Your Budget-Trimming Ideas

i support all of Gov. Rell’s initiatives.

Agency consolidation. Just review the Governors appropriations budget and fund the overlap. We have way too much duplication. If the State is heading towards regionalizing services for local municipalities, it only makes sense for them to take the lead in consolidating their own operations. From there, job phase outs and early retirement can be offered.

Yes for tolls but at the borders only use EZ PASS.
All other States have tolls, we need the revenue TOO!

I think all these congressmen / women should all take a pay cut and no bonus for a few years. Kind of like all of us are doing. They really don’t work as much as your avrage working person and they get paied sometimes 3x more than your avrage middle class. Maybe if that happens they my try alitte harder on where they are going to get money from.

E.R.I.P COMING?………Connecticut employee’s have given a very large amount of give backs ,thus doing there part in this crisis. BUT will it be enough? Will enough be saved by the RIP…….? Come July 1 st open the ERIP to 52-54 year old State employee’s…….Now is the time to decrease state government………Do it in one sweep……..
E-MAIL THE GOVERNOR and/or your STATE REPRESENTITIVE ask to OPEN UP THE ERIP AND SAVE CONN. Millions More during this economic crisis.

By reducing taxes, for businesses it will increase employment and the trickle down effect will put more $$$$ into the state govt’s pocket……….

Just do the opposite of the clowns in DC……….and we will be much better off.
Hey look at the states that are in much deeper financial positions then CT, they just happen to be the most taxed states in the US….hmmmmmmmmm that should put the light on in the folks who dont have a clue. They voted for change, well shortly it will be here..and the only thing that will be left is some loose change in the middle class pocket…..wake up before it is to late

Take a look at how many people have “Communication Director” jobs in our agencies. Maybe we could have our commissioners do the commenting. Note there are a lot of assistent communication directors too. What nonsense.

ANOTHER DANGER OF CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX: read on-
On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. In this 4 minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Lord Monckton served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly challenged Al Gore to a debate, which Gore has refused. Monckton sued to stop Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” from being shown in British schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in favor of Monckton, ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton travels internationally in an attempt to educate the public about the myth of global warming.
Eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second - OBAMA POISED TO CEDE US SOVEREIGNTY, CLAIMS BRITISH LORD (repub X)
The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture concept of global warming and the credible threat of any significant anthropomorphic climate change.

A detailed summary of Monckton’s presentation will be available here once compiled. However, a segment of his remarks justify immediate publication. If credible, the concern Monckton speaks to may well prove the single most important issue facing the American nation, bigger than health care, bigger than cap and trade, and worth every citizen’s focused attention.

Here were Monckton’s closing remarks, as dictated from my audio recording:

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.

[laughter]

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution, and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Institute an honor system on Metro North. They have an honor system in Europe on their trains. Why do we need to pay for 2 or 3 conductors per train? The tickets can expire after an hour or so, not 3. If you get caught without a ticket, you get a large fine on the spot.
Also, look at closing some bridges. We have too many bridges in this state, which require maintenance. Is it that hard for someone to drive a mile down the road to cross another one? Alternatively, we should look at filling in areas where we have bridges. A good example is the new bridge on I-95 over the Houstatonic. If you look, some of it may be filled in, meaning less bridges would need to be rebuilt, now and in the future.