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Extra: How It Got So Bad

December 19, 2010 4:59 PM

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie explains to Steve Kroft how and why states - including his own - have ended up with such severe financial problems.

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by Connembo January 8, 2011 1:55 PM EST
As Christie stated in your interview, both parties caused the problem through their borrowing and wasteful spending starting with the Whitman administration. Considering this fact where does Christie come off blaming the teachers' union day in and day out for the state's financial problems? Christie has a deep hatred for NJ teacher whether he calls it NJEA or another rude and disrespectful term. My question to 60 MINUTES is why did you cut out NJEA president, Barbara Keshishian's interview that was scheduled to be aired? You took 3 days away from them between research and filming then just blew her off with a "sorry" we have other plans. You interviewed the poster boy of rude and bully type behavior for the segment and never gave equal time to the other side.

Give the school districts and NJEA some equal time.........doesn't the legal funding of our school districts have any importance in your broadcast? Barbara Keshishian deserves to have her interview aired!
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by ejboyce January 7, 2011 8:49 PM EST
I would like to say to Governor Christie that it's ridiculous to only blame Public Employees and their union. When it's the politicians themselves that pad their pensions and their benefits and let the BIG Fat Cat Corporate Lobbyists write the Bills that benefit themselves and erode worker's rights. I am appalled that Sixty Minutes did not let the Public Employee's Union have their say in this segment. This is not fair. If their is one thing that needs to be done here immediately, I believe the Governor should cut his food budget first , because he seems to be overindulging himself.
This is my opinion only and I proudly serve on the North Carolina AFL-CIO Triangle Labor Council as an Official Volunteer Delegate of Local 391 Teamsters fighting for Worker Right's. God Bless America and her people!
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by beancube2010 December 24, 2010 5:40 PM EST
Borrowing is not a problem. The problem is where are the money gone. Show us the money? Where is the money? Both political parties used commercial business deals to wash all money borrowed into their ranks and pockets. That's why we have no local productions. All imports economy is the next level of political hacks that aim at excluding average people from policy makers rank. People would have no hope to know about actual money. They announce you have debts, you have debts to pay just like the item Others in most monthly bills. Smart people noticed that movements on top of communication technology are the only way people can communicate about the adversity of reality.
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by momvera December 23, 2010 3:34 PM EST
Education means a knowing and there certainly is a lot to know. One of the blessings of childhood should be
some elements of neuropsychology. If I understand it correctly it is about how the mind works. All people have "loose wires" in the mind of place where your brains stores what comes in to it. Emotions is the sensor that tags and routes where it gets stored. Fire may mean fear to a child scared from fire. It may mean heat to child with a coal furnace, etc. But for a child with wires "tagged and tacked down" wrong, a neuropsychology " plastic surgeon" is the only way the child is going to stay out of prison as an adult. Some children are born of alcoholic or drug addicted moms. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is very easy to recognize, just as the Down's Syndrome genetic problem is. But internal processing errors are as hard to diagnose as a hearing problem in the school setting. Yet this is what teachers deal with every day now with the problem situations being higher in number in the population than ever.
Vaccines took away problems and we got new psychosocial development problems. The number of children who don't know who their parents are is alarming. The number of student in September who move out of the
school before Christmas is unbelievable. So who is tending to the minds and hearts of children on a daily basis where a child knows they can turn with any thing they don't understand or know so hard to do?
If you say the school nurse does it, what information are they missing in the classroom while in the nurse's office?
The problem is not created by the district financial situation and it won't be solved that way. We need dependable homes for children so they at least know their address. We need "grown up" parents regardless of their numerical age. We need television and games for children and adult examples in shows that are good wiring input for kids. Our TV has murder as a common thing in any shock fashion your can imagine, blood suckers as heros and sex as the means to have relationships. So what is the educator going to do with the money? The old saying was that charity begins at home and the family that prays together stays together.
If you listen to talk shows or late night comedy you witness how wrong wired our society has become since the reality they portray with themselves gets applauded. They have jokes that are wired backwards as funny. Not that the wiring is funny but that the audience is wired backwards too. I'd give a recent example but the individual would sue to prove that I am not wealthy enough to comment. So education can't be fixed until our society is.
And that usually means war on the homeland. God has sent plenty of ways through natural disasters for us
get living right, but we now have laws protecting our protector's rights as a homosexual which was always protected but now adds the adult groin grab. Germany went in this direction and it started with private schools setting up situations of savior ship which is narrow minded leadership. It is the same plague in
America that destroyed Germany more than once. Maybe the movie Shoal will help Americans understand.
I have not seen it but am looking forward to the social situations as told by survivors that brought Germany to their enemies feet. I sure hope it helps because we are running short on good leadership that can bring historically healthy fairness, safety and just minds to vast majority of Americans, most especially the children where it is carried on for the next decades to the next children in healthy minds and spirits. it is where innovation is birthed, not showcased. But birthed! All the money on the planet cannot get that for you.
it is something you have to give to get in example and sights, sounds and sensations in the child's world.
Teach them how to learn and process their multiplex environment in ways that help all, not just someone.
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by tateofpa December 20, 2010 10:32 AM EST
What I find really troubling it has taken the news media this long to see the trouble states are in. Where has 60min. been for years, I know that people have been crying about this spending problem for years. Just look, what was most of the bail out for GM for, it was to keep the union retirement fund afloat.
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by sledhead_27 December 19, 2010 9:47 PM EST
I find it interesting how they could cut education. I understand cutting government spending, but how could you cut education? the us is already one of the poorer educated nations of 1st world countries. I think he is using the excuse of over spending to cut all the social programs that help make the country a better place. they need to tax the wealthy people more, and the corporations (The corporations that are buying the state building and renting them back, how does this make sense). But you can not tax the children and not provide them with the education they need. the us need to fix there education system so that the next generation can be innovative to pull the us out of this recession. just in my opinion.
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