Maybe if they didn't use $8MM of their dues money on attack ads against Christie, there might have been enough money to pay their own federal taxes. I know they can't believe that their $8MM could not buy their unfettered access to taxpayer money. All it took for Governor Corzine was that he slept with the head of the CWA union head. Gee, and isn't one of the NJEA's brow-beating talking points that New Jersey did not pay their matching pension payments for years? Perhaps it is because New Jersey needs whatever money they have from their triple the national average property taxes along with the highest taxes in the nation to pay for the escalating lifetime free health, dental and vision coverage for the public union members from date of hire until death.

My, my, my....I see that 7 hours ago you posted 11 separate posts spewing nothing but extremely bitter vitriol which certainly identifies you as a very angry person. I feel very sorry for a person with so much anger that it clouds their sane judgment of economic realities. Perhaps if you stood on your own two feet instead of feeling you are entitled to have others to support you, you would feel the accomplishment from living within your means and not be so angry when the free money stops. You followed your union off a cliff and for that you have no one to blame but yourself.

How sad you don't understand stupidity when it comes to unsustainable debt. Yes, you do pay taxes for which you and your family receive free taxpayer paid healthcare for life which costs much more than the taxes you pay. The remaining taxpayers receive nothing in return for paying for your healthcare as that money does not benefit your professional work but goes directly in to your pockets. I'd love to have an extra $24,000 a year available to me as that would almost double my truly fixed retirement income. Union workers are fine people who have been drawn in by their Unions to nothing more than Ponzi schemes when living off of other peoples' money. Educate yourself on the name of Madoff to find out what happens when you run out of other peoples' money. When union leaders use $7MM of the members' dues to pay-to-play with politicians to give them unfettered access to taxpayers wallets, that is called corruption and is the definition of STUPIDITY for union workers.

Thank goodness we finally have a governor who believes taxpayers deserve a voice in collective bargaining and he does not stoop to union contributions, votes and threats to influence his elected oath to govern all residents of New Jersey. The time has come that public worker unions no longer tell their employers, the taxpayers, what they will or won’t do. Every public worker hired previously increased lifetime unsustainable debt for the taxpayers and Governor Christie is the first one to recognize and demonstrate that this has got to stop! New Jersey taxpayers far outnumber union members and will respond to positive governing on their behalf.

The NJEA continues to lead with their fingers in their ears to avoid hearing of New Jersey’s and this country’s economic realities and unsustainable taxpayer debt. It’s scary to think educators do not understand the inevitable consequences of Ponzi schemes or that their demands eventually run out of other people’s money. With a current unemployment rate of 9.4% and many homes on the verge of foreclosure, businesses, millionaires and retirees are leaving the state in droves due to the highest taxes in the nation. Just who do you think is going to pay for the things you can certainly afford but don’t want to pay for yourselves? Taxpayers have been paying their own increasing healthcare costs and yours for years and yes, their take home pay has been decreasing because of it. With lifetime job guarantees after tenure, yearly salary increases, generous escalating pensions and free healthcare from date of hire until death, teachers in New Jersey are truly the richest residents in the State all at the expenses of the declining number of taxpayers.

You all can be picked out in a minute because you all talk the same arguments. You are obviously a teacher and do not listen when Governor Christie tells you he likes teachers, he just doesn’t like the NJEA which has continued decades of collecting your dues and votes for reelection of politicians to have unfettered access to taxpayers money; and that is called pay-to-play or corruption. Last year the NJEA spent almost $7 million dollars of your dues on attack ads in an attempt to retain decades of the status quo and increasing power for themselves. Triple the national property tax average is not good enough, the union still wants more. The NJEA’s tactics of temper tantrums, physical threats, marring and destruction of property, chanting, kazoos, banner planes, threatening votes, stuffed rats and bending real truths; the list goes on and on and these tactics date back to the Viet Nam era. Is it any wonder bullying is running rampant when the students’ role models exhibit such behavior and encourage them to join them in their childish actions?