23 March—Last year each of some 2,600 Connecticut state employees was paid more than $40,000 in overtime compensation in addition to incredibly generous (second only to the Flake State) regular pay, 1,700 of them bringing in more than $50,000 apiece in overtime alone.

The sweetheart contracts the state’s irresponsibly profligate Democrat panderers throw at public employee unions to buy their votes include overtime in calculating incredibly generous pensions, thus putting an even greater and unfairer burden on the state’s already abusively overburdened taxpayers. And don’t forget, the state’s ruling party kowtows to organized labor in general to buy votes in order to maintain its unbridled power. But that’s what politics is all about.

So all we can do is grin and bear the extravagantly wasteful Connecticut Democrat trifecta—until Connecticut Republicans are able to come up with a way to wrest control of at least one of the houses of the General Assembly and/or the Governor’s Mansion. If that should ever happen—which, given the way things look now, doesn’t seem likely in the lifetimes of our great grandchildren—we’d doubtless be looking at irresponsible GOP pandering to other (often distasteful, sometimes deplorable) interests to buy votes and do other awful things. But that’s what politics is all about.

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Back in Litchfield, Region 20’s eager new superintendent emailed his bread-and-butter introduction to people on the region’s mailing list. Nice start. We wish Jeff Villar and ourselves best of luck. Six children?