{"id":37640,"date":"2011-02-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:10","slug":"governor_chris_christie_gets_it_the_bureaucrats_vs_the_rest_of_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/23\/governor_chris_christie_gets_it_the_bureaucrats_vs_the_rest_of_us\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Chris Christie Gets It: The Bureaucrats vs. the Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve got some Chris Christie audio sound bites here I want to get in before the program. And Rumsfeld conducted a seminar with Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) on how to not accept the premise put forth in question after question after question. But Christie in Trenton spoke about concessions being asked of public employees in New Jersey. Let\u2019s start with audio sound bite number ten. It\u2019s from his budget address and yesterday afternoon in Trenton. We have several bites here. Here\u2019s one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CHRISTIE: For too many years our government has operated under the belief that the baseline, the place where you begin, is to continue to fund every program in the budget &#8212; regardless of the fiscal climate, regardless of the economy, and regardless of the effectiveness of the program. Well, not anymore. You need to build a realistic budget from the bottom up. You fund what you need this year to succeed. Not every relic from two decades ago that\u2019s still on the books. The baseline is zero. Zero-base budgeting, which I promised in the campaign, has finally come to New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, this is very smart, very wise: Baseline budgeting. Most people don\u2019t know what baseline budgeting is. I spent, back in the mid-nineties, a full three-hour program explaining it. I might be able to give you a brief summary of it in a couple of segments. But essentially&#8230; Let\u2019s take the federal budget. Take any item in the budget you want, any department, any sub-department of any department, and it has a budget. The baseline for that budget is the current level of spending, with no factors whatsoever considered. <\/p>\n<p>Did all of it get spent this year? Was there any left over? Did you need more? How was it spent? Was it effectively spent or not? It doesn\u2019t matter, and with the federal budget there\u2019s an automatic assumption that 10%, 8%, whatever is automatic as an increase. So that if the actual budget only goes up 4% people run around and say, &#8216;Oh, there\u2019s a 4% cut here,\u2019 when there hasn\u2019t been a 4% cut. There\u2019s been a 4% increase, but it\u2019s not the full 8% that was targeted. The baseline is such that it basically allows people to claim &#8216;cuts\u2019 in a budget when there aren\u2019t any. <\/p>\n<p>Zero-base budgeting means you start with a clean slate every year. &#8216;Okay, we mighta given you $2 million last year. We\u2019re not gonna automatically start at $2,200,000 this year. We\u2019re gonna start at zero again. We\u2019re gonna look at what you did with that $2 million, where it went, and how you spent it. Did you need it all? Did you spend less?\u2019 What happens is, as we all know, Health and Human Services advertises for food stamp applicants toward the end of the fiscal year so that they don\u2019t get short-changed the next year when their budget comes out. So Christie is here talking about starting from zero, a clean slate. He then said this.<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTIE: 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. The promises of the past are too expensive, and the prospects of the future are too important to stay on the old, failed course. Across the country, we have come to a moment: The moment for real change and the return to fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He\u2019s right, and it\u2019s not just in Wisconsin. It\u2019s in New Jersey, it\u2019s coming to Indiana, it\u2019s coming to Ohio. It\u2019s gonna happen to every state that\u2019s in this problem, and the number one expense &#8212; the number one place that they have to cut &#8212; is this irresponsible, mindless spending on people like he just said: &#8216;One class of citizen that receives rich health and pension benefits and the rest of us who are left to pay for it.\u2019 We\u2019ve gotten to a period out-of-balance now so the people receiving the benefits get twice what the people paying for them get. It\u2019s unsustainable, cannot happen. <\/p>\n<p>We have a war here between the government bureaucrat and the rest of us, and that\u2019s what this is. I don\u2019t care what the job is. Teacher, whatever the union employee is, the bureaucrat, that\u2019s the new war. That\u2019s the new class struggle. That\u2019s the new class warfare, not rich versus poor. It\u2019s the government bureaucrat versus the rest of us. The government bureaucrat happens to be unionized, and that\u2019s where we are. That\u2019s not gonna go away any time soon. You have Democrats going around, &#8216;We need to make it bloody in the streets here,\u2019 and I\u2019m sure they full-well intend to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve got some Chris Christie audio sound bites here I want to get in before the program. And Rumsfeld conducted a seminar with Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) on how to not accept the premise put forth in question after question after question. 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