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Old 07-23-2015, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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you are kidding right. Malloy is the one devastating this state, I wish Rowland was back in the governors mansion.
Actually Rowland did do a lot of good for the state. It is too bad he also did a lot of good for himself as well. And it is really too bad that he did not learn his lesson and is in deep s*** again. Jay
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Old 07-23-2015, 12:02 PM
 
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Yes, sadly he's in prison. But it's all Malloy's fault. That's why we have pension obligations we're paying from the time Malloy was a teenager.

Devastating.
Knock it off mark. Malloy had a great opportunity to restructure benefits and pensions for state employees but folded like a wet noodle when the unions pushed back. Selective memory?
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Old 07-23-2015, 12:07 PM
 
Location: New London County, CT
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Knock it off mark. Malloy had a great opportunity to restructure benefits and pensions for state employees but folded like a wet noodle when the unions pushed back. Selective memory?
I totally agree.

However, that only further verifies it's a problem he inherited-- not caused. Those with a selective memory lay 100% of the blame at Malloy's feet when several Republican administrations contributed to and perhaps were the genesis of the problem...
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Old 07-23-2015, 12:09 PM
 
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Come on now! If you compare the number of comments made on any of the jobs cuts announced to the mention of Amazon's warehouse you will see it is not mentioned nearly as often. Be real. Jay
While I should have made my point a little more clear, I was trying to say there are far more negative articles than good ones around here.

So that means there is more to talk about in a negative light. Heck take a look at the economy thread, seems there are 5 bad news posts for every 1 good one.

I just think that may have something to do with people being so negative, there isn't a whole lot of good news for us lately.


I probably haven't been here long enough to get tired of the constant negative news, which I imagine as a moderator you've been seeing for years.
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Old 07-23-2015, 05:09 PM
 
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While I should have made my point a little more clear, I was trying to say there are far more negative articles than good ones around here.

So that means there is more to talk about in a negative light. Heck take a look at the economy thread, seems there are 5 bad news posts for every 1 good one.
In CT's papers if it bleeds economically it leads. Several companies have expanded rapidly with good jobs in the last 6 months but Hearst Media and the Courant don't cover it. Why? Doesn't sell papers for this market. Sure talk about GE (who saw huge liabilities with it's personal credit wing) or Sikorsky (who is looking at a better 5 years than its' had in recent memory got contracts for Austria, Australia, SA, etc) is "sexy" and gives the naysayers something to say but if you look at the numbers CT is one of the highest self employed in percentages and raw numbers in the country, most of the self-employed are outfits that deal world wide. With slowdowns in Europe and Asia, CT was bound to get a bigger brunt of it rather than say Midland, TX which deals almost exclusively with domestic economies.

Always more to the story.

As for the article, this has always been the trend of CT and other major ports of call for immigrants. Make money here, try luck elsewhere for the children. This article could've been written in 1810 with the same sort of hysteria around it.
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Old 07-23-2015, 05:16 PM
 
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Knock it off mark. Malloy had a great opportunity to restructure benefits and pensions for state employees but folded like a wet noodle when the unions pushed back. Selective memory?

The 6k layoffs should NOT have been rescinded w/o an agreement to switch to a 401K. Malloy had a weapon, and didn't fire it.
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Old 07-23-2015, 05:57 PM
 
Location: CT
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From that map, a lot of major metropolitan areas are losing people, but there will also likely be large amounts of population moving into those places. Chicago, LA, NYC ect will always be desirable places to live with people moving to them to always offset any population decline.

?? A decline means a "net" decline. Meaning more people moved out than moved in.
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Old 07-23-2015, 06:04 PM
 
Location: CT
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Hasn't this been talked to death on this forum already? The number show a lot of Babyboomers are retiring and moving out of state which is why the drop. No big surprise here people. Jay
Why is that okay? We shouldn't shrug at the fact that people who work their entire life in this state can't afford to retire here. That's pretty sad actually.
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Old 07-23-2015, 06:09 PM
 
Location: CT
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The 6k layoffs should NOT have been rescinded w/o an agreement to switch to a 401K. Malloy had a weapon, and didn't fire it.
That;s because he's a p**** liberal who thinks weapons are scary
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Old 07-23-2015, 06:55 PM
 
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?? A decline means a "net" decline. Meaning more people moved out than moved in.
Actually the data is only capturing domestic migration. Including immigration NYC and many other expensive metros are seeing big gains. However Ohio and the rust belt continues to bleed on a net net basis. It's buried in the article. Data spin for shock value/click bait.
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