That was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s alarmed reaction to President Obama’s push to send states another dose of stimulus money to hire teachers, firefighters and police.

“Please don’t send me any more money to hire more public employees. Please don’t,” implored Christie yesterday in a speech at the Brookings Institute, a liberal Washington think tank.

“I’ve got plenty as it is, and I don’t need any more, and they’re expensive!” said the brash governor, who won a hard-fought showdown with teachers unions over benefits and pensions.

Temporary federal aid to hire permanent state and local workers, he argued, only leads to huge budget shortfalls or layoffs when the stimulus money runs out.

“I have the highest property taxes in America to begin with,” said Christie. “Where’s this money going to come from to pay these folks afterwards?”

Obama offered up the second stimulus as part of his re-election campaign. He promised that it would reboot the stalled recovery by growing the public sector, which he insists is doing worse than the private sector.

Christie’s address to a national audience easily could have been a stump speech in the presidential race, as he described how his “New Jersey approach” should be a blueprint to end gridlock in Washington



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Christi wants bigger goverment and he flip/flops. “Christie is pro-amnesty for illegal aliens,” said Steve Salvi, founder of the Ohio Jobs & Justice political action committee and a tea party activist. “Do I need to say more?”

In a Fox News interview in June, Mr. Christie said he was not for amnesty, but said illegal immigration has to be addressed at the federal level. “The federal government has to get in. They have to secure our borders and they have to set up common sense rules to give people a pathway to citizenship,” he said.

Global-warming skeptics don’t trust Mr. Christie, either, especially since he said last month that “when you have over 90 percent of the world’s scientists who have studied this stating that climate change is occurring and that humans play a contributing role, it’s time to defer to the experts.”



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