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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristie’s Fact-Free Keynote
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie largely avoided factual claims in a Republican convention keynote address that was heavy on generalities, opinion and platitudes. The pugnacious former prosecutor exaggerated a bit, though, when he bragged about his accomplishments as governor, and he repeated the common but false claim that the presidents health care law interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.
■Christie said he delivered three balanced budgets with lower taxes. Actually, he cut the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income residents and the popular property-tax rebate program for renters and homeowners. Its a matter of interpretation whether those are tax hikes or spending reductions. A proposed 10 percent income tax cut hasnt been enacted.
■He said he took on public-sector unions to reform a pension system headed to bankruptcy and saved retirees their pension. Thats accurate as far as it goes. But the state is not fully funding the revamped system, and the pension liabilities gap will begin to grow again.
■Regarding teachers, Christie said he ended the guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance. Thats correct. Christie worked with a Democratic Legislature to make significant changes to the tenure system even providing a path to fire tenured teachers with negative evaluations.
■Christie said he delivered three balanced budgets with lower taxes. Actually, he cut the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income residents and the popular property-tax rebate program for renters and homeowners. Its a matter of interpretation whether those are tax hikes or spending reductions. A proposed 10 percent income tax cut hasnt been enacted.
■He said he took on public-sector unions to reform a pension system headed to bankruptcy and saved retirees their pension. Thats accurate as far as it goes. But the state is not fully funding the revamped system, and the pension liabilities gap will begin to grow again.
■Regarding teachers, Christie said he ended the guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance. Thats correct. Christie worked with a Democratic Legislature to make significant changes to the tenure system even providing a path to fire tenured teachers with negative evaluations.
And here is a laugh:
Christie: Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the worlds greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
http://factcheck.org/2012/08/christies-fact-free-keynote/
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Christie’s Fact-Free Keynote (Original Post)
liberal N proud
Aug 2012
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)1. Here's more on Christie's REAL record:
jsr
(7,712 posts)2. He was full of shit
goclark
(30,404 posts)3. What a big fat lie!
Rmoey WILL NOT tell us the truth at all....much less tell us the hard truth