That’s pretty much what David Treadwell, the spokesperson for the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development told an AP reporter. The article reports on a subsidized loan from the state to a German company to finance a training center for its workers. The piece then cites the views of several economists that there is no evidence that Connecticut has a shortage of trained workers. Among other things, a shortage would generally be associated with rapidly rising wages, which the state is not seeing.

It then concludes with a quote from Mr. Treadwell:

“She’s hearing from the businesses and they’re saying it is a problem, …  It doesn’t necessarily matter what the economists are saying.”

There you have it.