I really hate living in CT. I am making plans to move in the next year.
What angers me, is that they had an emergency fund 2 years ago what that jerkoff Malloy came around. He drained it into the state employees pension. Then last year Hurricane Irene and the October snowstorm comes, it was bone dry. No emergency fund. So Malloy was first in line for FEMA aid.
He came in and raised every tax in the state, and they are still have problems. That included a “retro-active” income tax increase in 2011. I know what will happen next. They will raise them again.
I cannot wait to move. I know there are taxes everywhere, maybe I can hope there are less idiots/corrupts managing the money.
Malloy sucks, to be sure. But I really do find a few things about living here fascinating (if I didn’t have to pay for it, that is.)
It speaks to what’s going to bankrupt the whole country: Malloy tries to make cuts – some silly, sure, but he actually tried to do “little” things like close a bunch of the Welcome Centers to save a few million. “OH NO! YOU CAN’T CLOSE THE WELCOME CENTERS!!!” cried the populace.
He actually tried (as much as a Dem can) to take on the teacher’s unions. “OH NO! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” cried the populace.
Reduce state pensioners? “OH NO! YOU CAN’T DO THAT” cried the populace.
It’s a joke. Get a job with the state and you can be an incompetent buffoon but you’l get early retirement and a full pension and guaranteed promotion/raises. Work there long enough and you lose sight of the real world and actually feel persecuted. It’s a conversation I’ve had a million times – as my wife works at a large insurance employer that continues to lay off highly skilled workers every couple months, year after year.
It’s insanity.
The Bigger picture point is, the majority of the nation will never, ever allow real cuts to ever be made ever and any politician that does it, will be out of a job. Term limits would solve that issue in a heartbeat.
I live in California, the same over-staffed, overpaid and underworked thousands of state workers, past and present, still munch at the trough like a famished hog.
The Democrats have one play in their playbook...raise taxes and fees on business.
They produce nothing, and the parasites keep on eating what the state workers haven’t eaten, so their only source of cash is to shake down businesses.
Trust me, the feeders and the looters will demand more and more as the unions, illegals and welfare class (see illegals) continue to squeeze businesses to relocate or close (see Hostess).
Hunker down, Obama, Holder and Malloy (and that Libtard O’Malley in MD) will be coming for your guns and 401K.