TEA party is “violent” and “threatening” to government officials (it’s what the TEA party is doing to innocent government officials)
Twisted propaganda……pure and simple.
Auntie Em commented:
Didn’t NJ come up the the brainwashing song for the children about Barack Hussein Obama?
mmm..mmm..mmm?
Gov. Christie has his hands full with these loons in his state. Maybe that will move.
CathyB commented:
Erid : Yes, vote for Lon–good man!!!!
I’m in NJ and we have had it up to here with this crap.
That’s why Christie is gov’nor now.
That idiot teacher doesn’t know what she’s talking about, as Christie has thus far delivered on every one of his campaign promises.
Go Christie!!!!!
Wait until the next elections…Sweeney and his ilk will be gone.
raybojabo commented:
Why not start a union dues tax? They are tax deductible, yet they equate to extra income through perks and benefits. Make union members match their dues 100% in state tax.
Sally commented:
I lived in New Jersey for 8years and absolutely HATED the place! $7,800 property taxes for a small 1,400 sq ft house!
The education was a mess. Outside was a parking space marked “principle”. Sheesh! I got notes with all kinds of grammatical mistakes. They drugged the kids with Ritalin and were picky about the stupidest things.
It comes back to the truism” everyone gets the kind of government they DESERVE”.
Wake up New Jesey! Take back your state!
Nahanni commented:
What you are hearing is the death rattle of the public employee unions.
What many have missed with the announcements of cities like Vallejo and Central Falls declaring bankruptcy is that under bankruptcy laws the courts can declare all union contracts and pension plans null and void. Considering that the courts are stacked with Leftist activist judges more then likely they will just shuffle the responsibility for those debts onto the states, which will hasten the insolvency of Corruptocrat run bleu states like California, New York, Michigan, etc..
Also, as these union thugs become more strident and violent in their demands what little support they have with the general public will erode into animosity if not downright hatred towards them. As Tip O’Neill said “All politics is local” and these unions just may find that they are facing school district boards and city councils full of Chris Christie’s and Ronald Reagan’s who won’t take any crap out of them.
Doggy commented:
How many people live in NJ, 10-20 million? And all their misery can be attributed to a mere 30,000 people. This is actually good news! Just turn off the money spigot for these thugs and the whole state will instantly be in good economic standing. So easy, yet so hard.
Maria commented:
“How many people live in NJ, 10-20 million? And all their misery can be attributed to a mere 30,000 people. This is actually good news! Just turn off the money spigot for these thugs and the whole state will instantly be in good economic standing. So easy, yet so hard.”
Well said, Doggy!