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What We Don’t Need (Or Can’t Afford):

 New Jersey Commission onBrain Injury Research

Capital City Redevelopment Corporation

Civil Service Commission

New Jersey Commission onCancer Research

Commission on Higher Education

Commission on Science and Technology

Council on Local Mandates

Delaware River Basin Commission

New Jersey Council onDevelopmental Disabilities

Division of Rate Counsel

Economic Development Authority

Educational Facilities Authority (NJEFA)

Energy Master Plan

Environmental Infrastructure Trust

Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMERPA)

Garden State Preservation Trust

Global Warming

Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma

Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (NJHCFFA)

Higher Education Student Assistance Authority

Highlands Council

Historic Trust (NJHT)

Homeland Security

Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency

Housing Resource Center (NJHRC)

Lottery

Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization and Consolidation Commission (LUARCC)

Meadowlands Commission

New Jersey State Board of Mediation (NJSBM)

New Jersey Network (NJN)

Pinelands Commission

Pinelands Development Credit Bank

Professional Boards and Advisory Committees

Public Employment Relations Commission

Real Estate Commission

Redevelopment Authority (NJRA)

Schools Development Authority

Spinal Cord Research, New Jersey Commission on

State Casino Reinvestment Development Authority

Statewide Independent Living Council (NJSILC), New Jersey

Transit, New Jersey

Turnpike Authority

Victims of Crime Compensation Agency

Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor

State Employment and Training Commission

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Governor Christie is not interested in shrinking our gargantuan state government. All he wants to do is pay it’s workers less. If he was truly a conservative, he would be eliminating or privatizing all these agencies and commissions. Anything that any of these entities is doing that happens to be productive and necessary can be done by other departments (and in many cases already is), or by charities, or (shriek!) by private enterprise . Maybe I’m mistaken about one or two of them. But do we need all of this? I thought we were bankrupt. This metastatic growth of government is the reason why we reside in a “failed state”. Really, most of these exist to create patronage jobs and to push socialism under one guise or another. Let’s get rid of them.

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UPDATE: I just recieved the Sunday paper. “Conservative” Governor Christie has just added another $3.1 million to the $61.5 million budget to provide “treatment” for ex-cons……oops, I mean “former inmates”.

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