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If it's so much like something did you? our plan was a state solution to a state problem, and his is a power grab by the federal government to put in place aç e size fits all plan across the nation. >> joining me now is the democratic governor of massachusetts, deval patrick. thank you for joining me. >> glad to be with you, lawrence. thank you for having me. >> was the "wall street journal" right today when they said, as everyone knows, the health reform mr. romney passed in 2006 as massachusetts governor was the prototype for president obama's version, and gave national health care a huge ...

Real spending 9%. every department of state government was cut. and we balanced the budget without any new or increased taxes on the people of the state of new jersey for the first time in eight years. and the budget they called did on arrival without an income tax increase was passed two days early with 99.8% of the line items exactly as they were when i submitted them back in march with a democratic legislature. why? because we stood up for what we believed in. and we made it very clear that we would not compromise on our principles. we compromised on things that were not core principle item...

>> democrats saying it can't be done. the new jersey governor chris christy is managing to close on a 11 billion dollar budget deficit in his state without raising taxes. i spoke to governor christy earlier this summer and asked him how he did it. >> well, we did it because we stuck by our principles. we said right in the beginning we are going to reduce spending and we've reduced 9% from last year's budget. we said we would spread the pain evenly. every department in state government got a cut and every one was reduced. we said we would not raise taxes on the people in the state of new jersey...

>> democrats saying it can't be done. the new jersey governor chris christy is managing to close on a 11 billion dollar budget deficit in his state without raising taxes. i spoke to governor christy earlier this summer and asked him how he did it. >> well, we did it because we stuck by our principles. we said right in the beginning we are going to reduce spending and we've reduced 9% from last year's budget. we said we would spread the pain evenly. every department in state government got a cut and every one was reduced. we said we would not raise taxes on the people in the state of new jersey...

Editorial report. i am paul. new jersey chris christy starred down a democratic legislature to have cut to school mass transit. the plan closes a len billion dollar deficit without raising taxes. i spoke with governor christy and asked him how he did it? >> we stuck by our principles and said in the beginning we will reduce pening and we reduced spending nine percent . we would spread the pain evenly. every deputy got a cut. everyone was reduced . we would not raise taxes and we veto the tax increase that the democrats tried to push forward. we negotiated in areas where we had to negotiate but...