Cafero budget100509

If you know a hurricane barreling toward your community its perfectly fine to hope and pray that it veers in a different direction, but wouldnt you take steps to protect your house just in case? Thats where we stand these days in Connecticut, where lawmakers have yet another budget deficit to deal with. So far, there are two schools of thought on how to address the problem: Sit on your hands and blame the governors office, as super-majority Democrats have done, or go back to the table and make government spending reductions as residents have demanded repeatedly. House and Senate Republicans advocated for the latter of the options today during a Capitol news conference. This week, state Comptroller Nancy Wyman reported a $624 million deficit for the current fiscal year. Republicans today pointed out that her estimate doesnt even include $473 million in unspecified savings that wont be realized unless significant policy changes are made.

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