Obstruction, Obfuscation, and Obnoxiousness. (Welcome To The Democrat Way of 2025)

 The blame game. Obstruction. Lack of vision. Incompetency. Obscenity. Complaint. Embarrassment. Welcome in to Democrat Politics in 2025. The Democrat Party in 2025 places blame on all the supposed issues of our economy and society on everyone and everything except themselves, as they are without sin. Per them, it always the Republicans fault and of course all things President Trump. President Trump, much to the pleasure of the Democrat Party, has had to endure hundreds of lawsuits based on frivolous and inane interpretations of the law. That is just fine because it is all part of the Democrat Party blame and obstruction game. It is the game of interfering, regardless of the consequences to the citizen, the state, or the country. All of us, be damned.

The Democrat Party blame game currently can be seen in the stoic United States Senate with only 135 of the over 1,000 senior level appointments requiring Senate confirmation completed. "Democrats have forced multiple roll-call votes on more than 40 nominees for posts never subject to a single one. These confirmations used to take seconds. Now, each can take days. Today, 145 qualified nominees already approved by committees await full Senate approval. Nearly half these nominees earned bipartisan support in committee, and many have been waiting for months. Yet all are trapped in Senate procedural purgatory." (https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chuck-schumers-unprecedented blockade-66fb7741) Regardless of the welfare of the country, the Democrat Party blame game is helping to keep many important and critical government positions unfilled as they play their wicked political reprisal game due to their hatred of all things Donald Trump. The Democrat Party feels that this is good governing and how a government should run "efficiently" and for all the citizens they supposedly represent (or not). Because citizens do not matter as much as they do. (And shame on you if you think otherwise).

In addition, I am pleased to inform you that the Democrat Party blame game is alive and well in Connecticut where all sorts of rants, screams, protests, false crises, and incoherent gibberish are echoed daily. Of course, the Democrat calling card is invariably somehow tied to racism. On or about August 15, Connecticut Democrat State Representative Corey Paris provided a clear warning on Instagram to illegal aliens in his district to help them avoid Federal authorities. Of course, some illegal aliens are violent criminals and could very well place Rep. Paris’ constituents at risk of great harm. But ostensibly, Rep. Paris did not care. In a shameful embarrassment to Connecticut, the popular site “Libs of Tik Tok” re-posted this news and referred the post to the U.S. Justice Department with Rep. Paris' picture . Rather than Democrats reconnoitering, repenting, and re-doing because of this national humiliation and clear violation of Federal law, a farcical multi-party Democrat press conference was called in front of state-run media where we viewed the spectacle of a middle aged Liberal white woman (Rep. Eleni Kavros DeGraw) come to the defense of Rep. Paris by claiming his notoriety was due to the fact that “he is a Black Man in this country”  (https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1958239516646392115).  My friend and colleague Tony De Angelo asked on his THIRTY WITH TONY show if “Libs of Tik Tok” would have stopped short of making Rep. Paris’ post highlighting this felony if Rep. Paris were white. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWh2cvY7yaQ). As ridiculous as that question may seem, it is not at all surprising, as this is how the Democrat mindset continually seeks the lowest common denominator even if such a denominator makes no sense at all. Unfortunately, we are all quite used to this by now.

If you believe this low level pandering is bad, all becomes even worse. On Wednesday August 27, a mentally tormented transgender named Robin Westman ambushed Catholic school children praying in a school Mass, wounding eighteen and killing two. Shortly thereafter, we were treated to numerous outbursts of Democrat officeholders and talking heads deriding God, prayer, the Second Amendment (and of course, Donald Trump). It was truly a sickeningly remarkable sight as these twisted actions by self-aggrandizing political actors exhibited no regard for the wounded and the bereaved. However, not to be undone, pathetic celebrity wannabe Connecticut State Senator Bob Duff took the opportunity to post on Facebook and related the horrific shooting to Fox TV, Cracker Barrel, and the right wing, thus engendering more embarrassment for Connecticut: https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1961134287065096208 . Unfortunately, in the Democrat blame game, this tired and sick act is one that we are all sick and tired of seeing by now.

But wait, there is more! Let us move to the national stage! The trio of  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong standing along unhinged United States Senator Chris Murphy and Vietnam Veteran United States Senator Richard Blumenthal bluster, declaim and roar about all the horrific things that the Republicans and in particular what President Trump is doing.  The President’s actions include (but are not limited to)  deporting illegal immigrants who were able to walk into our country during the failed Democrat Biden Administration, eliminating crime, thefts, and murders by making streets safe and by allowing law enforcement people to do their jobs, cutting waste, fraud and political nepotism out of our government, cutting off the flow of illegal drugs that has created a never ending crisis of death and dying, forcing states to follow laws that they are not following and much, much more.  But who cares? Daily, we are treated to the Litany of Horrors! The audacity of President Trump and the Republican Party attempting to make our nation safer! The audacity of President Trump and the Republican Party attempting to eliminate illegal drugs from our society! The audacity of President Trump and the Republican Party attempting to make our nation prosper! What will become of us when he declares himself ruler for life, (assuming we can survive in all of this mayhem until then?) 

The Democrat Party blame game perpetually continues. The Democrat Party refuses to understand that it offers nothing any more to the American public except for the same stale arguments of redistribution of wealth (excluding themselves), legal rights for criminals and not for the victims, rights for illegal immigrants but not for legal United States citizens, and a new failed version of socialism where everything is free, and everyone is the same.  The Democrat Party cannot handle being in the minority in 2025. They cannot handle their epic failures. They cannot handle that their brand of elitist politics has struck a raw nerve of opposition by those individuals who work hard in the economy, want to live in safety, want to raise their families with respect, and have a belief in God.

The Democrat Party blame game will continue to be a losing proposition. As it should be. It is now ostensible that the Democrat mission is to destroy anything that is coherent, productive, believing, and useful in America. The Democrat Party hates America and anyone who voices opposition to their fetid and putrid policies. President Trump has created hope once again in our way of life and our country and is causing an energy not seen since the early days of Ronald Reagan. Its Morning in America once again. But these concepts are repulsive to Democrats that love darkness and hate America. 

And America loves the daylight now visible at the end of a long, dark tunnel. It has been too long in coming.

The Poisoned Economic Nutmeg Of Connecticut- Where The Political System Destroys Business Economics (And It Could Care Less).

 Economics is many times misunderstood. Most citizens correctly believe that elected officials have little to no understanding as to how economics and our nation's market system works. The Democrat Party, with no conception of how an economic system works, is especially of the mind that government should be the sole provider of all things economic; public transportation, public education, public child care, public housing, public drugs and drug treatment, public groceries, public safety and many other "public" items, of course with no idea as to how to pay for them other than to yell “tax the rich” or “tax the white neighborhoods” (if you are NYC presumptive Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani). The free market system, if it is functioning, allows for both the consumer and businesses to address supply and demand conditions with regards to the needs of the society. In Democrat states like Connecticut, a socialist based command/government directive economy exists instead, and this economy is doing a terrific job of driving the state to total ruin.

At one time in recent memory, a ride through the State of Connecticut was a remarkable sight. Cities were alive, safe, and functioning with commerce and culture and culinary choices. Beautiful suburbs featured well-kept homes and bright clean and green parks. The finest public schools produced the best and brightest students. Office space was hard to come by. Many avenues for upward mobility were available to the motivated. But if we take that same ride in Connecticut 2025 we see decaying, dangerous, and drug ridden cities where illegal aliens are prioritized over taxpayers. We see office space begging for tenants. We see formerly thriving commercial buildings are adorned with “FOR SALE” signs. We see parks have strewn with the homeless and the addicted. Schools have failed. Colleges have become Woke-Liberal paradises training students for no practical purpose and leaving them in incalculable debt. Taxes are high. Productivity is non-existent. The stark change is so dramatic and devastating that one wonders where the train jumped the track.

I submit to you that the economic poisoning of Connecticut started with the imposition of the Lowell Weicker-inspired Connecticut state income tax in 1991. Ever since that time, the state's economy has exhibited profound wreckage, exacerbated by the horrific regimes of Governors Dannel Malloy (2011–2019) and “Businessman Governor” Ned Lamont, (2019–present). This policy onslaught triggered a corporate exodus beginning that very same year with Saab and UPS, followed by General Electric relocating its headquarters from Fairfield to Boston in 2016, Alexion Pharmaceuticals fleeing New Haven for Boston in 2017 (after receiving a huge state handout of tax dollars), Aetna shifting operations to New York amid threats of full departure, and more recently, the LEGO Group announcing its U.S. headquarters move from Enfield to Boston by 2026, alongside Subway's 2023 transfer to Miami. Every single entity cited some combination of taxes, business hostility and administrative state oppression in its decision to depart.

It is inarguable that Connecticut has regressed economically form the past 34 years, while the inept, incompetent, and enabling state government has had its  budget increase dramatically over the same time. The state's budget increased from roughly $7 billion dollars in 1991 to over $26 billion dollars in 2025. Connecticut's population was roughly 3.3 million people in 1991 and is roughly 3.6 million people in 2025, (not counting the illegal and undocumented within the state borders). Thus, for a net increase of 300,000 people in 34 years, the state has increased spending by approximately $19 billion dollars a year. And taxes have increased dramatically over that same period while the same inept, incompetent, and enabling state government ignorantly continues on its path to destruction, seeing no reason whatsoever to change anything it is doing.

As discussed in the past, "The 2025 Rich States, Poor States" report issued by the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform (https://www.richstatespoorstates.org/states/CT/) shows Connecticut as currently ranked 44^th in the United States for its economic outlook."  

"Connecticut is currently ranked 48^th in the United States for its economic performance. This rank is a backward-looking measure based on the state’s performance (equal-weighted average) in three important performance variables shown below. These variables are highly influenced by state policy." 

"Cumulative GDP Growth, 2013 - 2023	43.80%	44th
Cumulative Domestic Migration, 2014 - 2023	-170,538	41st
Non-Farm Employment Growth, 2013 - 2023	2.05%	43rd"

If one looks at a state as small as Connecticut spending over $26 billion dollars a year and being ranked this low in these important economic categories, ostensibly there is a massive imbalance in the state between private industry and state government. "New data from CBRE show the Greater Hartford office market sitting at a 28.2 percent vacancy rate, while Cushman & Wakefield peg Fairfield County availability at 26 percent in the first quarter of 2025. In some downtown blocks, empty space now tops 50 percent, creating a drag on local tax bases and neighborhood vitality." (https://waittgrain.com/markets/stocks.php?article=abnewswire-2025-6-20-connecticut-firm-helps-struggling-owners-as-commercial-vacancies-rise-across-the-state) Could an actual decline of businesses being in the state be a cause of these vacancies? Could the decline in businesses in Connecticut be due to the high property tax rates of the state? Could the decline in businesses in Connecticut be due to the high minimum wage rate? Could the decline in businesses in Connecticut be due to the high workers compensation and unemployment insurance tax rates? Could the decline in businesses in Connecticut be due to the poor bridge, road, and highway systems? Could the decline in businesses in Connecticut be due to the wretched economic decisions by the Democrat Party especially with the dysfunctional and non-transparent Department of Community and Economic Development picking their politically connected winners and losers? Could it be that whenever Connecticut tries to fix massive economic problems it starts a "new" state taxpayer funded program incentive to "resolve" the same economic problem, with the invariable result of greater failures at increased costs?

Regardless of the lies you have been told, Connecticut's economic decline is due to years of omnipotent Connecticut Democrat Party rule with a lack of transparency in state government, a bloated state government bureaucracy, high state and local taxes, a quagmire of byzantine business laws and regulations including high workers compensations costs, high unemployment tax costs, high paid family leave costs, and a state GOP that has never fully and aggressively advocated for sound business principles of Republicanism, refusing to do so to this very day.

In light of the above, why would anyone in their right mind want to own and operate a business in Connecticut?

Connecticut's state election is coming up in 2026. For the state to be saved and/or be the least bit viable anymore  Connecticut truly needs courage, boldness, and new ideas and to address its bloated state debt, state budget and unfunded liabilities.  It needs leaders who will actually lead and not scream and bellow incoherent gibberish about their perceived "injustices". It needs Republican and Conservative candidates to rise that are truly part of the conservative solution and not an extension of the problem that has taken place for decades.

Despite all the nonsensical gibberish we hear from political people about “injustices,” the gravest injustice in Connecticut is continually perpetuated upon its legitimate taxpaying citizens via the Democrat-Socialist-driven disaster that has masqueraded as a state government. A government that worships and nurtures the oppressive and overpaid administrative state. A government that steadfastly refuses to simplify and cut taxes. A legislature where not one member therein cries for the abolition of the Department of Economic and Community Development especially considering the recent nonprofit scandal.  A government in full embrace of the Trump-Burgum energy policy leading to the dilution of the Eversource burden upon the state. A government in grave need of open source and timely access to all state documentation and the seating of a citizen no-holds-barred DOGE panel to tear the compounded horrors wide open. Hard? Brutal? You had better believe it. But all of the above in my estimation are necessary to right a sinking ship sabotaged by self-serving bureaucrats and politicians over decades of wreckage.

The Democrat Party. Where Sins Are Continually Forgiven

 Upon seeing repeated crime, death, and destruction in the Nation’s Capital, President Donald Trump finally decided that he had seen enough. On August 11, 2025, federalized law enforcement in Washington, D.C began by the President invoking Section 740 of the “Home Rule Act”. This placed the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and dysfunctional government under federal authority for up to 30 days due to a declared crime emergency. Mr. Trump deployed 800 D.C. National Guard troops and about five hundred federal officers from agencies like the FBI and ATF to patrol the city to address violent crime and protect federal assets. President Trump argued this bold move was necessary to combat urban crime and disorder.

 

In response to President Trump's federalization of Washington, D.C.'s various lunatic police protests erupted across the city, with unhinged activists from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia decrying the move as an overreach of federal power and a threat to local autonomy. Demonstrators, including groups like the "D.C. Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression", gathered at key locations like the 14th Street NW corridor and near the White House, chanting slogans such as "Go home, fascists" and "Get off our streets," and urged drivers to avoid federal checkpoints. Deluded critics, including local officials and civil rights groups, argued the intervention was unnecessary given declining crime rates, raising concerns about civil liberties and the criminalization of marginalized communities.(https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/1955411490531315721)[](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5451674-dc-residents-heckling-donald-trump-takeover/)[](https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/protests/dc-protest-federal-police-trump-administration/65-bc0556c1-9cbf-4445-8c53-17eacf46b413). In fact, one entitled and deranged attorney from the Department of Justice flung a Subway footlong sandwich at an ICE agent and subsequently lost his job and was charged as a criminal. 

It is baffling to any sane person as to why anyone would commit a felony and/or lose his job to protest being delivered from a war zone.

Welcome in to another day and another thrashing of President Trump by someone in the Democrat Party or its attendant media politburo. Day in and day out, President Trump is never left alone to govern the country. He is always attacked in some way, shape or form since he took office in 2017. The Democrat Party has spent a mere eight years plus in a failed attempt to discredit President Trump, and if you have been following, it has not succeeded since he won the election in 2024. President Trump to many is acting as a super-human. He has fended off the Russian hoax spread by the Democrats along with numerous lawsuits brought by Socialist Attorney Generals and an assassination attempt. But Donald Trump is vilified by doing something different that is shaking up our stoic and dysfunctional political system and government. Mind us all, This is a political system and government that many feel no longer works and represents the people who supposedly elected them.

One could also look at the positive things that President Trump has done in his first days of his second term. He has addressed the devastating illegal immigrant crisis created by the Biden Administration. He is doing his best to make America energy independent again, away from the irrational and incompetent state officials who are dogging and obstructing him at every turn. He is doing his best to create both jobs and investment in the economy to stimulate economic growth. He has lowered taxes by the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" by which Connecticut benefits greatly. ( (https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/obbba-average-tax-cuts-impact-map/) . He is torching a bloated Federal government.   He is addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the cancerous brainwashing of higher education. He has created a revolution to counter the unchecked and unwarranted Democrat Party Socialism that has been force fed to us for years. And he is winning the fight and exciting people by the day, contrary to what the state-run media wants us to believe.

Yet the Democrat Party still feels it does no wrong while President Trump can do no right. The Democrat Party is mad at President Trump. The Democrat Party likes to yell, swear and hurl insults at all things Trump. Even though Democrats are not in power except for incompetent and irrational states such as Connecticut, Democrats continue to try to rule the country with their deceptions and lies, (such as the unchecked Russian hoax that should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law).

In Connecticut, the Connecticut Democrat Party is dealing with several massive ethical, integrity, and personal character issues. Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy continues to become more embarrassing and unhinged every day about President Trump with several of his recent statements. For example, the third-term senator said in a recent interview that Trump “doesn’t give a fuck what we write” into spending legislation...“Every single day, there’s new evidence that our democracy is falling, and you’ve got to take stands. You have to take fights,” Murphy explained. “I just worry — every time that we go along with these appropriations bills, we’re putting a bipartisan veneer of endorsement on an illegal process that’s ultimately part of his campaign to destroy our democracy.” (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/13/chris-murphy-senate-funding-boycott-trump-protest-00505880). Can Senator Murphy explain to Connecticut Taxpayers in what ways is President Trump destroying our democracy? By rooting out corruption, political payoffs and crime? Can Senator Murphy explain to Connecticut Taxpayers how Democracy was not destroyed by having an incoherent, feeble, and ostensibly incontinent Democrat President Biden while his non-elected autopen handlers ran America into the ground for four years? Can Senator Murphy articulate the benefits of the Socialist policies of unchecked illegal immigration? Can Senator Murphy explain those same policies to legal United States Citizens families and loved ones who were murdered by some of the illegal immigrant cartels and individuals that were let in by the Democrat Biden Administration? Maybe Senator Murphy should be accountable for his statements by impeachment actions against him? He is a much clearer threat to our Democracy than President Trump. And it is a continuing wonder as to why the Connecticut Media (and even the state Republican Party) never (ever) in hammering him daily in the needed effort of forcing him to finally (and mercifully), resign.

But one continually wonders if having a criminal proclivity is a requirement of The Connecticut State Democrat Party for legislative service. Since Connecticut Democrats have permanent absolution for their sins within state lines, we see felon/shoplifter four-term Democrat State Representative Raghib Allie-Brennan still is holding his position in the state even he though apparently was caught shoplifting. Naturally, being a Democrat, he will find a way for his arrest to go away and retain his state taxpayer funded benefits and future pension accompanied by the usual state-run media blather of “he has turned the page,” or the like. Since his sins will be forgiven, he can run for United States Senator one day as a "victor". Or how about his fellow Democrats Robin Comey, Aundré Baumgartner, Geoff Luxenberg, Kevin Ryan, and Dennis Bradley who have faced criminal charges ranging from driving under the influence (DUI), to campaign finance fraud? But none of this matters. Anyone (including myself) raising these issues is branded as cruel, insensitive, or racist, (where applicable).

And the beat goes on. The Connecticut State Democrat Party now sees an incredible scandal developing with its (should-be-abolished) Department of Economic and Community Development and the “Minority Business Initiative” that has involved Democrat State Senator Douglas McCrory. Substantial amounts of missing money are involved coupled with vast amounts of “expenses and salaries” hiding in plain sight as paid from politically funded nonprofits that have escaped any legislative or bureaucratic oversight or fiscal control. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6lcguJsekU ). Federal Grand Jury subpoenas have been issued that tie prominent Democrat State Senator Douglas McCrory and consultant Sonserae Cicero-Hamlin (whom he apparently lives with). "McCrory sat on the advisory board during a years-long period when it was considering millions of dollars of grants or loans that went to a Cicero-Hamlin business" (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/hartford-nonprofit-grand-jury-probes-state-senator-s-personal-relationship-with-grant-recipient/ar-AA1K2EvD?ocid=BingNewsVerp&cvid=4383a6a98ca4438cf3fd72dda846a09c&ei=25&apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1). As my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo said this past week, it is a positive development that Federal authorities are doing the job of oversight that Connecticut has failed to do for many years. 

Indeed.

But the Democrat apple never rolls far from the rotten tree. Of course we can't forget Governor King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his dealings and financial interests with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, “The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, Tidal River Fund, McKinsey, GeneDX, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies.  Forget all of that because the Connecticut State Democrat Party, is doing no wrong with its lack of transparency with these companies and funding. And if you continue to mention this, you are either a conspiracy theorist, insensitive, or a broken record. For Connecticut to ever change for the better, this posture can be condoned no longer.

In conclusion, it is a lie that the Democrat Party can do no wrong and President Trump can do no right. These examples presented show a much different viewpoint of the damage and wrong that the Democrat Party has done to our society, state, and country. It is time move our country forward minus an incoherent, Socialist Democrat Party and its enablers. May God protect the good leaders such as President Trump so they may correct the injustices and rape of our society by the idiotic leaders of the failed Democrat Party.

 

Connecticut: The Economic Money Laundering State

Truth in government.  That, is a concept worth exploring.  We realize truth now has been modified to include variations on what was at one time, truth.  Factual truth in government now seems a distant reality as professional politicians and their handlers stumble over rhetoric, words and lies that are now considered truth. 

Governance. The concept is obvious. But in Connecticut, the concept is non-existent, or is exercised in reverse. In recent days, several articles and radio and independent media reports have provided us with sordid potential accusations regarding a Federal Investigation into a myriad of state-funded nonprofit organizations, with said accusations taking into account a prominent state senator of color, a huge state “economic development” monolith, and a bevy of “consultants” that are incredibly well paid for ostensible non-jobs.

Governing. The horrific and obscene mess of what passes for Governing in Connecticut is enabled yearly by a group of no less than seventy five (75) asleep-at-the-switch Connecticut State Legislators sitting on the Legislative Commerce and Appropriations Committees, who ostensibly do nothing but hand over multi-millions of dollars every year without  a care to an untold number of tax exempt organizations, all of which are exempt from disclosure by statute drafted via the courtesy of that very same Legislature. After all, this system is great for glad-handing, crony-employing, and photo-opping.

 

We now enter the Twilight Zone. Welcome to the economic money-laundering State of Connecticut.

Regardless of the obscene amount of tax dollars spent, It is no surprise that Connecticut continues to have many social and economic problems.  That is the truth.  These problems include high taxation, a failing economy, a lack of job creation, a crumbling infrastructure, an illegal drug problem, a crime problem especially with vehicle thefts, unchecked state budget spending, in addition to $100-$150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities, all in excess of the venerated “Fiscal Guardrails” we hear so much about.  But these "truths" have been talked about and written about numerous times by myself and several others in the small group of the common citizen media that must counter the state run media's supposed "truths". And as time goes on, the state run media has been working overtime trying to turn the truth into fables.

This nonprofit scandal gets worse by the day. One of the latest "truths" in the scandal that the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (“DECD”) has somehow "lost" track of Connecticut Taxpayers monies given to several Hartford non-profit social services agencies. .   The Blue Hills Civic Association fell victim to a $300,000 wire fraud and compounded the felony by failing to immediately notify state officials of the theft when it was discovered. In April of 2025 , The Blue Hills Civic Association laid off most of its staff.  The Blue Hills Civic Association according to its 2024 audit lists its Executive Director receiving $149,481 in compensation for the year, she was dismissed from her job in April also. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60876558).  The Blue Hills Civic Association has received nearly $14 million dollars from the DECD over the past two years in state and federal grants.  "State spending records show DECD continued to send federal money to the nonprofit after the theft occurred, providing a combined $1.23 million worth of federal dollars in March alone, with the last transfer occurring on March 20."(https://voteearlyct.com/f/blue-hills-civic-association-300k-alleged-wire-transfer-fraud). One must wonder where all the money went? 

And why this was not front page news? And why did the Connecticut Legislature keep using the failure Connecticut Department of Economic and Community  Development to continually shovel funds to myriad nonprofits without question or analysis? This pattern defies any sort of logic.

Several Connecticut Republicans that were either brave, (or way (way) late to the issue at hand, depending on your viewpoint) issued a statement regarding this issue and trying to find out the "truth"  From August 6, 2025:

Sen. Rob Sampson, Sen. Henri Martin and Sen. Stephen Harding today issued the following statement regarding federal authorities issuing grand jury subpoenas ordering the State of Connecticut to produce extensive records as part of an investigation of possible irregularities in the distribution of tens of millions of dollars in government grants to social service and business nonprofit organizations in Hartford.

“Wow. A federal dragnet has been cast. The feds certainly seem to have built their case. Fraud and corruption? Sure looks like it. It’s YOUR money, Connecticut taxpayers. Hey, by the way: Where is the comment from Gov. Lamont and Connecticut Democrats? Are they as appalled as Republicans are? All we hear is crickets chirping.” (https://www.facebook.com/sampsonforct).

Indeed. Where is the comment of the Democrat Party and its Socialist Attorney General?

Considering that Connecticut has continually refused to clean up its own house, many decent taxpaying citizens are relieved that the sordid and corrupted situation in Connecticut is finally getting Federal attention. The stories seemingly get worse every single day. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/hartford-nonprofit-grand-jury-probes-state-senator-s-personal-relationship-with-grant-recipient/ar-AA1K2EvD?ocid=BingNewsVerp&cvid=4383a6a98ca4438cf3fd72dda846a09c&ei=25&apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1)But one question hitherto unasked was raised this past week by my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo as to how many of these state-funded nonprofit organizations have politically-connected “Executives” who are drawing salaries up to 40% of revenues, before “payments to consultants?” As of the time of this writing, this is already a huge story for which only the tip of the iceberg has been reached.

https://x.com/TonyDeAngelo7/status/1953434561238781967

Since all elevators stop at the top floor, of course one also wonders how much did King Governor Ned Lamont "The Unaccountable" know about these "Truths" perpetuated by the DECD and the State Legislature?  Hopefully, the Federal investigation will lead Connecticut Taxpayers to the real "Truth" of what happened to their hard earned tax monies.  But again, Connecticut Taxpayers have never had any  "Truth" forthcoming from unethical business dealings with no-bid state contracts going to Lamont- owned firms such as Sema4  that were heavily invested in Annie Lamont's hedge fund Oak HC/FT, and that the Lamont-related interests made upwards of $77,000,000 in one day at the Sema4 stock public offering.  

Did the DECD ever investigate this "Truth"?  Did the Connecticut State Legislature?

Of course not.

But once again we see the same familiar song and dance in Connecticut.  The complex nonprofit debacle fueled by the Legislature and the dysfunctional and unaccountable Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development just keeps on wasting Connecticut Taxpayers monies. It is ostensible that the Connecticut Democrat Party, no matter what the cost, is there to protect the political ruling class who dictate to the Connecticut Taxpayers what they can and can't have.  Why does Connecticut even need the large, unaccountable, and power hungry economic failure known as the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development? 

It is hoped that we can finally end the picking the winners and losers in a socialist state like Connecticut.  Let the free market system work once again in Connecticut.  Free the Connecticut Taxpayer from the Connecticut Democrat Party and its economically failed programs.  Force the Legislature to act like one and stop acting life a self-gratifying cadre of “what-me worry?” type lummoxes.

Hallelujah. It is time for "Truth" once again. 

And "Truth" cannot arrive quickly enough in The Economic Money Laundering State of Connecticut.

 

The Failed Socialist Kamikaze Blue State Manifesto

 In the waning years of World War II, Kamikaze pilots, young Japanese aviators often in their late teens or early twenties, undertook harrowing suicide missions, deliberately crashing their explosive-laden aircraft into Allied warships during the Pacific Theater’s final battles like Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. These attacks aimed to inflict maximum damage on enemy fleets, sinking or disabling ships to delay Japan’s inevitable defeat as resources dwindled and Allied forces advanced. Rooted in a culture of intense nationalism, devotion to Emperor Hirohito, and the Bushido code’s ideals of honor and self-sacrifice, pilots showcased both the pilots’ resolve and the extreme measures Japan adopted, leaving a haunting legacy of courage, loss, and the human cost of war. Historically, it has remained a fascination to historians as to why young men with their lives ahead of them destroyed all that they had for the sake of a failed ideal, further complicated by a twisted endeavor in a war they could not win.

However, fast forward to 2025, and we see that the Kamikaze spirit is alive and well in the failed and burdened tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Fighting against their sworn enemy President Donald J. Trump (known as "Trump") , Governors Ned Lamont, Kathy Hochul, and Phil Murphy have draped themselves in a faux Bushido code—more sanctimonious posturing than honor—as they wage their melodramatic crusade against a strong, free, vibrant, and independent America. Like Kamikaze pilots diving headfirst into oblivion, these liberal stalwarts fling themselves into futile battles, clutching their 2021-gun data-sharing pact like a sacred relic, boasting about snagging 28,527 illegal firearms while New York’s streets remain a progressive paradise of chaos. Hochul, with her Rambo fantasies, files lawsuits to save her precious $15 billion congestion pricing boondoggle, shaking her fist at Trump’s “overreach” while her state’s economy groans under her leadership. Meanwhile, King Governor Ned Lamont the Unaccountable continues to throw his state into wreckage and ruin daily when he is not out calling a fakey press conference announcing the throwing of money to strengthen the state against “Washington.” You will never see a discussion in the tri-state area as to how the Trump proposals could help these sick, poor, and battered states. Because the object is to 86-47. You must 86-47 even if you wreck your state and its citizens in the process. For this is the mindset of any good Kamikaze pilot.

But to be an effective Kamikaze pilot, you must have an enemy, and you must hate him. President Trump is obviously a powerful man who must know some dark secrets of politicians and our government since he is so hated by the Democrat Party and the media of our country since he came on the political scene in 2015. Given this premise that everything the President does is wrong/evil/bad/horrific/bad for the economy/kills people/starves people and the like, it is the goal of every good Kamikaze pilot to train acolytes that can play follow the leader to the Socialist death spiral .  This is what you view if you are living in a blue state and if you follow the stoic and controlled state-run media gasping in its final breaths of trying to still be significant you will hear nothing visionary, positive, or constructive. Instead, you will have your ears blitzed every day as to how bad “Trump” is, and we should be thankful every day that we have defenders such as Ned Lamont and Chris Murphy, who fight "Trump" every day for us all. However, if you live in a red state, you probably view President Trump differently and are probably in a much better economic position than your blue state family and friends. You are no doubt happier and better adjusted as well in not hearing the nattering nabobs of negativism and ruin continually.

In any event, here is a "real" example of the tri-state region’s "Blue" on its Kamikaze flight to destruction.

The tri-state region of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are all Socialist states that spend excessively with massive social and economic problems that continue to increase on a daily basis. Looking at these three states from a local and state tax burden; New York is ranked #2 with a 13.6% tax burden meaning almost 14 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government.   New Jersey is ranked #6 with a 10.3% tax burden meaning 10 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government, while Connecticut is ranked #10 with a 9.9% tax burden meaning almost 10 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government.  This rate does not include their federal tax burden, which further adds to their overall tax burden. (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-most-taxed-states-in-america/). Red states in most cases have a much lower tax and debt burden.

To “fight Trump” no program will be forsaken and no spending will ever cease. This posture causes untenable and unbearable amounts of debt to be borne by taxpayers. New Jersey's combined local and state government debt is $92,231,421,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 14.5%, New York's combined local and state government debt is $358,150,378,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 20.2% which ranks first in the country, while Connecticut is ranked #2 with combined local and state government debt is $53,612,594,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 18.6%. (https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/15-states-with-the-most-government-debt-per-capita/) As I have written before Connecticut has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short and low term debt along with its unfunded liabilities (pensions, lifetime benefits, well more than the celebrated “fiscal guardrails”).

But who cares? Fighting Trump is mission critical mass, no matter how much it costs taxpayers.

The 18th Annual Rich States, Poor States report also shows how poorly the tri-state region is doing economically. New York is ranked #50 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook, New Jersey is ranked #48 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook and Connecticut rounds it out at #44 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook.  These rankings are based on 15 policy variables including taxes, debt, minimum wages, workers compensation and being a right to work state.  All three states are doing poorly according to this study on economic competitiveness in our country. (https://alec.org/publication/rich-states-poor-states-18th-edition/)

What does these high taxes and high debt do for these Socialist/Liberal Blue states? Why do we still have increased social problems such as illegal drug abuse with a constant fentanyl crisis, homeless people and an illegal immigrant population that increase more as more is expended?  According to many Kamikaze tri-state politicians, taxes are not nearly high enough and by raising taxes even more these problems will be resolved. In the opinion of many, if you could tax at a 100% rate you still would have the same problems in greater number since there is little to no accountability,  governance, and/or results with the billions being spent on these problems and their attendant programs. 

But given the serial failure of the tri-state area, the objective to destruction may not be a Kamikaze attack but rather, a barbaric trench warfare battle with the destruction of the American way of life as the objective. This is certainly a consideration as the blue tri-state area has now even more extreme socialist/liberal politicians running in upcoming elections led by avowed radical Socialist/Communist, Zohran Mamdani , candidate for Mayor in New York City. His platform should keep New York at the bottom of economic of all economic categories while at the top of all tax categories while any decent and normal-thinking citizen will leave as soon as they possibly can. It is also interesting to note Communist/Socialist/Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) has raised  $15.4 million already for advertising and her 2026 re-election campaign for her New York House seat. But isn't AOC a hypocrite by raising all this money which instead could go to her constituents in her battered and shameful district and/or others in New York City who are homeless, have no food, no childcare, health care and or were victims of violent crimes?

I would not think so. The more human wreckage there is, the more “Trump” can be blamed. The more “Trump” is blamed, the more the Kamikaze mindset is unleashed on those poor weak souls that know no better. With control of the media, this sick strategy produces more debt, more crime, more drug abuse and more physically and mentally destroyed people who become voters for the same wreckage and failure. 

For destroying the lives of people is perfectly acceptable if the right people retain their decrepit empire. This is what "help" is defined as in Socialism.

There  continues to be a strong need to understand the myths and realities of the socialist/liberal blue states of America. It would be refreshing for many if the Republican Party finally began to understand what is taking place and started attacking these failed policies and programs and offer free market alternatives to these wasteful social experiments called state government policy. And mind us all, this is just a small aspect of their failures in solving the problems of these blue Socialist states, excessively high taxes, excessively high debt, and failed command type economic policies.  

Are these the states you really want to live and die in? My guess is that you would have to have the sick and demented mindset of a Kamikaze pilot to answer that particular question in the affirmative.

The Democrat Party's Urgency To Reach A New Incarnation Of Socialism

 On July 20, 1944, a group of morally outraged German military officers led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in a plot known as Operation Valkyrie. The primary motivation was their growing disillusionment with Hitler's leadership, which they believed was leading Germany to catastrophic defeat in World War II. Many of these officers, part of the German resistance, were appalled by the regime's atrocities, including the Holocaust, and saw Hitler's reckless military decision such as the disastrous invasion of the Soviet Union and refusal to retreat from untenable position, as evidence of his incompetence. They feared that his continued rule would result in Germany's total destruction and sought to kill him to seize control, negotiate peace with the Allies, and restore some semblance of moral governance.

On July 14, 2025, far-left and totally irrational State Representative Josh Elliott, supported by far-left and totally irrational State Senator Saud Anwar announced Rep. Elliott’s candidacy for governor of Connecticut, challenging incumbent Governor Ned Lamont in a Democratic primary. Frustrated by Lamont’s vetoes of progressive legislation of affordable housing and pro-labor bills, Elliott and Anwar aim to radically shift the Democratic Party’s direction. They criticized Lamont’s resistance to tax increases on the wealthy and his lip-service to fiscal matters, which they argue neglects the needs of working-class families and underfunded critical services like education and housing. Their campaign was driven by a broader progressive discontent with Lamont’s leadership, which they viewed as too centrist and out of touch with the state’s pressing affordability issues. Both legislators who can more accurately be described as incipient Communists sought to rally support for a vague and far left-leaning platform that is beyond any rational comprehension. However, in launching this challenge, both aimed to force a reckoning within the Democratic Party, hoping to either defeat Lamont or push him toward bolder reforms.(https://www.courant.com/2025/07/14/ct-state-rep-josh-elliott-says-lamont-should-retire-what-to-know-about-the-candidate-for-governor/)

 Welcome to 2025, and the updated version of a Socialist manufactured political coup. Using the time-honored method of destroying the leader as was done in Nazi Germany eighty years ago, disgruntled and irrational far-left politicians have decided they need a regime change and they need one right now, even if it means assaulting the leadership of their own venerated Democrat party.

But first, we need to understand Socialism. What is Socialism, and why does the new Democrat Party at all levels of government seem to love it so much? And why has this passionate desire for full-blown Socialism accelerated in recent days? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Socialism as “any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, a system of society or group living in which there is no private property, a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state."  If one reads Marxist theories, Socialism is the changeover period from Capitalism to the acceptance and approbation of Communism leading to the destruction of private property and business ownership and the eradication of all personal freedoms.

But what has caused this race to the gutter? Like Hitler’s aides, the new and disgruntled Democrat Party of 2025 has seen a massive changeover to younger and angrier politicians hungering to take over the party and mold it into a new and even more enfeebled mirror of its recent failed Biden Presidency since the defeats of 2024. They are creating this latest look party with a renewed, radicalized hatred of our country, hate of personal freedoms and hate for the Capitalistic system we currently have in our economy. They are promising everything and anything to get you to vote for them. Whatever you want is for your asking with these new radicals, including but not limited to state run grocery stores, free food, free medical care, free cell phones, free housing, free public transportation (if you don't get stabbed as was seen recently on a Connecticut Transit bus in Hartford), free education, free day care, free school lunches, and much more.  Who pays for these items in a Socialism based system is anyone's guess, other than those proposing these bizarre ideas will never contribute one penny to their implementation. 

Looking in our country, this march to failure continues in many locations, as fellow-traveler states such as California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, we see equivalent irrational aspirants to power prattle on about a Utopia where government pays for all these "free" items promised in exchange for votes, but it is never mentioned that in exchange for these false promises the citizen will never be able to physically protest against any issue or ideology that stands in their way to this Socialist Utopian society.  For example, in ranked choice voting New York City, with (which eliminates one person one vote freedom), an avowed radical Socialist/Communist, Zohran Mamdani is leading the mayor’s race. His platform seems to be barbarically simplistic as he wants to tax the rich of New York City even more than they are now and fund even more "free" handouts for those "in need". New York City has an over $100 billion dollar yearly budget with over 800,000 receiving welfare benefits out of a population of roughly 8.5 million people(https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/nearly-800k-in-nyc-collected-welfare-checks-last-fiscal-year-most-in-decades/). Will welfare recipients increase under the Mamdani Administration? Mamdani also wants to create "city run" grocery stores. Will shoplifters and thieves be allowed in these "city run" grocery stores as they are in privately owned stores to ply their trade without worry of prosecution? Will there be a city surtax for the food lost due to theft? Will armed guards shoot grocery thieves? Or will the armed guards rob legitimate purchasers to fund their stealing? As impossible as that seems, please bear in mind that no idea is ever too bizarre for these irresponsible panderers.

But as is the usual case, Connecticut tries daily to make its way up to the Big Leagues to play in the Socialist Symphony Orchestra. The first prerequisite is to deeply hate President Donald Trump. At the extreme, disjointed, incoherent and twisted role-model United States Senator Chris Murphy has been bashing the President on a daily basis with little coherent thought being offered in his rants. "Murphy has called Trump’s decision to strike Iran illegal because the president did not seek congressional authorization. “I’ve been briefed on the intelligence — there is no evidence Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. That makes this attack illegal,” Murphy said in a statement in the hours after the attack. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chris-murphy-says-clear-trumps-strikes-iran-are-illegal-rcna215794). I am curious if Murphy understands the massive threat to our country that the new Axis powers of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran pose? Didn't both President Obama and Biden play down any nuclear threats by Iran, with Obama helping them by sending cash to this regime? That was perfectly acceptable to the Socialist Senator. Daily, Murphy is making a fool and embarrassment of himself with his incoherent gibberish, and he faces no criticism from the state-run media or seemingly anyone, anywhere in the political universe. As bad as all of that is, this is quite minor in comparison to what unbridled Socialism in government may bring.

Also in Connecticut King Ned Lamont, the unaccountable will be in a Governor’s primary with Communist/Socialist Democrat State Representative Josh Elliott assuming arguendo that the Socialist coup against Lamont does not materialize earlier. As far as Elliott is concerned, here are some notes on what he has done since being elected in 2016; "Rep. Elliott is working to ensure that Connecticut employs quality public health standards by pushing for a requirement that all children in the public education system receive proper immunizations. Rep. Elliott is also dedicated to improving the treatment of Connecticut's incarcerated population. He is an active advocate of banning the use of solitary confinement and has independently championed a bill that will provide certain telecommunication services at no cost. Rep. Elliott believes so deeply that the right to vote is a fundamental feature of government that he has sponsored several bills aimed at efficiently reforming Connecticut’s electoral system. Among these are a bill that would restore voting privileges of formerly incarcerated individuals on parole, and a bill that would implement a ranked-choice voting system, which would allow a voter to rank candidates by their preference. Rep. Elliott pushed Connecticut to be the first state to remove the cost for incarcerated individuals to make phone calls to loved ones. Prior to this Connecticut had the highest cost in the United States for these calls. Studies show a positive correlation between family communication and lower reincarceration rates. He has spearheaded efforts to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, sought to equalize property tax rates, and consistently supported establishing a more equitable tax structure." (https://www.housedems.ct.gov/Elliott/biography). Regardless of this saccharine and irrational blather, Connecticut has declined both socially and economically, with massive crime issues, massive drug problems and excessively high taxes nurturing a poor economic climate. Elliott needs to remember that since he has served over nine years, he has personally overseen a massive increase in spending on the state budget with no results in solving the never-ending problems in the state. This is his record. The fact is that Connecticut still has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities in excess of the venerated “fiscal guardrails” we often hear about. Elliott’s campaign for Governor should scare anyone who believes in personal freedoms and lower taxes. Voters should view his candidacy as a minor-league Mamdani effort with none of the charisma and the pizzazz of Mamdani but with all of the destruction and despair that Socialism brings.

In summation, I know of no "successful" Communist or Socialist country. contrary to how the new Democrat Party in 2025 wishes to portray this brave new world of destruction. In Socialist regimes, one has little to no personal or economic freedom. The new Axis powers of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran have some of the most ruthless and blood thirsty dictators running these countries. But now, we see that the new Democrat Party in 2025 aspires to that same model, as it is going about destroying their long time office holders while hating everything our country stands for. Yet any good Socialist has no problem doing whatever it takes to enrich themselves and their patrons. (Again, just think of Hitler's aides).

There is a need to understand the myths and realities of Socialism. The concept of Socialism is so vile that it even makes twisted, incompetent and failed office holders like Lamont, Andrew Cuomo, or even Joe Courtney look reasonable by comparison. That concept alone should shock any sane adult. Socialism has failed over and over again in our world. We must stop it in our country immediately or the freedom that so many Americans gave their lives for will be lost forever, along with the country itself.Connecticut, like other blue states, sits on a powder keg of an impending Socialist disaster. It is up to us to stop before things become much worse. Enough is indeed enough.

 

What Exactly Is The Connecticut Housing Crisis?

 What is the actual Connecticut Housing Crisis? Can it be defined? Can any of the Legislative geniuses that are constantly crying about the same explain in simple terms what it actually is? Is it a lack of apartments, condominiums, and houses for people to live in the state? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who are unable to work due to a disability and live on government subsidies? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who do not work, can work and live on government subsidies? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who do work, but do not earn enough money to pay for all their personal and family expenses, especially for rent? Is there a shortage of one family homes in the state that cannot be purchased due to high property taxes and high mortgage rates? Is there a lack of housing for Senator Chris Murphy's "Undocumented Americans" to be developed into future voters?

 

Considering all of the above, please define the “Connecticut Housing Crisis” for me. However, before you do, kindly provide answers the following: 

If Connecticut has a shortage of housing, then where are these people living in Connecticut since they purportedly cannot afford rents or mortgages? In 2023, Connecticut has about 148,506 citizens live in subsidized housing (https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-live-in-subsidized-housing/state/connecticut/). That is approximately .04% of the state's population. But to this point how many people are actually homeless in the state? Connecticut has a population of approximately 3, 625,000. We find that Connecticut has a "point in time" count in January. This  "is a count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. HUD requires that Continuums of Care (“CoC”s) conduct an annual count of people experiencing homelessness who are sheltered in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and Safe Havens on a given single night. CoCs also must conduct a count of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness every other year (odd numbered years). Each count is planned, coordinated, and carried out locally." (https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hdx/pit-hic/#2025-pit-count-and-hic-guidance). For February 2025 they are apparently over "5,000" people homeless in the state. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/never-seen-it-this-bad-rates-of-homelessness-on-the-rise-in-connecticut/). That is .00137% of the state's population that is homeless.  According to the state budget, Connecticut funds fifty-three emergency shelters and thirty-nine transitional housing program state grants. If one contacts Connecticut's 211 network, they will find sixty-two homeless shelters that can be contacted. (https://www.211ct.org/searchterms=Homeless%20Shelters&page=1&location=Connecticut&service_area=connecticut). Connecticut will spend in for various Housing and Homeless services/programs/subsidies $101,123,923 in 2026 and $114,323,923 in 2027. If we focus on the "5,000" who are "homeless" one may wonder why these people cannot be sheltered if the state is spending over $100 million dollars on these programs to help them? (If you are keeping score at home, this translates to more than $20,000 expended each year for each purportedly homeless person).

Needless to say, any reasonable person with reasonable intelligence sees this situation and realizes that nothing seems to add up with this housing shortage situation. And regrettably, the ostensible insanity of “building where they ain’t,” continues. This past week a bi-partisan celebration of the building of 154 institutional-style housing units occurred. https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2025-07-09/ct-new-britain-affordable-housing-crisis . Spiked by state loans, tax credits, and giveaways, the average $2,100 per month rental price of a unit here is well above what most in the “need of housing” class can pay. But I would assume this is not a problem since continual subsidies are perpetually imagined, as the rents collected from whatever sources continually fill the coffers of wealthy investors. However, no one ever seems to mention that once the subsidy payments outstrip the market rentals, this project like hundreds before will be on the fast track to becoming the next Father Panik Village or Barnum Court and will meet the same fate. Unfortunately, politicians lie and deceive themselves that they have a magic solution, however dollars and cents will always determine the outcome of any pipe dream or illusions.

But alas, there are far better solutions than the messes described above. Unless you watch my good friend, Tony De Angelo on “Thirty With Tony” or listen on the “Lee Elci Show,” you probably did not know that Connecticut currently has seventy-two “Qualified Opportunity Zones”. (OPPORTUNITY LOST -TONY DE ANGELO LEE ELCI 7- 8- 2025)  A Qualified Opportunity Zone is an economically distressed community located within the United States or its territories, designated for the purpose of attracting private and rental housing investment a and stimulating economic development through powerful Federal tax incentives conditioned upon a long term community commitment by the investor or builder (https://opportunityzones.com/location/connecticut/).  As Tony had mentioned on July 8, Connecticut is in such bad economic shape that almost a full third of the state could qualify as an economic Opportunity Zone under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Further, a third of these new zones must be in rural areas! But in a high tax, excessively bureaucratic and Trump-hating state like Connecticut, there is little to no chance of either attracting investors into zones with no commitment to police and public safety and/or getting this exciting concept through the heads of politicians with severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

OPPORTUNITY LOST -TONY DE ANGELO LEE ELCI 7- 8- 2025

But why actually talk about propounding solutions that work since such solutions would eliminate the need for many redundant bureaucrats and political hangers-on? Can anyone rationally explain as to why the Connecticut Democrat Party wanted to force through the ill-conceived and draconian housing bill HB 5002 shifting zoning from the 169 cities, towns and villages to a state run, non-elected bureaucracy? Considering the above, it now makes sense since we now see that in a socialistic economy the citizen becomes more and more dependent upon the state governmental bureaucracy for every aspect of their life and their survival through subsidized housing, free state medical care, free public transportation and subsidized food.  Please take just one look at the figures mentioned earlier. Connecticut would be far better off if it consolidated taxpayer monies and fully audited the money it spends in housing and improve its efficiencies and allowed free market solutions to its "housing/homeless" crisis. Instead, it chooses a politically entrenched socialistic corridors of power for personal financial gain that continually worsens the problem. Such, is the "Connecticut Way"

Wasting time, money, and productive energy is a hallmark of the Democrat-driven Connecticut political system, so much that even when it is provided with workable and positive solutions will ignore them continually, only to drive society from bad to worse and forever ensure their employment and false sense of purpose.