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Christie: Wis. a class clash
Chris Christie invoked Wisconsin's massive union-rights clash in his second annual budget address Tuesday, saying the protests are over a system with "two classes of citizens" — the people who get benefits, and the taxpayers who pay for them.
Christie hailed New Jersey as leading the charge for other states with the belt-tightening practices he prescribed in his budget last year. And now, he said, the Garden State will follow what he coined as the "New Normal" of spending as they have the money, to try to ease the crush of debt.
"In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives rich health and pension benefits, and all the rest who are left to pay for them," Christie said. "Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter. We are all facing the same problems. These problems are bigger than either political party. The promises of the past are too expensive, and the prospects of the future are too important to stay on the old, failed course.
"All across the country, Democratic and Republican governors are grappling with inherited budget deficits, skyrocketing pension and benefit costs, and state government cultures which embrace the status quo — no matter how destructive," head dded.
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