tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post768246268480642340..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Looney to Connecticut’s Middle Class: Your Money Or Your LifeDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-23470352484857245532015-05-20T08:57:30.494-04:002015-05-20T08:57:30.494-04:00Lawmakers Remain Hopeful There’s Time To Pass Paid...Lawmakers Remain Hopeful There’s Time To Pass Paid Family Leave<br />-----------<br />Not satisfied with merely providing disincentives to stay, apparently our Legislative and Executive guys are now considering paying families to leave. And, never forget, love makes a family, and that we Nutmeggers not only permit gay marriage, but we demand that you like it.<br />==============<br /><br />Senate, House Pass Bills To Help Connecticut’s Dreamers<br />------------------<br />Right there in the 1965 Nutmeg Constitution it says taxpayers have an obligation to help all who can't help themselves wherever or whoever they may be. It's about time we helped these unfortunate people who are, according to a Brookings study, subjected to a "successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually INVOLUUNTARILY in the mind during certain stages of sleep." <br />-----------<br />"The People of Connecticut acknowledging with gratitude, the good providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a FREE government; ...<br />That the great and essential principles of liberty and FREE government may be recognized and established,<br /><br />WE DECLARE:<br /><br />SEC. 1. All men when they form a social compact, are EQUAL in rights..."<br />peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-53530118836996756162015-05-19T07:42:22.320-04:002015-05-19T07:42:22.320-04:00even some moderate Democrats are beginning to wond...even some moderate Democrats are beginning to wonder <br />----------<br />I have been wondering for a while. I don't see that telling government employees who's the boss by imposing prudent benefit cuts is necessarily a political loser. Even some government workers can see the downside to killing the egg-laying goose, and recognize that bankruptcy of the employer is not beneficial, as it were, to the employees regardless of promises made to them by mendacious representatives of the people. Participants in the dreaded private sector are well aware of how difficult it is to survive in Nutmegistan, and are well aware of how little they benefit from government spending they are financing. My roto-rooter guy (not the contractor, but the employee with the snake) pays $5000 in federal income taxes and $5000 in property taxes on his East Hartford estate. On the other hand, my friend Marilyn, who occasionally appreciates a lift to the bottle recycling facility, has new dentures courtesy of Medicaid. If we were to have a rising tide lifting all boats perhaps Mr. Roto wouldn't notice that he's being abused, but in stead, Fleet Commander Malloy insists there's plenty of water and distributes more anchors to all the suckers in their row boats. Believe me, Mr. Roto is not blind to how his money is being taken and misspent.<br /><br />A liberal with sanity could win Statewide elections. He'd have to be at least moderately courageous, and speak out for fiscal prudence regardless of the mega-phonic moans and groans of the special interests who are apparently willing to run the ship into the rocks rather than get one penny less than is "their right." He'd get the votes of a lot of presently hopeless and disaffected Roto-rooter guys. In the mean time, the sailing looks pretty good in Texas, Oklahoma, and Indiana.peter brushnoreply@blogger.com