Connecticut State Workers need your help...

[syank]

I am a Connecticut State Employee, and our Governor has issued us about 2800 lay offs right at Christmas set to take effect right after the new year, so many CT workers and families get a nice warm Christmas present for all our hard work we've done.

The Lay off's are permanent meaning none of the 2800 will be called back to work, and still the Governor has promised more lay offs after the first of the year...

Now, I am not getting laid off, I have 4 years on the job here, but many people I know are losing their jobs, many of these people have families, In my Department we are already dangerously short staffed, and he is laying off our whole last Academy class...

If he is willing to do this to Public saftey personel even after everything that has happened after 9-11 imagine what he is going to do to teachers and transportation workers...and if the Governor follows through with his promises I might get hit when he lays off more next month...

SO, I am asking for all your help..

A website has been instrumental in letting the Legislature here in Connecticut know we are against these Layoffs, Please spam the heck out of it!!

Once at this site, enter a Connecticut Zip Code, a prepared letter will pop up addressed to a local Representative, Just hit send!!

Please send as many letters as you can by December 18th!

This is the date the Governor has set for the special session..

Connecitcut Zipcodes!

Go Here!!

http://capwiz.com/cfepe/issues/alert/?alertid=922501&type=ST

[null and void]

I have a shotgun... < /sarcasm>

More seriously, do you really think that in an entire state's overhead there aren't 2800 people who aren't pulling their weight?

Even in good times, such people are eliminated from a private sector company's roster, and either replaced with productive workers, or the company has learned that the job that wasn't getting done didn't need to get done.

The big difference is if I think Intel's chips are too expensive, I can buy from AMD. Intel knows this and controls it's costs.

With your employer, on the other hand, a citizen can't just be governed by the competition. That, and your employer "knows" they can alway raise taxes to cover any increase in costs...

[Koblenz]

Yeah, it's a real tragedy that these state workers are losing their jobs. But is it? Who exactly is getting laid off? How many employees does the state have? How many did it have five years ago? How would the state pay for these people? Do they really do anything that the government should be doing?

Sure, there'll be some people that probably don't deserve a pink slip: but that's the way it is anywhere. So many governments just added on layers of government, and now they're screwed. And many of them can't raise taxes: more people will just leave the state. Colorado's Bill Owens didn't do all the crazy spending of the 1990s, and that state is well off now.

[Texas Eagle]

Didn't the newspaper links appear on your screen?

[Mark]

I know LAPD is hiring. Good pay.

[null and void]

Contact your state representative and state senator today and ask them to pass solutions that don't balance the budget on the backs of state employees.

That's what peons taxpayers are for...

[nhoward14]

ummm... well... not when I read your message the first time... but they are there now

Please consider the question rhetorical.

[Texas Eagle]

What town do you live in?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Hmmm... let me get this straight... you want Freepers to help express disatisfaction with the concept of cutting the size of government?

Just one question:

What color is the sky in your world????

:)

[METARZAN]

Classic! Priceless! I sir vote for you to win the "Freeper Response of The Year Award"!

Hehehehe I love it!

Can I have your autograph?

Metarzan

[wildbill]

Perhaps we will stop prosecuting victimless crimes. Most of the "criminals" involved in thse duties you have are very minor drug users and low-level sellers, not to mention whores and gamblers.

Since most of our jails are crammed with these people the legislature should take a long look at their reduced capabilities and rethink the laws.

[MissAmericanPie]

It will all work out, you can find a job in the service industry, if an illegal hasn't filled the position that is, don't bother to check manufacturing, or construction it isn't there. We are busy making it our business to lift third world countries into the 21 century, don't cha know.

Welcome to the way everyone else is living, leaving one low wage job, to go work 4 to 8 hours at another low wage job attempting to stay in the middle class. Say bye bye to the family, everyone is at work. If it is good enough for my family....

[Chad Fairbanks]

Someone told me to try this site for help

Man... you got a friend with a wicked sense of humour... ;0)

[widowithfoursons]

I'm wondering if this guy diabolically posted so we would just waste bandwidth?

[Texas Eagle]

Here ya go, my friend....this job sounds like it might be right up your alley

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Employment Listing

Listing	UTILITY TRAFFIC CONTROL. Days P/T, uniform position, car reqd, New Haven Cnty. Blackhawk Security. 203-776-2257
Posted	12/16/2002
Source	New Haven Register
Location	New Haven, CT

[widowithfoursons]

Oh, you are one sick dude. I love it!

[fight_truth_decay]

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wants a special legislative session to repeal a law that allows charities to hold casino-style Las Vegas Night fundraisers. The law also could allow a third American Indian-run casino in Connecticut.(October 2, 2002)

Nonresidents' Connecticut Casino Winnings to be Taxed!..Jan. 1, 2003...sock it to the outta-staters ayuh!


Better get another casino real quick!!!

[dasboot]

Hey man, 90% of the LE jobs "created" in the last several years were the result of the Fed grants for community policing, which were slated to run out about now, and require the states to pick up the tab. "Seed money".

I think you probably knew that when you signed up.

The community policing program in my department is a whole 'nuther unit, dedicated to kissing political ass, running numbers of arrests up, and generally being a repository for new guys--anxious to do real police work--but relegated to social work. And lordy knows, if I see one more 1979 warrant for Mopery (with Intent to Grope) served on some hapless dufuss, who forgot he was ever summoned, I'll surely puke.

Our CP unit is prohibited from answering "calls to service" so as not to interfere with the important PR they're doing. It's two police departments--one municipal, one Federal. Animosity reigns. Moral is destroyed. If the courts were doing their job, there wouldn't need to be 100,000 more cops; but it redounds to the court's remunerative benefit to prolong the prossess to the point of nonsensicality....every warrant served for default is more money in someone's pocket....another job for a nephew to address the overwhelming caseload.

I can't leave my driveway without tripping cops of all varieties, everywhere, in their brand-new vehicles, ramping-up enforcement on arcaine violations to raise revenue and pay for their offices. "Swarms of Officers". Look it up.

Consider your layoff a blessing. This job is not what it used to be...no common sense discretion allowed: you are an automatonic strongarm for a state guided by the intellectually small. Run, boy, RUN. You'll thank me, someday.

Dasboot....17 years of perspective, FWIIW

Rant over.

[Question_Assumptions]

The Lay off's are permanent meaning none of the 2800 will be called back to work, and still the Governor has promised more lay offs after the first of the year...

If the government feels pain from the lay-offs, people will be called back. Basically, ask yourself, can the state still go on if you are laid off? If the answer is "yes", then start to worry. If the answer is, "no", then you should be OK, because the last thing your Governor wants is voter outrage over cutting critical services.

I say this as someone who was laid off as a state worker. Of course I voted for the people who cut the taxes that led to my lay-off and thought it was the right thing for them to do. Truth be told, they got along quite well without me.

[fight_truth_decay]

Whatever happened to the "Welcome to Free Republic Fruit Baskets" for all new Freepers? Is that anyway to act? ;)

[null and void]

Criminy! He gave him a lead on a JOB! What more do you want?!?!?

Know anybody looking for a micromachinist?...