Gov. Chris Christie: Americans Turning Into Couch Potatoes

[kpete]

Gov. Chris Christie said the country is becoming a "paternalistic entitlement society" this morning in a speech at a conservative conference headed by former President George W. Bush.

Addressing Bush and other national Republicans, Christie said he hasn't seen a less optimistic period in the country in his lifetime.

"Government's telling them stop dreaming, stop striving, we'll take care of you," he said at a theater at the New York Historical Society. "We're turning into a paternalistic entitlement society. That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally."

"We'll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check," Christie said.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/gov_christie_nation_is_becomin.html

[patrice]

1. Legalized discrimination known as at-will employment, steep wage declines, 0 benefits, temporary

work . . . ?

Perhaps that good ol' boy Christie, having had a star hung on his ample ass for so long, has never experienced the kind of personal crises that cause one to look at "us" and call bullshit on systems that don't give a shit about us, let alone reward the best that I/we have to give them. Systems that only TAKE from you and then fuck you and we're supposed to be grateful for bullshit.

[CatWoman]

2. opposed to him sitting on a couch waiting for his next donut?

[warrior1]

10. we have a winner!

[HiPointDem]

17. along with his government check

[Bake]

22. Cat, that was toooo easy!

And I'm pissed that you got to it before I did!



Bake

[CatWoman]

23. LOL, Bake

[Wait Wut]

3. Gee, Chris...

...not everyone gets to ride around in a helicopter because they can't walk 100 yards...and collect a government paycheck.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Why isn't big business risking its money

and investing back into their companies at home, expanding, training, hiring, and making things instead of sitting on it at home or sending it overseas? How optimistic about America is that?

[WI_DEM]

5. this is the man calling other people 'couch potatoes'--

[Mendocino]

37. "America, we need a domestic

sofa manufacturer, that can make a couch here at home that can hold my fat-ass, without a government subsidy or heavy duty springs!"

[liberalhistorian]

6. OK, then, you 300-plus-pound

potato, give up YOUR government salaries, perks and benefits. Give up YOUR own government "entitlements", paid for by those you're so eager to screw over every fucking day. When's the last time you had a non-government (i.e., non-taxpayer-paid) job, you calzone-stuffing moron? When you were a U.S. attorney, you had no trouble sucking from the government (i.e., taxpayer-paid) teat, and now as guv you have no trouble doing the same? So when you gonna get off your own fat ass and quit relying on the government yourself?

[otohara]

11. Fat Chance

sorry, I couldn't help myself.

[liberalhistorian]

21. LOL!

He does make some jokes a bit too easy, doesn't he?

[MrScorpio]

7. Hence his desire to be Head Couch Potato in Chief someday

Doesn't he get paid in government checks?

[HockeyMom]

8. Chris, next time NJ has a blizzard

give Mayor Booker a call and go out and help him shovel some snow on the streets. Stop going to FLORIDA, laying on a beach, looking like the local marine life.

[CTyankee]

25. OMG, does he lay out in the sun, like in a bathing suit, uh bare um chested?

And no, I'm not asking for a link to a photo...I'm hoping one doesn't exist...for all of our sakes...

[HockeyMom]

26. I was back up in New York last blizzard.

from Florida, helping my kids shovel their snow. I hope there isn't a pix of him because I wouldn't want to see it either.

[Ineeda]

33. Oh, come on. We don't have whales in Florida.

Manatees are the closest local equivalency.

[HockeyMom]

34. Don't insult the Manatees

They are CUTE.

[hifiguy]

9. Fuck yourself and the horse you rode in on

you sanctimonious tub of shit.

[arthritisR_US]

15. He couldn't ride in on a horse...

it would break the poor creatures back!

[hifiguy]

18. I realized that after I made my post.

He'd need something at least the size of a Budweiser Clydesdale.

[yellowcanine]

20. Don't forget he was supposed to be their White Knight.

So with the armor he would have been even heavier.

[NoGOPZone]

12. Says the guy who needs a helicopter to get to a Little League game nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. I wouldn't touch this with a 400 lb pole. nt

[Typical NYC Lib]

14. :0

[HiPointDem]

16. irony alert

[Johonny]

19. So Obama's call to have an Apollo project in alternative fuels

is heard by Christie as a call to sit on his ass and do nothing. I think I see Christie's problem, not Americas.

[Tom Ripley]

24. He needs to get out more

[Wind Dancer]

30. Indeed!

You just can't make this shit up.

[Rex]

27. More tired canards...ho hum

And how much money have you sucked out of the government...how much is your gummit check you POS scumbag? Nothing worse then someone living off of taxpayer money, blasting the taxpayer as lazy and unmotivated!

I would say he bites the hand that feed him, but really it is a plutocracy now and we just have to get use to the rich berating the poor for being poor.

[Initech]

28. What a tool!!!

He's one to talk - if you want to talk about spoiled entitlement - look no further than the oil industry - they make billions and hundreds of millions in free government subsidies. Yet somehow we're the "entitlement society".

Good thinking Christie (or lack thereof) - keep being the blind, unable to think for yourself Reagan bot you are - we'll eventually throw your ass out of office.

[11 Bravo]

29. And some have turned into Couch Watermelons, right, Chris?

[frylock]

31. this was after a limo drove him from his seat to the lectern

[SoCalDem]

32. photo analysis

[geardaddy]

35. And it wouldn't be paternalistic if you were in charge, right Crisco?

[HockeyMom]

36. Ok, no animals. Fly him over the Meadowlands

instead of the Goodyear Blimp. He's full of hot air anyway.

[Sheepshank]

38. "We'll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check,"

Christie said while stuffing another potato chip in his mouth and checking the stub of his last paycheck from the government.

He may not be sitting on a couch, but I guarantee he is sitting.