Discussion: Fox Host Confronts Christie: Was Your Minimum Wage Remark 'Cavelier'?

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I get it. Spellcheck doesn’t work on the headlines. Carry on.

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No, his remark wasn’t cavelier. It was cavalier.

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Yes, his remarks about the minimum wage were cavalier just as remarks about the need for Republicans governors to control the “voting mechanisms” in each state were cavalier.

When fascism comes to America it’ll have Chris Christie’s arrogance and right wing authoritarians will love it.

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Oh good one you lying POS. That total BS about creating better paying middle class jobs is the new BS talking point with all of you liars on the right. For any of us with more than one functioning brain cell, we do realize that it is YOUR party, that has refused time and time again to close that damn loophole that allows corporations who ship those good paying middle class jobs out of this country, and get a tax cut to pay for the expenses of shipping those factories overseas.

If your lying party gave one damn about good paying middle class jobs, then they had 6 years of total control of our government under Bush to have done something about it. Instead we lost MILLIONS of those jobs during that time. You are a liar, and anyone can say that crap, but it is a little harder to actually have a plan to create those jobs isn’t it Christie?

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“Christie said he thinks “opportunity inequality” is a bigger issue than income inequality.”

He actually said that ,wow.

"New Jersey’s job growth ranks 50th

            In the Money blog
        
     Michael L. Diamond, @mdiamondapp
11:24 a.m. EDT May 7, 2014

“Famous worsts. Worst U.S. President: James Buchanan. Worst Major League Baseball team: Arizona Diamondbacks. Worst state for job growth: New Jersey.New
Jersey, once the proud home of innovators such as Edison and Bell Labs,
was one of just two states to lose jobs during the past year, according
to an analysis by Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business.New
Jersey lost 13,700 jobs from March 2013 to March 2014, or .35 percent
of its employment, the website shows, trailing New Mexico, whose
employment declined .12 percent during the same time.*The poor
showing comes as the U.S. added 2.2 million jobs for a 1.64 percent gain
during the same time. And that was before April’s report, which showed
the nation added 288,000 jobs. We won’t know New Jersey’s share until
May 15.I’m setting out to try to figure out what has gone so wrong. And I have a few working theories:”

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Gov., you are among the political elite. And an ass.

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“What we need to do in this country is not have debate over a higher minimum wage. We have to have a debate over creating better-paying middle class jobs in this country. If that somehow doesn’t comport with what people in the political elite want, well, I’m sorry.”

Only a resolute and revolting Koch-sucking dumbfuck fails to realize that millions of people working two, three jobs or more have bills to pay RIGHT NOW.

They can’t wait for your already proven as failed prescriptions of loading up the fat-cats whose asses you kiss with even more wealth in the vain hope they won’t drive down wages even further than they already have.

Pray tell, whale turd, what stunning tidal wave of benevolence do you predict will sweep across the nation like a prairie fire such that the people who prop you up as an economic assassin will suddenly have a dramatic change of course and put America above their own self-interests? What a joke - but it isn’t funny one bit.

New Jereysans, you know what? I’ve lived there most of my life, but the sonsofbitches who voted for this clown, particularly Christie Democrats, need a swift kick in the groin. Perhaps several. What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Difficult conundrum - Republicans know that the only way they can sustain themselves as politically relevant is to cozy up to the very ‘elites’ who despise higher wages.

When they’re running for office, they talk about ‘creating’ good paying jobs. When the Democrats are in power, they insist that only the market can create jobs.

Rhetorical contortionism, in bumper-sticker portions.

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Shorter Christie: “Kill the poor people.”

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People making $7.25 an hour are the “political elite?”

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And the press will love it. They’ll write headlines calling him “pugnacious!”

Or “pugnatious” if it’s a TPM article.

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Yes, up is down, war is peace, and liberals are elite.

And they’re waging class warfare.

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His remark was a French explorer(?):

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I’ll bet Christie was 100% in favor of all the jobs programs that the Repubs brought up in the last 6 years?

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Tap dance faster asshole. Tap dance I say!

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So sick of this Saint Chris crook.

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Christie knows that low wage workers don’t vote for fat repugs.

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“Opportunity inequality” is a clever sounding catch phrase, but completely meaningless. It’s just a way for Republicans to get around talking about the real problem, income inequality.

If you ask them what are their are ideas for achieving opportunity equality they will have none,except for the same old dribble about tax cuts,and deregulation.

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“We have to have a debate over creating better-paying middle class jobs in this country.”

Why not actually do something instead of just debating?

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