Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Roll-Your-Own shops will face new state fee, but get 3 months to prepare

Speaker Donovan Involved????
Posted by Frank Smith at 13.6.12

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Anonymous said...

Veterans & State Bond Commission's Rubber Stamp ?

At last week's meeting of the State's Bond Commission, over which the governor presides and at which the proposed grant for Communist Party Center in New Haven, CT - was slated for "Rubber-Stamp" approval by the commission's Democrat majority, Gov. Malloy announced the withdrawal of the funding request as improvidently proposed.

To be sure, the governor's turnabout was an act of political pragmatism. Media and public attention to the issue were gaining on him. The story was growing legs and going national. Breitbart and other blogs had picked it up, and it was only a matter of time before Malloy's face would be plastered on the "Factor."

Despite little time to mobilize, Connecticut's conservative icon and pundit Tom Scott (a former long-serving Republican State Senator from Milford), on two days' notice, managed to pull together a group of Veterans and some legislators to protest in front of the "Peoples' Center" in New Haven, CT.

Once Veteran's groups started to speak out, the political calculus changed dramatically. Malloy could only ignore Veterans at significant cost. It is easy to understand why Veterans were upset, especially those who served in Vietnam. Connecticut has plenty of men and women who lost sons in that war, who had relatives injured in it, or who descend from those killed in prior wars against dictator regimes.

Amazingly, Democrats were poised to borrow money in a time of budget crisis (and incur the interest expense) so that taxpayers would subsidize a Communist Political Party whose ideology our government officially condemns as evil such that it sends men off to war to kill or get killed over it.

The state's response to Freedom of Information Act requests for documents relating to this grant proposal revealed that little paperwork existed beyond a letter from a New Haven state center requesting a princely sum. Where did the $300,000 figure come from?

The only document that existed was suspicious at best. It was on plain paper, no letterhead. It had no signature, no attestation, no supporting documents or estimates, nothing. In fact, it did not even have an author. Someone just typed up a crude list of the building's alleged repair needs, with seemingly highly inflated numbers representing an estimate of the cost for a new roof, a new floor, etc.

Who did that? Who knows? On what basis were such amounts arrived at? Who knows? It appears whoever "anonymous" is just pulled the numbers out of her you-know-what, and they add up to a nice $300,000.

Is this the way the state of Connecticut spends and borrows money, and to fund private property to boot? That is truly frightening. Spending follies like this, on projects that are not even the government's legitimate business, are a reason why Gov. Malloy is raising our taxes for more $$$$$$ ?

June 13, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Anonymous said...

Anything to screw with business here in CT.

June 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Anonymous said...

1,000 Job Seekers Seek Work at Nowich Jobs Fair.

Norwich CT - Some 1,000 job seekers deluged the Norwich Holiday Inn during a five-hour event at which more than 1,000 people had a chance to meet face to face with prospective employers. “We’re suffering down here,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney (D) -2nd District, who spent about two hours at the job fair. “People want to work.”

People were lined halfway around the hotel by the time the event kicked off at 10 a.m., sponsors said. Courtney said the local event attracted about twice as many job seekers as one he helped arrange in Mansfield earlier this year. “It’s a little overwhelming here,” said Tammy Ladd of Norwich, who has been working per diem jobs in the health care field but is hoping for something more permanent“ I’m trying to find anything,” said Ralph Churchill of Baltic, who has worked with disabled people and done landscaping work, among other jobs

One job seeker, Brian James of Groton, said he was glad someone was trying to do something to help job seekers. The submarine veteran said he has been seeking an engineering job for months without success“ They don’t want to train,” he said of employers. “If you don’t have the exact skills they are looking for, they don’t have any interest.”

Ralph Churchill, the Baltic job seeker who has been out of work since February, said he moved to the region from Oregon, seeking support from friends and family while he searched for a job. But he soon found out the labor situation here is one of the worst in the country, with the region having lost nearly 12,000 jobs since March 2008.

“I didn’t realize it was this bad,” Ralph Churchill said.
In fact, projections made earlier this year by the forecasting firm IHS Global Insight predicted the Norwich-New London area, which includes Westerly, would be the ninth-worst in the country in terms of post-recession jobs recoveries by the end of the year. The firm’s analysis showed the region would see only 400 jobs restored at the end of 2012 when compared to numbers seen during the recession’s low point.

Mike Toomey, who drove an hour from his home in Douglas, Mass., said this job fair appeared to be bigger, with more businesses represented, than he has seen at several other events he has attended since losing a job at a Rhode Island car dealership in April.

"I think it’s worse here in Connecticut than in State of Massachusetts,” Mike Toomey said of the struggle to find a job.

June 14, 2012 at 9:22 AM

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