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[quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"]Christie won't build a needed tunnel that mostly paid for by federal dollars but will use NJ state funds to bail out a NJ developer -

typical republican

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/01/is-new-jerseys-xanadu-megamall-worth-saving[/quote]

Thanks for another good example, though personally I don't demonize this stuff as being "typical" of any party.  This is about Christie as an individual.  With the tunnel project he demonstrated that he has no problem cancelling already started projects well in to spending on them.  And no one could rationally argue that the Xanadu project is more important to the state than the tunnel.  If Christie was true to the reasoning he used for the tunnel, where he basically subjected millions of tax paying New Jersey citizens to decades of indentured servitude quality of life conditions, then he shouldn't have given a dime to this project.  He shouldn't be spend a dime period.  We should shut-down all spending except critical safely-related functions if we really have no money.[/quote]

The fact is Christie agreed to spend billions of dollars on the tunnel, he just refused to write a blank check drawn from New Jersey's bank account. The best the feds offered was to split the cost of the undetermined billions of dollars of cost overruns.

If you want to blame someone for the lack of a tunnel, why not try Frank Lautenberg. You would have thought a "shovel-ready" mass transit project creating thousands of union jobs and benefitting Americans from Boston to DC would have been an easy sell to a democratic congress by New Jersey's Senior Senator and "Godfather of Public Transportation". Why did Lautenberg sit on the sidelines? Politics.[/quote]

It was a New Jersey based project.  NJ should have been responsible for the overruns just as Cranbury was responsible for the overruns on the ballfield.  The Feds were providing substantial cost offset not promising to to be 50/50 partners.  As a NJ and Federal taxpayer, I think it would have been inappropriate if the Feds guaranteed the cost overruns.[/quote]

Actually your facts are not accurate. The feds offered to pay for half the obverruns, but a minority share up front. Also, more than half of the project was in New York. There is no reason New jersey should have been on the hook for the majority of the costs of this inter-state regional transportation project. Blaming Christie for forfeiting a 2 percent deposit on a 12 billion dollar excrement sandwich is ridiculous.[/quote]

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