Booker: Dem Platform Offers 'Clear Choice' Between 'Inclusion or Exclusion'
In short speech, Newark mayor hits on themes of fairness, restoring prosperity
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker gave a brief speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday, touching on topics that included economic inequality, education and breaks for small business. His words brought the audience to its feet.
“This is our American mission. These are the dreams of our fathers and our mothers,” Booker told the crowd gathered in Charlotte, N.C., for day one of the convention.
The convention ends Thursday when President Obama formally accepts the nomination.
Unlike Gov. Chris Christie, who gave a primetime address during last week’s Republican National Convention, Booker’s speech lasted a little more than 10 minutes and aired at 6 p.m., before the major television networks began their broadcasts.
Booker, who served as co-chair of the committee that wrote the Democratic Party platform for 2012, introduced the platform during his speech, aiming his rhetoric squarely at voters with average incomes.
“This platform is a clear choice between economic pathways, forward or back, inclusion or exclusion, grow together as a nation or be a country of savage disparities and favor the fortunate few over the greatest driving force in the economy: a large and robust middle class,” Booker said.
Booker also said Democrats favor balanced budgets, but were dismissive of the Republican idea that tax cuts for the wealthy would stimulate economic growth.
“Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending, calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where everyone from elected officials to the wealthy to the super-wealthy pay their fair share,” Booker said.
In what seemed to be an almost deliberate rebuke of Republican nominee Mitt Romney — who was sharply criticized for failing to mention America’s ongoing war in Afghanistan during his acceptance speech last week — Booker spotlighted the 11-year-old conflict.
With U.S. soldiers risking everything overseas, “being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare. It’s patriotism,” a line that drew some of the heaviest applause during Booker’s speech as well as choruses of “USA!”
Booker also said the platform favors assistance for small business, which he said has received 18 tax cuts under Obama, investment in infrastructure and a pledge that U.S. citizens who “play by the rules” regardless of “who they choose to love” or what religion they follow have the right to employment that pays enough for decent housing, retirement and medical care.
Booker’s speech was largely well-received in the Twitter-verse, where the social-media-savvy mayor has 1.2 million followers.
“You completely knocked it out of the park!” one fan said, while Newark Councilman Ron Rice, a sometime opponent of Booker’s, enthused that the crowd spontaneously took to its feet Tuesday, unlike during Christie’s address, when Christie had to “exhort” people to rise.
“Guess ideas matter,” Rice’s tweet also read.
Lia Eustachewich contributed to this report.
So Much to Say
1:01 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Start with your Ghetto (Newark) then come talk to the USA. Newark is a disaster and obvioulsy you can't change that. Let's put it in prospective....Iraq is safer then Newark.
KC
1:09 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
when was the last time you were in Newark pal? it looks a damn site better than your piney town.
Jack
12:51 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
They could have poured ( wasted ) all the stimulus money into Newark and it would still be the same cesspool it has been since the riots . I grew up there and it sickening to see what a once fine city has become . Booker hasn't don't diddly there ! He is only looking for his next job . And if he is talking exclusions , look at the city hall hierarchy and see how diverse it is ! Joke ! It is just a rat trap that the feds and state keep wasting our money on .
Col. Korn
4:01 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
This isn't about our local politicians: OBAMA has to go, then the whole United States will return to its former glory under the expert Leadership of Romney.
Lets all come together for the big win people!
Bury your pride in your hip pocket and admit you got fooled! To be fooled once is no crime but to be fooled twice (?), For shame! We need a manager in the white house! Somebody who can cut deals and get things moving again is just the right Rx for what ails us.
Lets Back Romney and jump start our great Country again!
Your Obt. Svt.
Col Korn,
Chief O’ Mayhem in the Great WW-2 (And the Cold War)
Now Chief O’ Security, Sanitation (And the Complaint Dept.)
OXOjamm Studios.
Fredrick Mann
5:24 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Nice job Booker! He was fired-up and ready to go! I wish he had more time.
Virgil Harris
1:06 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
I have suspicion he took a few pages out of the book of the Camden mayors of the 90's! anyone say Milton Milan and Angelo Errichetti.
PS- Weren't these men honored at the DNC?
Martin
4:15 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
I never saw "expert" and "leadership" in the same sentence as "Romney" before. "Gaffe" and "out of touch" are the usual words for Mitt, as the polls show. Put a fork in him... he's done.
HF48
6:55 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Booker gave an articulate and passionate speech delineating some of the differences between the parties. Fired up the early crowd. Good job.
Virgil Harris
1:01 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
I remember my first time wearing tie dye and not having a clue.
Dan
7:04 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
He didn't build that
Dan
7:15 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Why is patch reprinting articles from huffington post? What's next? Daily Kos?
TheGreatHoax
9:20 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Interesting how the Dems have rewritten history along with the help of the government education system and the "mainstream" media. It was the Democrat Party that was against the Civil Rights Act.
Go see the movie 2016 Obama's America. You won't vote for him again after you see it.
George
4:20 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
That propaganda movie has been widely debunked, and the Dixiecrats faded out in the '60s. Recent history is more relevant to this election -- Bush's recession, unfunded war for weapons of mass destruction, millionaires' tax breaks, etc.
TheGreatHoax
9:24 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"paying your fair share isn't class warfare it's patriotism" Really? You could confiscate the entire earnings of the so-called rich and not make a dent in the $16 Trilliion debt. It is the typical dem strategy of divide and conquer election year class warfare tactics.
NJarhead
10:03 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Too bad all the Democrats are capable of doing is providing good speeches. Not much more.
MargeZimmerman
12:05 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Brooker is a disgusting party stooge who runs a filthy ghetto of a city. He has absolutely no credibility with true working class Americans who are trying to better themselves. I was born and raised in Newark and the song has remained the same .... Nothing has improved.
George
5:08 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
You do know the State appoints the Superintendent of the Newark School
System? She was given the OK by C.C. so any failure or continued failure is
on her and the administration that appointed her a few years ago. Most
by checking on the way he runs the City so far may think he is a Conservative.
AllisonHaykirk
5:25 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Horrible representative with nothing to run on except a race card. This nation is going down the drain.
Al Czervik
5:33 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Apparently they couldn't get the mayor of Camden, so Booker jumped in
Matt Colin
7:55 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
This guy is a joke. I can't believe this is even news.
Virgil Harris
1:15 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
I am happy to say for one of the first times reading a post on the patch that the people with a clue shined through resoundingly. I am proud! By the way, is Booker the gentleman from Newark who pulls people out of burning crack house late at night? Is it odd to anyone else what he was doing near a crack house late at night?
George
5:19 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
One small detail he is not "from" Newark. he moved there in about his
mid 20's. Maybe a decent guy but will use the void he filled in the City
"as a sort of on the level guy" honest Mayor as a stepping stone.
has worked well with C.C.and will get out
of town as soon the first chance he gets Run against
C.C. esp if C.C. moves on . Maybe the U.S. Senate or House
jennifer
8:43 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
The speech was excellent and the message, correct. Either we choose the Republicans and the poor get poorer and the Newarks decay further, or we choose the Democrats who are smart enough to know that to make a strong society, we have to consider everyone, not just the wealthy. Countries in South America where there is only the super rich and the very poor are dangerous places. And - the deficit was caused by 8 years of Bush and the Republicans for the most part - notice Bush was no were in sight during the Republican Convention --- trying to make us all forget the debacle of the Bush years. But handing us a corporate raider, tax evader is not the way to go. Someone who is so patriotic, he evades paying income taxes and hides money in Swiss bank accounts. Yea - great idea for our President - great example of patriotism. And you people who are not part of the 1% who want to back Republicans, you are the real dopes in this pictures.
Ray
8:56 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
The democrats have been in charge of Newark forever and it is still a crime ridden ghetto with many shootings and gangs. Booker hasn't improved it and neither will Obama. The poor will still depend on welfare, food stamps and public housing. I worked the riots in Newark in 1967 and nothing has changed. It's getting worse.
George
5:25 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Ray Newark is in NJ and while dems have been in charge the City where were the Gov's How come they just sent money to be wasted as some have said?
You can go back to Kean R, Byrne D, Florio D, the first Christie R, the current one R, and McGrev. D seems both Rebubs and Dems have both let it get to where it is today
John V
3:15 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Try and have an independent thought. Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is America better off? does your children's future look better?
And for the love of God, don't tell me it is Bush's fault. Take responsibility for your actions.
Oh wait, Dems are not responsible for anything. All our problems are someone else fault.
NJarhead
8:52 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Ugh, I need to stop reading some of these comments, lest my faith in humanity decline any further.
Jennifer, I'm considered to be a middleclass to sub-middleclass American. I pay my bills on time, work hard for what I have and try to live a good life. I've even spent 13 years serving my country in both the USMC and the USCG. In my experience, I ONLY run the risk of becoming poorer when the Democrats are in office. Be it Congress, the White House or in Trenton. So no, I'm not a dope. You're the dope who thinks that, not only the rich, but ALL of us should share our so-called "wealth."
Joe R
10:52 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Things were so much better under the sterling leadership of Bush #2, the CEO president who ran America like a business, namely ENRON.
jennifer
11:04 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
If you lost your job, would you lose your health insurance? Do you have a pre-existing condition? If you had a catastronphic accident, is there a limit on the amount of your insurance coverage? At any time, any of us is vulnerable. I want the new healthcare law to go through, so I don't have to worry about losing my insurance if I lose my job. There will be a reasonable option available. The Republicans voted down equal pay for equal work and women make 79 cents to the dollar a man makes. That is not fair. The Republicans are against abortion even in the case of rape or incest. As a matter of fact, they want to change the definition of rape. Their platform is from the 1800's. You are middle class or sub? Then you are paying more in taxes that the billion dollar Republican candidate paying under 15% -- you are paying probably 30%. Are you hiding income in off shore accounts that you aren't even paying taxes on at all? doubt it. You are sharing your "wealth" but the super rich do not share or even pay their fair share. That is why you are the foolish one to back Republicans but they count on people like you are just so resentful of the poor that they can manipulate you and they have. Sucker!
NJarhead
11:15 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
It's amazing to me that you believe all of that crap. If I had to guess, I'd say you're a renter in her 20's. At least that's the impression I'm getting. Regardless, Obama isn't the Robin Hood you make him out to be. He's spent 3.5 years blaming Bush for all of his short comings and even lying to the American public by taking credit for the Iraq withdrawal when the timeline that was followed was put into place by George W. Bush. The man cares nothing about you, gays, teens, women, Latinos, etc. He cares only about getting reelected. The very thought of which, scares the daylights out of me.
Eleanor
12:19 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
If you lost your job you would have to buy your own health insurance. Why is your boss responsible for picking up your health insurance anyway? Or in the case of a public service worker, the taxpayer who might also be struggling to pay for his own familys health insurance?
An insurance company can set restrictions on what they will cover, just like your home owners can charge more for a swimming pool or say you cant have a rottweiler, or your car insurance can made concessions for age, nonsmokers, etc.
Hiding money in offshore accounts? I don't know - ask the Kennedys, the Pelosis and Soros where their money is.
The rich don't pay their fair share? Fair is when we all pay at the same rate. The right shoulder 70% of the tax burden while more than 40% of taxpayers do not even file income tax returns.
Equal Pay? The attempt to amend the bill had dicey language about 'other than gender' hiring priorities in addition to experience, productivity and seniority. The Republicans wanted a 'clear language' bill and one that would not make it easier for defendants to file frivolous suits or plaintiff employers to discriminate on the basis of gender. You need to stop throwing up talking points and read some of the bills sometime to see what they say, what 'pork' has been added in that would hurt the people the bill says they are helping.
Ray
5:18 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
You had your chance by electing Hillary. Instead you voted for a left wing community organizer who wants to take from hardworking successful people and give to the laggards who just want and handout instead of a handout.
George
5:33 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
By offering health plans employers can get a better pool of employees to hire from.
Employers do not just GIVE it to employees it is a form of Compensation for services rendered.
slyfox1961
7:18 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
@jennifer: if you lose your job, why should my taxes continue to pay for your insurance? Go get another job. And I seriously doubt anyone in a mid-income tax bracket of 30% acually pays 30% after itemizing. I gross 100 k and my actual tax liability after itemizing was 11%, with no dependants. If I still had dependants it would be even lower. Sounds to me like you drank the DEM cool aid, since you are parrotting everything that was said last night. Don't get me wrong, the right wingers taht have ruined the REP party for the benefit of the corporate vultures are no better. They fleece the pockets of the American worker to give massive return on investment to the alreeady filthy rich. I actually trust Romney more than Ryan, who really scares me. He preaches fiscal responsibility but voted for every tax reduction that there was the last 15 years. Where do you think the bulk of our national debt os from? FOr every dollar they give as a tax break, a dollar must be borrowed to fill the gap. If tax breaks were the answer, where are all the jobs? We have been getting tax breaks for years now. Bring Clinton back! He is the only one who has shown that it is possible to have a balanced budget.
Opinionated
12:09 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
To Mayor Booker, three things: first, how can you call it a clear platform after it has been "revised to include the words "God" and Jerusalem?; second, your management of Newark rates an incomplete grade until the city pays its own expenses instead of having the state do it for them; and third, I have a hard time in believing your sincerity after what happened with your run in with Obama over his campaign tactics. We all know you have to be on your best behavior or else!!!
jennifer
12:37 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Right the health insurance situation is not good now. Under the new healthcare bill, there will be an inexpensive option so that people can buy health insurance at a reasonable price. The restrictions you speak of that you defend are: no coverage for pre existing conditions, lifetime caps, I am sure, Eleanor, that you are on Medicare so it isn't a problem for you but if you had a history of cancer and tried to get health insurance now, you would be hard pressed without the new law.The hateful government is taking care of your insurance - Medicarte. And you don't need to worry about equal pay - because you are retired but women should not be paid less than men. I don't know if the Kennedy's hid money in off shore accounts - but I do know that Romney does. Where is any proof that Kennedy hid money off shore? George Soros IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT so I don't care where his money is. Eleanor, times have changed and people have progressed forward. I guess you think it is OK that Paul Ryan wants to change the definition of rape - I guess you have no one in your family who is gay and you have not witnessed closely the hurtful discrimination gay people suffer. And if you want fair taxes - go get the lobbyists to change the laws. That's what the super rich did and why Romney pays less than 15% -- oh wait only the super rich can get in there and influence congress. And that leaves both of us out. My only hope is the Democrats.
Eleanor
5:35 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Jennifer - You need to stop making assumptions and read up a little more. As for what you said about me - A) I am not on medicare and have never been on medicare B) I have had chronic health problems and bought private insurance and paid out of pocket for many visits and prescriptions. C) In spite of the fact that i am not on medicare and have chronic health problems i still work. I dont know when i will retire but i dont think it is going to be very soon. If Romney only pays 15%, i think he should tell everyone else how he manages it because i dont know anyone who wants to pay more than that. Romney also tithes above 10% not counting his other charitable contributions.
Teddy Kennedy's wealth was largely placed in offshore trusts in Tortola. Look it up. Dont assume.
Joe Fontombon
12:46 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Hahahah. If you lose your job, you can just "buy" your health insurance? With WHAT? So, if it happens to me, I'll just join the others without insurance - in the ER, which YOU ALL will pay for. Hmmmm - what would Jesus think of you? "Screw thy neighbor, and to hell with the poor!" Or, isn't the Bible "clear" enough language for you? Hypocrites, most of you.
Eleanor
1:13 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
With what? With the same stuff you use to buy car insurance, life insurance, rental insurance, car insurance. There is charity care for the people who absolutely cannot afford their daily expenses, but for working people to be sucked into the mentality that they can stick their boss or neighbor or fellow taxpayer with the cost of their health insurance is extortion, greed, selfishness. What would the Lord think of that?
NJarhead
12:52 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Too bad it's nto just health care, Joe and Jen. If it was, then you'd likely see more bipartisan support for it. But, when I hear about educational benefits for illegals, a whole boatload of financial support for the baby factories and a seemingly endless string of handouts for "the poor & jobless" then I say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I've worked and paid for every thing I have, which isn't much. And I have little hope of getting any further ahead because Hopey Change and fools like yourselves think I'd be better off helping every Tom, Dick and Hardluck Harry out there. Explain to me what it is about all these handouts that makes you think it motivates anyone to seek out employment once they're living on us for free?
the romney's ironing board
1:03 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
virgil you may have run out of tye dye but your cluelessness remains intact. jarhead you got back early from the klan meeting i see.joe f you are correct there is nothing more sickening than these "christian" types who go to church and sing hymns about loving thy neighbor and rush home to get on the patch to call those same people trash. if only they could teach what hypocrisy means in church.
NJarhead
2:13 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Klan meeting? Hahaha, So typical of the liberal minded. "Wanna talk politics? Get ready, because if you make any valid points I'll need shift the discussion immediately to race and racism per Liberal Rule #1." And you're going around telling others they're clueless. That's rich!
Eleanor
5:38 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Klan were Southern Democrats. Oh, and before you throw out the Democrats other favorite name to call the opposition, the Nazis were democrats, too.
the romney's ironing board
1:06 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
republicans taking our country back. problem is theyre taking it back to the 19th century. i bet jarhead misses " the old days" when those of color knew their place. right jarhead?
NJarhead
1:48 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Wrong. I appreciate you confirming your ignorance, but it's redundant at this point, my Libby friend.
John V
3:11 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Typical, Predictable response from an Obama supporter when they can't logically defend their position.
Sal Sorce
12:06 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012
ROMNEY AND RYAN NOVEMBER 6, 2012 LANDSLIDE WIN!!!
OBAMA SUPPORTS SEE THROUGH THE LIES AND DECEPTION
LACK OF JOBS, OBAMACARE DISASTER $$$$ COSTS
HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS ... OVER 50% OF THOSE RECEIVING
BENEFIT DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES ... A TINY PERCENTAGE OF
TAXPAYERS PAY FOR OVER 60% OF THE INCOME TAXES
IN THE UNITED STATES.
Sal Sorce
12:09 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012
CHICAGO TEACHERS ON STRIKE ...
DEMANDS ARE HUGE WHILE THE MAKE
IN EXCESS OF $76,000 WHILE AVERAGE
RESIDENT MAKES $40,000 PER YEAR
WITHOUT THE PENSIONS AND HEALTHCARE
BENEFITS ...
OBAMA REMAINS SILENT ... THE UNION
IS FURIOUS AND ARE DIGGING IN ON ISSUES.
SMALL PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS ARE
LEARNING IN A FAILED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
Sal Sorce
12:11 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012
NOVEMBER 6, 2012 VOTE
REMEMBER IT IS ALL ABOUT
PERFORMANCE ...
NO PRESIDENT HAS EVER
GOTTEN REELECTED WITH
SUCH A MISERABLE
4-YEARS IN OFFICE ...
BLAMING BUSH IS FUNNY!!!
CANNOT RUN ON HIS
TIME IN OFFICE ...
THE DNC IS IN ATTACK MODE.
WAKE UP MY FRIENDS
THE PARTY IN NO LONGER
THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE!!!
Norma Jean Savitsky
12:41 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
I see jennifer has drank the koolaid.
John Jay
1:01 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Only YOU can elect an OBAMA-FREE AMERICA!
Spooner
1:11 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Romney will be WORST!
NJarhead
1:25 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Spooner, thats not even possible, you big Silly.
NJarhead
2:21 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Joshua, that's just it. We're not always dealing with rational Americans.
Spooner
2:57 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
NJarhead- Romney is incompetent to be President and a weak candidate. . .For one: he's a control freak. . .doesn't listen to his advisors. . .and now former Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has bailed out from his campaign. Romney bought the Republican nomination...first trouncing Gingrich, then Santorum. The only thing that could save him "right now" is if the economy gets worst, but that assumes that he doesn't screw up anymore...especially during the debates?
NJarhead
3:19 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
He hasn't "screwed up" as much as the liberal media would lead you to believe. Since you support Obama, I'm not sure what your definition of incompetence is.
Spooner
5:17 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
NJarhead- I don't support Obama! But Please don't insult me with that line. I call it based on facts. . .Governor Pawplenty left. Romney is is own worst enemy? One day he's supporting Ryan's Medicare plan. . .the next day he makes statements contradicting him. . . Romney thinks he could play to his audience like what he said on"Meet the Press". . .and nobody is going to catch the double talk?
Don Gottwerth
1:49 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
I am Newark-born. Newark, a city built by Italian, Polish & German skills and a history of Jewish good will, with hospitals and community centers and where Shop-rite was
created and started. But in Juky of 1967, I witnessed as a Public Service bus driver of the #25 Springfield, the descendants of ex-slaves take apart this once great city in a single night. And on MLK's burial day, they did a curtain call on what they didn't finish. And in C0ry B's extolling the rights of women, he supports their right to kill black babies, and wealthy women (Jewish mothers) to kill their babies. And what about Cory? What do we know about him? Is he married, or gay? He's a stranger to Newark; an import and a moral mystery, being he supports gay marriage, and not stands with black ministers who oppose that position.
Joe R
2:50 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Wow, racism and homophobia all in one package. Way to go dude (sarcasm alert). Newark was also built by blacks, how nice of you not to mention them. During the Civil War, Irish immigrants went on a murderous rampage in NYC, should we condemn all Irish-Americans for what happened 150 years ago. Many bigoted people want to condemn all Italian-Americans for the sins of a small minority of criiminals called the Mafia. You seem to want to condemn all Newark blacks for what happened in July of 1967.
Joe Are
4:00 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Booker is a typical Obama Democrat...talks a big game but accomplishes nothing. He and Newark are an embarrassment!
John Jay
4:18 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
The idea that MORE government is better government is insane. I am disgusted at the way the Washington Republicans caved in and created monster-sized agencies when they ran both houses.
It's time to replace ALL of the big government politicians with those who want to return sanity and SMALLER government to the people.
Sadly, the biggest advocate of big government are the Democrats -- and for that reason, they must get tossed out.
If the upcoming wave of Republicans don't do the job, then throw them out too. Sooner or later, the so-called party bosses are going to go by the wayside too!
Patrick
5:50 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Isn't government the smallest it has been in decades????
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
and of course there is this.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/government-employment/
John Jay
7:12 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Patrick continues to shill for big government -- why? I have no idea.
Spending has slowed? GREAT -- but the SCOPE and the SIZE of government is way too big.
Some things we DO NOT NEED:
* USIA: Why spend money on propaganda?
* Education: This monster was created in Jimmy Carter's administration. The fed has no business in my public school.
* USAID: Get government out of the business of doing business. Let Congress work out the treaties and let business do without the rest of waste.
* United Nations: Useless organization. Kick them out, give the land back to the Rockefeller family -- the very family that gave
* Homeland Security: A bunch of useless people duplicating and triplicating law enforcement agencies.
* TSA: More useless workers. The workers feeling you up at the airports aren't even sworn federal agents. They are HOURLY EMPLOYEES with NO law enforcement authority at all.
* Remove ALL firearms-carrying agents from every agency except BATFE, FBI, DEA, Secret Service and U.S. Marshalls. If you need armed backup, then you better call the right agent for the job. There are ARMED agents for the National Weather Service and Social Security...ARE YOU SERIOUS???
Etc., etc. etc....
Patrick
7:39 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
I'm not shilling anything, you brought up the fact that it was Dems that you hold responsible for the mess, yet the facts just show the opposite. and the list... you can't say that Republican leadership is for eliminating any of those departments. If anything R's created many of them and want to further bloat them.
John Jay
7:27 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
Patrick continues to shill for big government -- why? I have no idea.
Spending has slowed? GREAT -- but the SCOPE and the SIZE of government is way too big.
Some things we DO NOT NEED:
* USIA: Why spend money on propaganda?
* Education: This monster was created in Jimmy Carter's administration. The fed has no business in my public school.
* USAID: Get government out of the business of doing business. Let Congress work out the treaties and let business do without the rest of waste.
* United Nations: Useless organization. Kick them out, give the land back to the Rockefeller family -- the very family that gave
* Homeland Security: A bunch of useless people duplicating and triplicating law enforcement agencies.
* TSA: More useless workers. The workers feeling you up at the airports aren't even sworn federal agents. They are HOURLY EMPLOYEES with NO law enforcement authority at all.
* Remove ALL firearms-carrying agents from every agency except BATFE, FBI, DEA, Secret Service and U.S. Marshalls. If you need armed backup, then you better call the right agent for the job. There are ARMED agents for the National Weather Service and Social Security...ARE YOU SERIOUS???
Etc., etc. etc....
Tony Orsini
2:00 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Glad to see the bigots and racists stewing and floating to the top of the pot. Anybody been to ironbound in Newark or by UMDNJ? Thought not. Your candidate is a clown called FlipFlop. Reagan tripled the national debt, Bush II doubled it (they cut taxes for the wealthy WITHOUT cutting spending). I never heard clown supporters talking about the national debt then.
type writer
2:05 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
How are those newark public schools doing? Whats the average i.Q. of the student population in Newark........Newark is a crap hole.
Patrick
5:00 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
What does IQ have to do with anything... I think you mean test scores. In NJ, test scores are an interesting study of just how education is broken. Students from lower income households typically do poor in standardized tests. So you put a child in a school funded properly they prosper... and that has noting to do with IQ.
Gary Junstrom
3:19 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Give me a break. Next to Obama, Booker is the most overrated failure in office today. Newark is ruled by gangs, they are completely dependant on transitional aid from the suburbs, Booker lost the Nets and picked a fight (and lost) with the biggest taxpayer in the city, the Devils. He is a well-spoken, incompetent disaster. In other words, a typical liberal Democrat.
Patrick
5:04 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
More like Brooklyn won the Nets... they built the Russian a huge stadium on top of a transit hub, in a booming part of NYC. And Booker was right in regard to the Devils. Its called sticking up for your city. and they are HARDLY the biggest tax payer in the city. if anything the Devils are a sponge. and Newark is no longer the depressed car jack capital of the world. Businesses are locating there left and right... Panasonic is one off the top of my head. Newark could have easily become Camden or Trenton... It didn't because of people like Booker.
Gary Junstrom
6:16 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Patrick, you've had lots of practice apologizing for Obama, so it's an easy transition to Booker. The Nets wanted out of Newark because they weren't drawing and the city is more like Camden and Paterson than anywhere in NJ, so no decent fans want to bring their families into Dodge City. And the Devils went to court and the judge agreed with them and NOT Booker. The only safe place in the city is around Gateway between 9 and 5. Any other part of the city or after 5 p.m. and you take your life in your hands. Drive-bys are as common as barking dogs in suburbia, the number of welfare leeches is growing and the amount of money NJ dumps into Newark to keep Booker and his posse afloat is a disgrace. Aside from that, Booker is doing a bang up job. Sorry to burst your liberal fantasy bubble.
Patrick
7:29 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Why is it you would stand up for an owner overBooker who was fighting the corrupt kick backs former mayor Sharpe James' cronies gave the Devils over parking. This after the Devils withheld rent to the city. As for the Nets, you really don't know what your talking about... Mikhail Prokhorov, a Russian Oligarch bought the team with the intention of moving it to Brooklyn. He sees the Nets as a natural way to sell the NBA and Nets to the vast Russian market overseas, and with the gold coast of Russian immigrants in Brooklyn a great springboard to that end. Booker could have let them stay rent free and they would have left anyway... Prokhorov fronted the money himself to build the Barclay's Center.
You can be critical all you like of the city, but the fact is the city is making a huge come back. It is being gentrified, and will soon be an urban bed room community for NYC. It really is just a matter of time as rents become unaffordable for anyone making under 100k in NYC. and Booker is a great voice for the city... and lets not forget a successful Newark means a more successful New Jersey. That isn't liberal or whatever. its just common sense... You look at Newark under James, and now... You just can't say with a straight face that the change isn't radical.
Now... My liberal side wishes that Booker wound run for Governor.
Rossington69
4:57 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
Right you are GJ. Cory Booker is a joke like his city. And Tony Orsini - you are showing everyone why you can't win an election in Holmdel. This is the far left's answer to everything - if you can't refute a statement or win an argument with facts, cry racism.
In your world, no one should criticize a black officeholder, no matter how bad they are. That's all you have and that's why Obama will be a one termer. Actually, that's one more than you, correct?
Sue
4:28 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
The conservatives defended their last ticket profusely, and LBJ swamped Goldwater. It's deja vu all over again with Mittens and Lyin' Ryan. Today's conservatives would kick Reagan, Nixon and Goldwater out of their party -- probably even Bush and Shrub -- because they've gone so far right in 2012. That's why their comments here are so laughable.
Shep Proudfoot
4:38 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
You stole it, now you are ruining it. It never really was Your country. What a mess you have made.