The Continuing Scam of Ned-O-Nomics: The Infosys Economic Giveaway (Part 2)

In my second part of my analysis of the debacle of the  Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (aka “DECD”) providing an $18 million dollar contract of taxpayer money to purportedly bring 1,200 jobs to Connecticut over an either six- or eight-year period (depending on clarifications to this secret agreement), along with a $20 million dollar contract for supposed maintenance and support services to the Office of Early Childhood and Connecticut’s Health Insurance Exchange known as “Access Health CT”,  we will look at several more highly questionable situations with respect to Infosys Systems (aka “Infosys”) and their dealings with other cities and states and employees in our country.As my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo is fond of saying on 94.9 “Lee Elci Show,” if you like peanut butter, you are going to love Skippy once you review these debacles.

Recently Indianapolis, Indiana is wondering where $56 million in grant monies have gone for supposedly "3,000 new jobs".  The following news report speaks volumes: "In 2018, India-based Infosys, a technology information service provider, announced to great fanfare that it was going to build a $245 million campus near the site of the former Indianapolis International Airport terminal on South High School Road just off Sam Jones Expressway and I-465.  A potential $100 million in state and local incentives, grants and tax breaks helped seal the deal."  "Three thousand people by the end of 2023, according to a $56 million grant contract signed with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation." "City County Councilor Jared Evans is still waiting for that new day to dawn on Indianapolis’ westside.” I’d like to know where the three thousand jobs are at,” he said. “I don’t think all of them are at One America Tower, and they’re certainly not out there, so, where are they?” "Infosys has a headquarters in downtown Indianapolis and has completed construction on a training center as the centerpiece of its proposed campus that on most days appears nearly empty judging by the number of vehicles in the parking lot." "Evans and westside business leaders tell Fox 59 News that Infosys has rejected attempts to participate in community events and organizations despite promises to be a good neighbor."  (https://fox59.com/indiana-news/city-and-state-await-payback-from-infosys-expansion). Again, please remember that Connecticut is giving $18 million dollars to Infosys for supposedly 1200 "new jobs".

Or how about this issue with California? "Infosys will pay California $800,000 to resolve allegations that between 2006 and 2017, approximately 500 Infosys employees were working in the State on Infosys-sponsored B-1 visas rather than H-1B visas, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said. This misclassification resulted in Infosys avoiding California payroll taxes such as the unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and employment training taxes." (https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/infosys-fined-800-000-for-worker-misclassification-tax-fraud-in-us-119121800136_1.html)

In trying to find any information as to the actual amount of jobs Infosys has created in our country, regrettably, one is unable to get any information with regards to this critical information.  Instead, we see the company has been fined millions for violating Visa laws.  Infosys paid a record $34 million dollar penalty for immigration fraud in 2013, per the following news report: "Infosys, a Bangalore-based outsourcing company, agreed to pay a civic settlement of $34 million for “systematic visa fraud and abuse” as announced by Texas prosecutors after two years of investigation. This serious offense constitutes the largest fine in history for an immigration law violation. Misuse of B-1 visas was not the only serious and blatant violation of immigration law, Infosys also had other less obvious, but equally significant infractions in regard to I-9 compliance. It turns out that Infosys failed to maintain I-9 records for many of its foreign nationals in the United States in 2010 and 2011 as required by law; 80% of all I-9s from Infosys contained substantive violations." (https://visawolf.com/infosys-pays-34-million-for-abuses-of-immigration-law)

Infosys was also the subject of a massive discrimination lawsuit.  "The plaintiffs, four IT workers from around the U.S., brought their discrimination lawsuit against the India-based IT services giant in 2013. This week, they filed a motion seeking class-action certification from 2009 and say the potential pool of plaintiffs may be as large as 125,000." "The lawsuit alleges that the India-based firm was engaged in "ongoing national origin and race discrimination," and claimed, at the time the lawsuit was filed, that the Infosys U.S. workforce was roughly 90% South Asian. One plaintiff was hired by Infosys to work on a $49.5 million Affordable Care Act, government-funded development project for the District of Columbia. There were about one hundred Infosys employees working on the healthcare project, but only three were American, the lawsuit claimed. The plaintiff alleged harassment, and was denied promotion, the complaint said. Neumark brought a statistical analysis to the discrimination claim. Specifically, the economist wrote, "from 2009 through 2015, 89.39% of Infosys' United States workforce was South Asian while only 11.45% of the United States' Computer Systems Design and Related Services industry was South Asian."(https://www.computerworld.com/article/3137500/infosys-u-s-workforce-is-mostly-south-asian-and-no-accident-plaintiffs-allege.html)

The Biblical premise of finding out if information is true is the law of this information being repeated “in the mouth of two or three witnesses.”  To this end, we have viewed several examples of this worldwide company and how it apparently operates in the United States.  From an economics perspective I do not see how Connecticut Taxpayers benefit from two separate taxpayer funded contracts to Infosys that will transfer $38 million dollars to them.  For what?  Mythical job creation?  Mythical upgrades to a computer system and program? Another profit source for the Lamont's family hedge fund Oak HC/FT based upon the documented common investments between Oak HC/FT and Infosys? More state crony-based DECD “economic development training?”  To help eliminate more jobs for United States born and raised Information Technology workers? Another "throw your money in the street DECD/Ned Deal" just to show how fast taxpayer money can disappear and how inept people can be? All of this puts one at a complete loss.

Please consider the following: It has been four years starting with the 2020 Covid-19 debacle and we still do not have any answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners) investments to Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-service provider and Unqork, both having documented common-investment ties to Infosys.  Nor are any answers forthcoming from associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name several.   

Thus, the rip off of Connecticut Taxpayers and many other Taxpayers throughout our country continues with the economic grants given freely to Infosys.  Many more examples exist as to why Infosys (and the DECD) should not be funded any more, at all. Yet, poor vassal taxpayers’ monies are freely given in the rhetoric and drivel that is defined as "economic development" which is a game that government likes to play with taxpayer substance, especially in the non-transparent state of Connecticut. 

Since there has been scant government outcry to this egregious situation, one only prays that there will be a chorus of taxpayers who will first call for the breaking of ties with Infosys, followed by the defunding of the DECD.  Jobs are not being created especially for Connecticut Information Technology workers.  This is a sham and a shame and should be called out as such.  But with Annie Lamont of Oak HC/FT spouse of the stalwart Connecticut Governor His Royal Con-Man, King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, aided by the corrupted Democrat Party in an iron grip control of the state and bankrolled by an economically irrational DECD calling the shots, it is business as usual in the state.  Connecticut Information Technology workers be damned.  Connecticut Taxpayers be damned. And any reasonable economic fairness and decency in Connecticut can go to hell as well. Nothing changes in a state that is a bottom feeder in all economic categories with $100-$150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. 

Connecticut will soon be accelerating its trip into the economic and social gutter with the help of this horrendous and illogical Infosys economic grant. Its up to you, my reader, to cry out and finally put a stop to this mess.

The Continuing Scam of Ned-O-Nomics: The Infosys Economic Giveaway (Part 1)

Just about all poor vassal taxpayers in the State of Connecticut are aware of the saga of Sema4, a flagship equity investment promoted by Oak HC/FT, Oak HC/FT being the hedge-fund partnership partially owned by Annie Lamont, spouse of the stalwart Connecticut Governor His Royal Con-Man, King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable. We followed Sema4 through its journey from "no-bid" Covid testing and documented its personal data theft of children to the “pump” of its IPO in 2021, down through the aftermath of its subsequent “dump” leading to the withdrawal of its in-state presence in 2022. During this time, the Lamont-related ownership interests greatly benefited by leveraging millions of incredibly cheap “economic assistance” dollars to a backdrop of almost total political silence and a concerted corporate media effort to look the other way.

If we lived in any sort of a rational world instead of Connecticut, the picture we would be seeing today would be far different than the one now existing. That said, my review of a “responsive information” disclosure this past week concerning the same players but a different equity made it quite clear that other shifty “Ned Deals” were occurring during the identical time frame of Sema4, and unfortunately, no one was the wiser.

To this end, Infosys Limited (aka "Infosys”) is a worldwide company that over the past five years has been able to and will acquire, a mere $38 million dollars of Connecticut Taxpayers monies. How, you ask? From the generosity of the (should-be abolished) Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (“DECD”) via an $18 million dollar contract to bring 1,200 jobs to Connecticut over an either six- or eight-year period (depending on clarifications to this secret agreement). $2 million dollars of this grant was purportedly used for "job training", however that is defined and what actual job training was provided is a mystery also according to the disclosure. These 1,200 jobs cost Connecticut Taxpayers $15,000 for each job.

Whom Infosys can hire to meet this nebulous quota is also confusing to many. Apparently "green card" permanent residents can be hired and will qualify for meeting this jobs quota. Jobs can be done remotely from home and apparently from out-of-state employees so long as they in theory somehow pay a Connecticut State Income Tax on their wages. Salaries that need to be paid qualifying to meet this quota are equally hazy. Further, there is no study in the disclosure to exactly ascertain how much tax revenue Connecticut will get back from this $18 million investment. Regrettably, a review of these documents tells us it will take many years for the state to get back this massive amount of money given freely to this out-of-state worldwide company, if anything ever gets returned at all.

That said, if we feel the above is bad, things become much worse: In 2022, Infosys also received a "sweetheart" $20 million dollar Connecticut Taxpayer- funded contract for maintenance and support services to the Office of Early Childhood and Connecticut’s Health Insurance Exchange known as “Access Health CT”. This ostensibly undeserved gift, along with the proviso of additional services for the Department of Social Services were a part of this contract. It seems like this was a pre-planned contract even though it went through a state bidding process and amazingly enough was awarded to this foreign company that uses "green card" permanent residents and out-of-state employees in what has been publicly represented to corporate media as a “local” economic development program.

Trying to understand the complexities of this worldwide company is made to be intentionally difficult. And why this company was given this money is questionable. For example, the global revenue of Infosys amounted to about $18.2 billion U.S. dollars for Fiscal Year 2023. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/900303/india-infosys-revenue). It looks on paper as a highly profitable company worldwide. The operative question then becomes as to why a company that has this type of revenue need this $18 million dollar pittance of Connecticut taxpayers' monies? We still do not see nor understand how this grant benefits the state at large. But regrettably, (or thankfully) those of us that have dutifully followed the saga of The Unaccountable and his spouse in this state discovered the inevitable tie-in food chain between Oak HC/FT and Infosys.

As just several examples:
• In 2019 Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-service provider, received $100 million dollars in financing that was led by Oak HC/FT. Rapyd and Infosys partnered together to create and enable a functioning local payment system and methods for their global clients.

• In 2020 Infosys partnered with a company called Unqork. Unqork creates "Codeless Architecture". Unqork received funding from Oak HC/FT.

These are just a several examples of the Lamont-Oak HC/FT modus operandi of using Connecticut taxpayer monies to prop up questionable investments made by Oak HC/FT thus facilitated via the uncontrolled and secretive DECD cash spigot leading to either taxpayer-supported profit or risk-free loss. Followers of my blog and of Tony De Angelo on 94.9's "Lee Elci Show" are well-familiar with this Lamont shell game. However, while the above is both shocking and disgusting (if not, larcenous) no one seems to care about these new founded investments nor do we still have any answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners) investments to associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name a few. It is yet more of the same with Infosys and the Lamonts, as he continues to be the darling poster boy of the state to the point where more than one state politician (including some Republicans) cannot wait to grab a “selfie” with him.

Complex larceny is one thing, but lousy employee management is another. Infosys has a checked history when it comes to employee retention especially for United States workers. Looking at reviews that employees have entered at the website glassdoor.com one can see major issues. You can review some of this data brought to us by the diligent efforts of “CT Techworkers” This group has compiled a pdf of some of these reviews that are horrific. I suggest you read this document: (https://cttechworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/glassdoorreviewshartfordinfosys.pdf) An example from this pdf on page 4; "I left the company back in August 2020 and to this day (2/1/2021), I am still dealing with HR issues and HR no longer responds to my emails. The company had me listed as a resident of two different states, therefore I was paying income tax for both states-it was never corrected despite many different tickets submitted." My thoughts regarding this would Infosys Limited being counting this employee with two different state grants it received, being Connecticut and another state? Regardless, this would be a bookkeeping system in which millions of state tax dollars are channeled through.

What's another $38 million dollars of Connecticut Taxpayers monies? A “mere bag of shells” according to bus driver Ralph Kramden of “Honeymooners” fame, especially if the “key people” of the state are being buoyed by the funding. Again, this past budget featured over $823 million dollars spent for "economic development" in the 49th worst economic state in the union, and it looks that Connecticut has nothing to show for almost $1 billion dollars being spent by the DECD. However, this example presented with Infosys in conjunction with profits being made by Ned Lamont's family hedge fund Oak HC/FT represents again, a complete and total disregard for both Connecticut Taxpayers and for legal Connecticut citizens who work in the IT field and pay taxes to the state.

My second part to this issue will be forthcoming next week. Suffice it to say these situations are a farce and a rip-off against state taxpayers while an entire political and media system remains silent. But as you struggle to piece together a holiday meal for your family do keep in mind that others closer to the inner-machinery of the farce that is called Connecticut government, do not struggle nearly as much as we may.

The Destruction of Connecticut, as Brought to You via the Department of Economic and Community Development

 

A question for the upcoming 2024 Connecticut state election that must be asked to elected officials and candidates is how much taxpayer money has been lost or written off by the economic sieve known as the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development? (“DECD”) And the next question must be when will the DECD offenses of malfeasant behavior that have been noted since 2017 be addressed and corrected with proper reimbursements paid back to the state?   This past budget featured over $823 million dollars spent for "economic development" in the 49^th worst economic state in the union, and it looks that Connecticut has nothing to show for almost $1 billion dollars being spent by the carefree, unaccountable, and politically connected Cracker Jack box known as the DECD.  

In the past, I have written with regard to the failed state audits of this agency as performed by the Connecticut Auditors of Public Accounts. My colleague Tony De Angelo continually points out that these audits are fine work with no teeth as nothing here is ever legislatively acted upon. In this connection the DECD, being an agency that spent almost $2 billion dollars during 2011-2017, did not even have its first audit until 2017.  Why did it take that long?  Connecticut Taxpayers are still waiting for a response for that issue while during that same period job growth was the slowest in the nation and Connecticut was last or nearly last in most business and economic categories in the country.  Job growth was last or near last in the nation and Connecticut was last or nearly last in most business and economic categories in the country for the subsequent years 2018 to 2022 also.  This all was taking place while nearly $1 billion dollars is poured into the DECD yearly with these results.  There is no clear ascertainment to this day with the overstatement of the number of jobs created and/or retained along with the financial and economic impact of these same programs, further, there is scant due diligence of business borrowers, and in some cases there is no explanation for second loans granted even though the companies did not meet job creation requirements and/or were not making payments on their initial loans.  What are the real goals of the DECD?  To pay off Democrat Party politically connected businesses? To buy votes at taxpayer expense? To glad-hand and photo-op in the inner cities where money is only a temporary balm and false hope for these poor people that never fix the burn as politicians and panderers continue to lie right between their eyes? Truly, no one seems to know. (And worse, no one seems to care).

As wretched as the above record is, please bear in mind that the last state audit of the DECD covered the period prior to the reign of His Royal Con-Man, King Ned Lamont, the Unaccountable. To that point, we still have no answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners) nor to their associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name some, and we have no disclosure of how many Lamont cronies are sampling treats from the DECD candy box via means of loans and grants. But for Tony’s dogging the DECD, we would have never heard the real facts of the $15,000,000, 2% (two percent) “disappearing sweetheart” loan to Lamont-family connected Sema-4 with no collateral or guarantee of repayment, and these documented facts are contrary from what Sema4 has ever shared with corporate media. Further, we have never heard accountability for the $5 million dollars given to Lamont family-connected Digital Currency Group to (in theory) "move" 300 jobs to Stamford, CT?  Also, we never (ever) hear about the profit train that is forthcoming with the banning of gasoline cars for Lamont and family with their EV investments tied directly to the Saudi Public Investment Fund as major financial news sources such as the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly reported. Think about how much cash will be going to Oak HC/FT Partners from this “green energy” effort while Lamont continues to travel the state in his huge Beast vehicle with his state-paid attendants and flying with state paid fossil jet fuel while he demands we drive cars fueled by propellers. Sadly in the perspective of the Connecticut taxpaying vassals, the only "green energy" taking place is cash rapidly flowing into Lamont-related coffers.

Further, one puzzles as to what actually takes place at the DECD and as to why seemingly there is no political will anywhere to clean house. The DECD has had three Commissioners over a two-year time limit thus indicated managerial and leadership crises. Politicians and candidates of whatever party always seem to line up and support the people in charge. One can only conclude that the political will to throw money as a feelgood by a Connecticut official is far greater than the political will to exercise proper fiduciary responsibility by that same individual. But this type of glad-handing practice is standard operating procedure in Connecticut.

In closing, let us conclude by having a real moment. Connecticut still has $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities.  It is a bottom feeder state with high taxes, poor infrastructure, economically incoherent state union labor agreements, legislative Communist aspirations, high crime, theft and murders, rampant illegal drug trafficking and drug abuse, and a lack of any ethics or accountability from its Governor's office.  It is high time for a complete and full audit of the DECD from its inception and a full accounting of all of its bad deals and the true costs to Connecticut taxpayers, followed by fines, liens and prosecutions for perjury and larceny where warranted.  How much of Connecticut Taxpayers monies have been wasted since 2011?  What is the DECD really?  Connecticut’s government does not want you to know.  I guess 2024 will be another $1 billion dollars or more in Connecticut Taxpayers monies being spent for "economic development" while the state roils further in economic chaos.  And concurrently Ned Lamont's family hedge fund soars to new profitability.  

Things seem to never change for the destruction of Connecticut via the DECD and by those benefiting from the destruction.  

Connecticut's Perpetual Pension Crisis

Connecticut has a Perpetual Pension Crisis.  It is a crisis of its own making and State government is responsible.  There are several reasons why Connecticut is in such a mess with its pensions.  These reasons include horrific and sometimes nonexistent returns on its pension investments, as Connecticut recently ranked next to last out of all fifty states in the country.  However, keep in mind that this crisis has been years in the making as appointed and skill-less Connecticut State Treasurers have picked pension managers with more regard to political patronage rather than their ability to invest money with greater returns, and the taint has spread to about all political actors responsible across the aisle.  As just one example, we can look back at the scandal involving former Connecticut State Treasurer Paul Silvester as an example and his subsequent prison sentence for kickbacks.  Connecticut also pays out some of the highest pensions in the country in all categories including teacher pensions, municipal pensions, and state employee pensions.  Some who are retired from the state even get their Medicare premiums reimbursed by the state.  Further, state representatives and state senators have become masterful over time in laying low to play out the clock to the pension vesting line. Viewing this myriad of ills, legendary fraudster Charles Ponzi could not design a financial mousetrap as precarious and unsure as the state pension plan of Connecticut.

The fundamental problem with these generous pensions is that they are constantly underfunded.  However, the amount of unfunded pension liabilities seems to vary.  I have written at length in the past that Connecticut has $100 to $150 billion dollars’ worth of short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities.  Other estimates range that the amount of unfunded pension liabilities is from $30 to $50 billion dollars with an accepted amount being roughly $40 billion dollars.  Connecticut has seen this figure rise dramatically over the years while economically illiterate Connecticut Democrats feel that $7.7 billion dollars paid into the fund to pay down the enormous debt has gone a long way to fixing all ills.  Figures that have been thrown at the poor sucker Connecticut Taxpayers responsible for all of the debt in the state now show budget surpluses being shrunken in part to the ending of Covid-19 funds and the severe economic recession we endure caused by massive runaway inflation occurring due to the economically incoherent and ridiculous economic policies of the Democrat Biden Administration.

I submit unto you that Connecticut has a spending problem as it cannot tax enough aspects of our personal and business lives to cover that same spending.  Budgets always come and go with a maximum increase in state spending as the almost comical "fiscal guardrails" consisting of spending caps implemented over the years kick in.  However, to work around this fictional safety net, money spent on many occasions just falls off budget and is forgotten until the time comes for Connecticut Taxpayers to pay for it through yet even higher taxes and for added items, services, and crony support. Therefore, spending cap in my observation is normally ignored.  Much more egregiously, Connecticut has a habit of spending to excess with pensions. Connecticut Taxpayers are forced to live within their means and a strict budget especially during these Democrat Party induced runaway inflation times.  However, State government fights fiscal restraint at every turn since political patronage spending is built into the state budget, followed by the continual progression of handing state jobs and nonjobs to the politically favored, thereby growing the pension deficit to new stratospheres.

Unfortunately, little can be done to undo the commitment of past pension obligations, but there are several things Connecticut can do to make the future brighter. The biggest solution that can be afforded Connecticut's constant pension crisis is to properly fund it and hire a non-politically affiliated investment company that has proven results in their investment returns. Also, our fintech “businessman” Governor (his Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable) could call for a full real time and coherent disclosure of all pension business, so that crony dealings (such as his wife’s assets being placed into the pension via manager Hamilton Lane) can come to immediate light. Also, will we ever live to the day when we will see any one legislator have the courage to advocate for “defined contribution” Section 401(k) or 403(b) pension plans for new hires instead of the current bankrupting system?  Further, as much as there been some recent increases by new hire state employees to increase their required payments into the fund, it as a drop in a bucket. Connecticut's pension still is unfunded by roughly 50%.  Cut spending and invest pension funds wisely.  But with all of the fingers in the pie, we know this type of courage and reform will never happen in Connecticut. 

When Connecticut Taxpayers run out of money and the state's debt escalates to the point of no return, maybe we will then hear reform is needed.  Do not count on it.  Also do not count on any politically connected individuals proposing solutions to the pension Armageddon being laid across the backs of Connecticut vassal-like taxpayers. Debt is the solution of constant omnipotent Democrat party control and power in Connecticut forever.

 

Connecticut's Profit Driven Democrat Party: Democrats Profit at People’s Expense

 

It has become increasingly evident over time that most of Connecticut's Taxpayer funded programs and policies are somehow related to Democrat politicians and their ability to earn a personal profit or benefit from it.  Since the advent of the completely non-transparent Administration of His Royal Con Man King Governor Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, we know little to nothing about the many deals that are made almost daily to help the profits of the Lamont's family hedge fund and the deals of other assorted Democrats. Again and again, be it Lamont, or his wife Annie Lamont (aka “Saudi Annie”) and their myriad family private equity partnerships such as Oak HC/FT, Connecticut Taxpayers still have no clear answers to many questionable investments and arrangements tied to 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, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies a number of years later. The list seems endless, and we see absolutely no research, acuity, or initiative from our state-run media in investigating any of it. 

In any event the “Ned Gang” experienced a small loss this past week on the adopted California edict to outlaw gasoline powered vehicle sales in 2035 but we have no delusions in that the same gang will be back with retaliation in the form of a bill that buries this "Advanced Clean Cars II, ACC" initiative in it, possibly with a cuter name designed by either McKinsey or Boston Consulting.  When this initiative is then buried in a “rat” bill at 3 am at the close of the legislative session for passage, this successfully opens up yet another profit stream for Oak HC/FT along the lines of where investors vested in e-cars (such as the Lamont-connected Saudi-based Saudi Public Investment Fund), will profit once again off of the backs of non-politically connected minion and serf-like taxpayers.

Again, please do not delude yourself and do understand that the Electric Vehicle mandate is still very much in play.   But truthfully after the revolt against this farcical debacle was engineered at the hands of citizens, intrepid independent journalists, radio commentators, social media contributors, and not politicians (regardless of what they tell you), has the day finally dawned that Connecticut Taxpayers, state businesses and individuals who are tired of supporting the profit driven Democrat Party (whether it is corrupt Bridgeport,  drug-addled-bullet-ridden New Haven or state government in Hartford) are finally fed up with writing checks for these economically incoherent programs that are being mandated by non-elected Democrat career bureaucrats?

In addition, it is quite interesting to me that the bureaucracies propounding these programs almost always escape any criticism or challenge from any elected officials whatsoever, perhaps because these officials are pining for similar cushy state employment that some of their predecessors have already attained?  Could it be possible that Connecticut Taxpayers, the businesses, and individuals who are supporting the profit driven Democrat Party are now wondering once again how their humanitarian Governor earns $54 million dollars a year even though he does not take his salary?  Could it now be possible that Connecticut Taxpayers, the businesses, and individuals who are supporting the profit driven Democrat Party do not wish fund this incoherent economic gibberish called “government” that is rammed down their throats and pocketbooks any longer?  

Maybe and finally the outcry against this wretched E-Car Act requiring that all light duty vehicles sold in the state be Zero emissions vehicles by 2035 and that medium and heavy-duty trucks reduce their "emissions" by 40 to 75% by 2035 and requiring Truck fleets of 50 vehicles and over to report to the DEEP for "prioritization" of these fleets to electric vehicles, has broken the Democrats back with regards to their incessant march to economic Armageddon for the state. Still, many Democrats in the state are shocked at the outcry to the rejection of this piece of legislation even though behind the scenes tradeoffs/lobbying and bribing were being offered for a yes vote.  Could this now possibly mean that Connecticut Taxpayers have had enough?

However, keep in mind that these logically incoherent bureaucrats try to guilt, propagandize and shame state taxpayers to embrace their twisted vision, they will never tell you this entire “effort” has a hideously dirty little secret. As just one example, we are browbeaten by the delusional Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (headed by the $175,000 taxpayer-paid Commissioner Katie Dykes) and her wish to protect us from all causes of pollution wheresoever. However, this "vision" gives absolutely no consideration to the abuses of people and children of Color caused by the serial mining of the minerals in order to produce E-Car batteries: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara (inter-alia). This issue is well-known and well-settled. That said, I am of the belief that the very woke-liberal- environmentally sensitive and happily bureaucratic walking among us in Connecticut could care less about the generational damage done to these helpless people and to the earth as a whole by mineral mining, provided that they have their neat little Subaru or Volt car to plug into a charging station and chat about how hip they are to the cause of clean air.

Since the beginning of the Lamont Administration to this day the Democrat Party places their profits over people especially over Connecticut Taxpayers.  A new war over town zoning has begun that will drive Democrat profit streams in the future, create unaffordable and nonsensical housing, raise property taxes even higher, eliminate wetlands and wreak environmental destruction (sort of like the EV mandate coming in 2035), and help destroy Persons of Color far away while Middle Easterners tied to the E-Car industry keep trying to force feed the misguided products onto the driveways of citizens.  Connecticut has the modern day "Robin Hoods" although with a twist as the current Democrat Administration of His Royal Con Man, King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, his wife Ann Lamont (aka “Saudi Annie”) and their family private equity partnerships such as Oak HC/FT seem to rob the middle class Connecticut taxpayers to help make them become poor and then giving to the rich, to make them even more wealthy in the vast economic wasteland known as Connecticut. 

In consideration of all the above, perhaps “Robbing Hoods” is a more apt term for these connected characters. And again, it is truly Democrat Profits over people in 2023.

Connecticut's Democrat Party’s Quest to Go Back to The Stone Ages

 

“Back to the Stone Age” should be the new slogan for the state of Connecticut in the future, as it is certainly more apt and accurate than “Make it, Here”.  There will be no Back to the Future, nor any type of functional advancement economically, socially, or environmentally with the Draconian "Advanced Clean Cars II, ACC" initiative (the “Act”) requiring that all light duty vehicles sold in the state be Zero emissions vehicles by 2035 and that medium and heavy-duty trucks reduce their "emissions" by 40 to 75% by 2035 as well.  Truck fleets of 50 vehicles and over will be required to report to the DEEP for "prioritization" of these fleets to electric vehicles.  The Act also will create "superior warranty provisions and protections" although there is no mention from what I can gather as to how this will happen and who will pay for it (https://portal.ct.gov/deep/air/mobile-sources/ct-proposed-emissions-standards-for-cars-and-trucks).  Sadly, the poor citizens of Connecticut know that these vague and inept policies are par for the course in the land of King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, but no one in said kingdom ever seems to care.

The Confused Connecticut Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environment and Energy Protection (“DEEP”), Katie Dykes, stated that support for this Stone Age bill was overwhelming even though the massive investigation by David Flemming of the Yankee Institute showed the majority of comments sent to the DEEP were overwhelmingly against this economically incoherent piece of legislation (https://ctmirror.org/2023/11/22/ct-gas-car-ban-deep/?mc_cid=ccfa588631).  Dykes obviously did not really research and/or apparently read the negative comments as Mr. Flemming noted from his article that "while DEEP did receive more than 4,000 comments, over 900 had identical email usernames and/or domain names, as I discovered in my research for the Yankee Institute. Therefore, it is a good bet that fewer than 4,000 people Actually commented. Nevertheless, because duplicates from the “support” and “oppose” camps were evenly distributed, this would not impact the tally of comments on a percentage basis. " Thus, as in Democrat run Bridgeport with the stuffing of absentee ballots for Mayor, the state's comments are skewed with 900 identical robo emails flooding the comments box. Simply put, if one removes these comments, one sees there is overwhelming opposition to this bill and Act by the legitimate Taxpaying public.  But why let hard figures such as that bother the highly paid DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes (whose salary is well over $175,000 a year) and other math-deniers in government? Ostensibly, this crowd has signed up with the “all math is racist” crowd in their exercise of non-analytical policy double-speak, (but I digress).

The Act also has had absolutely no cost benefit analysis to it.  Who will be paying for these vehicles, extended warranties, electric charging stations (that apparently will use no fossil fuels?), batteries, liabilities for damage when there is a fire in an electric vehicle and/or get in an accident with one, the economic costs of the massive amount of gas/diesel stations/pumps closing, the economic costs of the massive layoff of gasoline/diesel mechanics due to a lack of work, the economic costs of parts supply houses/dealers going out of business since parts for gasoline/diesel vehicles will no longer be able to be sold since liability issues are unclear in the Act.  Connecticut will be embracing a complete dismantling of the pathetic remains of its economy to embrace this new beloved "Stone Age." In addition, it is well-settled that the environmental costs of generating E-power are far worse that the supposed benefit from abstention from fossil fuels.

Thus, Connecticut Taxpayers will be spending a great deal of money trying to get anywhere wheresoever in the state especially those few who will still have jobs and must commute to work.   What law is coming next? A ban on all driving in the state?  I can see that coming especially with the shoving down the throats of this true debacle of legislation for EV vehicles being the only cars sold in state.  The laws of supply and demand in a free-market economy seem to be hated by the Profit Driven Ned Lamont multimillionaire Democrat Party of 2023.  It is really no big deal to them as we know profits are being panned out now by the ruling elite, and a new Stone Age is embraced by the environmental police state that we all know is Connecticut. 

If you are not particularly fascinated by high-level governmental machinations, and you are just doing your best to get along from day to day, allow me to boil this down for you: A bunch of elitist eggheads and idealogues  in Connecticut government are forcing you to pay money that you will never have to purchase undependable skittish electric cars and trucks that are far too expensive to charge and may not even run if the power goes out and if the weather dips below a certain temperature. Also, if your family is hungry and you need necessary supplies, the large trucks forced to use this so-called technology delivering these critical goods might become inoperative as they will become too heavy for roads and bridges. So, as you cannot get your car started and your family is going hungry and you cannot work, you want to scream at your government, but your government really does not care, and to make things worse, your governor is tied to a large family investment in E-cars made by a Middle Eastern country interested on pushing this E-car mess upon you, come Hell or high water.

Do you still have a problem with this? Be obedient to the party line.  And start walking today and shut up about it.

“Saudi Annie” and Her Saudi Profits

 Political scandals are woven into our everyday life, especially in Connecticut.  With the current Democrat Administration of His Royal Con Man, King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, his wife Ann Lamont (aka “Saudi Annie”) and their family private equity partnership Oak HC/FT, Connecticut Taxpayers still have no clear answers to many questionable investments and arrangements tied to 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, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies even years later. To make matters even worse, not one political person to date has aggressively pursued how these arrangements impact the state, especially when all the homework has been previously completed for them to proceed.

Now let us add to that menagerie of companies and arrangements above the new Saudi Arabian connection as has been discovered and made public knowledge through the hard work of Journalist George Colli https://thectcapitalist.com/2023/07/31/saudi-annie-days-1-10/)  and continually followed up by Tony De Angelo on his weekly segment on the Lee Elci show (94.9 FM).  There is a disclosed investment of undetermined sum by the Saudi Arabia Private Investment Fund into its investment arm Sanabil Investments which in turn is investing in numerous United States venture capital firms including Oak HC/FT.  Again, Oak HC/FT is the Lamont family equity partnership.  Why are the Lamont's accepting investments from a country that has numerous ties to the slaughter of its enemies, terrorism, control of natural resources worldwide, control of the "green" electric vehicle markets and its batteries, and its atrocious human rights record especially with non-heterosexual people?  Since the Lamont’s have no comment whatsoever on this investment one must assume that they approve of it since it will likely bring more profit to the egregious Lamont family financial record.  How does it benefit our country when an elected Democrat Party official is allowed to gain profit for its' family by partnering with an enemy to our country?  How much of Connecticut Taxpayers monies were involved in this latest economic investment by Oak HC/FT?  Why is this information hidden from taxpayers? Why is the ethics system and financial disclosure system in Connecticut a total and complete failure with respect to providing disclosures in these matters?

Since “The Unaccountable” has never made a state financial policy decision that somehow did not benefit his family coffers, the obvious (but not pursued) question is how will this “Saudi Annie” deal imperil state policy? Will “E-Car-2035” be codified to the point where gas powered vehicles will not be allowed in state? After all, the Saudi Public Investment Fund is a huge investor in the genre (https://www.wsj.com/articles/lucid-electric-vehicle-losses-51035f63). Will all state vehicles now be electric to help bail out Lamont family investors that are losing money hand over fist in E-Car investments? Will this create a needless public safety crisis given the nature of E-vehicles? How about more wind power installations as the Saudis are heavily invested in that as well? How about the installation of Saudi- style “economic cities” in place of our poor pathetic wrecked Connecticut ones? All seems quite likely, but no questions are ever asked by those close to the Lamonts. This is a sickening and shameful indictment on the political system especially given the Lamont track record.

There is a strong possibility that Connecticut's Democrat/Socialist/Communist United States Senator and former faux Vietnam Combat Veteran Richard Blumenthal will actually get some answers to his recent probing of the Saudi's fund since he became very upset by their investments in golf in our country.  Will his newfound enthusiasm in actually finding truth in something actually uncover some harsh economic realities that paint the industrious spouse of Connecticut's Governor in a corrupted light by accident?  

The bigger question here that all Taxpayers must be asking themselves is why their hard-earned tax monies are going to sworn enemies such of our country?  Why are our elected officials allowed to invest in the antagonists and foes of America?  Did we not learn anything from history?  It seems we have long forgotten 9/11/01 and now 10/7/23 in Israel.  

Many people want answers to the Lamont's investments.  It would be nice to actually see accountability in Connecticut's state government.  It would be nice to see elected officials from both sides of the aisle demanding answers to these investments.  Ethics in government really do not exist anymore.  Just look at Joe Biden and his family.  But more importantly just look at His Royal Con Man, King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, and his wife Saudi Annie and their resulting actions, where continual spin and avoidance are the orders of any day.  Those are all the answers you'll need to understand the complete breakdown of morals and governmental ethics in 2023.

 

Connecticut Elections Do Matter

Elections do matter.  No matter what you might hear or see, they do matter.  They matter more than you can imagine.  Unbelievably they also matter in Connecticut.  I still wonder why any sane person would vote for a Democrat, yet they did in droves this past Tuesday.  On election night, I commented that there has been a mass exodus of people from Connecticut who in many cases were Conservative and voted Republican in local elections.  As we saw during the pandemic, many people moved from New York and New Jersey into Connecticut replacing those conservative traditional voters and appear to have embraced the failed social and economic policies they fled from those states.  As such, several towns and cities leaned Democrat on election day for the first time in years.  That should be no surprise to the faux-Rockefeller-type moderate feel good Connecticut Republican Party that pompously runs against all things President Trump.  If one mentions his very name to some in the party, they will transform in front of your eyes into Democrats.  However. there are still some conservatives in the Republican Party who hold the line and deemed "hard right" (whatever that term means to liberals and socialists and why it is so offensive to them).  These same "hard right" conservatives are immediately written off by the party as being not electable yet are popular with like-minded citizens and are elected in some towns and cities.

Bridgeport is a vile and corrupt Democrat led city that continues to be an economic failure and a national laughingstock.  The city is a cesspool of Democrat corruption.  It is hard to believe that Mayor Ganim somehow  found enough absentee votes to amazingly win his election once again.  The obvious absentee ballot stuffing that took place on camera should have been enough evidence to have postponed the election entirely and voided all absentee ballots that were "delivered".   

What happened in Bridgeport was a stolen election, as it was illegitimate any way it is sugarcoated and spun.  What happened was illegal and still needs to be addressed, especially given its farcical nature. And predictably, the leadership position of His Royal Con Man, King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, is that the system worked simply fine in Bridgeport and anything untoward was caught. Anyone with just minimal common sense would know that the wretched situation in Bridgeport cannot be an isolated incident in any way and that the Lamont position is an insult to any responsible citizen of the state.

Through it all, there are towns in Connecticut that remain strong Republican and have been for years.   Look at the strengths of the Republican Party in Wallingford. Look at the strengths of the Republican Party in Shelton. Look at the strengths of the Republican Party in Orange.  Look at Bristol and some small towns in the state.  Look at what happened in Greenwich, where a well thought out, comprehensive Republican campaign took place that also addressed each lame attack from the Democrats running.  The Greenwich Republican plan should be adopted by the state Republican Party as a blueprint for success in future elections.  However, it sadly will not as infighting between the Rockefeller-lite and conservative parts of the Republican Party will continue in the massively important election of 2024.  

To run as a Connecticut Republican in 2024 will a prerequisite to do so be the condemnation and renunciation of President Trump and all of the policies he stands for?  These policies brought border security, energy independence, stable food prices, small business growth, and Middle East stability. This weakness cannot continue if the GOP ever hopes again to be a force in the state or the country.

There are many conservative Republicans who live in Connecticut and are fed up with their state leadership and constant losses.  They will vote for President Trump in 2024 regardless of anyone wanting to influence them otherwise.  They are fed up with the destruction of America's economy and society by a corrupt, pathetic Democrat President and his incoherent handlers. They would also be drawn to service should they see a party modeled on policy and principles rather than accepting defeat in the name of victory.

Connecticut after Tuesday successfully continues its path towards socialism and communism with the burdens of several new towns that will now be controlled by an omnipotent state Democrat Party.  The further erosion of these towns and cities will be embraced through higher taxes, yet even more crime, more economic turmoil, homelessness, cluelessness, incompetency, Marxism, addiction, more businesses closing and moving out of state, less practical teaching with much more educational brainwashing and indoctrination of false premises, ideas, and political ideologies.   There are two vastly different and unique paths politically in Connecticut.  Let us hope and pray that the demolition and ruination of this once great state stops at some point with ethical and honest leaders stepping forward to lead once again.  Connecticut simply cannot go on like this.

 

Why Would Any Sane and Free Person Vote Democrat on November 7, 2023?

 I truly wonder why anyone would vote Democrat on Election Day, especially in Connecticut?  Sadly, we do see groups who are owned by the Connecticut Democrat Party being forced to vote Democrat.  They include Communist-driven state labor unions, state and local teachers’ unions, businesses that are politically connected to the Democrats, and incoherent and unserious liberal lackeys and sycophants that are entirely ignorant concerning the economic and social wreckage of Connecticut and of our country.  I believe the majority of Connecticut Taxpayers and United States citizens have had enough of the obfuscating lies that the Democrat Party force feed us daily in economic, social and world affairs. President Biden and his incompetent Administration are deliberately trying to destroy our country with their spew of incoherent economic and social gibberish. Even so, I believe that the majority of Connecticut Taxpayers and United States citizens will be voting based on the severe economic nightmare we are living in that has been created by the Democrats.   Voters will state on Election Day that they have had enough of the Democrat Party and its lies.  

The state run media continually supported by the Democrat Party are doing their best every day to hide crime, murders, theft of vehicles, unchecked illegal immigration, runaway inflation, energy horrors, food left rotting due to its high costs, fake climate change, an illegal drug crisis, a suicide crisis especially among our youth, a public school system only concerned with gender change/political indoctrination, barbaric abortion laws, a war in the Ukraine, a never ending Covid-19 crisis, and for dessert, the weekly fraud by His-Royal Con-Man King Governor Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his wife Annie propping up family-related investments by using Connecticut taxpayer's dollars. As just one example, the seven-count conviction of crypto fraudster Samuel Bankman-Fried this past week and his direct ties to Ned and Ann Lamont, the Digital Currency Group and the should-be-abolished Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s secret trashing of taxpayer dollars went entirely unreported in-state. But this economic event worthy of National news is not their fault!  The Democrat Party constantly blames any problem somewhere else other than themselves, with most blame thrown especially upon former President Trump.  I believe the majority of Connecticut Taxpayers and United States citizens have tuned this Democrat propaganda machine out and are beyond their breaking point in more ways than the Democrat party and its associated operatives could imagine.   Most Voters see Election Day as a way to dispose of a political party whose hatreds, insecurities, lies, shaming, insults, and malicious and harmful actions have brought Connecticut and a free America on the verge of ruin.  The Democrat Party is incapable of any credible leadership or following the rule of law.  Voters have had enough of this mess, let alone any thinking person with a clear and working brain.

It is time in 2023 for a change in Connecticut and in America as to our government is managed.  We as the Taxpayers of our country have been forced to accept poorly run, economically incoherent and corrupt local, state, and federal governments and the broadside of taxes that are paid out daily.  Look at Bridgeport.  Look at New Haven.  Look at Hartford. Possibly, a worse example is New London. Why must this economic and social debacle continue?  Why must Connecticut Taxpayers and United States citizens be treated in such a horrific manner?  United States citizens did not vote for a communist/socialist form of government contrary to what the Democrat Party thinks.  We still have a Constitution and Bill of Rights that are legally binding in America in 2023.  Do we not?

Why would anyone vote Democrat on this Election Day?  Why?  I still believe in the greatness of our country.  I also believe that Voters will reject in full force the lies, deceptions, corruption and evil that the Democrat Party represents in 2023.  We all have had enough of this destruction.

 

Philanthropic Hypocrisy- The Lamont’s’ Innovative New Profit-Making Game.

Money is made in Connecticut.  Especially if you are His Royal-Con-Man King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable, and his wife Annie Lamont. Especially when you know you will never be questioned nor investigated by the Legislature nor from your state-supported “journalists” about what you have done, how your profits were made, how much of Connecticut Taxpayers monies have been invested in companies you own, and as to why your income tax statements are forever hidden from Connecticut Taxpayers. You take comfort in the fact that there are still no state media questions to your issues and involvements with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group, and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, Digital Currency Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, “The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies.  Ned and Annie Lamont need not be transparent to Connecticut as they own Connecticut, and they are continually held to be unaccountable by all for whatsoever they may do.

Con artists and grifters are continually in search of new marks. The new mark and obvious profit-making machine are Annie Lamont and her new “Tidal River Fund”.  The Tidal River Fund is yet another new state-driven startup for women and minorities for financing “early-stage startups of businesses”.  How and why this fund/program is any different than the myriad of State of Connecticut programs for women and minorities no one can explain.  However, the branding on the Tidal River Fund is that Annie Lamont founded it along with former Democrat Governor Dan Malloy's niece Alison Malloy, who just happens to be also the managing director of the state’s questionable secretive venture capital arm, “Connecticut Innovations”.  The spin on Tidal River is also that there are 21 (twenty-one) first time investors who have invested $25,000 in the fund.  It is important to note that there has already been a $100,000 investment by another cloistered state entity named “CTNext” to this fund.  Both Connecticut Innovations and CTNext are supposedly investing heavily in Tidal River but many fund investments will show little (if any) results once the “winners” are segregated from “losers” and the “winners” are picked for funding.    Possibly one reason the new Tidal River Fund is different than other investments is that is has the Democrat pedigree of the relatives of two of the worse Governors in the state's history, Malloy, and Lamont The Unaccountable. But by these people appearing magnanimous, this endeavor will never come to full transparency with respect to its reason for existence, and its benefit to the state as a whole.

Investments by the many state/private nonprofits for job creation and business formation are vast in the state and are intentionally made difficult to follow.  The Lamonts’ plea of ignorance as to the number of investments made with Connecticut taxpayer's monies into Oak HC/FT hedge fund companies would be funny if it were not so ridiculous and sick.  One should be reminded of the atrocious economic record of Connecticut even though billions of dollars of Connecticut Taxpayer's monies are dumped yearly to prop up the economic ventures and failures of Democrat Connecticut political operatives. Even so, Connecticut continues to rank last and or near last in many business categories and ranks at the top of the highest taxes in the country.  Do keep in mind that Connecticut has $100 to $150 billion dollars in unfunded liabilities along with short- and long-term debt, with no endgame in sight nor any plan to satisfy the debt.

In addition, please keep in mind that Connecticut is a state without any ethics or firewalls operating in a continual state of moral bankruptcy. My friend and colleague Tony De Angelo from the Lee Elci Show (WJJF 94.9 and THIRTY WITH TONY) took one look at this arrangement and said “Bob, this is a wonderful way for the Lamont family to scout companies with potential and invest in what they want and/or direct others to invest under a cloak of philanthropy. What is even better is that they and their cronies get to be observant “venture capitalists” without “venturing” one red cent. There is no written agreement against self-dealing in these start-ups. Nothing whatsoever prevents them from doing whatever they want, especially as they know they will never be questioned, and given their past track record it is shameful and sick that no one is questioning them”. Tony’s observations are barometer as to how business gets done by the politically connected in the once proud Nutmeg State

So, it is another year, and it is another innovative and racket-style Lamont Family economic plan for personal profit while inane marketing gimmicks like the "Make It Here" campaign (if you are not taxed out of business, robbed at gun point, or have your vehicles stolen), are to suffice for the rest of us.  More of the same rhetoric and more of the same results by the profit driven team that leads Connecticut. 

 The power-hungry Democrat Governor and his wife are the first couple of their kingdom in so many ways. This should sicken the state-but never will.  It’s profit (and now philanthropic hypocrisy) over people, especially in Connecticut.

Reality-Based Solutions for Eliminating Crime in Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut

 

Law abiding Connecticut citizens have reached their breaking point in Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut.  Every day they live in constant fear of stolen cars, (some even at gunpoint), robberies in grocery store parking lots, home invasions, murder in cold blood as innocent bystanders, bank robberies, constant shoplifting in retail stores and a whole lot more.  Every day there are numerous reports of criminal cartels running massive car theft operations as there is no fear of arrests or being stopped.  

The economic criminal profit potential of Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut is enormous when one thinks of it. Due to little or no risk, criminals as young as 12 are working part time profitable jobs breaking into vehicles by smashing windows and driving away without pursuit.  These young criminals are being well compensated by crime cartels and/or other illegal tax-evading entities for the services they provide to these same equally disgusting criminals that chop up the stolen cars for parts, and liquidate the other valuable items in them.  If you choose to defend your vehicle, you can expect to be shot at like what recently happened to a private citizen in Northford, CT. With such a blasé’ attitude towards crime enforcement in Connecticut we have the impression that our personal property is not our own in Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut.  Legal private property rights seem to be outdated.  

In reading this, liberal panderers and starry-eyed delusional supporters of His Royal Con-Man King-Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable will be quick to point out recent state-generated reporting stating that “crime is down” in Connecticut. However, since a large part of Connecticut city-originated crime goes unreported, the statistics given are tainted, at best. Even in a good light, such state-driven statistical compilations are agency-centric rather than locality centric, so one cannot tell what is happening in a specific locale. Instead, try a dollar-driven site such as https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ that compiles hard data provided by actual real estate purchasers and investors. If we review that site (inter-alia) we see that Connecticut cities are worse than 78% of the rest of the country by way of crime. Further research on real numbers tells even the casual reader that the crime results are not good.

There truly are solutions to the crime wave in the state.  However, these solutions do not conform to the Socialist Connecticut Democrat Party agenda of destroying any sense of personal or economic freedom and police protection under an incoherent judicial system using weak laws governing crime and theft.  But if unserious and woke Connecticut ever chose to be serious about crime, here are several solutions that would start to take the bite of out crime in the state.

Car theft: For the few individuals who are arrested for this crime, bail should not be offered and/or offered at a $1,000,000. or more, value.  A sub court system could immediately be created, offering 24-hour hearings and subsequent charges/convictions.  First offense sentences for car theft would no longer be thrown out and/or probationary.  A one-year prison term with no time suspended would be mandatory.  Each additional offense would add 6 months more to the one-year term.  Therefore, if a criminal has already been convicted with five thefts under these new laws, he or she would serve 30 months in prison with no time suspended.  With this law, the owner of the vehicle stolen, and insurance companies would have a greater ability to fast track or attach any property or wages of the criminal for monetary damages of the value of the car no matter how expensive or inexpensive it was.  Sounds harsh?  That is the idea. It is, and it might possibly make some criminals think twice about stealing cars.  

Robbery of an individual:  There are robberies of distracted and defenseless women have their wallets/pocketbooks stolen after placing their groceries in their cars.  Shoplifting is rampant as well.  For the few individuals who are arrested for these crimes, bail should be offered and or offered at a $1,000,000 or more value. Again, first offense sentences for robbery would no longer be thrown out and/or be probationary.  A one-year prison term with no time suspended would be the minimum.  Multiple offenses would add 6 months more to the one- year term.  Victims of robbery would be able to sue the criminal for their losses and/or medical treatments generated during the crime, while retail stores/shops would be able to sue for monetary losses of the merchandise stolen.

Murder:  Murder takes away another person's life.  Many innocent people have been murdered, especially by drive by shootings.  Do their lives matter? Does it make any difference if they are Black lives? Or Asian lives? Or white lives?  No lives matter in Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut.  Life in prison does not seem to defer murder in the state.  The death penalty should be restated.

Who pays the costs of these crimes?  We do, of course, through higher retail store prices and much higher auto insurance rates due to the onslaught of these criminal activities.  Crime in Connecticut is at all time high even though the massaged "statistics" show otherwise.  The Connecticut Democrat Party has been in denial of this for many years.  A local election is in a few weeks in the state.  In Democrat-run towns and cities, crime seems to be a forbidden topic to discuss.  Of course, there the pleas for the usual choir of more money will solve all the problems of any Democrat run city.  But when you look at Bridgeport which is a cesspool of corruption, New Haven that is a tale of two cities and Taxpayer-supported Chicago-aspiring Hartford, nothing has changed over the years.  They are still vast economic wastelands that nurture a hopeless economic future for those trapped living there.  So called “leaders” cannot make the painful decisions to say “No” to the complete political failures of years of omnipotent Democrat-driven rule and deception.  Maybe voters should really think about why the state's Democrat Party really can't solve any problem whatsoever, especially crime, while they figure out new ways to rip off the Taxpayer who must live in fear in any activity he or she may do. 

Crime can be solved.  It takes ethics, leadership, and respect for human life.  It also takes courage, which is an especially scarce commodity in all areas of Connecticut government. It does not take another "crime task force" However lets be clear. The major player in this sick psychodrama is the Corrupt Unethical Connecticut Democrat Party.  They own this self-made crime crisis in the state.

The Lack of Accountability in Today's Government

One thing that I can no longer tolerate is the blatant disregard for accountability, ethics, laws, rules, and truth that many elected politicians and appointed officials have for their office and their constituents.  At all levels of government, day in and day out, corruption, lies, and theft are passed off as normal.  Cheerleaders and activists calling themselves “journalists” work in tandem with newscasters from the state-run media to support this debacle with their nonsensical incoherent gibberish packaged as “news reporting” in order to help support government policies.  

On a federal level, the continued failures of the Democrat Biden Administration are seen daily, regardless of how hard these “media partners” work to try to conceal them.  Our economy is in grave trouble with runaway inflation, a massive loss of economic and retiree wealth, a loss of real purchasing power due to runaway inflation, and a massive increase in personal debt due to inflation. Inflation is a tax whether the Democrat Party believes it or not.  The United States has a border crisis with untold millions of illegal immigrants walking through our unsecured and porous border.  American Taxpayers get to support these individuals through massive social welfare programs. The new energy crisis of our Pathetic President has increased all energy costs for Americans due to his irrational hatred of fossil fuels and energy independence for our country.  We now must surrender our dependable gasoline powered cars for Utopian electric vehicles in the name of environmental lunacy and irrationality. 

We now have a national security crisis evidenced by the horrific and deadly pull out from Afghanistan, the untold economic support given to our enemy Iran, and now the horrific nightmare unfolding for Israel where innocent Americans were murdered in cold blood.  Crime in America is the norm with the victim of a crime being viewed as the criminal and the criminal being the victim.  It is undeniable that America has turned into a hell hole of Democrat Party induced violence, crime, murder, and theft.

On a state level, Connecticut's march to socialism continues unabated under the reign of His Royal Con-Man, the corrupt and unaccountable Democrat King Ned Lamont. The King is continually lauded and embraced by the star-blinded state-run media followers.  We see enormous of profit made in spectacular fashion by a Democrat Governor and his humble wife through their hedge fund through unquestioned investments in companies that were given via Connecticut Taxpayers funds to do whatever they wished with the cash, and with no oversight or accountability.  There are still no answers given to the issues and involvements with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group, and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, McKinsey and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies, inter-alia.  There is no transparency as well for Ned Lamont and his robber barons. 

Crime is non- stop in the state, as daily car thefts, robberies and muggings are the new normal for Connecticut taxpayers.  And please do not bother Democrats in the state about having a constitutional right to defend yourself, for you, the law-abiding citizen, are the problem.  Just continue to give away your private property to the career thieves of the state, and shut up and enjoy it.  

On a local level, Democrat run cities are sewers of economic and social ruin and despair with open air drug dens, daily murders, and much more social rot and decay than one could ever have imagined.  Democrat City District Attorneys have forgotten what laws are and mean, as their only concern is to damn all things Republican, Conservative, or Judeo-Christian.   Throw in the fact that your vote does not count as you see with the Bridgeport voting scandal. while all is hailed as wonderful in that socially decaying and sad city that Taxpayers support. 

 Politicians at all levels of government must stop ripping off their constituents by forcing them to fund this destruction of our country.  Accountability is lost at all levels of government.  News reporting must become truthful and objective again instead of being a force fed biased liberal brainwashing of anything that stands in the way of a perfect socialist Marxist utopia.  America needs true ethical political leaders to emerge again at all levels of government.  The political swamp and cesspool of corruption and lies needs to be drained, once and for all.  With too many things happening in this world, Taxpayers need to de-fund this garbage dump called government. 

 Americans are truly tired of being ripped off by politicians. The ruling elite ignores this fact as it is 1776 all over again.

 

Ban Connecticut's DEEP Rather Than Gasoline Powered Vehicles

One can be easily confused in reading what the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) actually does in the state.  I do not see anywhere in its website where it, and/or Connecticut Taxpayers are legally bound to follow the environmental rules of California.  According to the State of Connecticut government portal (portal.ct.gov): "The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is a state agency in the U.S. State of Connecticut. The department oversees the state's natural resources and environment and regulates public utilities and energy policy." Also, "The mission of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is to conserve, improve and protect the air, water and other natural resources and environment of the State of Connecticut while fostering sustainable development. The agency’s mission includes the goals of reducing electrical rates and decreasing costs for Connecticut ratepayers, ensuring the reliability of the state’s energy supply, increasing the use of clean energy, and developing the state’s energy-related economy for conserving natural resources, thereby enhancing the quality of life in Connecticut. DEEP’s programs preserve and protect from pollution the state's waters, air, land and other natural resources." 

 However, Proposed section 22a-174-37, Low NOx and ACT Regulation (PR2023-020) and Proposed section 22a-174-36d, Advanced Clean Cars II (PR 2023-023) follow the rules of California to eliminate the sale of gasoline powered vehicles in state by 2035 and, forcing all Connecticut Taxpayers/Drivers to use electric vehicles if they hope to go anywhere at all.

While at it, why not ban all fossil fuels and their products as well? How you might heat your homes is totally irrelevant to the environmental and unelected political elitists that are not accountable to Connecticut Taxpayers while dictating these insane policies and laws.  Heating your homes with heating oil or natural gas?  Both are environmentally friendly but forget that, you must ban them.  So what, that you risk freezing to death and/or having your pipes burst when frozen?   We all know that His Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his Connecticut Democrat Party can use any type of energy they want to while living in splendor off the labors of the Connecticut Taxpayer supporting their incoherent economic environmental gibberish.  You must be made to understand that you are not a member of this ruling class, but merely a subject with no voice or no vote. Obviously, the environmental mecca and liberal wasteland known as California is what Connecticut Taxpayers must obey.  

Maybe Connecticut Taxpayers should ban the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection?  Maybe Connecticut Taxpayers should de-fund it?  Maybe Connecticut Taxpayers should realize that they no longer have any say whatsoever in what the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection wants to do, can do, will do, and will do at whatever cost that its denizens of the Connecticut Administrative State shall determine in their sole and absolute discretion. First the ban will be on gas cars and soon after furnaces, air conditioning units and afterwards, all of the plastic products in your bathroom will be banned as they are made with petroleum derivatives. Life as we know it will be banned in the guise of this Utopian zero emission endeavor of economic despair, discouragement, and destruction.  

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is overreaching its "governance" with this totalitarian decree.  Who is going to pay for all these supposed subsidies for electric vehicles that are no way economically affordable in a high tax, high cost-of-living state like Connecticut?  I forgot; the Connecticut Taxpayers will get the bill as they are continually shafted by all the various corporate welfare gimmicks Connecticut's state government force feeds to them.  An economy needs the basic laws of supply and demand to function daily.  Connecticut seems to be an example of a command economic system dictated by the ruling Democrat Party elite by forcing Taxpayers to buy vehicles that they do not want and cannot afford. And there is not yet one legislator speaking out to call this entire hallucinatory and fantastic “policy" pipe dream a farce, and calling for the free market to take over as to what vehicles Taxpayers wish to drive.

 This is just another example of Ned Lamont's Democrat Party economics and economic failure that Connecticut Taxpayers will pay for.  It is 1776 all over again.

The Serious Problems of Unserious Democrat Connecticut

Ned Lamont's Democrat Connecticut has many serious problems.  Economically, the state has lost a great deal of major businesses and corporate taxpayers that have moved to lower taxed and better-run states.  Aetna, General Electric, Edible Arrangements, Pepperidge Farms, MassMutual, Unilever, UTC, Carrier, Lego, Frontier, Stag Arms, and Alexion Pharmaceuticals are just few of the companies that have moved out.  Quality jobs are hard to come by, even though Ned Lamont's Democrat Connecticut has funneled plenty of money to his “winners” in his family's hedge fund.  Connecticut Taxpayers still have no official answers as to investments made and Lamont relationships with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, Digital Currency Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, McKinsey and the bulbous Ned Lamont-connected Cayman Islands Limited Partnerships that remain a secret via a huge blanket of cover from state-run media.  Connecticut's economy constantly trails the rest of the country due to high taxes, high state debt, high workers compensation insurance costs, a poor infrastructure and rampant crime all being factors. 

Money is serially thrown at businesses that are politically connected with no accountability whatsoever as to repayments of loans. This past budget featured over $823 million dollars spent for "economic development".  Connecticut does not have practically anything to show for almost $1 billion dollars being spent by the (should-be-abolished) CT Department of Economic and Community Development.   This is a serious problem that is not treated at all as serious by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Pervasive voter fraud enabled by the insecure and comical "ballot boxes" spread throughout the state nurture the feelings that your vote really does not count in Connecticut, especially in Bridgeport.  How difficult is it to investigate ballot fraud in Bridgeport?  Ostensibly it is exceedingly difficult since fraud is still being investigated from 2019.  The Democrat Ganim regime must control the city at all costs!  The latest ballot stuffing incident is apparently no big deal.  Restating what I wrote from last week: Connecticut's unserious Democrat Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas condescendingly stated that: "This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system. This isn’t even about absentee ballot systems,” Thomas said. “It’s about a few bad actors and an undereducated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate)  Yes voters! You are considered uneducated since your vote obviously does not count in Bridgeport unless you vote for the corrupted Democrat machine!  I am confident that this current ballot fraud will be swept away again, and Joe Ganim and his pattern of incoherent gibberish will be able to do two more years of damage to the city.  It is a serious problem that is not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Crime in Connecticut is at all time high even though "statistics" show otherwise.   Connecticut Taxpayers must live in constant fear of stolen cars, (some even at gunpoint), robberies after placing their groceries in their cars, home invasions, murder in cold blood as innocent bystanders, bank robberies, constant shoplifting in retail stores and much more.  Even new books from public libraries are being stolen. Criminal convictions are down, as there seems to be no sense of urgency to convict criminals especially juvenile delinquents who in some cases are already career criminals.  Who pays the costs of these crimes?  Connecticut taxpayers will of course through higher retail store prices and much higher auto insurance rates.  Legal private property rights seem to be outdated.  And do not forget the shortages and de-funding of police departments.  Criminals are the victims, and the victims are treated as the criminals.  All are serious problems that are not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Debt is still an overwhelming issue in the state.  Swept under the rug and no longer mentioned is the massive, short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities of anywhere from $100 to $125 billion dollars.  State spending increases each year with no accountability and/ or positive economic results. More cronies and hangers-on appear every week in state government. It is a serious problem that is not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

There are many serious problems in Connecticut.  In most cases they are ignored, dismissed as being irrelevant, shunned, and forgotten about in the perfidious regime of His Royal Con-Man, King Ned Lamont, The Unaccountable.  Unpaid citizen journalists giving their honest best are admonished, berated, and reprimanded for bringing up the daily news of crime, corruption, and the general lack of ethics our elected officials have in the state.  There are serious problems that will never be treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.  They do not want to acknowledge the decay, filth and rot they turned Connecticut into as it fast approaches the new dynamics of 1776 all over again.