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Chris Christie

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

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Chris Christie is saying that the government is spending too much money on programs that provide benefits to people, and this level of spending is not sustainable. He believes that more leaders should be honest about financial limits and refuse to approve expenses that the country cannot afford.

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