Stupid is as Stupid Does

Logic has never taken hold with Connecticut's Elected Leaders, and stupidity seems to be the norm. It is neither an issue of being democrat or republican. In fact if it was that complicated, life would be good. Never the less, stupid is as stupid does and stupidity is the leader of this great State.

Over the last 40 years, the population of Connecticut has been practically unchanged. According to the Secretary of State, in 1970 the population of Connecticut was about 3 million people. Fast forward to the year 2010 and one would see that the population is about 3.5 million people, give or take. Over a 40 year span, Connecticut has tanked in growth with only an average of .234% [or less than one third of a percentage point] ranking number 40 out of each the 50 States. Lucky us.

To no one's surprise however, the cost of State Government has quadrupled despite the inadequate ability of our taxpayers to be able to support such stupidity.

There is a raging gap between the public and private sector, one of which if remained unleashed will without any doubt Bankrupt us before to long. In short the financial chickens have finally come home to roost. With one of the greatest recessions since the great depression hitting our State, we the people have become all to familiar with the fundamental truth that government has become the problem rather than the solution.

There currently is a projected deficit for 2012 of $3.8 billion, yes I said billion dollars, which in my never too humble opinion is a quite low projection given our elected leaders grossly over estimated tax revenue calculations. The workforce of the State of Connecticut Employees however remains barely touched in reductions of its force, receiving good compensation and free from the threat of layoffs.

Clearly, the issue is not that of the State Employee's. My experience has been that nearly each and everyone has a work ethic second to none. Despite being furloughed and labeled as money mongers, these dedicated people continue to trench through the miry work place while their fat cat union leaders and fellow dead beat citizens that clearly refuse to support their own morally indigent selves continue to feed at the expense of the taxpayers and the State employees.

The private sector of Connecticut has lost over 8% of it's workforce, which represents over 100,000 private employees compared to the State workforce which has been reduced by only 4% or slightly greater than 2,262 if one truly stretches the numbers.

Real numbers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, report that there are 56,556 State employees at a raging cost of nearly $310 million per month thrown onto the taxpayers back. Given those numbers, which were reported by the U.S. Census Bureau not me, one would use their own common sense to calculate the cost as follows: There is statistically speaking one state employee for every 62 people at a cost of $3.02 per day per Connecticut resident not Connecticut taxpayer. All the while, countless business's have folded and the American Dream has been robbed of nearly all of our residents. The continual confiscation of wealth by our elected leaders has no end in site, and stupid is as stupid does.

Clearly however, it would be illogical to cast all the blame on our elected leaders. After all they have been entrusted by we the people and continually returned into office so they can once again pick our pockets and deplete our common sense.

Unless and until State Residents realize that the true way out of a recession and the control of one's own destiny is to regain control of their government by placing fiscally competent people into office we will remain forever enslaved in the wings of a morally defunct society. This of course directly contradicts the Constitution that we pride ourselves in being the State of most influence with during it's construction.

If one truly desired to seek the transparent reality of our "Progressive State" and look to some common ground for the good of the people, clearly we would move from a "Progressive liberal State" to Regressive Tax State. By cutting our payroll, our entitlements and our unfunded mandates we the people would be the proud bearers of a State where it's taxes decrease as it's income increases, period. But as always stupid is as stupid does.