Shame on the 14 state union leaders
….who responded with a hostile diatribe this week to Gov. M. Jodi Rell‘s request for more concessions. It was unworthy of the representatives of working people. The tone of their letter was insulting and unacceptable and won’t win the unions any friends.
The state budget for the current fiscal year has a projected deficit of more than $500 million. The following year, the projected deficit is $760 million. In the 2012 fiscal year, the deficit estimate is nearly $3.9 billion. Clearly, state employees are going to have to play a continuing part in solving this daunting fiscal problem.
State government has grown too big and costly. Mrs. Rell was simply doing her job in asking the unions for more concessions on pensions, health insurance and other benefits.
