Dan Malloy in 2012 Governor's State of the State speeches
On Budget & Economy:
Vision for economic revival, not just recovery
Today, I am challenging the legislature and business leaders across the state to join me in committing to build nothing less than a full-scale economic revival. Not a recovery, a revival. When I speak of a vision for an economic revival, what do I see?
- I see a Connecticut in ten years that is a leader in bioscience and personalized medicine.
- I see a Connecticut that leads in precision manufacturing.
- I see a Connecticut that is home to a reinvigorated insurance industry, and I see a
Connecticut that is a Mecca for digital and sports entertainment.
- I see a Connecticut, ladies and gentlemen, where there are many, many jobs. New jobs. Thousands of new jobs. Blue collar jobs and white collar jobs.
- Jobs building new affordable
housing, jobs in agriculture, jobs in technology.
- Jobs that pay well & provide good benefits. Jobs that won't be shipped down south or sent overseas.
- Jobs that people will come to Connecticut to find, instead of leaving Connecticut to look for.
Source: Connecticut 2012 State of the State Address
Feb 8, 2012
On Free Trade:
Make sure entire world knows: CT is open for business
We have spent the past 13 months setting the stage for this economic revival. Now is the time to commit to making it a reality. In order to make this happen I believe there are three things we need to do. - We need to maintain the fiscal
discipline we imposed a year ago. That discipline has made Connecticut a more predictable, reliable, stable place in which to do business. It's given the private sector the confidence it needs to make investments and create thousands of new jobs.
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We need to continue to make sure the entire world knows Connecticut is open for business.
- We need to reform the public school system that educates our children.
And we need to commit to this vision and implement it--year after year, until we get
it right. That's been one of our problems for too long: we're good at making plans, we're not good at sticking to them. Too often we've found ourselves simply careening from idea to idea, with no clear roadmap to guide us. Not anymore.
Source: Connecticut 2012 State of the State Address
Feb 8, 2012
On Jobs:
We created 9,400 new, private sector jobs in the last year
A little more than a year ago, on the day I was sworn in as your Governor, I said we had to [address the financial crisis] while focusing simultaneously on job creation; that by focusing on those things, we would stabilize the state's finances. I said
that was critical if we wanted the private sector to do what it does best: create jobs.One year later, it turns out that by taking that less-traveled road we have passed through the crucible of that crisis. In the process, we've brought positive,
far-reaching, meaningful, and systemic change to Hartford.
First and foremost, we grew jobs in Connecticut last year--9,400 new, private sector jobs were created, the first year of job growth since 2008.
The best evidence of the change we've brought
to Hartford can be found in some of the arguments we've been having around here lately. Instead of arguing over how much more money state employee contracts will cost taxpayers, we're arguing over how much money those revised contracts will save.
Source: Connecticut 2012 State of the State Address
Feb 8, 2012
On Welfare & Poverty:
$103 million to maintain the safety net
I am proposing we spend $103 million to maintain the safety net and other critical services that help define us as a compassionate and decent people.
That money is necessary because the national economic recovery has been slow, and the people who depend on the safety net, and their caregivers, have suffered enough.
Source: Connecticut 2012 State of the State Address
Feb 8, 2012
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