Amazing Men

This guy is amazing.  He is the Republican governor of an overwhelming Democrat state.  New Jersey is a union dominated, high tax and high government employment/high salaried/high pensioned state.  And it is, or was, in financial trouble.   The new governor, following a disastrous term by a high priest of the church of Obama who is now in a state of professional and personal disrepute, is enjoying a high “popularity poll” rating even though he has tackled all of the consequential financial and fiscal problems that flow from that devastating combination of Democrat/government interference in everything personal and commercial; their constant support of unions and other special interest groups doing their best to advance personal agendas at the expense of community agendas;  and their insistence on legal protections for large protected classes of voting groups who claim all forms of victim status in order to get special treatment.

Chris Christie has tackled that mess and is moving New Jersey back to a community of work; of self responsibility; of government performance and limitations and reasonable taxation policies.   He is doing that in a Democrat stronghold and the voters of New Jersey like him and his results.

Here is what Governor Christie said yesterday:

“When the American people no longer believe that this is a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life, then we’ll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check,” Christie said.

And if that’s not enough direct speak for all of us, here is a bit more of his remarks:

“It’s because government’s now telling them. stop dreaming, stop striving, we’ll take care of you.  We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society.  That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally,” Christie told Bush, Henry Kissinger and an assortment of Republican governors in a theater at the New York Historical Society.

Government, government, government.  Promises, promises, promises.  It is a story of the ages – slicksters selling snake oil to a gullible gang hoping for something for nothing.

It has never worked and it never will.  But that fundamental is not enough to put an end to it.  Some people just need to learn the hard way.  Obama was their savoir; they signed up for membership in his church and they still see an easy way to success and prosperity. 

If Chris Christie can get that New Jersey gang to get back to work, there is hope for the rest of us.  He is an amazing man.

Speaking of amazing men, we would also like to extend congratulations to a humble man who has a self developed skill many aspire to but few attain.  Gerry Lester “Bubba” Watson, Jr. stands 6’ 3” tall; weighs 180 pounds and can routinely hit the golf ball down the center of the fairway 315 yards.  He can hit it a lot further when so inclined.  He is a proud Georgia Bulldog and he now wears one of golf’s most prestigious honors – the green jacket that goes with winning Augusta National’s Masters Invitational Tournament.   In case you didn’t see it, and that would place you in a small fraction of Americans, many of his fellow competitors stuck around to see him win a sudden death playoff so that they could congratulate this amazing young man who credits his Mom and Dad for his values.  Following the tournament win, Watson said, "I'd like to first thank Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior".

With amazing men like this, there is great hope for America.