tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post1789120653958764722..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Vive DepardieuDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-64268886011562422822013-01-01T18:45:44.899-05:002013-01-01T18:45:44.899-05:00Peter,
It's not necessary for the "prolet...Peter,<br />It's not necessary for the "proletariat” – really, the omni-competent state – to seize property (money and goods) from the bourgeois to “own” the means of production (communism) when the state as easily may regulate businesses (fascism).<br /><br />Mr. Carstensen is a beneficiary of state largess; he works for UConn. Why would be against crony capitalism? <br />Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-12465545711122576152012-12-19T09:39:07.422-05:002012-12-19T09:39:07.422-05:00This Carstensen is a menace. Seems intent on beli...This Carstensen is a menace. Seems intent on believing that the State can stimulate its economy through government spending/investment. Malloy gave us the largest tax hike in the country, but that's not a problem. The problem is the alleged reduction in "demand" derived from prospective "cuts" in government spending. There have been no cuts here, the State spends more money each year, and as to the superiority of the government in investing in business... ridiculous.<br />----------------------------<br />Balancing the next state budget exclusively with spending cuts could be the final straw that breaks Connecticut's economic back, pushing it back into recession, the University of Connecticut's economic think-tank warned Wednesday.<br /><br />The Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis also said that such a move could trigger as many as 25,000 annual job losses between the public and private sectors combined.<br /><br />"The Connecticut economy is in trouble -- deep trouble," center economists wrote in a report titled, "Averting the Doldrums: Will Connecticut Avoid Recession?"<br /><br />"If people see the state is not going to sustain key initiatives, then the private sector is going to respond," Prof. Fred Carstensen, the center's director, said. "People need to understand that there is a profound connection."<br /><br />Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration has made important strides to reverse more than two decades of almost nonexistent job growth, Carstensen said, citing investments in manufacturing, biosciences, financial services, and cutting-edge information technology.<br />http://www.ctmirror.org/story/18517/report-closing-state-deficits-spending-cuts-alone-could-spark-another-recession<br />-----------------------<br />Since 1980, state spending has risen from $4,400 per household to $10,000 per household, an increase of 227%.[3]<br /><br />Read more: http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Connecticut_state_budget#ixzz2FVbLekz6peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-89848397625380662222012-12-19T08:56:31.459-05:002012-12-19T08:56:31.459-05:00it has never been more than a political fad
------... it has never been more than a political fad<br />------------------------------<br />Wish I were as optimistic. There are certainly few American pols who will admit to being socialists, democratic, revoltionary, or other. Hear precious little explicit demand that the state control the means of production or eliminate private property. But, call it what you will, we have been moving inexorably towards a post-constitutional statist regime with heavy regulation and taxation, government increasing part of overall economy. These guys now are happy to take the golden eggs, let the goose proceed as best she can until she moves to Belgium. We get to keep title to property, but how it is used is increasingly a matter of government control. In this second Obama term I'm going to be taking solace in knowing that the melt-down of the ridiculous statist policies in, for example, the healthcare "reform" fiasco. peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-25554425631441128862012-12-18T19:47:27.056-05:002012-12-18T19:47:27.056-05:00LA,
Good. It can't happen soon enough. The pro...LA,<br />Good. It can't happen soon enough. The problem with socialism, Maggie Thatcher said, is that "sooner or later you run out of other people's money." This is how that happens.<br /><br />Socialism was a serious concern when there were gulags into which one could commit kulaks, after first appropriating their wealth. On this side of the water, it has never been more than a political fad. Nothing is so temporary as a fad, G.K. Chesterton says.<br />Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-5505459040258426422012-12-18T18:54:23.857-05:002012-12-18T18:54:23.857-05:00I'm pretty sure they're already sick of th...I'm pretty sure they're already sick of the smug and judgmental stuck-up elitist priggish bore Hollande. Just wish they'd recognize that he's no different than our own SCOAMF. Maybe it's that he just can't sing as well?Libertarian Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245884833251725459noreply@blogger.com