Political Quotes

“It is like if you read about all the people who were going to quit anyway, but quit and got a payout and the people who are at home locked out of their e-mail but still getting paid, it is almost like there is a different agenda. And listen, you are right that the agenda is to terrorize public employees, they have made it absolutely clear, to try to keep them silenced and to try to make everybody decide that there is a different line of work that would be better for them. But you know what, I know the folks that work at Prudence Crandall domestic violence shelter, and they didn't go into that line of work because it is lucrative, right? They didn't go into that line of work because it is an easy job. And when they get home every night at 5, it is just really easy to unplug. That is like the hardest work in the world to show up every day and work in a domestic violence shelter, dealing with women, mostly, at the worst moment in their entire life, having just fled a home in which they were regularly abused, often to the brink of death, by their spouse or their boyfriend. And so, yes, they are scared today because they got told a week ago that their funds were being cut off. And that domestic violence shelter in New Britain, CT, it can't run for more than a week or so without Federal dollars. Guess what? Our domestic violence shelters in America do not make any profits. They do not make a profit. News flash: Your taxpayer dollars actually do pay for domestic violence shelters.…”