Responding to last year's recession

MANIFESTO

This morning's Courant reports that

About 2,000 teaching jobs statewide are set to be eliminated in June as school boards resort to layoffs to cut expenses during difficult budget deliberations.

This while

Three thousand jobs were added in Connecticut in March ... Jobs have been added each month for at least the last three months [and] Connecticut's unemployment rate is lower than the national average.

As one who's had to play this expense cutting game recently, I'm not entirely happy that towns have chosen to cut services while their abilities to pay remain stable.

The truth of the matter is that too many people are listening to the false doomsday prophecies of the Glenn Becks of the world—which have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with their antipathy for Barack the Magic Negro—and reacting hysterically. Unfortunately, it's public employees who have been, and will continue, paying for this racism.