The Real “Project 2025”- (aka The Hope of Americans To Afford Groceries in 2025)

I do not know many people who can survive without eating food. Over the past four years, we've experienced runaway inflation under the economically bereft and failed Biden-Harris administration. In economic theory, this inflation is supposedly easing, but it has allowed soaring prices to persist, especially for food. Vice President Kamala Harris, the newly appointed presidential candidate, has stated that she wants to eliminate "price gouging" at grocery stores through a magical formula of price controls that will somehow lower food prices and mystically make them more affordable. However, we know little about this program other than the classic liberal rhetoric that anyone and everyone in business is evil, especially if they seek to earn a profit to merely pay their bills.
Does the esteemed Vice President realize that her party has mandated above-equilibrium minimum wages in many states eliminating jobs and causing the prices of goods, especially food, to rise? Does she understand that the cost of the grain to feed chickens has doubled over the past few years? Does she know what a "profit margin" is and how unchecked and barbaric retail shoplifting can eliminate profit margins for many retailers, especially grocery stores? Does she have any clue whatsoever that the increased costs of energy are a direct burden on the costs of goods and services and their delivery? Profits are impermissible and taboo unless they benefit the Democrat Party's political apparatus, such as King Ned Lamont "the Unaccountable" Lamont and his family's myriad investments and hedge fund, millionaire heiress Nancy Pelosi, anti-capitalist multi-millionaire and multi-business owner Gavin Newsom, millionaire President Biden with his corrupt son's pay-to-play phone calls, “Multi-Millionaire Man of The People” Comrade Senator Richard Blumenthal, or Socialist millionaire Rosa DeLauro. Price controls are defined as "a government regulation establishing a maximum price to be charged for specified goods and services, especially during periods of war or inflation." Throughout history, it is clearly determined that price controls do not work, as anyone in the Democrat Party would realize if they bothered to research American economic history more closely, particularly during the 1970s. The price controls under both the Nixon and Carter administrations were abysmal failures, leading to even higher prices and shortages of gas and oil. For those old enough to remember, there were long lines at gas stations and great shortages of gas and diesel fuel during the two Arab oil embargoes. These shortages were exacerbated by price controls on gas and oil enacted during this time, rather than allowing the free market to explore and drill for more domestic oil to reduce our dependency on foreign OPEC oil. When President Reagan took office, he eliminated price controls, resulting in increased supply, lower prices, and a major boom in the automotive industry, particularly for the near-bankrupt Chrysler Corporation.
Presidential candidate Harris apparently contradicts her role as Vice President in her coronation as President, as she seems to believe that our economy is still struggling with inflation. She is now a declared candidate who is disowning her record as Vice President and creating yet another fabrication of stale and copied ideas as her own, including price controls to curb food inflation. Her Vice Presidency has helped to cripple many parts of our economy with unchecked federal spending that offers scant results, a failing green energy agenda without any cost restriction, abortion at all costs to the American taxpayer, a $35 trillion national debt, and a deep-rooted dislike and disdain for any American taxpayer who disagrees with her party's progressive, socialist, and communist decrees and ideals.
Price controls always carry unintended consequences, and we are only seeing the beginnings of what another failed Democrat administration might look like. And this scenario is both dire, and dour. I highly suggest stocking up on non-perishable goods and paper products because I believe that with the creation of the “President’s Price Gouging Czar” Office, we will make the runaway inflation of the past four years look like a bargain compared to the much higher prices and chronic shortages she will inflict on our economy. We are already dealing with billions of dollars being spent on social welfare programs resulting in crime, homelessness and hunger that never seem to go away due to the lack of accountability by the unelected and inept bureaucrats and failed officials who create these programs. More money and more taxes are their only solutions, and now, with socialist-type price controls, we are headed for yet another failed outcome. And as the incipient decline accelerates, we can look forward to the mindless patter of social media posts coming from The Unaccountable, and/or members of the Connecticut State Senate as to “achieving equity” or “the evils of MAGA” or “The Connecticut Comeback” or the clincher of “Trump is/was a Felon”, all of which will of course comfort and reassurance for any Connecticut family without enough cash for milk or eggs.

America can avoid this scenario. The solution is to vote this economic and societal cancer known as the Democrat Party out of office, a party that is now led by a Vice President who has never truly led, and her gang of multi-millionaire bureaucrats who have no understanding of economic reality whatsoever. I personally believe she has been an atrocious failure as the next in command (if anyone is in command) in the White House. She and her party need to go, so our country and economy can become free again in 2025. It would be the last hope for America.

The Democrat Party Convention: President Trump's Censure and Kamala Harris's Coronation As The New President

If you have been following the Democrat National Convention this past week you may have been able to feel the joyful "vibes". "Vibes" as to how great the past four years have been under the Biden-Harris Administration, somehow. "Joy" as in how bright the future will be, due to the past four years of the Biden-Harris Administration, somehow. Reality is a great neutralizer in politics especially in when it comes to the gradation of the 2024 Democrat Party.

If you have been following the Democrat National Convention this past week you may have been able to feel the hatred of the supposed great divider and world arsonist in former President Trump, who has under the guise of numerous lawsuits, seizures, and raids launched by Democrat Party operatives over the past several years, had the actual audacity and lack of remorse to run for President again. President Trump was ripped, berated, and shredded by the "joyful" Democrats who spoke against him during the convention especially admonishing the masses in "turning the page" on the great divider Donald Trump while needling and bashing him throughout numerous speeches.

If you were following the Democrat convention this past week, you were treated to the usual suspect supporting cast-of toadies, sycophants, and lackeys to all things wonderful and Democrat. We saw Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, faking a smile as HE was not chosen as the vice-presidential candidate. We saw the inept, mentally vacant, (and ruinous) Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York. We saw Gov. Gavin (“the Hair”) Newsom of the disaster state of California. And we saw Connecticut’s own King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable. All have severe character and integrity issues. All are inept and cannot lead nor execute. All grossly mismanaged Covid-19. All preside over the worst and most unsafe cites in the country. But all come to share the glow on how wonderful things are going to be as the result of this fantastic rewrite of American History, reality, be damned.

It has been the Democrat Party playbook since 2016 to humiliate and demean all things Trump, in sharp contrast to how these people treated him prior to his candidacy for President. However, since that time, the playbook has been to criticize, condemn, castigate, and censure everything and anything Donald J. Trump. I continue to wonder what President Trump knows that makes him so hated by the Democrat Party. Does he have first-hand knowledge of the corruption of Joe and Hunter Biden? Does he have first-hand knowledge of the failures of the federal government with its unyielding bureaucracy? Is he too sympathetic to the humble working middle class and wants for them to have the ability to advance themselves to greater economic freedom and mobility by cutting taxes? Does President Trump echo too many thoughts that we as common citizens want to express but are afraid to do for fear of retributions by the ruling elite? What is it about this man that is so wretched and horrific?

But in conjunction with this packaged hatred, The Democrat Party must promote any and/or all of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris Administration while machinating the elimination of the Joe Biden re-election campaign since he was not coherent or "Presidential" in his debate with President Trump. But leave all of that at the side of the road! American voters need to understand that the massive failures of the Biden-Harris Administration are all somehow rousing success stories! American voters need to understand that runaway inflation has absolutely nothing to with runaway federal government deficit spending but has everything to do with evil business profiteering! You somehow, are spending less money today than under the time of President Trump! American voters need to understand that an open border that allows unchecked and costly illegal immigrants has nothing to do with Democrat Border Czar Kamala Harris's policies but is the fault of Trump and the Republican Party! American voters need to understand that Biden's ban on fracking was a boon to energy in our country and that Harris's endorsement of fracking in 2024 is needed to get our economy moving again! Why was fracking vilified in the first place? American voters need to understand that there are no perils or conflicts in our world today while we are on the verge of another World War. Lies are truth, and truth are lies, to the Democrat Party.

American voters know little about what Vice President Harris is (or was) during the past four years. She has difficulty speaking in an unscripted manner and in front of a non-staged audience. She knows how to read a teleprompter almost as well as President Biden did, (reading “price gouging,” as “price gauging.” We know she was a liberal Senator from California along with being a liberal progressive Attorney General as the state descended into ruin. We know very little of her past four years as Vice President of the United States as she was kept under wraps to try not make any mistakes, misspeaks and or create any more damage than what President Biden did already. We do not know what she actually is due to the help of the state-run media. Ditto with "folksy" Tim Walz who orchestrated the great destruction of cities in his state during the George Floyd crisis. and is a liberal Governor overseeing a state with high taxes, calamity, and confusion.

Kamala Harris has been proclaimed as our new President based on what? Based on her unknown stances and or work as the Vice President for the past four years? All of this was proclaimed while President Trump had been shot at and almost assassinated while the media tried to spin it as not happening and the Secret Service tried to cover it up. So American Voters just need to vote for Kamala Harris because she is Kamala Harris. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else is required.

It is amazing to see how dumbed down and stripped down the Democrat Party has made the Presidency. The past four years of a corrupt, inept, and feeble Joe Biden magically produces a Kamala Harris who had no idea she was part of one of the most failed Presidencies in our nation's history. Think about that when you vote in November. President Trump is a proven leader who stands up for both the United States of America and for its citizens. Kamala Harris is a puppet of a bankrupt, future-less and wrecked Democrat Party. And the real choices are simple regardless of the attempt at the restatement of reality, being a free America vs. a distorted dreamscape of an America that will lead to its accelerated destruction.

The Failed Economic Fantasy Land and The Joyful World Of Kamala Harris

There have been many, many economic policy failures of the failed Democrat Biden-Harris Administration.  Voters are now being treated to lies as far as the economic accomplishments of this administration. Unfortunately, there is not much good economic news that has transpired since this Administration took office back in 2021.  The sad fact of the matter is our economy is in a gravely troubled state no matter how the state-run media tries to spin it.

The costs of borrowing to prop up a $35 trillion-dollar National Debt has grown by an enormous amount, especially given higher prevailing interest rates.  This interest will cost taxpayers roughly $900 billion dollars for 2024, and accounts for over 3% of our Gross Domestic Product.  That amounts to $900 billion dollars that is unproductive in our economy, as is the growing $35 trillion-dollar National Debt.  It is clear that the Democrat Party endorsed candidates Vice-President Harris and liberal spending and volatile Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have no understanding nor care of the economic turmoil that this debt causes.  And obviously with a limited economics education and no understanding of how a free-market economy works, Vice President Harris shows that she is unaware of any economic event that has taken place since she took office, but she likes to project “joy, wherever she goes.”  I guess she must feel "joy" as to how her Administration has helped to bankrupt the country.

Costs have increased dramatically for just about all consumer goods and services.  These additional costs include housing, electricity, transportation, medical care, gasoline, all food items, all consumer staples, the costs of borrowing money/interest rates, clothing, paper goods, and many more.  Costs have gone up for consumers and businesses and industries.  Vice President Harris seems to be enamored with her new phrase of "shrinkflation" developed by her glib, hip marketers to help shift blame from her Administration to all of those “greedy, profit driven businesses” that somehow created her Administration's nonstop deficit spending.  This is the same nonstop government deficit spending that has created the runaway inflation we have had since 2021.

In review of the Biden-Harris-Walz debacle, one can only shake their head and ask if there is any Democrat-controlled environment anywhere where expenses are low, cities are safe, budgets are balanced, and businesses prosper. But that is not the case anywhere. Take the Democrat-run policy bereft, economically burdened, and energy-crippled and incoherent state of King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable’s Connecticut. Where problems are met with excuses and where issues are ducked by the political class like beanballs. The old Hebrews would say that the apple does not fall far from the tree. So, picture what a Harris-Walz administration acting in like manner can do to further destroy America if it acts only one-half as bad as states like Connecticut and California.

 However, there are given solutions to help eliminate inflation in our economy, although in order to qualify as such they must be politically generated!  The Federal Reserve Bank has done all it can to help raise interest rates to make money more expensive in order to somehow "cool" inflation.  It will violate long-standing practice and “help” the economy along politically by having an interest rate cut in September to further the illusionary process of having inflation go down and or remain stable.  Of course, this faux policy will be heralded by all Democrats and the state-run media couched in terms that Vice President Harris has miraculously “solved the problems of inflation” even though her Administration has helped to oversee one of the greatest losses of personal wealth for many socio-economic groups since 2021. (In point of fact, one can wonder if Vice President Harris is capable of balancing her own checkbook).

Inflation and the great loss of personal wealth can be corrected.  It starts with government at all levels cutting back spending dramatically.  This means immediately cutting back on the massive and failed economic subsidies for green energy.  It starts with the closing our border and the unchecked migration of anyone and everyone whom we as Taxpayers get to support.  It starts with a government forced to meet economic efficiencies to save money.  It starts with an end to the failed Democrat Biden Harris Administration and the election of a new President who is not associated as the former Vice President of this incompetent and corrupted economic debacle we have been forced to live through since 2021.  You are not better off economically than you were in 2021.  2025 can represent a new beginning for our economy and country in many ways-it will not happen with the "joy" of Vice President Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz who are a metastasizing cancer in our society in 2024.

The Chaos and Confusion of The Connecticut Electric and Energy Policy Jungle

Welcome to Connecticut! The state with one of the most expensive, nonsensical, impractical, irrational, and laughable energy and energy policies in the country. Therefore, suffice it to say that Electric bills are extremely expensive in Connecticut especially if one has Eversource Energy. Lately it has been discovered by many individuals that Eversource includes a "Public Benefits" charge in its monthly billing. You, as a poor slob ratepayer may wonder what a "Public Benefits " charge is doing on your electric bill? Unfortunately, you pitifully ignorant consumer, you are just now realizing that your electric bill today is a very secretive example of governmental market interference burdening the cost of a critically needed commodity.

In review of the psychodrama entitled “How Many Ways Can Connecticut Screw Up Your Light Bill”, you will note that your Eversource bill now has four areas of division, 1) Generation and Supply, or the costs to produce the electricity you use, 2) Transmission, being the costs to actually deliver the electricity from generator to electric substations, 3) Local Power, or the costs of getting the electricity from these substations to your home or business, and finally 4) Public Benefits, being a Democrat created term for hidden confiscatory state taxes that pay for state mandates such as renewable energy investments that you never were given opportunity to vote on along with welfare benefits that help to pay for people who can't afford these incredibly high energy costs in the state and other similar programs. The cost of Public Benefits is 27.8% of your bill, or over one quarter of it. As an example, if you have a $400 monthly bill, $111.20 of it has absolutely nothing to do with the electricity you are using. It should be referred to as a state excise “gouging tax” that gets doled out to yet another bureaucracy in Connecticut providing absolutely no benefit to you.

Needless to say, when Democrats run amok in Connecticut the operative question then becomes what constructive and aggressive actions will state Republicans push back with? Sadly, the usual answer is not much. A press conference held at the Legislative Office Building on August 8 found Republicans calling for the usual lukewarm mix of using ARPA funds and contrived surpluses as a band-aid fix. Regulatory changes were also mentioned. Some moderately constructive suggestions to date have come from Republican State Senator Rob Sampson who has been vocal in his opposition to this "tax". and has over the past two years introduced different "policy proposals" that would help to lower astronomical electric bills. (Sen. Sampson: CT’s Energy Crisis is the Last Straw - Connecticut Senate Republicans). However, to a man or to a woman, no state Republican in Connecticut has ever even hinted at the most critical medicine needed to truly fix state energy policy, being the embracing of the Trump energy proposals, calling for the elimination of the farcical and horrific green energy and wind power debacle, and the immediate infusion of the use of natural gas of which my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo commented that Republicans are just now whispering about, where they should have been screaming for its introduction and infusion six months ago.

But even so, more problems are afoot. The regulatory environment for electric companies is farcical and obstructive in Connecticut. I have always believed such was developed as a veneer to help nurture high and politically correct electric rates for the state. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (“PURA”) is responsible for regulating the rates and services for Eversource Energy. If one looks back at the decisions that PURA has made over the years for Eversource there is no appearance of any effective questioning of rates, expenses, mandates or accountability, nor do Eversource customers have any say whatsoever in the process of rate hearing and or rate increases. Why is this so? Is it because of prominent legislators from both parties being employed, highly compensated, and/or connected to Eversource or related clandestinely operating nonprofits in conflicted arrangements criminal in several better-thinking states? (https://www.advancect.org/our-organization/board-of-directors). But now, public awareness is at an all-time high with Eversource stating there will be a $48 a month increase in the Public Benefits section of customers' bills as supply rates will go down from 14.71 cents to 8.99 cents per kilowatt-hour. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/eversource-rates-increasing-in-july/). The announced increase is a mere $8 a month for average customers. However, what is not noted is the Public Benefits part of your bill for the next ten months for an average $400 monthly bill is an astounding 39% of the bill itself! But I have no concerns. That projection is only for a mere ten months!

Of course, there is the usual blame game along with the typical stale political and economic rhetoric over this rate increase that is echoed by both political sides. However, Eversource is mandated and burdened by the state to create clean energy at any cost. Eversource needs to earn a profit to stay in business. Democrats scream about electric rate increases while not understanding any of the economic consequences of their decayed and rancid clean energy and “public good” decrees and fiats that do much more harm than good for the state's economy. But due to this rudderless mess, Connecticut ratepayers get to pay one of the highest electric costs in the country.

But somehow, with this rudderless mess starting from King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his Democrat Party henchman and stooges, the electric rate increases, the excessive taxes on electricity and the unattainable desire not to use or even suggest the use of fossil fuels, will all be forgotten. And this is standard operating procedure in a state that has massive, short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities of anywhere from $125 to $150 billion dollars, along with the monumental and prodigious cost of living and cost of doing business in the state. This rate increase along with many other examples of Democrat Party interference and lack of pushback in the economy are the cancer that has helped create the economic conundrum that Connecticut is known for today.
Effective policy, and not oratory, pandering, and bloviating, is what is needed in 2024 for the state.

How Did America Ever Survive the Wretched Government of Biden-Harris?

All through my life I have lived through incredible crises. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination and its Multi-Layered Cover-Up Crisis, the Vietnam War and the pitiful surrender in 1975 Crisis, The Civil Rights Riots Crisis, The 1968 Democrat Convention Riots Crisis, The 1968 Murders of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Crisis, The Watergate Crisis, The Energy Crisis Parts One and Two, The “No More Energy By The Year 2000” Crisis, Nixon's resignation, the "Whip Inflation Now" Crisis, the Khmer Rouge Death March Crisis, The Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Reagan Assassination Attempt Crisis, The Iran Contra Crisis, The Savings And Loan Crisis, the Gulf War Crisis, the Clinton Sex Scandals Crisis, The Clinton Impeachment Crisis, The Dot-Com Bubble Crisis, The 9/11 Crisis, The Afghanistan War Crisis, The Great Recession Economic Crisis of 08, The Housing Crisis of 08-09, The Nationalized Obamacare Health Insurance Crisis, The BLM Riots and Summer of Love Crisis, the Climate Change Crisis, The Ongoing All Things President Trump Crisis and The Covid-19 Deathly Virus Crisis. That is a great deal of crises that I and others have had to deal with over the past 65 years, reflecting on how government and its attendant bad policies have caused many debacles to occur over the past seven decades.

But wait! There has been much more by way of crises for America to deal with since the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris debacle of 2021-24. I, with many other Americans got to live through the Afghanistan War surrender in 2021 and the brainless loss of roughly $60 billion dollars of U.S. Taxpayer funded weaponry as it was handed to the enemy. Americans have also had to deal with a $35 trillion-dollar National Debt that continues to grow daily. It is inarguable that “Bidenomics” has helped to create the runaway inflation hurting the working middle class and retirees enormously as many citizens have gone deeper into debt and have extinguished their savings just to pay basic bills. We are now forced to understand why our God-given birth sex is no longer correct and young children must be mutilated due to this woke liberal crisis of "gender-affirming" child abuse. We also cannot forget the border crisis that has killed scores of innocent Americans and placed countless lives at risk, with said crisis overseen by Vice President (now Presidential candidate) Kamala Harris. The lack of action by Harris and her carefree attitudes about this crisis should terrify any voter. Naturally, the blame-throwing Harris blames Trump for the crisis since he incredibly "held up" the vote on re-securing the border recently in both the House and Senate. However, we also now deal with a re-energized enemy in the Middle East in the Hamas terrorist group along with Iran. The Biden-Harris debacle gives tacit acceptance to the "peaceful" paid pro-Palestine protestors desecrating anything and everything in our country and college campuses under the guise of civil rights. I often wonder what the Biden-Harris debacle would have done if any of their families or friends were murdered in cold blood in the October 7th attack in Israel? Actually, it strains any understanding whatsoever as to how any person of the Jewish faith would ever support any Democrat at this time.

But none of the above seems to permeate the conscience of the Vice President Harris campaign as it focuses on the usual Democrat talking points: The Biden-Harris debacle was the greatest four years in our country's history! The Biden-Harris debacle has somehow created all sorts of jobs through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! The Biden-Harris debacle has no border crisis whatsoever as these non-citizens can somehow pay taxes and vote in the upcoming election! The Biden-Harris debacle is adamant and unrelenting that President Trump is a true threat to democracy and that the economic and social nightmare this country has been forced to live under is all Donald Trump’s fault even going back before the time he even was President. Vice President Harris is a mirror image of her failed President's administration, she cannot change these failures nor is the least bit interested in doing so.

Our government's deep, secretive state along with its non-elected politically connected advisors have helped to create a great deal of questionable, social, and economically horrific laws, rules, regulations, and policies. We as American Taxpayers apparently must shrug off this insanity and just grin and bear it. I fail to see how we are still living in a representative democracy given what takes place in our government and political system. Billions of dollars control our election process with little result. Truth is hard to find in our government especially in the Biden-Harris Administration. We as a country can ill afford another wasted four years of this incoherent Democrat Party gibberish. Kamala Harris can't change the history of her baffling, bewildering, and incomprehensible past four years of hiding as Vice President of the United States of America.
She is unprepared, ill-equipped, incompetent, and enfeebled to become the President. And God help America if she is ever elected.