gimme gimme gimme. i was asked a question. funny how? like i m a clown. gimme gimme all the money you have. i find it interesting that senator paul is accusing us of having a gimme gimme at that timitude. waging a war of words. new jersey is a donor state. we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to washington. the attitude. kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to washington. we have two military bases in kentucky. maybe he should start cutting the pork barrel intending that he brings home to kentucky. maybe senator paul could deal with that, but i doubt he would because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. the king of bacon talking about bacon. the sausage king of chicago. he s making a big mistake.
jim, it s always hard too if you re a libertarian and you re a senator, as chris christie basically said, you re still bringing home the pork. new jersey is a donor state. they pay out a lot more than they give back. kentucky gets $1.51. i think chris christie said. was there anyone who wasn t hit up in jersey to give money to the shore? i know i was repeatedly. i have a place down there. i had a lot of fish on my grass but didn t get hurt that bad. there s still towns boarded up. christie, for every dollar he got from the federal government, he pressed the flesh to get more. it was a public/private partnership. i can t believe what he was able to rebuild. he was instrumental in raising money. if you went down in april, you would not believe what it looked like versus memorial day. this guy did a full court press to get the beach open, so did his wife. mary pat did a great job. does this elevate chris christie to the level of looking like he s a true contender?
that was cut off there in the middle l where chris christie helpfully explains. you talk about a gimme, gimme, gimme attitude, new jersey is a donor state. they give back 75 cents for every dollar they put in. whereas kentucky, where rand paul is from is gimme, gimme, gimme, they get $1.50. so kentucky gets $1.51 for every dollar they put in. so what he was saying is, if rand paul is really concerned about gimme, gimme, gimme attitude, we ll take some of your money because right now we re giving more than we re getting back. so, tom, this underlines a bigger battle which started with nsa wiretapping and just a general pathway the republican party is going to go. there s a real battle l about where we re going to be on civil liberties, where we re going to be on foreign intervention. rand paul obviously has a libertarian view. is he outside the mainstream of the republican party? honestly, i m sorry that this
rand paul and chris christie still at it, slamming each other over their fiscal conservative credentials. take a listen. i find it interesting that senator paul is accusing of us having a gimme, gimme, gimme attitude toward federal spending, when in fact new jersey is a donor state. and interestingly, kentucky gets $1.51. this is the king of bacon, talking about bacon. you know, we have two military bases in kentucky, and is governor christie recommending that we shut down our military bases? he wants to be this great champion of national defense. what does he want to do? shut down military bases? well, the public beef started last week when governor christie took paul to task over his programs. joining me now, mark murray. mark, what is your take on what s happening here? well, it s gotten personal,
federal level washington is a mess in terms of the deficit. so you have to ask tough questions. we do need to make better investments in infrastructure, and michigan s roads are one of the things we need to invest more money in, but the way i look at it, we can afford to do it and we want to do it in a smart way. so i wish the federal government would say, instead of taking money from consumers, give us choices and we ll put those investments to smart use. neil: dumb question on my part. last time i checked we power a lot of money, commit a lot of money, gasolines taxes, tolls, bridges and roads, et cetera, taxes on the transportation department, for things like roads and brian and bridges and highways. i d like to know where that money has gone before i commit more money. what say you? that s always one of the issues. in fact michigan is donor state which is tough to figure out why. we re still a donor state to the