his gross estimates led to this huge budget shortfall. the fact that he hasn t actually looked at revenue and really trying to seek real revenue coming into the state is just resulting in a fiscal crisis. our roads are crumbling, our infrastructure is down, he shorted education. this is chris christie s playbook. it s just catching up with him now. there was also the issue that you had a sort of independent, technocratic guy who was part of the legislature dr. kevorkian. he basically said, look, you re projecting these very optimistic, rosy scenarios about low employment, high growth, and he took hatchet to the guy, killed him. and now he s got the shortfall. absolutely. so the governor, when you don t agree with the governor, when you show facts to the governor, all he does is personal attack. but here s the reality. all right? the governor worked with a small number of democrats to move this pension reform. the real promise, the promise that he made to new jersey was that t
exactly. you paid more and got less. that s where the money came from. exactly. and so he s asked regular hard-working new jerseyans to make those tough sacrifices. and then what does he do? he moves the goalposts, he changes the rules. this is chris christie at his best. this is what he s done continuously. it s not to be it s not a surprise to us in new jersey, but it s unacceptable. he ran around the state, denigrating every one of his predecessors, democrat and republican, basically being like, these shiftless losers hustled and conned all you people, because every year, year over year, they had a shortfall. and instead of paying the money into the pension, they just took it to close their budget gap. that was the great sin. he is, am i wrong that he is just doing that now? he s exactly doing that. and what s interesting is you hear the governor talk about that it is a benefit problem and not a revenue problem. he s absolutely wrong. his gross estimates led to this huge