RealClearPolitics - Articles by Jon Corzine

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's State of the State

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Good afternoon everyone and Happy New Year. Thank you all for attending today's State of the State. Reverend Clergy; particularly Reverend Copas and Ellerbe for your participation today. Senate President Codey; Speaker Roberts; By the way President Codey thank you for reminding me to say hello to Sharon when I came in. That was good.

Majority Leaders Sweeney and Watson Coleman; Minority Leaders Kean and DeCroce; Chief Justice Rabner and we're honored that all of the Justices are here today, thank you very very much for joining us.

Members of the Legislature; Members of my Cabinet; Congressmen Pallone, Holt and Rothman, we're pleased that you're all here today. Thank you very much...

A Bold, $1 Trillion Stimulus Package

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

When New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a commencement address at Oglethorpe University in May 1932, the economic crisis that had befallen the United States three years earlier had already morphed into the Great Depression: One in four Americans was out of work, banks were failing at a rate of 10 per week and the gross national product was at half its pre-crash level.

FDR called on the federal government to "correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system." The times called for "bold, persistent experimentation," he declared.

Strictly by the numbers, today's economic crisis is, fortunately, not as severe as the Great Depression...