Friday, June 1, 2012

Enough of the Blame Game

Our View -----Of The New Britain City Journal
Posted by Frank Smith at 1.6.12

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

must be George Bush's fault!

June 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Comments By Nicholas Mercier, CPOA President.

While Costco may not provide the same entry level salary opportunities as Polamer Precision, they still start employees well above minimum wage and have a corporate structure in which the vast majority of their employees qualify for medical and retirement benefits. More importantly, Costco will provide entry level jobs for an unskilled workforce. These are crucial to help move people from a lower economic status to a more middle class economic status.

A company like Costco can provide many people with a decent job while allowing them to build skills that make them more marketable for other better paying positions.

Taxes are another factor. The Mayor is being secretive about what incentives are being offered to Polamer Precision for relocating to New Britain, but it is common for companies to ask for tax breaks, or even complete tax write offs, for a number of years.

That means that it may be a long while before the city coffers benefit directly from this new business. Costco, however, was given no incentives, a credit to Stewart’s administration. That means that from the first day of business the city will see close to half a million in additional tax revenue, on top of all the secondary benefits.

The Mayor should be proud of the fact that Polamer Precision is coming to New Britain, but he should also remember that we need job opportunities for all of our residents, not just our college graduates and our skilled labor force.

We look forward to seeing the press release from the Mayor’s office where he is talking about the groundbreaking for Costco’s store and the hundreds of jobs and thousands of dollars that will bring our city as well.

June 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Mayor O'Brien's first budget proposal is paying for the sins of his predecessor's. The notes are being called in on unrealized sales of development property and kicking the can down the road on City's financial obligations won't solve the problem.

With a final budget due to be passed in June 2012 there is plenty of work ahead for the Mayor and the Common Council to avert cuts and jobs losses of frontline, direct service employees. Losing 130 municipal positions is unacceptable if the current level of services is to be maintained.

Good faith bargaining, by raising taxes and fees, finding additional savings, alternatives to the way the City pays for health insurance and energy and modernizing City Hall operations - all will be needed to help the City get through a fiscal budget crisis that will persist into 2013 fiscal year and beyond.

June 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Anonymous said...

The alternate way the city pays for health insurance will cost 422 MILLION DOLLARS TO JOINS THE STATE PROGRAM.

THIS IS THE PLAN DEVISED BY SPEAKER DONOVAN AND SUPPORTED BY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN JOHN McNamara.

TOO COSTLY DON'T YOU THINK?

June 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM
Anonymous said...

CCAG Spoke-person Tom Swan, Chris Donovan's new campaign manager, was able to confirm that the Donovan political campaign got rid of the entire finance department, including Robert Braddock Jr., who was charged with conspiracy by the FBI, Josh Nassi, the campaign manager, and Sarah Waterfall, the deputy campaign manager.

June 3, 2012 at 10:41 PM
Anonymous said...

Tom Swan, who took a leave of absence from his post as executive director of the Connecticut Citizens Action Group (CCAG), said he would not have taken on the role of campaign manager if Chris Donovan hadn’t looked him in the eye and told him he hadn’t done anything wrong. He said he’s known Donovan for 18 years and has worked with him very closely.

“I looked him right in the eye and asked him if there was any truth to this, and did you do anything wrong? And he looked me in the eye and he said ‘No’,” Swan recalled?

Swan said Donovan had no knowledge of any alleged wrongdoing in his campaign.

June 3, 2012 at 10:46 PM
Lou Salvio said...

" Eight months have gone by and O'Brien/Sherwood continue to play the blame game supported by the feckless New Britain Herald.

Today, the New Britain Herald continued to be complicit in the game being played by Sherwood/O'Brien. Just nothing but proof to indicate that O'Brien is in over his head and partnered up with Sherwood who too has no clue.

A couple of comments. Let's say that you don't pay your creditors, whoever they are, mortgage holder, medical insurance premiums, rent, car payment, etc. And, let's say you need gasoline for your vehicles, is there a station that gives out free gas?

If you don't pay, you lose your house, car, are evicted from your rent, your insurances are terminated, etc.

When will the O'Brien/Sherwood administration stop with this do-nothing approach to the City's financial responsibilities. It's about time to stop the blame game. The 2011-2012 budget will not be reconciled until September of 2012 ! O'Brien, you know this, why don't you and your shadow get to work and do something about it?

As for pension funds for police and fire employees. The police and fire pension funds
(one item, not two) were funded to over 100% when Stewart left office. This is not MERF!

All O'Brien did in today's Herald story is what he usually does, to wit, say a lot of words that have no coherence and blame , blame, blame!!!

Knock it off! Get to work. "

June 5, 2012 at 1:15 PM

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