Battling over bad reforms

I’ve written about this often, so I’ll just say that the battle between the governor and the state Legislature over the proposed tool kits — “I say, ‘pass mine,’ one says; ‘no, pass mine,’ the other chimes in” — is pretty meaningless. Real reforms will do more than nibble around the edges of the problem and scapegoat public workers.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. Christie's proposed legislation and his \”tool kit\” will enable him to realize his dream of napalming the public sector unions. Christie, the GOP and the chamber of commerces (county, state and national chapters) are rabidly anti-union and will do anything to destroy public sector unions or any unions for that matter. Christie demonizes and slimes the teachers' union on an almost daily basis. The low information voters, the NJ101.5 listeners, the right wingers and libertarians are cheering Christie on. Don't complain when our infrastructure crumbles and the quality of our public schools plummets to the level of Nevada or Mississippi or to the level of states with weak or virtually nonexistent unions. The states without any effective collective bargaining protocols are also the states with poorer quality public schools as compared to NJ which rates in the top tier of public schools in the nation. By the way, the bloviators on NJ101.5 belong to unions and have union representation to fight for their interests.

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