tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post2611767045413252332..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: What The New Year May Hold: More MalloyalismDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-41068902252596160202015-01-02T13:03:22.302-05:002015-01-02T13:03:22.302-05:00more educational handouts that do not improve educ...more educational handouts that do not improve education<br />-----------<br />There seems to me to be abroad in the land an increasingly popular and mindless belief that government as such is good. Those who are opposed to out of control government "investments" are said to be ideologically extreme. Those who question the very validity of any aspect of the State's investment portfolio are to be shunned as if they were associated with David Duke. We need a Big State "university" system, and we need to pay the President of that system almost as much as we pay the ladies' basketball coach.<br />------------------ <br />Sen. Toni Boucher, the ranking Republican of the Higher Education Committee, also expressed concern.<br /><br />"Many still believe that it is not fair to increase the tuition on hard-working students and their families on the one hand and then approve a nearly $1 million contract to its president," Boucher, R-Wilton, said. "There is a public perception that the government sector is living in a bubble, insulated from the reality that people and businesses are enduring. This action may feel like rubbing more salt in a wound."<br />http://ctmirror.org/legislators-concerned-by-uconn-presidents-raise/peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-31429880616093876852014-12-31T07:05:25.285-05:002014-12-31T07:05:25.285-05:00We now have affordable healthcare. The schools in...We now have affordable healthcare. The schools in Hartford will one day soon be racially integrated sufficiently to impress a Court of freedom-riding attorneys. Dan's bus is set to get us to a shining New Britain upon a hill. We have strict gun control at homosexual weddings. But, on this road to progress we can't stop. To what avail programatic solution to every societal problem by selfless and courageous pols and their bureaucratic hacks if we can't read about them online ars reported by the Hartford Courant. <br /><br />I propose a tax credit to be claimed on the annual Nutmeg income tax form for payment of any fee deemed necessary to read Colin McEnroe or the Editors online. Of course, any tax credit amount would be calculated by the Revenue Servants on sliding scale so as not to benefit the rich to the detriment of those of the middle class. Also, let's put John Rowland back in jail; once and for all get corporate money out of our fine democratic system. Peter Brushnoreply@blogger.com