Lucille Donahue of Hamilton
Gov. Corzine, do you have a college degree? I’m being facetious — I know that you do and it has served you well. Yet, you are making it impossible for the citizens who elected you to receive a college degree, by failing to fund public higher education. What is the rationale or plan of action driving your decision to bring state funding for public higher education back to what it was in 1997?
How do you expect families to cope? It appears you are balancing New Jersey’s problems on the backs of citizens who had nothing to do with it, by calling it “shared sacrifice.” Now our kids are expected to sacrifice for the rest of their lives because they cannot afford to get a college degree. This is pretty lame, sir.
Speaking of “sharing the sacrifice”, most of NJ’s senators either have full-time jobs aside from their part-time senatorial position, or are retired with pensions. Can’t they donate their $49,000 senatorial salary or the contribution to the PERS pension fund and live off their full-time salaries or pensions? After all, politicians are responsible for many of the problems we face, so it only seems fair that the “shared sacrifice” should include them, right? How do our legislators justify keeping their salaries in tact while students are denied educational opportunities?
So, what is next? Will you cut funding for high school and decide that NJ residents really only need a middle-school education? Your unemployment rate tops the national average. Is your answer under educated citizens?
Gov. Corzine, higher education is an investment. I thought you were an investment expert. Put some of that stimulus money where it will serve your citizens well so that New Jersey will reap the benefits.
Lucille Donahue
Hamilton
