Corzine Coming Home To Brush Up On Cliches
NJ governor spices up boring unemployment story with mixed metaphor
AP
New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine has a new payment pension plan.
In a moment that would make Lenny and Squiggy proud, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine spliced together unrelated metaphors, making for some good copy in Monday's Newark Star-Ledger.
Corzine was responding to questions about the state's diminishing supply of unemployment benefits. A spike in jobless claims since midyear has wiped out the more than $250 million added to the fund in July, according to the report.
"Now the piper is coming home to roost," Corzine told the newspaper. "We have to pay that piper. We have to do that either by putting money into that system from some other place, or we're going to have to get help from the federal government."
Perhaps the governor could contribute to his local economy by dropping a few bucks on James Rodgers' Dictionary Of Cliches.
