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RUSH: Last night in Trenton, New Jersey, Chris Christie appeared on the radio, Ask the Governor show, and he spoke with a caller Penny in Blackwood. She said, “I would like to know why you want to take at least 13% out of state employees\u2019 pay for health care. Between what my husband and I make, you\u2019re talking about $600 a month out of our money which is gonna cut into our food and our other bills. How do you expect us to live, governor?”<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: How I expect you to live, Penny, is you\u2019re gonna have to pick a different health plan that\u2019s not nearly as rich as the one you\u2019re getting now. That\u2019s how.<\/p>\n

PENNY: Either that or you\u2019re force us to not have any health care.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: No, I\u2019m not gonna force you to not have any health care. I don\u2019t think that means forcing you to go without health care. But what it means is we can no longer afford to pay 90 plus percent of the cost of your health care. Public workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your property taxes, and state workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your income taxes. If I\u2019m $67 billion in debt and you don\u2019t want me to take any more money out of your paycheck, how am I supposed to pay for it? Am I supposed to just raise taxes? Because if I raise taxes you\u2019re gonna pay more taxes, and if your property taxes go up, you\u2019re going to pay more taxes. I mean the money\u2019s gotta come from somewhere. We can\u2019t print it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re gonna make me pay for my health care, how dare you, how are my husband and I gonna live? They\u2019ve got their hands in there. They\u2019ve got their hands on the state Treasury. They feel entitled to it. So Penny said, “I realize that, but it seems like it\u2019s always coming from the poor and not the rich to make up for these shortfalls.”<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: Penny, the top 1% of taxpayers in this state pay 41% of the total income tax. The top 1% pay 41% of the income tax. So to say that the rich don\u2019t pay is just not true. How much do you want them to pay? There comes a point where you cannot have everything that you want. And as much as I would like to be able to say to you, “You know what, Penny, you\u2019re right, I don\u2019t want you to have to pay another nickel for your health insurance,” I can\u2019t pay for it, and we already have the highest taxes in America. I gotta tell you the truth, your neighbor who works in the private sector pays a heck of a lot more for his or her health insurance than you do. And on the top of it they\u2019re paying the taxes to pay for your health insurance. And so I\u2019ve got a problem to fix here. We\u2019re broke and I gotta fix this problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this is what angers these people. Here\u2019s Governor Christie, he hit this woman right between the eyes. Your neighbors are paying for it! They can\u2019t afford it anymore. You are paying less for your health care than they are paying for theirs and they\u2019re paying you more than they earn, and we\u2019re broke, and I can\u2019t raise their taxes anymore because they\u2019re paying most of the taxes. Nobody has probably talked to this woman like this before. But this is where we are with this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We had a couple Chris Christie sound bites. He was on Ask the Governor show on the radio last night. He took it to a caller named Penny who didn\u2019t understand why she was gonna have to pay for some of her health care with the state being in debt. A story here from the Asbury Park Press: “New Jersey\u2019s burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to ‘provide more help, more care and more protection\u2019 to its suffering residents, according to a report on poverty issued Tuesday. The report, made public by the Poverty Research Institute of Legal Services of New Jersey, says that nearly 2 million residents — more than the combined populations of Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh — are either in poverty or hovering on the edge of the federal threshold for poverty.”<\/p>\n

So what they\u2019re saying is that we have three whole cities\u2019 worth of poor people in New Jersey, in one state. I\u2019m struck here. Who do you think is hardest hit here? That\u2019s right, children, women — he-he-he — the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. The coalition of the screwed. These are the people that are constantly suffering the most in America, the coalition of the screwed: women, children, the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. Now, just stop for a second and think about a culture that embraces, supports, and encourages strong families with a father and mother and see if you find them in the midst of the coalition of the screwed. I mean I hate to be so blunt about it. Now, Asbury Park, New Jersey, is the home of the Barack H. Obama school that is being closed due to lack of students. Oh, you didn\u2019t hear about that? Asbury Park, New Jersey, the Barack H. Obama school, they\u2019re shutting it down, lack of students. It was just announced last week. It\u2019s an elementary school. <\/p>\n

Anyway, if you believe these numbers, “The poverty level, as defined by the federal government is $10,400 for a single person, $14,000 for a couple, $17,600 for a family of three and $21,200 for a family of four.” That\u2019s the poverty level. If there are nearly two million people in New Jersey living near poverty, what more can be done the way we\u2019re doing it? I mean this bunch is demanding more government. “New Jersey\u2019s burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to ‘provide more help, more care and more protection\u2019 to its suffering residents.” What in the world has the war on poverty been? We\u2019re in debt helping people. We\u2019re $14 trillion in debt helping people. New Jersey, $76 billion in debt helping people. What have we not done? What\u2019s the transfer of wealth that\u2019s already taken place? Gonna be $8 trillion since the Great Society. What more could we do? At what point does a person\u2019s lot in life become their responsibility? At what point? <\/p>\n

Here you have, and isn\u2019t it interesting, while all this is happening these reports come out as Christie, in a lot of people\u2019s minds, is just kicking butt out there. Every time he opens his mouth he\u2019s scoring points. Republican presidential wannabes are apparently flying into New Jersey to talk to him, almost as though getting his stamp of approval. He\u2019s saying he\u2019s not ready to run yet but nobody\u2019s really quite sure whether he means it or not, but clearly there\u2019s a lot of interest in him. He is scoring a lot of points with people and now all of a sudden he\u2019s presiding over a state that doesn\u2019t care about people, according to this report. “New Jersey\u2019s burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to ‘provide more help, more care –“<\/p>\n

How can there be any more care? How can there be any more help? At what point does a person\u2019s lot in life become their responsibility? Not supposed to ask that question, folks. We are not supposed to ask that. But this coalition of the screwed: children, women, elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, single mothers. How many of the families that are strong, father and mother, are in this coalition of the screwed? I think there might be some cultural reasons here, folks, rather than the fact that government doesn\u2019t care enough. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another story on New Jersey. This is from the Newark Star-Ledger: “Christie\u2019s Budget Cuts Left N.J. Schools Unable to Provide ‘Thorough and Efficient\u2019 Education, Judge Rules — Gov. Chris Christie\u2019s deep cuts to state school aid last year left New Jersey\u2019s schools unable to provide a ‘thorough and efficient\u2019 education to the state\u2019s nearly 1.4 million school children, a Superior Court judge found today. Judge Peter Doyne, who was appointed as special master in the long-running Abbott vs. Burke school funding case, today issued an opinion that also found the reductions ‘fell more heavily upon our high risk districts and the children educated within those districts. Despite spending levels that meet or exceed virtually every state in the country, and that saw a significant increase in spending levels from 2000 to 2008, our ‘at risk\u2019 children are now moving further from proficiency,\u2019 he said.”<\/p>\n

So what is he saying here? The story says Christie\u2019s budget cuts left schools unable to provide thorough and efficient education. By the way, what\u2019s that? What is a thorough and efficient education? Judge gets to define that, I guess. But the story says it\u2019s budget cuts. The judge\u2019s ruling, “despite spending levels that meet or exceed virtually every state in the country, and that saw a significant increase in spending levels from 2000 to 2008, our ‘at risk\u2019 children are now moving further from proficiency.” Well, what are we to do? Doesn\u2019t sound like there are budget cuts. It sounds like spending more than ever before. We\u2019re spending more than every state in the country. Education is not thorough, not efficient because of Christie\u2019s budget cuts? There are 591 school districts in New Jersey, not 592, and not 590, 591. Two thousand four hundred schools in the state of New Jersey. Might that be a problem, or at least contributory to the problem? But regardless, the long knives are out for Governor Christie on this. I mean this is nonsensical. We\u2019re spending more than we ever have, exceed virtually every state in the country, spending levels, significant increase 2000 to 2008, and yet the headline: “Budget Cuts Left N.J. Schools Unable to Provide ‘Thorough and Efficient\u2019 Education.” <\/p>\nAgain, at what point is someone\u2019s education their responsibility? At what point do we rename the coalition of the screwed the coalition of the willingly screwed? At what point? You feel sorry for these people and we\u2019ve been feeling sorry for \u2019em for 40 or 50 years now, and what\u2019s that accomplished? One of the things I always ask myself during periods like this, story after story after story of endless poverty, endless suffering, and yet down the street there isn\u2019t any. On that part of town and many, many other parts of the town, there isn\u2019t any. What is the reason for the disparity? Oh, don\u2019t give me this life\u2019s lottery is unfair business. That\u2019s what the Democrats want you believe. That\u2019s, of course, the underpinning theory behind redistribution. Many factors involved: entitlement, I am expected that this should be given me, what have you. Lack of properly motivated people, inspired people, educated people, understanding the difference, misunderstanding the difference between empathy and sympathy. The war on poverty is sympathy. The Great Society is sympathy. Helping people help themselves is empathy. You know, the old teaching a man to fish. That is empathy. But we have a sympathy based foreign policy. We just feel sorry for everybody. We feel sorry for \u2019em and then come up with policies to make ourselves feel better but not change the outcome of anybody\u2019s life in a serious way, because we don\u2019t teach them to help themselves. We\u2019d rather blame their plight on political opponents.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s John in Crofton, Maryland. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Diamond dittos to you. I haven\u2019t seen you — I guess I saw you in Washington, DC, a little over four years ago at the Warner Theatre but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes, I remember that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the reason I called is I\u2019m originally from New Jersey and, by the way, I can\u2019t hear a thing you\u2019re saying, so now I have empathy for your hearing loss.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why can\u2019t you hear anything I\u2019m saying? Is he deaf or is our phone system — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can barely hear Bo Snerdley and I just heard Crofton, Maryland, so I guess I\u2019m talking on the air. But I went to public schools for all 12 years in inner city Newark back in the forties and fifties, graduated in \u201958, got accepted at Dartmouth, graduated from there. I don\u2019t think I could do this today. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d even live through 12 years of school in Newark right now. It\u2019s really a darn shame what\u2019s happened there, and these teachers that I think are overpaid, Penny was on the phone with the governor and she was complaining that she would have to pay $600 to cover herself and her husband on some kind of a Cadillac health care program. My question to Penny is, how much union dues do you pay? And also, since it costs about 50 or $60,000 a year to go to an Ivy League school today, why can\u2019t the academics take a pay cut so that people don\u2019t have to take out all these student loans? But you never hear about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is one of the fascinating things about tuition and college. The one area that keeps going up, but you never hear the university system gouged or ripped like Big Oil is, or Walmart or big anything else. We just have to give the student loan program more money. We just have to loan more money. It\u2019s about 40 grand to go to an Ivy League school nowadays. He\u2019s right about that. You may not have been listening and heard what he was referring to. Grab audio sound bite number 25 out there, Ed. This is what he\u2019s talking about. It was Chris Christie on the radio in New Jersey last night, Ask the Governor radio show, Penny in Blackwood called. She was upset, said, “I want to know why you want to take at least 13% out of state employees\u2019 pay for health care. I mean that\u2019s gonna cost my husband and me $600 a month of our money to pay for our health care. That\u2019s gonna cut into our food and other bills. How do you expect us to live?” <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s a woman, state employee, state\u2019s paying it all, state\u2019s broke, Christie says, “You\u2019re gonna have to pay a little bit more for your health care.” “How am I gonna live? How am I gonna live? That\u2019s gonna cut into our food and other bills.” And this is what Governor Christie said to her. <\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: How I expect you to live, Penny, is you\u2019re gonna have to pick a different health plan that\u2019s not nearly as rich as the one you\u2019re getting now. That\u2019s how.<\/p>\n

PENNY: Either that or you\u2019re force us to not have any health care.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIE: No, I\u2019m not gonna force you to not have any health care. I don\u2019t think that means forcing you to go without health care. But what it means is we can no longer afford to pay 90 plus percent of the cost of your health care. Public workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your property taxes, and state workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your income taxes. If I\u2019m $67 billion in debt and you don\u2019t want me to take any more money out of your paycheck, how am I supposed to pay for it? Am I supposed to just raise taxes? Because if I raise taxes you\u2019re gonna pay more taxes, and if your property taxes go up, you\u2019re going to pay more taxes. I mean the money\u2019s gotta come from somewhere. We can\u2019t print it.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s Governor Christie telling her, “The money\u2019s gotta come from somewhere. We can\u2019t print it.” What he\u2019s basically saying is, time has come, you\u2019re going to have to pay for some of this yourself, taxes are already too high. Your neighbors can\u2019t afford it anymore. But you can see, she thinks that this is an entitlement. She works for the state. Her health care should be paid for. The idea she\u2019s gonna have to pay for this is just foreign. She\u2019s gonna starve now. She\u2019s gonna starve. <\/p>\n

You know, I have to tell you, you\u2019ve heard me say this before, I\u2019m a broken record on it and I probably ought to shut up about it. But I am appalled. I\u2019m really wondering where I screwed up in life. ‘Cause I think I\u2019m one of the few people who actually pays for everything I have, want, or need. I missed the memo. I missed the instruction on how to get other people to pay for you. And, by the way, this runs at every income level. I have been just as incredulous when I see a big-time corporate CEO retire and get a $700 million package and use of the corporate plane whenever he wants even though he\u2019s not there anymore, and the company is buying his apartment and his tickets to sports events. I look and I say, “Well, what\u2019s the $700 million for?” Other people say, “Look, that was the deal. He got the deal. Why are you griping about the deal?” No, I understand, but I wouldn\u2019t ask for that. You know, give me the money, if I want an apartment, I\u2019ll pay for it. Anyway, it all blew up because the ex-wife found out about it and blew the whistle on the deal and he had to give some of it back. Nobody knew about it, except the board. So the ex-wife blew the whistle or the disgruntled wife before — anyway, that\u2019s just one example. I\u2019m just telling you it happens at every income level. I just missed the memo on it. I\u2019m under this obviously mistaken belief that if you want a health care plan, you pay for it. I would love to get a lobotomy and have a brain transplant where I didn\u2019t think that anymore. Figure out how to game the system.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bruce in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, good afternoon and thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You were talking about maybe two million people or so in the cities around the Northeast that were poor?<\/p>\n

RUSH: New Jersey!<\/p>\n

CALLER: New Jersey.<\/p>\n

RUSH: New Jersey. There are more poor people in New Jersey than in Boston and a couple or three other cities combined.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And my question is: When are we gonna finally redefine what “poor” is, what the poverty level is in America? Do you know how we even come up with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know how we come up with it. I\u2019m having a mental block now even though I just read what department does it. Commerce?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I ask is because I just don\u2019t see “poor” everywhere in America. I don\u2019t see anyone starving to death in the streets.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, there\u2019s a lot of “food insecurity” out there. You can see it standing in line at McDonald\u2019s: “Are they gonna have McNuggets or not?” That\u2019s out there. Food insecurity, in Port St. Lucie, has resulted in 911 phone calls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think that\u2019s just exactly what we need to do in America is redefine what truly poor is and who the ones that really need the help are, because I think we\u2019re all willing to help out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did this once. Let me tell you, I did this once. There\u2019s a guy at Heritage (speaking of Heritage) and his name is Robert Rector (R-e-c-t-o-r) and he has done exactly what you suggest. He has compared what we call “poverty” to what is poverty in other countries, and you\u2019d be amazed. You\u2019d be amazed at the number of people we say “live in poverty” who have air-conditioned homes and cars, for example. He\u2019s got all these numbers, all these stats. I happened to make it public back in the early nineties, and I got creamed for it as somebody just lying and just making stuff up. So it\u2019s one of those areas the left doesn\u2019t want you to go there, but I went there. Robert Rector at Heritage has every answer you want on your question.<\/p>\n

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