Ben Barnes of Stratford, who will be the Office of Policy and Management secretary when Dannel Malloy climbs into the gubernatorial saddle on January 5, was just on WNPR’s “Where We Live” and noted that with all the borrowing and use of one-time shots of revenue used in recent years to balance the budget, the looming $3.8-billion deficit puts state government on a “cliff.”
The Blogster is reminded of the famous cliff scene in the Paul Newman/Robert Redford western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” The bounty hunters are on their trail and the only thing left to do is jump 100 foot into a raging river to escape. Redford becomes full of trepidations, finally admitting to Newman that he can’t swim. Newman, as Butch, scoffs and tells him not to worry. “The fall will kill you.” They hold a gun holster and muster enough gumption to jump off…. and escape. This will be the only time Malloy gets compared to Paul Newman in the Blog-o-rama.