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    Jujymonkey3Taylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:31pm

    A fiscally conservative politician spends $82,000 on hot dogs and beer at football games? Sometimes the jokes just eat themselves.

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      EyeHeartPieJujymonkey3
      5/11/15 12:38pm

      No, see, they’re not fiscally self-conservative, they think everyone ELSE in the government should be fiscally conservative. Or just the federal government. By force.

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      Paul DimitrovJujymonkey3
      5/11/15 12:40pm

      Dude.

      “Fiscal conservatism” is a dog whistle meaning, “don’t give any fucking money or services to those (non-white) people.”

      Why do people still take this “fiscal conservative” bullshit seriously?

      Fucking seriously people: NEVER FUCKING TAKE ANYTHING A CONSERVATIVE SAYS AT FACE VALUE.

      Ever.

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    cuntybawsTaylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:28pm

    One can only imagine what a man who ate over $82,000 of hotdogs would look like.

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      teroteroterocuntybaws
      5/11/15 12:31pm

      Lord knows they are pricey enough to keep waistline in check even at $80K unless you get a Coke to go.

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      Benjamin Feldmancuntybaws
      5/11/15 12:33pm
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    x53x53Taylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:30pm

    and michelle obama spends millions on lavish vacations all over the globe. boring.

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      Blues-for-Mr-Charlies-Angelx53x53
      5/11/15 12:34pm

      What is she supposed to do, stay at a Motel 6?

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      Attackofthewombatx53x53
      5/11/15 12:37pm

      Can I get a source that states Michelle Obama spends millions (of tax payer money) on lavish vacations all over the globe. That sounds like something we would have 52 congressional hearings about, given how the cons won’t shut the fuck up about Benghazi.

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    theUnBetrothedTaylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:54pm

    I’m guessing that $82k pales in comparison to the cost of flying Christie’s 4 (four) children, on 4 (four) separate helicopters, to school, and back.

    Every. Day.

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      ThePriceisWrongtheUnBetrothed
      5/11/15 12:57pm

      Wait, what?

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      FrederickDouglasstheUnBetrothed
      5/11/15 12:58pm

      Sauce pls. I knew about some kind of helicopter shenanigans but had no idea it was that bad.

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    weirwoodtreehugger3Taylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:35pm

    Fiscal responsibility is only for the poors, black people, single mothers and liberals. Everyone knows conservative white guys are exempt.

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      bebevonbernsteinweirwoodtreehugger3
      5/11/15 1:52pm

      Responsibility period. Have the cops taken responsibility for anything? What about Wall Street? Nah . . .

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    gramercypoliceTaylor Berman
    5/11/15 12:32pm

    What else was he going to spend it on? It’s not like the tunnels between NJ and Manhattan need any repairs so his citizens can get to and from work without sitting on the GW bridge or drowning when the tunnels collapse. That’s never going to happen, so, hot dogs for everybody!

    But Amtrak, which owns the tunnel, cannot close one side at a time to fix the tracks. Doing so would mean only six trains would be able to come through per hour, rather than 24—which would throw hundreds of thousands of people’s lives into disarray.

    The plan, then, is to build a new tunnel with two new tracks, and then close the old one for repairs. We need the two new tracks, anyway. Since 1980, Hudson River traffic is up 63 percent, to 1.1 million crossings daily. But car and truck traffic is down—in fact, it’s barely above 1963 levels. All of the new people—and then some—take the train or the bus. And if you’re thinking people can just start driving gain, they can’t. “Congestion is actually going up in the core of Manhattan,” said city Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, because, well, New York has more people, too.

    We were going to build a new tunnel starting five years ago, but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie abruptly cancelled it. “We did lose a whole decade,” said Peter Rogoff, a bigwig at the federal Department of Transportation. “We didn’t have a decade to give. We cannot spend another decade thinking and talking about it.”

    But that is exactly what we have started to do.

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      Ned FreyTaylor Berman
      5/11/15 12:53pm

      On 58 occasions, Christie used a debit card to pay a total of $82,594 to Delaware North Sportservice, which operates the concessions at MetLife.

      According to my calculator, that comes out to an average of $1,424.03 per occasion. How the hell do you spend that much on stadium food and drinks at a single game? Was he feeding a small army or something?

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        FergyFrogNed Frey
        5/11/15 2:26pm

        A luxury box will fit 20 or so people in it, so it's not THAT exorbitant. But the fact that he's doing it is bad.

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        Ned FreyFergyFrog
        5/11/15 2:28pm

        That still comes out to over $70 per person. That’s a LOT of beer and hot dogs for one stinkin’ game.

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      flamingolingoTaylor Berman
      5/11/15 12:31pm

      I’m sure super important state business was being conducted in those luxury boxes (actually, I’m kind of afraid it was).

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        FauxhemianRhapshodyTaylor Berman
        5/11/15 1:08pm

        Just for reference, that's 2,827.59 weeks of the $29 food stamp challenge.

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          Raw Deal MontyTaylor Berman
          5/11/15 12:35pm

          ..yeah, but I never swallowed.

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            halfblackmambaRaw Deal Monty
            5/11/15 1:30pm

            Needs more stars tbh

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