Connecticut is circling the drain. Time for a change.

American Thinker ^ | 10/23/2018 | Bill Lalor

[SeekAndFind]

Connecticut Democrats' evasive campaigns are an insult to voters.

Let's put this bluntly: the 2018 elections are as close as we will ever get to a referendum on Democratic economic policy in Connecticut.

Voters are right to want answers. In spite of a economic and job boom across the country, Connecticut's "death spiral" is accelerating. Taxes keep going up, jobs are disappearing, and property values are in the tank. Connecticut's budget deficit in 2020 will be $1.9 billion; in 2021, it will be about $2.5 billion. Those are just pick-up notes to more staggering problems, as more taxpayers move out of the state and the death spiral accelerates.

Connecticut's mess is Democrats' to explain: they have controlled the state budget process for 38 of the last 40 years. Governor Malloy, now hovering around 20% approval, has held office for the last eight (and he made certain his stench would linger for a long time). Further, among Connecticut's all-Democrat delegation in Washington, those defending seats have held office an aggregate total of 72 years, including both the U.S. House and this year's contested U.S. Senate race.

If Democrat incumbents want to convince voters they can now fix Connecticut's unprecedented crisis, they ought to at least explain what they've been doing all these years. But Democrats are mostly avoiding their own records and, in large part, the voters.

The single most ruinous expense for Connecticut is public-sector union pensions. As a candidate, Ned Lamont has scripted an arms-length gap between himself and Governor Malloy. But, setting aside the talking points, Lamont sounds a lot like Malloy when it comes to spending on unions. That is, he promises nothing and talks only vaguely about any fix or "reform."

[goldstategop]

Hopeless. People there will keep re-electing Rats. Something in the Nutmeg water.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Once you convince a majority that Republicans are EEEEEEVIL scum and that having them in power is simply unacceptable, you can get away with running evasive campaigns.

Have seen that work here in Western PA for a very, very long time.

[jersey117]

“People there will keep re-electing Rats. Something in the Nutmeg water.”

I just don’t get it. I moved down to conservative Lee County Florida a couple of years ago. I’m walking down my street and see a Gillum sign on the front lawn of a beautiful home on the canal side of the street. The ultimate symbol of capitalism. I just don’t get it.

[Red Badger]

Connecticut is circling the drain?

That’s Rhode Island.................

[McGruff]

I keep voting straight Republican but we’re outnumbered. If the Republican wins the governorship it will be because of Donald Trump. It will be a HUGE achievement.

[kabar]

White guilt.

[Bonemaker]

“Hopeless. People there will keep re-electing Rats. Something in the Nutmeg water.”

Same mentality as Boston and NYC.y

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yup. Very self-conscious college educated voters who don’t want their college-educated neighbors to think they are STOOOOPID because they voted Republican.

Basically the same social forces that make them all buy BMW’s.

[mewzilla]

Last I knew, CT had about 190,000 state and local employees. And about 50,000 state retirees. And I’ll bet every single one votes to keep the gravy train chugging along, math be damned.

[bert]

The fact that Blumenthal is senator is prime fascia evidence that Connecticut is already down the drain. He is proof there is no hope, no salvation.

[mewzilla]

My Nutmegger ancestors are spinning.

Sigh.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The fact that Blumenthal is senator is prime fascia evidence that Connecticut is already down the drain.

It's hard to believe that the Senate could have a bigger Potemkin Village Charlatan than Ted Kennedy, but Connecticut's found one.

[Celerity]

All of those “brave, freedom fighter right-wing patriots” in CT lined up for registration and then pushed Visconti away because they felt the time wasn’t right to turn the tables in Connecticut.

A vex upon Connecticut. I left literally everything behind and moved. Just got in the car and left without a destination or a job. I was way better off that day than I had ever been in CT.

Patriots in CT aren’t ready to win. They will continue to tout right wing policy and ideas with that “BUT...” statement for another 2 generations.

Only the civil war will change it, that or they can wait in the food lines that a mere bomb threat on the Tappanzee - Sorry, the Cuomo - will bring within 24 hours when the food stops flowing in from the rest of the country.

Any general at this point would pull troops from east of the Hudson and just work spec-ops at this point to try and keep the enemy on their toes.

[DeplorablePaul]

One of the happiest days of my life was when I put Ct in my rear view and moved to SC five years ago. I love reading articles like this that confirm what I predicted 20 years ago. Democrats and the public unions have sucked Ct dry while buying themselves enough votes to stay in power.

ps

Two members of the motor cycle club to which I belong, a husband and wife, are retired Ct state employees. They just bought two identical Spyders with all the bells and whistles. Around $60,000. Must be nice to be Ct pensioner.

[shanover]

White liberals are the greatest threat that America has ever faced since WWII. Everything else follows on the coat tails.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

On any highway in New York or New England, 7.9 times out of 10 that person in the left hand lane going 2 MPH under the speed limit and refusing to get to the right has CT plates.

[Tracker47]

We left almost 28 years ago. Best move ever. That big Penske rented truck saved us..
Can’t think of anything I would go back for, except if my sister desperately needed help.
Just consider that Bridgeport (where I was born) voted out a true lefty nutjob and elected a previous mayor that did time at Club Fed for corruption in office.

Folks need to go to jail when a pension fund ends up underfunded or broke. They were either grossly incompetent, criminally negligent, or outright crooks. The folks that run these things are CPAs, Lawyers and folks with MBA degrees. They can’t claim they didn’t know. Lock them up, and seize their assets.

I can’t imagine how a (so called) backward state like Utah has a public pension fund that has no problems at all. Must be that they never have used the “new math”. You know, broke today, take more money out, put less money in, and then be surprised that it is in even worse shape afterward.

For those left in what started out as a good place back in 1776, I pay $746 dollars in property tax on 120 acres, a nice house and barn. I pay nothing to take my garbage to the dump, and my income and sales taxes are half what yours are.
Even better, our insurance rates are 1/3 of what you pay. It’s been 27 years and I still pay less for 3 vehicles, an ATV, boat, 2 houses, and a pile of equipment than I did as a 25 year old with a perfect record on a 2 wheel drive 6 cylinder pickup back in 1991.
You folks are reaping what you have sown. You may eat it all by yourselves too.

[Deplorable American1776]

Connecticut voters, please vote for Bob Stefanowski, Matthew Corey and for Republicans in CD-2, 4 and 5. I do have a reason since I have a business still in Connecticut.

[oldtech]

In my opinion,to start with,there should be no such thing as a public sector union. How did this crap ever get started? Now we are to the point where it seems the “kiss of death” for many state budgets is the public sector unions. If there are to be these unions,then the public should have the right to vote on their continued existence.