Christie argues that a state that is currently facing multibillion-dollar annual deficits cannot afford a huge new spending project that is already looking to be $5 billion overbudget. His critics argue that this tunnel is exactly the sort of infrastructure project that New Jersey needs if it’s to prosper in the decades ahead.
Typical leftists/liberals. This is the crap the left throws at you. How can the future prosper, if we're struggling to stay afloat today?!? Spend lots more money now, with all this uncertainty, unemployment and economic downward spiral?? Seems backwards to me.