First-year governor and full-time fat guy Chris Christie (R-NJ) inherited quite a budget crisis, and he’s trying to plug the hole by freezing teachers’ salaries and cutting the state’s education budget. His proposal touched off an angry debate across the state, and it’s being fought in true New Jersey fashion — with little attention to grammar or coherence, and replete with death wishes. Oh yes, and the bad grammar and attacks are coming from, you guessed it, teachers!
In Facebook messages visible to the world — not to mention their students — the teachers have called Christie fat, compared him to a genocidal dictator and wished he was dead. The postings are often riddled with bad grammar and misspellings.
“Never trust a fat f…,” read one profane post on the Facebook page, “New Jersey Teachers United Against Governor Chris Christie’s Pay Freeze,” which has some 69,000 fans, many of them teachers.
One educator, a librarian with a Master’s degree, described the cuts as “rediculous.”
Another pointed out that Christie’s late mother was a member of the teachers union: “It’s not right to bite the hand that feeds you. Oh I forgot it’s Chirs Christie, He’s so large I bet he’d bite anything that’s put in front of his face!”
While in fact it may be true that Christie would bite anything put in front of his face (because he’s fat), certainly Facebook is no place for assaults on decency. Have you no shame, teachers!? Think about the children! What will the next generation of New Jerseyans look like if you keep this up? (Answer: something like this)
Of course, not to be out-fist-pumped, Christie’s defenders also took to Facebook:
Christie’s supporters have responded with a Facebook page of their own. “Teachers need to sit down and shut up. They live in a dream world where they work 180 days a year,” it asserted. “Way overpaid to start with, they could never make it working in the real world.”
Oh, New Jersey. What would we ever do without you?
