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Opposite Day in Hartford: The Myth of “Pension Progress” – Talking With Lee Elci, News Now Radio, 94.9

Lee Elci: A lot of glad-handing and patting each other on the back the other day up in Hartford, right?

Red Jahncke: Yeah, it was quite a session—making a mountain out of a molehill.

Lee Elci: All right.

Red Jahncke: They had the Governor, the Comptroller, and the Treasurer all patting themselves on the back for the improvement in the State Employee Pension Fund, which inched up from 52% funded to 55% funded. Only in Connecticut do you pop the corks on the champagne bottles to celebrate a 3% improvement.

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Paying Illegal Immigrants to Go to College

So, what's going on now in this state is an effort, in the community college system, to pay illegal immigrants to go to college. In an era when we have a nationwide and legitimate outcry about the cost of college and the burden of student loans, we're now looking to pay illegal immigrants to go to college.

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Talking With CT GOP Chairman Ben Proto About a State Employee Wage Freeze

BEN PROTO

I know one of the big issues that you've been talking about is state employee wages in the state of Connecticut. Let's talk about state employees and what Ned Lamont and the Democrats have done over the last, roughly, six plus years that they've been in power.

RED JAHNCKE

Let's go right to the core of that issue. While Ned Lamont has been in office, state employees have received a compound 33% increase in their wages. Six consecutive annual wage increases: beginning 5.5%, 5.5%, and four 4.5% amounts.

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Gov. Lamont’s 33% Wage Increase for State Workers – Talking with Joe Markley on WTIC 1080 Newstalk Radio, Aug. 13, 2024

Segment One. Segment Two. Segment Three. Segment Four. Segment Five. Segment Six. Red JahnckeRed Jahncke is a nationally recognized columnist, who writes about politics and policy. His columns appear in numerous national publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, Issues & Insights and National Review as well as many Connecticut newspapers. Like This Column

Gov. Lamont’s 33% Wage Increase for State Workers – Talking with Lee Elci, News Now Radio 94.9 FM, April 17, 2024

Red JahnckeRed Jahncke is a nationally recognized columnist, who writes about politics and policy. His columns appear in numerous national publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, Issues & Insights and National Review as well as many Connecticut newspapers. Like This Column

Talking about CT State Worker Compensation & Unfunded Benefits With Lee Elci on News Now Radio 94.9 FM — January 31, 2024

Red JahnckeRed Jahncke is a nationally recognized columnist, who writes about politics and policy. His columns appear in numerous national publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, Issues & Insights and National Review as well as many Connecticut newspapers. Like This Column

Connecticut’s Jobs Crisis – On Fox TV

Connecticut is in a full-blown jobs crisis.

The state workforce has shrunk by about 160,000, or 8.2%, from its pre-pandemic level of 1.93 million in February 2020, the worst decline in the nation. Only three other states have experienced drops of more than 5%.

Of Connecticut’s remaining workforce, about 140,000, or 7.9%, are unemployed - the highest unemployment rate of the 50 states.

Combined, 300,000 people, or 15.5% of the pre-pandemic workforce, have dropped out or are currently unemployed. The next worst level is 10.9% in Hawaii.

Being last is something that Connecticut is accustomed to, but to trail 49th place by such a huge margin is alarming.

Yet, the Democrats who control the state seem clueless. Governor Lamont was mum about last week’s report of just 3,500 jobs gained in June. The gains occurred entirely in the public sector. Private sector jobs declined.

The state’s Congressional delegation is oblivious as well. Congressman Jim Himes (D, 4th District) sent an email to constituents last week trumpeting that “the strong June [national] jobs report surpassed expectations by adding 850,000 new jobs.” He included graphs of the national trends. He made no mention -- and, likely, had no knowledge -- of the dismal conditions in Connecticut.

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Talking Unfair Prescription Drug Prices and the Hospital Tax Scam with Lee Elci on News Now Radio 94.9 FM

American prescriptions drugs prices are two to three times what wealthy Europeans pay. It’s unfair, and it inflates U.S. health care costs and subsidizes socialist national health care systems in Europe, creating the illusion that socialized medicine is a better system.

States are running their deficits through the U.S. health care system via hospital taxes – Connecticut’s is the highest in the nation. Hospital taxes raise the cost of health care, inflating U.S. health care costs above their natural level.

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