Looking beyond the obvious I decided to compute hours worked for the top 50 recipients, as listed in Sunday’s article. Not being privy to the actual worker’s contracts I made some assumptions and the exact figures may be more or less. However my assumptions are valid for private industry and one should also note; in the private sector department heads and many other top salaried positions are overtime exempt and are not compensated for such performance. Giving the benefit of the doubt I also gave the greatest weight to the most costly overtime in my calculations assuming the employees had worked every Sunday and every holiday as well. My assumptions being:

 Hourly rate is based on a 35 hour work week.
 Regular overtime is computed at time and one-half for hours worked over 7 in a day or 35 per week.
 Each person worked 50 Sundays for 7 hours at double time
 Each person worked every holiday (15) for 7 hours at double time and one-half.
 Each received 2 weeks vacation
 Each took 5 sick days

Calculations using those assumptions indicates number 1 on the list, Edward A. Blanchette’s base pay is $83.11 per hour, he must have worked for 71 hours every week including every Sunday and every holiday logging 1,454 regular overtime hours and 455 premium overtime hours for 1,909 overtime hours in total to reach his compensation level!

Looking at number 2, Suzanne E. Ducate, her base pay is $107.71 per hour “earning” a total of $411,862.36 which is $215,838.22 more than her base salary of $196,024.14. Ms. Ducate must have worked 56 hours every week for 694 regular overtime hours plus 455 hours of premium overtime on every Sunday and holiday totaling 1,145 overtime hours to achieve that level of compensation!

It doesn’t look any better by number 50 at the bottom of the list, Sivaprasad V. Katrapati, who was paid a total of $181,257.55 including overtime, has a base salary of $41.06 per hour. By private sector compensation norms this person must have worked 64 hours every week racking up 1088 regular overtime hours on top of 455 hours of premium overtime by working every Sunday’s and holiday for a grand total of 1,543 overtime hours in order to reach that amount.

Does anyone else see a problem with those numbers, where’s the oversight, do those figures make sense given the bloated numbers of state employees? Let’s not forget when OUR (taxpayer) employees retire their retirement is based on total compensation which includes overtime and unused sick days, and lets not forget their gold plated benefits. The solution of the public employee union leadership is for the private sector to exact the same usury from their employers instead of “depriving state workers”! Were private companies subject to the same compensation and benefits our overpaid and under worked state employees receive there wouldn’t be any left, then how would government meet it’s payroll and who would be left to tax?

If anyone wishes to determine other compensations using the same assumptions here is a link to my spreadsheet

I call upon the voters of this state to clean house in November and elect those willing to legislate the union contracts void, reduce their numbers and compensation to sustainable levels, eliminate the vast majority of entitlements and restore the state to a sound financial footing, otherwise may God help us.

There’s nothing the government can’t force upon our citizens given the passage of so called “health care reform” by the Obama/Pelosi cabal.

I fear we have much to do against long odds and must redouble our efforts at defeating Obama, his cabal and agenda. A veto proof congress is the only answer which is unlikely at the mid term election, and whatever Obama rams through against the will of the people may not be addressed before the end of his term.

In the mean time write, write, call, call put the pressure on to defeat any and all legislation proposed in this congress, good or bad. Cripple the system, for it’s better to do nothing for the next 2 1/2 years than to allow government to function under the control of the Democrats.

We should be demanding the impeachment of the entire lot!

“I recently asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be president some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were president what would be the first thing you would do?’

She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’
Her parents beamed.

‘Wow….. what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait to be president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50.’

‘Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang out, and you can give them the $50 you earned, to use for food and a new house.’

She thought that over for a few seconds, then looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can pay him the $50?’

I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’
Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.”

Guess what, even in “blue” Connecticut so many people I’ve talked to who voted for Obama are now saying it was a big mistake. Why do you think this is? His lies, his open government that works in the dark of night behind closed doors, ramming through legislation that only those who don’t pay taxes support or by staffing his cabinet with communists, tax cheats, and “uniquely qualified” lobbyists he swore to excise? I could go on but you’ve heard all his contradictions and outright lies and still don’t care. “Companies will save 3000%”, Right, but it just goes to show you that Obama BELIEVES we’re idiots, and Pelosi BELIEVES we’ll like it so let’s pass it “so we can find out what’s in it”. Who’s out of touch?

The people, not the astro-turf and hired SEIU thugs who brought left wing politicians like yourself into office resoundingly oppose this bill and Obama’s agenda. It has precipitated a much awaited backlash against our country moving to the left, galvanizing a GERAT MAJORITY of patriotic Americans. You can call yourself “Right of Center” but we know who your are and what you are.

You cannot do this and get away with it!

Can health care be improved? Yes with tort reform and portability, not Obama Care which is an unmasked travesty against our country, our constitution, our freedoms and our people.

Mark my words there will be a veto proof anti socialistic congress elected this November. I’m not sorry you won’t be among them.

Obama’s presidency is all about control as he watches himself walk by the mirror. His agenda is to rule over every aspect of our lives and he knows that money is the ultimate control, so it’s no wonder that he stands behind Chris Dodd and stumps for his reelection.

Cap and trade, health care overhaul, socialist czars with sweeping powers over free enterprise, thought and speech, and now complete government takeover of the entire financial industry! Is Obama overreaching and should he be stopped? You bet!

The White House makes up completely bogus “jobs created or saved” numbers, allows men and women to die in Afghanistan while he pussyfoots around, stating he’s “uncomfortable with the concept of victory” (yes he said that!). Our commander in chief apparently thinks the Fort Hood killings were less worthy than a self-important speech to Native Americans. Perhaps he learned from the Gates incident that without a teleprompter bearing the reflection he so loves his true feelings are evidenced and people find out who he is and what he really believes. But the Teflon President has a worshiping press that comes to his aid along with a Congress that ignores the Constitution and passes healthcare legislation that is actually little about health care and a lot of government control over everything else.

On the heels of passing “health care reform” that Obama and the left want despite every reliable poll showing most people don’t, his worshipping accolade Chris Dodd writes a monstrous bill handing him more power! One has to ask himself what the blazes are they trying to do, I say they’re trying to divide and conquer. There are so many hot button issues that Obama’s pursuing he’s overloading the resistance. Whether you believe in free markets and small government, or that health care is your own responsibility and decisions are between you and your doctor. Or if you believe Cap and Trade will kill more businesses and increase the cost of most everything else or that handing complete control over the money markets to a single government bureaucracy is lunacy, there’s an issue for you. Obama may be attempting to divide his opposition into so many different areas he’ll be able to make an end run around several camps instead of hitting a united font against the greatest threat our liberties have ever faced. Understand your enemy’s strategy and you’ve a good chance of winning, each separate issue is but a single part of the whole. By standing together and putting aside our individual concerns we can stop the madness.

Cancel your HBO and tell your cable provider you will not subscribe to the appropriate plan until they remove it from their package.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/28/catholic-league-blasts-larry-david-curb-episode-urinates-jesus/

That event underscores the left wing’s reach in destroying America as we know it.

I urge everyone to boycott The Home Depot.

Fox News Report

According to Republican strategist, Ed Rollins “Three speeches is a start.. … Is it really that he built peace in the world or that he wants peace? I congratulate him for it. The key thing is what does he do now to earn it.” I say don’t hold your breath.

Sharing the honor with former winners such as Internet Al Gore the prophet of the myth of global warming, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter the heretofore worst U.S. President and champion of Socialism, one can see the Committee has a peculiar taste when it comes to acceptance of unproven speculation as fact, terrorists and left wing idealism.

Hope and change folks!

Chris Dodd used his committee chairmanship over the banking industry to shake down the financial sector for gobs of campaign money. Scoring sweetheart deals along the way he unabashedly sold his position and created legislation favorable to the financial sector that led to the mortgage crisis, Chris Dodd bear market and the monstrous and growing multi trillion dollar deficit which will burden taxpayers for generations. Apparently Obama is good with that as long he can count on Dodd’s yea vote for any and every piece of Socialistic legislation.

President Obama, in showcasing Dodd, is all but admitting that his policies are in trouble and attempts at passing legislation palatable to the sum total of his filibuster proof congress has thus far failed and unlikely for the foreseeable future. He desperately needs to hang on to his majority Congress beyond 2010 in order to force feed us his socialist agenda, however he’s looking at a very possible future as a lame duck.

The hatred filled diatribe by Professor/racist Henry Louis Gates Jr. may well be the opening salvo in such confrontation that has not been seen since the 1960′s!

The knee jerk remark by President Obama, who admittedly without knowledge of the arrest, immediately chose to comment as would a “community organizer” of the likes of Reverend Wright, Al Sharpton et al and a race baiter and cop hater, rather than the President of the United States! From a man who pledged to “heal the racial divide” he surely fanned the flames of confrontation, rather than getting the facts beforehand.

His words belie his true beliefs and no wonder as he listened for 20 years to America hating Reverend Wright with close ties to the likes of Louis Farrakhan the national representative of the Nation of Islam and a critic of American society and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayres!

President Obama is power hungry and angry at America, he is deepening the divisions within this country instead of using the power of his office to make good on his worthless promises. When he is caught exposing his true feelings he chooses not to apologize but weasel out by claiming “I could’ve calibrated those words differently”, WTF! He is incapable of keeping his true beliefs hidden and can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth because he BELIEVES America is BAD, all whites are racist and the police are racist and STUPID!

Is this the hope and change you voted for?

We know who and what he is, as long as he has a willing Congress our rights and freedoms and what gains have been made in accepting other races and cultures are all on the line. Congress MUST be wrested from Democratic control in 2010.

“I worry, my mom worries”