The State of
Connecticut Has A Crime Problem: Auto thefts surged by 33% in 2023 alone,
jumping from 7,091 reported incidents in 2022 to a staggering 9,400, marking the
third-highest percentage increase nationwide and leaving countless residents
vulnerable to brazen juvenile offenders who often face minimal consequences. Persistent
strings of car break-ins and thefts in 2025 continue to terrorize communities
from Montville to Fairfield, underscoring a systemic failure to curb property
crimes that erode public trust and safety. Almost
every Connecticut city is a horrific and mismanaged hellhole.
However, the gist
of this article is not crime.
The State of
Connecticut Has A Competency Problem: Unhinged Liberal Incompetent Scraggly
Bearded United States Senator Chris Murphy makes a fool of himself moment by
moment on “X” with his repetitive nonsensical babbling reflecting his entire
lack of conceptual understanding of any issue but also reflecting a crystal-clear hatred of
President Donald J. Trump. Congressional Representative Rosa DeLauro, one of
the oldest in Congress at age 82, is embarrassing in appearance and a babbling
shame, shunning any suggestions of improvement or developmental vision for her pitiful
Congressional district. Senior United States Combat Veteran Senator Richard
Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam and lied about “not knowing” that he
was addressing a Communist convention in 2021. Attorney General William Tong in
his furious defense of illegal alien rights, called for a boycott of “Avelo
Airlines” in New Haven, either not knowing (or caring) that the fiscally incompetent
state Comptroller Sean Scanlon engineered the Avelo arrangement for the inadequate
Tweed New Haven Airport campus, residential safety and noise pollution be damned. And not to be undone,
Governor Ned Lamont (affectionately known as “King Ned, The Unaccountable”) continues to move from fraud to scam, the
latest being to corrupt the entire state with a new generation of incipient
slum housing that helps along one of his wife’s investments, while he is trying to
convince his wealthy neighbors in Greenwich that he has everyone’s best interests at
heart.
However, the gist of this article is not political incompetency.
Connecticut
has many more problems too numerous to mention. But I submit unto you
that Connecticut, (aka the State That Cannot Do One Thing Right) has a far
greater problem than either of the above problems. It is horrible. It is
insidious. It is crippling. It can send the state into bankruptcy and erode
private capital and destroy any viability in the state whatsoever.
It is the Debt
Problem.
Regardless
of what the state-run media and the political system tell you, The State of
Connecticut has a debt problem. There is now an awareness and
understanding of the debt and how much debt Connecticut is obligated to pay. Using
real numbers, let us examine how much in debt Connecticut is in, and why this
should be the number one issue in the upcoming state election in 2026.
To my knowledge,
I am the only writer or reporter that has mentioned Connecticut has $100,000,000,000 to
$150,000,000,000 (billion) dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded
liabilities. Certainly, no candidate or office holder has ever mentioned
anything along the line. For a state as small as Connecticut and as small of a
population that it has, this is a massive fiscal red flag. But it is
not, as the Connecticut Democrat Party just cannot seem to tax and spend enough
to satisfy its political special interest groups such as the state employee
unions, myriad and unaccountable nonprofits, and politically connected state
patronage jobs over the past four decades.
Here are
some real fiscal facts that the entire political establishment avoids talking
about as published in "The Financial State of the States 2024" report
published by Truth in Accounting
(https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/Financial-State-of-the-States-2024.pdf).
Connecticut in this report was given a "F" grade, ranking the state fifty
out of 50 (or last) as far as its financial state of affairs. From the report
found on pages 50 and 51, "Connecticut had $21 billion available to pay
$85.9 billion worth of bills". This figure will increase in 2025 as
some federal funding will no longer be available to the state.
Trying to break
down the $85.9 billion dollars’ worth of bills in complex and difficult to
ascertain. Connecticut
in each year's budget, which increases each year, also increases its
bonding and borrowing within. Bonds are issued in the state for many
reasons including
building projects and other related items in the state. Bonds are issued
to
finance "debt" in the state. Total bonds in the state for 2024 were
$34,355,859,000 according to the report. Also according to the report,
Unfunded
Pension Benefits were $38,010,340,000 and Unfunded Retiree Health Care
Benefits
were $17,091,549,000. In simple terms, this means every Connecticut
citizen down
to the smallest infant minimally shoulders a $25,000 debt of the state
for which
they did not cause. These figures are astronomical for a state as
small as Connecticut and unsustainable in any way. Moreover, this
massive
obligation is more than the supposed "fiscal guardrails" that
continue to be ignored by Connecticut's Political Fiscal Barons for what
little
value they provide. But more clear-headed people are seeing this
horrific
situation for what it is. My good friend and colleague Tony De Angelo
also discussed
Connecticut's per person state debt is his segment on Tuesday 9/2 on the
94.9
Lee Elci show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJCaC5DusE)
The state
therefore has a massive debt problem. It also does not have enough assets to cover all
its debt. The Connecticut Democrat Party laughs about (or fails to comprehend) the
debt issue by its usual incoherent economic gibberish. This incoherent economic
gibberish includes the usual babblings that the wealthy do not pay enough in
taxes, businesses do not pay enough in taxes, there are not enough social
programs to help people, more funding is needed in education and that state
workers deserve much higher wages and benefits. Economic
reality does not exist in the state as Connecticut continues to be a bottom
five state in many economic categories. This fact is glossed over by the new,
younger incoherent leftist and socialist Democrat candidates that have
announced their intentions to run Governor, United States House seats and state
legislature seats. Where the money will come from to pay for all their
"giveaways" remains a mystery to most educated voters, but not to them as they simply do not understand, let alone care.
It
is a
simplistic question that truly needs to be addressed by anyone running
for
Governor, on any ticket in 2026. Republicans that have continually
failed to challenge
Democrats on many issues must first learn to understand this most
critical debt issue and secondly challenge Democrats and Socialists
continually. What is your plan
for paying off the massive debt and unfunded liabilities of
Connecticut's
government in both the short and long run? What does the plan entail?
How long
will it take? What will you do to decrease state spending? What will you
do to
whittle the bulbous and often inept state workforce? These questions
should be
asked daily until there are specific answers to the same. But I am not
confident
that will ever happen, as courage is in short supply in Connecticut
government.
You see,
Connecticut's state government is like a drug addict. To feed the drug monkey an
addict often lies and steals. It keeps taking drugs at all costs, looking for its
next fix. That fix is your tax money wasted on another failed social program
and or non-profit who could be pilfering as there are no financial controls on
either. That fix is a long-serving state politician getting a simplistic state nonjob
to help boost his or her state pension. That fix is to give money to a
politically connected business or individual for their work in a campaign, with
no worries as to how the money is spent and if it is ever paid back.
And so, it
remains in the indentured state of fiscally insolvent Connecticut. Connecticut
Taxpayers are damned while the benefaction and veneration of the State's
Political and Administrative Bureaucracy is the most critical work that our
state government must perform. So let the state perform that critically
valuable work all the way into bankruptcy. Regrettably,
bankruptcy may be the only cure to eliminate the waste, fraud, crime, incompetency,
and debt of Connecticut, once and for all.