No it wasn't a seminar on how to flip underwater real estate. Nor was it a commercial from Quicken Loans about the HARP refinance programs for underwater mortgages.
Nope! It was the ghost of Chris Christie. Although not any where near as good looking as Dickens Ghost of Christmas Past, Christie's ghost gets to play three parts, Ghost of the Past, Ghost of the Present, and Not a Ghost of a Chance for President.
When the federal government was gift wrapping Sandy relief money with $100 bills, Chris Christie took political advantage. Who was he helping? Indirectly Christie was helping Christie raise money for 2016. To do that, the Great Big One has to help those who don't need any help like ... the Rockefellers?
The allegation says Rockefeller Group wanted fast tracked commercial development after the SuperStorm, Hurricane Sandy, drowned parts of Hoboken. Seems there was a great opportunity for private enterprise. Link See the picture caption, What's open in Hoboken?
Should we pay any attention to Hoboken, NJ? Besides being a punch line back with TV's were only sold in Black and White, only 50,000 live there. Christie cut a check for $200,000 for the dripping wet masses. He had to save the other $1,799,838,000 for ... a rainy day. Nice balance in that checking account, Eh? Christie said it would take $36 billion to repair NJ. Makes $1.8 billion 'chump change?'
So why cry foul when your city got $4 per person in state aid after Sandy? Shouldn't we be happy that Christie was a fiscal conservative? After all, the Red Cross seemed to have it under control.
Look at the happy faces! Who needs $36 billion when I've got this neat Care Package from the Red Cross?
Maybe when your city covers about 1 square mile of dry land on a good day, has only 48 streets, having no electricity, no transportation, and sewage floating in the streets, you get a little nervous about newborn babies, little old women in wheel chairs, and 6000 people huddled in shelters.
So the Ghost of Christie Past might have shut a bridge. It might have shafted 50,000 people in Hoboken. So who cares.
You should. I do.
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