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To: Katelew who wrote (140826)	7/14/2010 4:19:21 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542946

I thought my position on NJ's fiscal problems was reasonably clear. It's that we've got difficulties but they require a comprehensive approach in which increased taxes for the wealthy and for business are on the table. And surgical ways are used to deal with the pension and healthcare commitments. Instead, we've got a guy with an axe. Which are likely to leave us with the same structure just less of it. Doesn't it ever make you angry that the union drive for more and bigger benefits has put your state in this position? No, because in the cases I know about workers gave up salary increases, in good faith, for pension and/or healthcare benefits. And, to repeat, I think public school teachers are well underpaid relative to their social contribution and importance. Certainly underpaid relative to lawyers and hedge fund managers. The priorities are wrong. Period. Doesn't it ever make you disgusted with the Dem legislatures and govs. that gave into these unions? The unsustainable trajectory of wages, benefits, and debt has been obvious for a long time in all of these states. Once this obnoxious anti-tax political culture took hold, which is the fault, by and large, of the Reagan crew forward, the public sector has apparently been living on borrowed time. I just would like to see it revived. So, no, I'm not in the crew that regrets what's happened. Except for Jimmy Carter's failure to defeat Reagan in 1980 and the SC stealing the 2000 election.