Thursday, January 22, 2009

Appearance on Face the State


On Sunday I appeared on WFSB's Face the State to discuss Connecticut's growing budget deficit. We need to take shift action to cut spending-- otherwise we will face an unacceptable tax increase. In this segment, I lay out some specific ideas to cut spending introduced by the Governor and legislative Republicans.

Since this taping the situation has grown more dire. On Tuesday, the Office of Policy and Management revised their deficit estimate for the current fiscal year to nearly $922 million. The current projected deficit for FY2010-11 will probably also grow from the current $6 billion estimate.

I am committed to working with Governor Rell to cut spending to eliminate the deficit, and I am prepared to help make the difficult decisions that face us. If you have additional ideas you believe we should be looking at, please e-mail me at dan.debicella@cga.ct.gov.

1 comment:

andi said...

Perhaps a great place to start with the budget is to just take a look at the promotions and job creations just prior to the hiring freeze? State employees keep turning over information to the Auditors and to the AG only to be told first that these things take time and second that the AG does not protect the whistle blowers. There are many things which could have been done months ago and more that could be done now. Please ask to see the reports and stop these agencies from using all of their resources in attacking those who step up and report them.