Democrats & Republicans are phonies

 It's time for Democrats to stop saying they are pro-labor and pro-union. They are not. it's also time for Republicans to stop saying they are against people's tax money being wasted. They don't care.

If politicians would spend more time overseeing what college administrators were doing on their campuses instead of letting them run amuck and do silly things that have no chance of success, then staff at colleges wouldn't have to worry about losing their jobs and how they're going to pay their bills because of a bunch of crap they knew nothing about and had nothing to do with.

For Democrats saving people's jobs should be their priority. It isn't. They would have come up with a solution instead of having layoffs, if they really were pro-labor and pro-union. But Democrats like Angela McKnight are unable to. Or they just don't want to. So stop saying you're pro-labor and pro-union.

Republicans are the ones who got rid of the NJ Department of Higher Education because they believe in less oversight. Less oversight has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money being wasted at the soon to be defunct NJCU. Then you have Republican legislators like Bill Singer asking why no one was held accountable for the financial mess created by the irresponsible former president and the "leaders" in her cabinet. Well Bill, if there's no oversight, then no one is going to held accountable. Any dope can figure that out. But that is what you wanted, so stop whining.

So do layoffs and shrink the staff. When there's less staff students get less service, and less for their money, but politicians like Angela McKnight and Bill Singer don't care about that either.

The South would not have voted for Christie anyway

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have taken a hit in his popularity recently because of the so-called Bridgegate scandal, but it's unlikely it would have any effect on a future presidential run.

Many people in the South are unlikely to vote for a politician of Italian descent, let alone one from New Jersey.

The Tea Party has much strength in the South, partly because of southern resentment toward the federal government. The resentment began with the beginning of the United States in the 1700's and continued after the Civil War and into the 20th century. Even today, residents in southern states still fly the Confederate flag, insisting that it is part of their "southern pride."

Many whites in the rural South - and even in the urban south - still regard the Civil War as an act of "Northern Aggression." You don't even have to travel far. The south begins at the Maryland border. One can tell by the sudden appearance on the radio of country western music. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas are the states that comprise today's South.

Regional animosity toward the North from Southern states can be viewed through recent events. After Hurricane Katrina members of Congress from all parts of the country rushed to assist New Orleans and other areas in the south that were affected. But when Hurricane Sandy destroyed parts of New Jersey and New York City, republicans in Congress, many from southern states, withheld financial assistance for weeks, saying they wanted to make sure money only went to those who were "deserving" of it. Even then, many representatives from the South voted against providing financial help to New Jersey.

The South's hostility is strange considering that southern states take in more federal aid than they put in. They take more than other parts of the country, due to rural poverty and the location of a number of large military bases in the south. Federal aid that is provided from taxes paid by many Northern residents and citizens on the West Coast, we will add.

So Chris Christie doesn't have to worry much about Bridgegate if he wants to make a run as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate in 2016. Between the South's dislike of the North, and many Americans' suspicion of Italians, he wouldn't have had much of a chance anyway.

I only hope the Tea Party's sway in the South doesn't continue. The old saying was "Save your Confederate money, the South will rise again." We're all in for a world of trouble if that really ever does happen again.