The junk yard attack dog is coming to Asbury Park OMG!

Christie is awsome. You people who dislike him are just pissef because you cannot get away with kust amuthing anymore

i like the guy but he really does have to grow some tact...especially if he has plans for higher office....its one thing to be direct and strong, another to be a bully.

Can't wait to see Gov Christie, it's my chance to see him in person as I live few miles from As Pk!!

If you attend this farce, please remember to bring peanuts, elephants love peanuts. In fact this elephant will eat just about anything.

Demoncats are truly horrible people who havent matured beyond puberty.

Thomas A. Blasi -- I would take Gov. Christie ANY DAY over that thief/bum/Democrat Jon Corzine.

How many BILLIONS did Corzine steal -- and his crooked friends in the Obama "Justice" Department are covering up for him.

Corzine stuck us with more debt, a lousy state economy, and an ugly painting the taxpayers will pay for that hangs in the State House.

john jay newsflash corzine isnt gov anymore this slob is and he has us living under the highest unemployment rate in the country as well as the 50% toll hikes he wont veto. he vetoes taxes on the rich and gay marriage but for the average guy who is just trying to get to work he gets bupkiss. john jay who is the typical teabagger who says "blame bush" when there is any mention of the disaster this president inherited but when this gov who spends more time out of state than a greyhound bus does is mentioned right away its all about corzine. the hypocrisy is stifling. gov crisco plays to republican seniors who are the only ones that can make a 2 pm christie appearence on yet another beach. this ice cream lovin gov sees more beach than coppertone (when he ever gets back to jersey that is).

So much anger, Fank Rizzo! Hurling personal attacks at me makes you look intellectually feeble.

I stated the facts:

- Corzine left this state in worse shape when he left.
- Corzine was at the helm of the company that stole BILLIONS amid his bogus claim that he didn't know where the money went.
- Christie inherited a mess thanks to Corzine.

Are you trying to tell us the Corzine term as governor was a success?

"Promoting the Jersey Shore"??? Kinda hypocritical when he refuses to acknowledge that the Barnegat Bay is now a cesspool.

Thomas, as usual you use trashy, unintelligent lanquage to try to make a point..You make fun of someone size? What purpose? So, you would rather have a Person as Gov that looks like a all american model type? That makes sense..So you really dont care as long as person looks good? I got it..You hate all Republicans ? You only ote for your party? Tell me one thing Tom...What are you trying to say?

johnny jaybird i have no anger just a frustration of watching the gullible being led by the fox propaganda and the many millions of dollars being spent by those like the koch brothers and sheldon addelson to make their puppets romney and ryan bend this country to serve only the super wealthy. 100 men in this country the top richest men control everything and the rubes much like lemmings follow them right off the cliff. "teabagger" is a personal insult now? it was the tea party who first called themselves that when they stapled tea bags to their ben franklin colonial hats. dont get all huffy and puffy when youre confronted by the truth johnny just embrace it. and again to remind you of your hypocrisy this prez inherited a train wreck of an economy , 2 unfunded wars and an unemployment rate soaring above 8 % with no relief is sight and yet republicons say "yeah blame bush" and then go on a diatribe about corzine who has been gone a while since i last checked . corzine who you go after while you give wall st a pass for doing the same exact thing. as for gov crisco he uses the power of veto every week. let him veto the tolls that are breaking the backs of the middle class as he flies over them in his helicopter on our dime going to things like wrestlemania, junior's game and republican fundraisers.

oh and theresa if you only live a few miles away you should be able to see christie from your house.

I am shamed to have voted democrat for the past couple of major elections. This might have to due with me being 21 and falling for the whole democrat 'change' agenda. Neve again, Obama doesn't deserve my vote and I can see through te whole entitlement, buy my vote, popularity strategy they wield.

fred m no one cares about gov christie's 50 plus waist size what irks them is a guy who is over 400 pounds with ice cream dripping down his wrist as he bullies new jerseyans on the boardwalk telling us all we need to cut back on the things we like. telling us we need self control. can you spell hypocrisy?

i think dj gigs said it best when he said "you cannot get away with kust amuthing anymore" . we have a translator on the way to sort thru that one.

yes janet jay when you voted for bush /cheney in 2001 it all worked out so well.

hope he did not have his son with him.S would have hit the fan.

How could Janet vote in 2001 if she was only 21 in the last presidential election you phony Frank Rizzo liberal? Shows your complete lack of thought, common sense and typical resort to mud slinging nonsense that most democrats resort to. Sick people all of you.

My opinion of Christie is limited because he is working with a legislature dominated by his opponents. He is not tactful but in comparison to the President he is not so bad. One thing I like about himis how he gets under some people's skin and turns them into to foaming animals. I see some commentary here so hateful that they make skinheads and panthers look tolerant. Then you have this "Rizzo" who can do nothing but call everyone here names. We're all happy to see your blood pressure rise. Perhaps it will stay that way.

The Star-Ledger never reported the story about Christie in ABP. Over the past few years, the Ledger has turned into a mini-tabloid version of the New York Times. Only left wing garbage is printed or found online, day after day. Mostly opinionated essays vs any real news content. Good-bye NJ.com

To the amazement of many, Governor Lard only won the election by 80,000 votes! That’s correct. When they sorted the data out after the election; they discovered that the voters in Monmouth & Ocean Counties put him in office. Further analysis showed that they were white, male voters and that they were 50 and over and with a high school education or less! I rest my case!

Obama has done a great job promoting his class warfare. When did you ever hear the terms 1% or 99%er? This is not an achievement I would expect from a true leader of the US. We should all be ashamed to fall into his trap.

Kelly check the facts! Since trickle down economics began the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown. The rich have gotten richer while the middle class pays for them.

It's obvious Frank Rizzo is long on personal attacks, but short on facts. Rizzo claims Obama inherited "2 unfunded wars". It's sadly obvious that Rizzo has no concept regarding the federal law specifying how budgets and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense are executed.

So, Rizzo, enlighten us! If the so-called "unfunded war" claim was true, then why didn't Obama:

1) Cease and recall all troops in occupied lands and
2) Call for a federal investigation with prosecutorial powers involving Congress and the Department of Defense and how they spent federal dollars outside of the law.

The floor's yours Rizzo -- blind us with your brilliance.

Peggy Devlin Blazewicz -- Can you give us a specific cause and effect example of your claim: "Since trickle down economics began the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown."

Define "rich" for us please. Define "middle class" for us please.

At what dollar amount and net worth does someone get defined as "rich" and "middle class"?

Let me know what you "check your facts".

Hey Peggy Deviln Blazewicz -- I'm still waiting waiting on specific numbers that support your biased claims about economics.

From 1979 to 2007, the top 1% of households after-tax income has grown 275%. In that same period the poorest 5th of households after-tax income has grown 18.3%. The middle 5th of households after-tax income has grown 35.2%. Source: Congressional Budget Office.

John, where’s the fire! Didn’t know responses had come within 30 minutes! You might want to ease up on the caffeine! Anyway to answer your questions:
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank reported in June according to IRS data, over 87 percent of taxpayers make less than $100,000 in adjusted gross income. They have a great visual that shows the income distribution.
Or you can check the Bureau of labor statistics. There are plenty of reports – here’s one
First link: http://www.epi.org/publication/households-making-250k-1m-year-not-middle-class/
Second link:http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/publications/p60-169rd.pdf

Come on, Peggy Devlin Blazewicz, you didn't answer the question. You used the term "rich" and "middle class".

So, what is your definition of "rich" and "middle class"?

I don't need your links because I already have the answer before I even asked you the question.

I don't think the point is to squabble over a "definition" of rich or middle class as that is defined differently depending on the source. There is no one definition of "rich" or "middle class" that everyone agrees with. However, I think your first question (Can you give us a specific cause and effect example of your claim: "Since trickle down economics began the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown.") was answered fairly well by the links or the facts about income growth.

This is interesting! It seems everyone is in a big rush to push taxes on people, but no one can seem to define what "rich", "middle class" and "poor" is in America.

Peggy made a broad statement when she claimed ""Since trickle down economics began the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown."

Perhaps I should have been more specific.

* WHAT is "trickle down" economics?
* WHEN was it implemented in the United States?
* WHAT are the official measures of such economics?

...and, of course, define what "rich", "middle class" and "poor" is -- using official statistics of course.

Elephants&donkeys=jackasses -- are you kidding me? Peggy used a valid source of data when she used the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)???

One of the so-called sources comes from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Who makes up EPI and where does its funding come from?

(You gotta love Wikipedia some times!)
EPI: Founded in 1986 by economists Jeff Faux, Lester Thurow, Ray Marshall, Barry Bluestone, Robert Reich, and Robert Kuttner.[1] EPI's President is Lawrence Mishel, a long-time member of Democratic Socialists of America.

EPI funding: Eight labor unions made a five-year funding pledge to the Economic Policy Institute at its inception: AFSCME, United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers, United Mine Workers, International Association of Machinists, Communications Workers of America, Service Employees International Union, and United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

Does the word BIAS have any meaning to you when it comes to the source of the reference cites above?

Just what I want when I reference economic policy -- a SOCIALIST and LABOR UNIONS! LOL! You people kill me!

RE: Elephants&donkeys=jackasses --

I didn't make any statements about the CBO numbers.

I simply asking for a monetary and/or net worth definition of:

* Rich
* Middle Class
* Poor

I've been getting a lot of personal attacks but no numbers. Care to take a shot at a definition, Elephants&donkeys=jackasses?

peggy as you can clearly see john jay has nothing to do all day so he spends it on the patch and shame on you peggy for having a life and not responding to his 5 part exam questions within 3 minutes or the time he has alotted you. i,ll say this because of course john jay wont see it on fox . when bush started turning our surplus into debt with his desire to build roads and bridges and starbucks in iraq he never put the cost of either war on the books. in 2009 obama put the cost on the 2009 budget for the first time which added a trillion in one day to which conservatives started running around like teenage girls at a justin bieber album signing declaring " look obama just spent a trillion in just one day!. john jay you are such an expert on everything and yet i have to help you on this one again poor is considered on the poverty line which is $20,000 a year for a family of four. now imagine romney wants to increase their taxes to 10 % while lowering the tax on the super wealthy by ten %. because of course a guy trying to keep a roof over his head for his wife and 2 kids living large on 20 grand a year should be paying more taxes while those with 12 car elevators in their homes should be paying a lot less tax. now we have another republican nitwit akin who says there are different kinds of rape you know the good rape and bad rape neither of which would the victim be allowed to have an abortion .

paul ryan who complained about the stimulus but had his hand stuck out behind his back to take the check like every other republican hypocrite (inhofe etc) did also was the co sponsor of a bill with this genius akin who said that if a woman is raped she secretes an anti pregnancy fluid that prevents pregnancy. this is how republicans see their own version of science whether its anti rape fluids or climate change. ryan still insists that if a father rapes his daughter and she seeks an abortion that she should be charged with a crime. maybe she was just a slut because her anti pregnancy fluids werent working when she was attacked. republicans taking our country back. problem is theyre taking it back to the 1850s.

heres a 3 part exam question for you john jay. last week on 60 minutes ryan and romney appeared together. ryan sat there in his ronnie reagan haircut and said the first thing he would do is eliminate all these offshore tax shelters while romney sat next to him with fake grin painted on his face nodding yes. now johnny do you believe ryan will make romney take his hidden money out of his swiss banks and cayman islands accounts and put them in american banks? if not does that make them both hypocrites? lastly are the odds of that happening or you winning the mega lotto greater?

nancy malaki i didnt read john jay's 21 yr old daughter's comments thouroughly because clearly her father has brainwashed her at an early age. at 21 she of course has had so many life experiences that she can say "i,m tired of voting in several major elections and getting no results" . now forgive me i went to a public high school and maybe my math is a bit off but if she is 21 now and she was able to vote for the first time 3 yrs ago how did she vote in several major elections that fall every 4 yrs? . i guess neither you or her dad are the brightest crayons in the box. this girl may be confused about her age but both of you are old enough to have voted for sara palin the car show model in 2008.

Thomas, are you stating that the higher level of education determines if a person is what? I know people that have Masters Degrees that ar not intelligent about real life issues..Where does Bill Gates fall ? No college for him I think

I guess no one thinks its a problem that under this governor's watch, New Jersy has the 4TH HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE COUNTRY. 9.8%.....approximately 500,000 people have no job! That means they can't buy a car or shop for anything other than the bare necessities. I cannot for the life of me see how that is considered doing a good job!

Whole country has a problem. Not just Nj . It's very rare for any state to be Exempt from the rest of the Countries Economics conditions...If the rest of the Country was prospering and NJ was at the bottom, then yes, Christi would have to answer..

170 american workers this week are standing outside sensata technologies in illinois after bain capital outsourced ther jobs to china. when these workers asked to speak to management they were arrested. the result is their town will turn into a ghost town and many of them will lose their homes. sensata earned $471 million in third quarter profits alone this year so there was an urgent need to double that by sending american jobs to china where they pay a buck an hour. the romney business model at its best. romney is still supporting that other dolt richard muordock who says rape is "god's will" . when romney loses in november that too will be "god's will" .

and john jay who whines about me hurling personal insults at him today on another patch thread called someone a " retard" which i,m sure every family that have autistic members in their families will really appreciate this charmer.