[BPt111]

Gov. Scott: Connecticut Leaders Out of Touch with Business

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Gov. Scott: Connecticut Leaders Out of Touch with Business

Ct corps will vouch for that.

Malloy has made the job of other states EConomic Development teams much easier. Losing corp hqs will be his legacy.

[BPt111]

"Their job growth rate continues to lag far behind Florida and the nation, and Connecticut has lost more adjusted gross income and people to Florida than any other state in the nation."

"Governor Malloy’s administration has been trying, and failing, to tackle a budget deficit with an overwhelming collection of increased taxes and fees. "

[East of the River]

Originally Posted by functionofx

Your statement is true ONLY if you can afford private school, or are in one of a handful of very very expensive towns where the public school system works. The state average isn't very high compared to other states - Average SAT Scores by State (Most Recent)

See also SAT scores drop in state - Connecticut Post



The SAT test is changing yet again, and has been beaten up pretty badly since the Clinton administration assaults on it in the late 90's. Yet it is the test our state decided to use to measure high school students academic success (well mostly failure, aside from a few towns).

75% of CT towns score above the national average.

[East of the River]

Trying to pull from other states is a common tactic. CT pulled tons of companies from NY over the years for instance. I worked for a company the relocated to CT from NY back in the 90's.

Florida has issues too, actually. I work with a number of manufacturing companies based in the SE. Many of them are based in FL but over the last 10 year a number of them have moved to NC or SC and sometimes GA. Energy costs for AC is one of the driving reasons, but also issues with water supplies and flooding have been problems for some (one who used to be based in SFL had the road to his complex flooded by hightides almost once a month).

I have spoken to a rep from NC that contacts companies for moving (they contacted a company I worked for) they had some really cheap electrical rates and property tax exemptions that made it very attractive. That and a severely underpaid skilled labor class. Skilled labor was 16-18hr vs 23-28 hr up here. This is also one of the reasons for companies leaving FL, Tampa for instance has wages in the 20-24 hr for manufacturing skilled labor.

[hvexpatinct]

FL has to make an enormous investment in its schools for it to be seen as a viable alternative to many other locations. TX would be preferable to FL.

[2nd trick op]

Originally Posted by CTartist

If every state did that (have rock bottom property/school taxes) how would we have highly educated people in this country?

Simple! By privatizing all education and putting the NEA and its Leftist shills out of business; many of us develop a love of learning early in life, but socialist indoctrination is not learning.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by 2nd trick op

Simple! By privatizing all education and putting the NEA and its Leftist shills out of business; many of us develop a love of learning early in life, but socialist indoctrination is not learning.

Welcome to the third world. That's how Nigeria does it. Only rich people have educated children.

The problem with public education in the United States is that it's completely inadequate unless you live in an affluent suburb where all your classmates have college educated professional parents. The median child in the country gets a very poor education compared to other first world countries and the bottom 25% are mired in the permanent underclass with little hope of escaping because they attend failed school systems.

The NEA is certainly part of the problem. If a child comes from a poor household, you need to put them in a 40+ hour school week and 48+ week school year from age 4. You need to insist that they show up, pay attention, and do the work. If they don't, you penalize the parent/parents. You need to teach real skills. Everybody needs to speak "American business English". Everybody needs to be able to write that American business English. I shouldn't be able to tell on the phone or from an email that you grew up in a housing project. You can't do that with union teachers with a contract that mandates a 185 day year and 25 hour actual work week once you back out the lunch and non-teaching prep time in the contract. If you do it right, you can turn around the whole permanent underclass problem in a generation.

[Matrix2791]

I'm not crazy about the oppressive heat and humidity in the summertime, but Florida's weather is absolutely beautiful in the wintertime. Highs in the 80s, very low humidity, and somewhat cold nights. So for those of you that say Florida is oppressively hot all year round is simply false. And for the record CT can be very oppressively hot and humid in the summer as well. The humidity here can be just as bad if not worse in the summer. Each year is different.

[Stylo]

We could be doing the same thing and are not. Face it, Malloy has no idea on how to attract businesses.

If he had any vision he would've been luring companies to cities like Stamford or New Haven with a vision for vibrant cities, playing up the proximity to colleges for recruiting, rail access to NYC/Boston, etc. But there's no vision, no playing to our strengths.