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>> 400,000 new jerseyans out of work and our poverty rate at a 50 year high. christie raised taxes on the working poor. but went ask millionaires to pay another dime. he wants to be president. i want to be your governor. >> crystal. hard to get the message through. he has an overwhelming amount of money in terms of tv advertising over here. >> he has an overwhelming amount of money. the chicken and egg problem with her. running against this guy that everybody was afraid to run against. she had t...

Working poor and ve tomorrtoed minimum wage. and raising fares on trains and buses. you may not call it a tax, it has the the same effect. increases the cost of living for beleaguered commuters and increased tolls. need i go on. let me say this, i said it last week, i will say it again. you are the last person to talk to anybody about taxes, governor. >> joining me, crystal ball and john wrightmeier, a reporter for the bergen report who covers the new jersey budget. crystal, controversy of the d...

He should have actually exerted the power and leadership to get it passed through the state legislature? >> absolutely, chris, and leadership of the gop refused to bring it to a floor vote, so we will never know. certainly the word on the ground was that there were some republicans who would have voted for this. that would have been a cleaner way, that would have been the better way. also we had gop members voting again, expanding medicaid to the working poor, voting against expanding medicaid t...

>> absolutely, chris, and leadership of the gop refused to bring it to a floor vote, so we will never know. certainly the word on the ground was that there were some republicans who would have voted for this. that would have been a cleaner way, that would have been the better way. also we had gop members voting again, expanding medicaid to the working poor, voting against expanding medicaid to veterans. we are 47th in job creation in this state, chris, we could use some of those jobs but they re...

Oversight board because kind of a cowardly move. he should have actually exerted the power and leadership to get it passed through the state legislature? >> absolutely, chris, and leadership of the gop refused to bring it to a floor vote, so we will never know. certainly the word on the ground was that there were some republicans who would have voted for this. that would have been a cleaner way, that would have been the better way. also we had gop members voting again, expanding medicaid to the ...

Its disgusting. its a shame, a disgrace. its un-american. those are the values that the majority of americans hold. let me just say, the majority of people who are on s.n.a.p. benefits, food stamps, are working. theyre part of the working poor. theyre low wage workers. when you look at income inequality in what is taking place, youre looking at people making $7 and $8 a an hour. what are we going to do? we need to have a living wage for people. we need to provide a pathway to a job, workforce tr...

But we got around them. our country does have a serious problem, however, with access to quality health insurance and its not being caused by websites. all of the computer programmers in the world arent going to be able to help the 180,000 hoosiers who fall into the affordable coverage gap because indiana isnt expanding its medicaid. of course thats nothing compared to georgias 400,000 people who arent going to get anything or floridas 760,000, and then of course theres texas. texas is always th...

Where there are dozens of republican states that denied health care at all to the working poor. you dont want americans to have access to this affordable health care? weve seen this creep over the last decade of cynicism and disgust and transparency about how self-interested and selfish. these are peoples lives. >> repeal, i asked whether there would be a republican alternative. he suggested paul ryan in january was going to unveil the gops alternative to obama care but house leadership -- repub...

What happens when obama care isnt in fact affordable? >> well, i think the credibility of anything from the heritage foundation is not at its peak right now for the last few weeks. were seeing premiums go down dramatically in states. were seeing peoplen role. were seeing stories come in. thats the thing. when people talk about obama care -- >> premiums arent going up in states. >> theyre forgetting how bad the status quo was before. how many people couldnt get insurance. were seeing premiums sky...

Report the facts. never before have i thought the facts and the goals speak for themself. good people have to come forward and say why would people fight like hell and put so much money in stopping health care for the poor and the working poor. why? >> i think that the points the congressman are making are specifically why to your earlier question about what the president should say. this is sort of the aim of the program and this is what is getting obscured by this conversation right now about ...