New Year New Challenges Approaching 2018
We here in CT have a new year quickly approaching with looming debt, possibly more layoffs and either much higher taxes or additional budget cuts coming - a
lot of very hard choices to make in a "Short Session"
What will happen in the "Lame Duck" months of our government in CT?
What SHOULD happen and what WILL happen of course are 2 very different things.
The democrats still control the general assembly until the new
senators and representatives are sworn in in January 2019; where the senate
will hopefully no longer be tied 18 to 18 and the difference in the house is greatly
reduced or switched for majority party.
What SHOULD Happen is attacking the
enormous budget problems...
but the democrats have other plans which will
result in raising our taxes again in various forms. They are forcing our families, homeowners and taxpayers in small towns and the suburbs to pay for the mismanagement
and corruption of the cities that are doing poorly for their choices
and refusal to spend their money wisely...
Ideally our elected officials will do the hard work of properly
downsizing our bloated government and find solutions that will make
that needed part of government that is needed to run more efficiently
while providing Better Service for those needed items while managing to
Lower the Costs of providing those services.
It is going to be a very hard job if the elected officials have the
fortitude to make the cuts going through the budget line by line and department by department...
Each department and all of their offices need to be opened up and looked at separately as well as to how they relate to the whole wider
government.
Weigh whether the department is in fact needed or has it become an
old outdated form of government that really does not meet the needs of
the citizens of Connecticut in the 21st century...
Weigh out exactly what each position does from the very top to the
bottom in each of these departments which positions should be eliminated
entirely or adjusted for our present and future needs?
Asking Important questions like:
What expenses are being paid to out of state or even out of
country businesses that should be instead being contracted with
Connecticut businesses?
Can the position be done more effectively in the private sector?
Can the position be done more effectively at the town level?
Can the job be done in an electronic manner to reduce time and cost?
How many employees are actually needed vs how many are high level
titles that really shouldn't be there in the first place because they do
not actually assist in getting the work done for the people in
Connecticut?
If you were able to make changes in our government what suggestions
would you make to which departments and why would you make them?
Leave me your thoughts in the comments below.
