ADMITTED CRITIC
Connecticut will be open for business when states can be declared bankrupt so the vast rent-seeking state-employee burden and their unfunded liabilities are no longer the inescapable obstacle that has left us without funding to do anything else.
We elect politicians with great promise and fanfair under the presumption then can do anything at all other than talk, cut expenses and services and further burden the public, because there is money for nothing else.
To make it worse, these taxes are provided from the southeast of the state, and the rest of the state, including that foul hole of crime and hopelessness that is Hartford (Meriden, New Haven, Bridgeport,
And maybe just maybe when we reform our system so that education isn’t day care and entertainment but actually produces competent citizens, and competent future employees. Because the last two generations the school system has produced are so emotionally fragile, uneducated, largely illiterate, video-and-latchkey wildings that they are all but useless in the workforce other than hiring out of desperation.
I’ve built and sold a dozen companies up to 100M in size. And I would’t build one in CT. The employees are bad enough. The public is pessimistic and frustrated. And the rest are so lazy it’s unfathomable.
Connecticut is the winner for the most S—-hole cities per suqare mile,. And that’s’ pretty hard given new jersey is a state.
New Haven, Waterbury, New Britain, Meriden, Plainville, Bloomfield, Derby, New London, East Windsor, East Hartford.
The government made this problem – in no small part because of the influence of the soviet-trinity of Yale, Wesleyan and Trinity, and And of all things, stuck the university in the hinterlands instead of using it to elevate the capital – much of which must be razed in the style of Napoleon’s reconstruction of Paris.
The only people remaining in CT are those that can’t yet afford to leave.
Fix it. But fixing means Bankruptcy and gutting the state employee benefits program present and past. And no there are no other options. You must fix the budget, and fix the schools. Because the demographic forecast for the future of the state is unsurvivable as a state.
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