By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
I’m sometimes critical of the Trenton GOP because I want them to succeed, Save Jerseyans. So when its members and affiliates do a lousy job of articulating a winning contrast for one reason or another, you can count on Save Jersey bloggers to speak up.
The worst part is that I know they’re capable of it! Obviously there are few better communicators in modern American politics than Chris Christie, and when he’s disposed to fighting for a particular conservative principle, he reaches a level of impressive yet easily digestible eloquence that few other GOP’ers are able to replicate.
One such example transpired at yesterday’s Sayreville town hall:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323uDA4Ajaw
By way of background, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Thursday that New Jersey’s unemployment rate fell by 0.3% to 8.7% in April driven by the addition of 4,100 private sector jobs.
A transcript of this video is below the fold…
TRANSCRIPT
Governor Christie: And so the reason why I’m so excited about the unemployment numbers and job numbers going the way they’re going, that the revenue numbers we put out today were good, that we’ve held the line on taxes the last four years. And for the first time in four years the state has not raised taxes on anyone for four years in a row. The reason I’m excited about that is because that’s going to lead to even more people going back to work. And I will tell you that it’s still my opinion and always will be that the greatest social program in the world is a job. That’s the greatest social program in the world. Get folks to get to work, the self-esteem that comes from a job that you have to go to everyday with a paycheck that you can use to help support your family and put food on the table. You know that’s the greatest thing that we can do as a government, is to get the heck out of the way sometimes and let people get to work and let them keep as much of their own money as we can possibly let them keep.
