In following news of fraudulent claims for losses occurring from storm Irene, published reports highlight a deeper problem within the Malloy and the Obama administrations, as well as the system as a whole. Both Malloy and Obama were elected with significant help from non-working, non-taxpaying and assistance receiving voters, who in their self-interest support individuals who continue to expand dependence on government largess. Therefore it’s no surprise those administrations show a decided lack oversight, and in Malloys’ case a false sense of outrage. Why false? The initial news reports claimed the 800 State workers who received benefits was a “significantly” higher ratio of workers vs. claimants compared to the private sector. Though no percentages were given in that report, a figure of 80 State employee claimants were initially reported as being highly suspect. In following reports it was reduced to 40, then 24 and now down to 15 apparently fraudulent claims made by “highly paid” State workers. I doubt that many more will be identified and wouldn’t be surprised if these few were further reduced. As this information is provided by the Malloy administration one can only surmise that the Governor, unable to put a lid on in altogether, is trying to whittle it down to a very few individual sacrificial lambs in order to cover the wide spread fraud the government conveniently overlooks.

By creating and expanding generous “assistance” programs to increase support for their socialist policies there’s no pressure to find and prosecute cheaters, and the cheaters know it, especially those government employees in the know! I have no doubt that frauds of this nature are rampant throughout Connecticut and the United States as a whole. The only way to put a stop to this is to elect individuals who are committed to return the system to help for the truly needy and not a remedy for a redistribution wealth that promises to completely destroy the policies which made this country great.

One final thought, why is any state worker who enjoys 35 hour work weeks, generous salaries, state cars, every “holiday” under the sun and golden retiree benefits, all which don’t apply to the average taxpayer in private employment, eligible for government assistance?

During the presidential campaign, Obama released just one brief document detailing his personal health, while GOP opponent John McCain released what he said was his complete medical file totaling more than 1,500 pages. The Obama campaign eventually released some routine lab-test results and electrocardiograms for Obama.
Obama refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois and did not produce correspondence, such as letters from lobbyists and other information, from his days in the Illinois Senate.
Obama did not release his client list as an attorney or his billing records.
Obama declined to release his college records from Occidental College, where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia University.
Obama’s campaign refused to give Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Such transcripts would list the courses Obama took, and his grades.
Obama’s college dissertation, reportedly titled “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament,” has disappeared from Columbia’s archives.
Obama did not agree to the release of his application to the Illinois state bar, which would clear up intermittent allegations that his application to the bar may have been inaccurate.
Obama has not released records from his time at Harvard Law School.

During his campaign for president, Obama promised he would make his White House “the most open and transparent administration in history.”

A recent “Investor’s Business Daily” article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist seen by one within one
month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71
England 14
Canada 18

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in
“excellent health”:
U..S 12%
England 02%
Canada 06%

Check this last set of statistics!!

The percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.

T. Roosevelt…………….. 38%
Taft………………………….. 40%
Wilson……………………… 52%
Harding…………………….. 49%
Coolidge………………….. 48%
Hoover ……………………. 42%
F. Roosevelt…………….. 50%
Truman…………………….. 50%
Johnson…………………… 47%
Nixon……………………….. 53%
Ford………………………… 42%
Carter………………………. 32%
Reagan……………………. 56%
GH Bush………………….. 51%
Clinton ……………………. 39%
GW Bush…………………. 55%
Obama………………. 8%

This (goes) to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in a job not supported by tax money!
That’s right! Only eight percent — the least, by far, of the last 19
presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? They know what’s best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me? How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he’s never worked for one?

Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it’s the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They’ve spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as “community organizers.” (when) They should have been in an employment line.

Need more be said?

Not to my surprise Governor Malloy and the union heads have reached an agreement, however it’s one that both he and his union cronies can spin into the continuing web of deceit as to who’s bearing the load and who he’s really looking out for. Our governor could have begun a positive move towards parity with the private sector by reeling in the obscene wages and benefits our over compensated and under worked state employees enjoy. Instead he’s guaranteed that businesses and taxpayers will be hit again and even harder the following fiscal year and the next, ad nauseum, while state employees will be immune from layoffs or any real concessions.

The largest tax increase in Connecticut history coupled with the second highest cost of energy in the nation closes the door on any business crazy enough to consider expanding or locating in Connecticut. That isn’t good enough for this administration, by forcing those with over 50 employees into giving paid “sick” leave, Hartford’s planning to lock it tight.

Forcing private employers to grant each employee an additional 5 paid days off (40 hours) guarantees a total loss of 2000 hours of labor or one full time employee for every 50 people employed. Having 50 or 51 employees a company may very well choose to lay one or two off, rather than add employees to keep up the current productive hours under the overburdening costs of doing business here. Others will surely leave the state to escape the crush of big government taking all their jobs with it. Either way Connecticut will continue to lose jobs and revenue in it’s continuing decline from it’s once prosperous economy to one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and one of only 16 states still losing jobs, second only to California last month.

With government spending always on the increase the 2013 budget will demand even more tax revenue that will have to come from fewer and fewer taxpaying businesses and individuals. That is those who haven’t left for better opportunities, therefore we need to demand better from Malloy and our elected officials.

As his web-site doesn’t publish this information, you can contact Senator Blumenthall at his Washington e-mail address

richard@blumenthal.senate.gov

The tragedy in Arizona has affected the victims, their families and the Nation in profound ways, however we mustn’t ignore or lose sight of a different and far reaching impact, that of main street media coverage. When first hearing of the shooting I immediately thought how the left along with the help of the lap-dog media would react, and voila! Remember these were the same folks who were certain the murders Major Hassan committed had no connection to radical Islam.

Much factually based information has come forth via talk radio, unbiased commentators and even reluctantly by the mass media which fully obliterate accusations the media leveled immediately after the shootings. Were these nebulous connections based on known fact or a result of a long term plan? My belief is the attack on our free speech along with renewed calls for more gun control was SCRIPTED long before the tragic shootings, lying in wait for a convenient but inevitable act, remember “never let a good crisis go to waste”. Every talking head had the same spin, hardly a coincidence, all that’s been said to impugn and silence patriotic Americans was written long in advance, lying in wait for when the moment arose. As usual though, as more information bubbles to the surface regarding the actual event the connections drawn become more outlandish.

Never mind that the murdered Judge was appointed by George H. W. Bush, or that the carnage included the young the elderly, women and men, Christians and Jews, and a Congresswoman who herself was targeted by the far left for defeat in favor of one further to the left! Ignore the fact that the act was committed by a Marxist, Skinhead, Anti-Semite having a shrine to the occult in his back yard whose favorite books include Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, blueprints for the left wing! All that aside, media’s certain the “target” was the Congresswoman and plainly is the fault of conservative valued free speech, and the right of law abiding citizens to arm themselves in defense against that very sort of act.

The left openly opined for the death of President Bush, said nothing when his image was burned in effigy or against the plethora of “kill Bush” sentiment. Their embrace of overt malice towards their opposition while inventing an unfounded connection between the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and talk radio to a deranged individual simply proves once more who and what they are, and they’re no friend of the American people. God help us.

One must congratulate the AFL-CIO, CEA, SEIU, UAW, and every other labor union, both public and private, along with those who live off the government in lieu of working for a living. Those voting blocs have elected and re-elected a host of tax and spend politicians who they know will appease their demands to raid the public coffers in exchange for their vote on election day. Their insatiable appetite for other peoples money has ensured Connecticut will continue it’s decline from the heights of a once prosperous state having a multitude of opportunity where anyone seeking a career job with good benefits could find one, to the abyss. Obviously those blocs are unsatisfied with the emasculation done so far and I’m confident our rating will now drop the final 3 positions from number 47 to the worst State in the Union to conduct business.

You won, however I predict the joy will be short lived as Connecticut simply can not sustain the levels of spending you continue to demand. Your insistence on higher taxes and more spending will simply mean more businesses will close, more jobs will be lost, more people will look to the government for assistance and the overtaxed will continue to depart for friendlier territory. Endorsing a Spendthrift State legislature and electing a Governor who will rubber stamp their every assault on the State’s treasury continues the madness. You go on to elect a bold-faced liar and career politician with zero experience in the real world to the U.S. Senate and return all five of Connecticut’s Party first and people last cabal of tax and spend Democrats to a House of Representatives firmly in control of fiscal conservatives. Congratulations, you have ensured our delegation’s voices will carry little weight and extract no sympathy when Connecticut invariably appeals to the Federal Government and begs for a “bailout” when our economy hits rock bottom and drowns in a sea of red ink.

Little more than a year ago the left wing was certain the Republican Party was crushed, never again to enjoy the public’s favor, and the ultra liberals would be in power for the next forty years. This belief was shouted widely and gleefully by adoring media pundits and shared by your President and his super-majority in the House and Senate. Together they arrogantly and egotistically froze the weak voice of rationality out discussion when, by sheer numbers, they could and did enact legislation the public plainly does not want. Now the party that campaigned on an honest, open, non-partisan and inclusive government, where every bit of legislation would be debated openly on CSPAN and made available on the Internet for everyone to read before being signed into law, finally wants to compromise. It was a lie then and way too late now. How fast the bloom came off the rose, perhaps we’ll finally get it right in 2012.

Regarding Connecticut state employees who received the largest compensations in 2009, as reported in the May 9, 2010 Republican American some startling facts can be determined. Beyond the conclusion that many, and judging by the budget, if not all state workers cost the taxpayers dearly for their excessive salaries and benefits, one could also suspect the veracity of such remuneration’s as reported!

Looking beyond the obvious I decided to compute hours worked for the top 50 recipients, as listed in Sunday’s article. Not being privy to the actual worker’s contracts I made some assumptions and the exact figures may be more or less. However my assumptions are valid for private industry and one should also note; in the private sector department heads and many other top salaried positions are overtime exempt and are not compensated for such performance. Giving the benefit of the doubt I also gave the greatest weight to the most costly overtime in my calculations assuming the employees had worked every Sunday and every holiday as well. My assumptions being:

ï‚· Hourly rate is based on a 35 hour work week.
ï‚· Regular overtime is computed at time and one-half for hours worked over 7 in a day or 35 per week.
ï‚· Each person worked 50 Sundays for 7 hours at double time
ï‚· Each person worked every holiday (15) for 7 hours at double time and one-half.
ï‚· Each received 2 weeks vacation
ï‚· Each took 5 sick days

Calculations using those assumptions indicates number 1 on the list, Edward A. Blanchette’s base pay is $83.11 per hour, he must have worked for 71 hours every week including every Sunday and every holiday logging 1,454 regular overtime hours and 455 premium overtime hours for 1,909 overtime hours in total to reach his compensation level!

Looking at number 2, Suzanne E. Ducate, her base pay is $107.71 per hour “earning” a total of $411,862.36 which is $215,838.22 more than her base salary of $196,024.14. Ms. Ducate must have worked 56 hours every week for 694 regular overtime hours plus 455 hours of premium overtime on every Sunday and holiday totaling 1,145 overtime hours to achieve that level of compensation!

It doesn’t look any better by number 50 at the bottom of the list, Sivaprasad V. Katrapati, who was paid a total of $181,257.55 including overtime, has a base salary of $41.06 per hour. By private sector compensation norms this person must have worked 64 hours every week racking up 1088 regular overtime hours on top of 455 hours of premium overtime by working every Sunday’s and holiday for a grand total of 1,543 overtime hours in order to reach that amount.

Does anyone else see a problem with those numbers, where’s the oversight, do those figures make sense given the bloated numbers of state employees? Let’s not forget when OUR (taxpayer) employees retire their retirement is based on total compensation which includes overtime and unused sick days, and lets not forget their gold plated benefits. The solution of the public employee union leadership is for the private sector to exact the same usury from their employers instead of “depriving state workers”! Were private companies subject to the same compensation and benefits our overpaid and under worked state employees receive there wouldn’t be any left, then how would government meet it’s payroll and who would be left to tax?

If anyone wishes to determine other compensations using the same assumptions here is a link to my spreadsheet

I call upon the voters of this state to clean house in November and elect those willing to legislate the union contracts void, reduce their numbers and compensation to sustainable levels, eliminate the vast majority of entitlements and restore the state to a sound financial footing, otherwise may God help us.