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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

What Exactly Is The Connecticut Housing Crisis?

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today is the first day of our 249th year of American Freedom and Exceptionalism

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be … the signal of arousing men to burst the chains … and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. …For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” –

Thomas Jefferson, June 24, 1826, Monticello

Freedom is not free, nor ever has it been free. I guess that difficult to understand for some in our country today. Socialism has been a failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Communism also has been a miserable failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Why are some in our country embracing the losses of personal and economic freedoms along with reverting back to tyrannical type of government? Do they not understand the consequences of the dictatorial actions of murderous leaders such as  Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Chairman Mao and Saddam Hussein to name a few?  It would be educational for those paid protestors who have a hatred for our country to read over what these socialist/communist dictators did to their countries that they ruled with no regard for the sanctity for human life let alone personal and economic freedoms. Is this what the younger generation wants for their future?

Today's Democrat Party shows itself to embrace the dismantling of personal and economic freedoms at all costs  It sickens many Americans to have watched the wretched turmoil of non-stop rioting and destruction of personal property go unchecked. It sickens many Americans to have watched the blatant lies of an obedient state run  media echo all the failed talking points of failed socialistic and communistic government mandated programs in lock step. It sickens many Americans to have watched a mass of illegal immigrants just walk into our country and do whatever they wanted to for four years. It sickens many Americans to have watched the constant condemnation, personal attacks, assassination attempts and impeachment attempts of President Trump since 2016. It sickens many Americans to have watched Police and Law Enforcement officials be told not to enforce the laws of our country, or if they did there would be consequences for their actions. It sickens many Americans to have watched a small minority of our country attempt to force fed us their incoherent socialistic gibberish while hiding under masks. Americans are tired of the Democrat Party encouraging these lawless, paid protestors and their venom for our country to go unchecked.

Today's Democrat Party represents the hypocrisy and double-dealing to enrich themselves and those politically connected to them. If they are so worried about people in "need" then why is avowed Socialist  Bernie Sanders net worth $3 million dollars? Yet he bellows about how bad capitalism is? But it is fine for him to be worth that much. How many "homeless" people does he living in his two homes that he owns? Or how about Nancy Pelosi and her net worth of over $250 million dollars? (https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197/net-worth). It shows us that the American capitalistic system works well for her but she and others of her ilk do not wish for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Look at how much "wealth" many local, state, and federal Democrat elected officials have and then wonder why they hate economic freedom so much?

President John Adams stated, "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."  I grew up watching the Vietnam War protestors with their burning of the American flag, illegal drug use and hatred of our country. And I now watch history repeating itself 40 years later now with paid protestors who protest about anything and everything with no clue as to their consequences of their actions. I despised the disparaging of America back then; I despise it now and I know many of you reading this do also. Enough is enough. We as a country need to strive for excellence and self-sufficiency once again. Today, let us all start working on this first day of our 249th year of American freedom and exceptionalism to make sure Liberty and Freedom live on for the next 249 years and eliminate for the last time the fetid tentacles of socialism and communism entrapping America in 2025.  

God Bless America and let Freedom ring today, tomorrow, and forever for the United States of America.

 

249 Years of Freedom July 4,1776 - July 4, 2025

  IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated  Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Connecticut: The State of Legislative Criminal Forgiveness

 Connecticut's State Legislature has been a sad mess for years. 

The Connecticut State Legislature has seen multiple legislators, including (but not limited to) Robin Comey, Aundré Baumgartner, Geoff Luxenberg, Kevin Ryan, and Dennis Bradley face criminal charges ranging from driving under the influence (DUI) to campaign finance fraud.

Below is just a partial list of those that have offended the public trust in committing criminal acts.

Robin Comey: Arrested for DUI in March 2023 after a car crash near the Capitol, with blood alcohol levels nearly twice the legal limit, and removed from committee assignments. 

An earlier incident showed Ms. Comey making laws…while drunk.

Aundré Baumgartner: Arrested for DUI in March 2025 with blood alcohol levels over twice the legal limit, suspended from leadership roles, and entered a program for first-time offenders.

Geoff Luxenberg: Arrested for DUI in November 2023, removed from committees, and sought personal counseling.

Kevin Ryan: Had multiple DUI arrests, including a notable third in 2001 leading to 120 days in prison, yet retained office and won subsequent elections.

Dennis Bradley: Indicted in May 2021 on federal charges for defrauding the campaign finance system, with the case ongoing as of June 2024.

Every one of these people has returned to legislative service with the usual cries of “I am sorry” and “Let’s Move On.” However, in this past week we had another young lawmaker continuing in the great tradition giving yet another example of its disregard for laws of the land. The example is this week's debacle of Legislative Miscreantness is Democrat State Representative Raghib Allie-Brennan, a four-term lawmaker from Connecticut. 

Raghib was arrested Monday June 22, 2025 for allegedly failing to scan two items at a Target store in Bethel. He was arrested after police reviewed security video showing him attempting to leave the store with $26.69 in unpaid merchandise.

In reading Raghib’s biography one may be impressed in his qualifications as a young Democrat. For example, "Since 2018, Raghib has been at the forefront of shaping energy policy, pushing for renewable investments, stronger oversight of utilities, and greater protections for consumers."  

Connecticut Taxpayers may wonder if those greater protections for consumers include being able to freely shoplift goods for stores in Crime Free Democrat Connecticut. 

It adds; "Currently, he serves on the Energy and Technology, General Law, and Insurance and Real Estate Committees. A proud member of the legislature’s Moderate Caucus, Raghib has championed protections for domestic violence survivors, pushed back on overdevelopment, and advocated for Connecticut’s small businesses." 

Connecticut Taxpayers may wonder if he advocates to shoplifting at the few remaining Connecticut small businesses? 

Or how he feels about the obscene HB 5002 as far as over-development is concerned? 

In his standard statement of repentance after being caught shoplifting by hand carrying items out of the store, he stated that he remained committed to serving his community with “transparency and integrity". 

Connecticut Taxpayers may wonder if such transparency includes availing oneself of five-fingered discounts by using one’s fingers instead of shopping bags. 

Lastly in his bio is the inevitable virtuous statement of sexual preference;” An openly gay legislator, Raghib is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and representation. He continues to reside in Bethel, where he remains deeply connected to the community he serves." 

Connecticut Taxpayers may wonder what does this have to do with anything with respect to governance or policy?

The story of his shoplifting is interesting as the New York Post reported more information on his alleged theft. In their article (https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/democrat-ct-lawmaker-busted-for-shoplifting-at-target-self-checkout-line-then-uses-ailing-granny-as-an-excuse/), we find out that; "A Democratic state representative from Connecticut busted for shoplifting after failing to scan items at a Target self-checkout offered a litany of excuses, including that he was “in a rush to bring items to my grandmother in the hospital.” State Rep. Raghib Allie-Brennan was arrested Monday night at a Target store in Bethel, about 60 miles southwest of Hartford, after authorities reviewed security footage allegedly showing he neglected to scan two of his items, totaling $26.69 in value. He was detained by loss prevention personnel, who later told cops they recognized the four-term lawmaker from “previous unreported larcenies,”  

Connecticut Taxpayers may wonder how many times has the Democrat State Representative stolen from Target and other stores in the area?

Raghib posted the following statement on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/raghibct/) that “During a recent visit to the Bethel Target, two items in my armload of others were not scanned. I was in a rush to bring items to my grandmother in the hospital, the store didn’t have bags, and I was juggling multiple purchases”  It is interesting to note that Democrat State Representative Raghib Allie-Brennan voted for House Bill #7424 which outlaws evil plastic bags as noted from the bill; “On and after July 1, 2021, no owner or operator of a store shall provide or sell a single-use checkout bag to a customer.” What an irony for Raghib! No bags to use in the store! Democrat Socialism continually reaches its finest moments in Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut.

Based upon well-established past precedent, we know that the esteemed Democrat State Representative will blame everyone but himself, get a slap on the wrist and be able to keep his position, benefits and pension as a State Representative as long as he wants. His colleagues will view this and say to themselves “if I screw up, the same soft-landing will be waiting for me as I am entitled.”  There is no deterrent for being a criminal if you are a Democrat Connecticut state legislator. If you or I did this we would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Can you imagine if a Republican State Representative did this? Or the Governor? (No, scratch that. Why would one bother with guppies when one can bag whales?)   

But this is Crime Free Democrat Connecticut. But a better term would be “The Legislative Criminal Forgiveness State.” But alas, that type of forgiveness applies only to a very small subset of the population. 

It's "No Kings Day" in Democrat Connecticut. (But Who Is The King?)

On June 14, 2025, "No Kings Day" was a nationwide series of protests across the United States, organized by the 50501 Movement and a coalition of over two hundred progressive groups, including Indivisible, MoveOn, and the ACLU. The demonstrations, held in nearly 2,000 cities and towns, aimed to reject what organizers described as authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of democracy under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The protests coincided with a military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, which organizers criticized as an arrogant and self-aggrandizing show. An estimated 4 to 6 million people participated, making it one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history, with a flagship march in Philadelphia. Protests focused on issues like immigration raids, civil rights erosion, and executive overreach, with events ranging from urban rallies to small-town gatherings, all unified under the slogan “No thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

In lock step with the others, Connecticut joined the nationwide No Kings Day protests, with over thirty demonstrations held across the state. From Hartford’s State Capitol, where people gathered on the north lawn, to smaller rallies in towns like Norwich, New Haven, Bridgeport, and Stamford, protestors voiced opposition to the Trump administration’s policies. Events featured speeches from activists, veterans, and lawmakers like U.S. Rep. John Larson, addressing issues like women’s rights, immigration detentions, and cuts to public institutions.

Query: Did it ever dawn on any the protestors attending the protests in Connecticut that those preaching to them about “No Kings” are really a part of a perverted Royal Priesthood and an unholy nation serving for personal power and gain and the exploitation of the citizen? Did it ever dawn on these same folks that in supporting this royal family, their own personal situation has not taken a turn for the better in decades? Moreover, in the mire of their own lives, did it ever dawn on these people lecturing them get richer and more exploitative by the day at their expense?

Many find great irony in the paid day of protest that is the improved talking point of liberalism. It is the new anti-Trump mantra that he is now a "King" and needs to be stopped, even though he was elected President. But I can see several "Kings" in Connecticut that should be stopped (but we know they never will).

Sitting in the Royal Court is King Governor Ned Lamont, the Unaccountable, being the first King that holds an emperor like existence as the ruling King of the state. “King Ned” has used the state as the Oak HC/FT hedge funds personal piggy bank with the profitability of the draconian Convid-19 measures he declared and proclaimed with Sema-4. No one at the political ballgame is allowed to question any financial interests with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, “The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, Tidal River Fund, McKinsey, GeneDX, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies. King Ned has never published a tax return. No one knows King Ned's net worth although his wife Annie is worth $650 million according to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/profile/annie-lamont/).  Thus the Lamont's are closing in on nearly a $1 billion in wealth but King Ned somehow sympathizes with the common Connecticut Taxpayer as they toil daily to pay the astounding taxes of the state King Ned is the overlord for.  But King Ned cares. He kept you “safe from Covid.” He wants childcare for your children so the state can indoctrinate them in their design. He blinks at porn in children’s libraries. He cares nothing about the middle-class homeowner as their zoning laws may rot in Hell. You are not supposed to question any of his hidden dealings. He really does reflect the true characteristics of royalty.

As First Lord, King Dick Blumenthal, an established Vietnam Veteran, and Connecticut's Democrat/Socialist United States Senator for life, maintains a handsome net wealth from his 2023 financial disclosure form estimates a figure between $81.37 million and $132 million (https://finbold.com/guide/richard-blumenthal-net-worth/). King Dick is another Democrat politician whose wealth was obtained to a large extent by his wife. King Dick is a dangerous man, as the most dangerous place to be in Connecticut is between him, and a camera. King Dick insists to be in front of the press daily with his false promises and bellows about his is going after this group, individual, industry and or country for their misdeeds. King Dick did a great deal of damage to the state as Attorney General but he was repaid by becoming Senator for life after he burned too many bridges as Attorney General. Blumenthal enjoys also enjoys diatribes against President Trump. He too really reflects the true arrogance and characteristics of royalty.

The next Lord Chancellor King is the well-known Democrat/Socialist/Progressive/peripatetic idiot Junior United States Senator for life Chris Murphy. King Chris is basically broke since he apparently has a lot of mortgages and is going through a divorce. King Chris has a deep and psychotic hatred for all things President Trump. The Israel/Iran conflict brought these words of wisdom from King Chris; "Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program." (https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1935463595363680454?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet). King Chris in the opinion of many helped to nurture Iran meeting secretly with Iranian Mullahs and promoting former autopen, analyst driven, President Biden's supposed nuclear deal with Iran.  Murphy loves talking the Socialist's game plan and loves being in front of the camera moaning about how bad things are when there is a Republican President and how great things are when there is a Democrat President. As far as royalty, Chris resembles the model of an out-of-control scion of an established royal family, where he given respect only because of who “his people” are. Even though his status is attributed being a man of no accomplishments, he too, is royalty.

Bringing up the rear is Attorney General Democrat/Socialist King William Tong. Tong is a champion of illegal immigration, anti-business, and any type of lawsuit against President Trump. He makes former Attorney General King Dick Blumenthal, look like a pansy in his tirades against all things conservative and or normal. From boys in girls’ sports to constitutional rights for illegal immigrants and the surgical mutilation of vulnerable and confused children, the Activist King William will spew his way or the highway at all comers especially Connecticut Taxpayers (who pay his $206,062 salary). King William likes to refer to himself as a "firewall" to President Trump and consistently condemns all things Trump. In my estimation, this man has the aggressive characteristics of William Shakespeare’s Brutus in “Julius Caesar”, and the other Kings should watch him closely.

 There are other lesser Kings in Connecticut presiding over their domain with similar vim and vigor. The following Democrats are Kings with their autocratic and lack of comprise rule; Democrat/Socialist State Senator Leader Martin Looney and Democrat/Socialist State Senator Bob Duff. These Kings rule with an iron hand with little to no oversight in their disregard for the rules and laws of the state and their continual scorn and disdain for the citizens of Connecticut. But why should they care? They are Kings. (You and I are mere subjects and vassals).

So, who really are the “Kings?”  These individual Kings that I have mentioned are an insult to the state and its citizens. Yet they continue to win re-election over and over again and buffalo poor and confused citizens that they are “for the people”  And many wonder why the protest on June 14th was against a President who actually wants to better the country and upend the elitist "King" Democrat status quo that is the true cancer to the state and country. 

It is also interesting to note that June 19 was the Holiday of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery. Social media is replete with the comments of many normal and decent citizens being enslaved by the Connecticut Royal Family of oppression and shame and feeling trapped as they are unable to leave. One asks if slaves could be freed, why not the good people of Connecticut? But alas, this Royal Family has other designs.

So, who really are the Kings? I submit unto you, the paid protestors and "concerned" liberals should really focus on where the royalty really lies in the failed Kingdom of Connecticut.

 

House Bill 5002: Connecticut’s Horrific Housing Hell of Horrors

Ever since the dawn of the Republic, it has been the desire of about every happy and productive American to either buy or build their own home and go about living by their own chosen design. America is the land of free people, and many people developed their skills and talents to start on the trek to living life in the manner they wished in a place they could call their own home. All being well, the home was the economic driver for many trades and professions, and in the vast majority of cases the home became the single largest asset owned by many families, an asset that could be sold or passed on to the next generation.

Entire communities and economies were built around residential homes. Connecticut was a great leader in this effort with no state income tax until 1991 and a great commitment to community and value in its cities and towns. In the residential sections of our once great cities, skilled tradespeople and machinists of color left the racism and oppression of the south and came to work in the burgeoning Connecticut firearms industry. Their employment and hard work granted them fine homes and cars in the northern parts of Connecticut’s major cities. There was no welfare. None was needed. There were no cries of systemic racism. If the Black guy worked more hours that the White guy, he made more money and had a newer car and a bigger home. Life was not perfect, but it was simple, and it worked. And it worked up until the time of the enactment of the dastardly and economy-killing income tax 35 years ago and the shutdown of the firearms and manufacturing industries throwing many working class and Black people onto the welfare system.

But in Connecticut, citizens know nothing, and politicians know everything. This great politically based masterminding has disenfranchised people of color and the working class and thrown Connecticut into a perpetual, debt laden and welfare-burdened economic stupor. And the horror movies worsen every day. Regardless, (and undeterred), the Democrat-Socialist majority-driven political system is now doggedly proceeding to destroy the last vestige of economic freedom and security for legitimate and taxpaying citizens in this state, being their home. Therefore, enter House Bill 5002: Connecticut’s Horrific Housing Hell of Horrors.

As is standard procedure in Connecticut, journeys to economic and social destruction are preceded by the pontificators of the impending plague: "Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) issued the following statement today on House Bill 5002: "...“No matter how loud the anger, lies, and irrational voices get, we must remain steadfast in our mission to build more housing, lower costs, and grow the economy.” (https://www.senatedems.ct.gov/senators-looney-and-duff-release-statement-on-house-bill-5002-2). After systematically destroying the Connecticut economy over time, I, and many others did not realize that elitist/socialist State Senators Looney and Duff were experts in housing construction, experts in free market housing economics, Connecticut Taxpayer funded "affordable" housing and removing local control of land from Connecticut's 169 villages, towns and cities.  All in one big, beautiful, communistic/socialistic, power grab of a bill, the same HB5002.

 

Needless to say, the bill itself is the usual Connecticut Democrat Party mumbo-jumbo of incoherent gibberish that offers payouts to the politically connected in the state. The politically connected who know they can profit from it with its over one hundred amendments and supplements that have been added. Trying to read it all and actually understand the bill defies logic. (https://legiscan.com/CT/bill/HB05002/2025). It is inarguable that the bill is a true and classic rip off of the independence of local zoning laws, local land use laws and ultimately, the Connecticut Taxpayer. It promises a Utopian creation of all sorts of housing/transportation/affordability and a dream society that would be well beyond the reach of the collective mental candlepower of those comprising the Connecticut political and administrative system. Furthermore, this hellacious monstrosity proceeds as the state continues its economic decline to socialism and ruin with state government being the largest employer in the state, high taxes, a declining business environment and $100 to $150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities in excess of any of the “fiscal guardrails” you may have heard of.  

But we know none of that does not bother the Connecticut Democrat Party in the least. Why should it? They know you are there to write the check.

Needless to say, the underlying grand design of this bill would be the Soviet-style veneration of a limited elite while working class areas will look like communist block homes of all the same sizes, color being gray, drab and uniform. Herein, the failed concept of the perpetual slum and the encouragement of vagrancy is once again resurrected, a concept that was reduced to a hail of gunfire, drugs, and gang violence in places like Father Panik Village in Bridgeport and Southfield Village in Stamford.

For example:

(https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00049-R00HB-05002-PA.PDF)

House Bill No. 5002
Public Act No. 25-49
AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING AND THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS
PERSONS.

Page 9:Sec. 4. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Social Services
shall, within available appropriations, develop and administer a pilot
program to provide portable showers and laundry facilities to persons
experiencing homelessness. Such program shall be implemented in not
fewer than three municipalities and shall provide not less than three
portable shower trailers and not less than three traveling laundry trucks.
The commissioner may contract with one or more nonprofit
organizations to administer the program. Not later than January 1, 2027,
the commissioner shall submit a report on the success of the pilot
program, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the
general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General
Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing. The pilot
program shall terminate on January 1, 2027. 

Page 10:(1) "Affordable housing plan" means a plan for the development of
affordable housing units in a municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of
this section;
(2) "Affordable housing unit" means a dwelling unit conveyed by an
instrument containing a covenant or restriction that requires such
dwelling unit, for at least forty years after the initial occupation of the
unit, to be sold or rented at, or below, a price that will preserve the units
as housing for which persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of
their annual income where such person or family is considered a low-
income household, very low-income household or extremely low-
income household;
(3) "Compliance implementation mechanisms" means (A) changes to
a municipality's policies and procedures, and (B) proactive steps a
municipality may take in order to allow for the development of
affordable housing units, including, but not limited to, (i)
redevelopment of a site, (ii) seeking funding for the development of
affordable housing units or sewer infrastructure, (iii) donating
municipal land for development, and (iv) entering into agreements with
developers for a development that includes affordable housing units;

What does this mean? There are many examples from this bill that should alarm all property owners and taxpayers. The bureaucracy that this bill creates should be an impetus and impulsion to move out of Connecticut ASAP. It is a land grab pure and simple. Unions and the politically connected will cash in building the slums of the future, which slums with no state economy to speak of will then become the taxpayer-supported welfare projects of the future. Bad and out of control residents will eventually receive the protection of an eviction-free world where regardless of what they do, they will be guaranteed a roof over their head and ruin the residential experience for good residents. Drugs, (then-legal), crime, and gang violence will return. But do not talk to me. Talk to the esteemed Senators Duff and Looney, who claim this is “economic development.”

Home ownership is a constant debate in our economy. Affordable housing has been a debate in our economy for well over 50 years. How is "affordable" housing defined in our economy after billions of dollars has spent by all levels of government to make it more "affordable"? The definition of "affordable" housing seems to change constantly according to political needs and wants not from a prospective of economic needs and wants. It should be logical that the less governmental interference there is with the housing markets, the quicker free market solutions can take place to make housing "affordable". It worked simply fine before Democrat-centric politicians systematically began destroying the system and the Black working-class almost four decades ago. Connecticut through this hellacious HB 5002 wants to control the entire process of housing to protect the wealthy mansions of Greenwich where King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable and his cronies reside while destroying the working middle class communities throughout the state, the places where families saved money and bought their own homes without governmental intervention and ridiculous zoning laws.  

HB 5002 goes against any type of common sense when it comes to this concept of "affordable" housing. The costs of this bill for both the town and state are astronomical. My question to Martin Looney, Bob Duff and the Connecticut Democrat Party is how many homeless people do you have living in your spacious homes? Any? And what gives you the right to control housing in the state? Just more madness and controlled destruction, compliments of a political regime out of touch with any reality, and not caring the least bit about any of that.
 

 

The World Is a Volatile Place. (But Connecticut Is Always The Place With The Steadiest Of Habits)

 It was the week that it was. The Middle East. Russia vs. Ukraine. Musk and Trump. Tariffs. Harvard. The revocation of student visas. President Joe Biden was non compos mentis while in office. Volatility. Unpredictability. Danger! It is all a reminder that the only constant in the 21st Century world, is change, and tomorrow is always another day.

 However, year after year things never seem to show any positive change in Connecticut. You know, Connecticut! The Land of Steady Habits. And ask any decent law-abiding taxpaying citizen in Connecticut as to what these steady habits are and they will pick from the following list. Fraud. Concealment. Incompetence. Crime. Redundancy. Reading pornographic texts for children into the General Assembly record while Democrat elected officials make videos dancing and gagging like fools. Elitists using a “budget emergency” to launder investment cash to the UCONN Foundation via a specious tax credit. (June 5, 2025 THIRTY WITH TONY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wCu_v35EQ (THE SHOW! DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE A HEART? THIRTY WITH TONY 6 5 2025) Drag Queens in Libraries. Drunken lawmaking. Drunk driving legislators applying for “accelerated rehabilitation.”  Followed by their perfunctory “repentance” and “turning the page”. Assaults on the home via corrupted zoning or gross mismanagement of rampant crime. National embarrassment.

THE SHOW! DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE A HEART? THIRTY WITH TONY 6 5 2025

Like we said: Steady habits. So steady that you can time a metronome to all of it.

But nothing characterizes “steady” in Connecticut like the formulation of the state budget. When the budget is assembled (calling it “crafted” would be an insult to the term) these same legitimate citizens can bank on higher taxes, more unfunded mandates, more non-budgetary bills being codified into disastrous laws therein, more reckless spending in the crumbling cities with no accountability, bogus “utility price cuts” and other impending disasters on the way to manifestation.

Per terms of the concept, this budgetary disaster is the steadiest habit of all.

Perhaps you like to talk about the budget in greater detail? Not much new to report other than once again we will await as to how the socialist-driven state Democrat party will now save us from ourselves again as they have every year for the past three decades. This year’s whopper of a budget increases state spending to $55.8 billion dollars for the next two years. As is par for the course, the state budget increases yearly while there never is a mention from any politician of any party of the $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities that the state has on its corrupted books. Who will pay this debt? When collapse comes, will property taxes triple as state aid crumbles? Is that the idea so that more trash new dimension slums of the future could be built in place of houses? Will your child’s school close? Will there be no police and fire services even if you hate police and firefighters and you need them at a point in your life? This is the cold hard reality of the world we now live in, a reality that no legislator has even given lip service to for many years running.

But these issues are not important. Other things are much more critical. With no eye towards consolidation or efficiencies and tax savings, this new budget magically increases redundant spending for the usual social services, domestic violence issues, drug addiction, education, municipal aid, and as usual pork barrel grants, gimmies, and freebies that the Connecticut Democrat Party loves in their never-ending quest to continually be re-elected and buy out the vote.  Also, Connecticut Taxpayers see no tax reductions. The idea is that you will pay more and more taxes . If you question this continuing path to disaster, you will be labeled a right-wing fanatic or a racist along with several other things. (For after all, Connecticut habits must remain steady).

Of course, the budget itself is not written for the common person. For who are you to demand fiscal accountability, anyway? For those sad souls that have read either the entire 279-page version of this monstrosity of fiscal gibberish or parts of it, you are to be commended. For those who do not have time since you are working many hours to pay your Connecticut state and municipal taxes here are some highlights for you to assist you in going insane, as not one dollar of spending was cut:

(https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/opm/budget/2026_2027_biennial_budget/governors_budget_2627_final_webversion.pdf )

Page 54: General Fund Debt outstanding is $1,682,162,437 and Interest on that is $853,058,397 for a total of $2,535,220,834. Looking at that in real terms, almost 8% of the budget is just General Fund Debt and interest alone. 

Page 68: Department of Economic and Community Development (“DECD”) budget for two years is over $560 million dollars in order to continue its inept and malfeasant “economic development” legacy of the “First Five”, Sema4, ADVANCE CT, Digital Currency Group and the (happily derailed) “Artificial Intelligence Bill” embraced 30-4 by the state senate this past May. Due to intentionally garbled records and disclosure, it is entirely unascertainable as to how much this department has wasted in your taxpayer dollars in no interest loans/bad loans/non repayable loans, “Ned Deals,” “Ned Deals We Have Not Found Out About Yet” and other crony-driven disasters.  Even with all this spending, Connecticut is last and or near last in most economic categories. Why does this sieve and debacle of an economic development agency continue year after year? To suffice political nepotism? Now move to Page 85: Same failed agency has a budgeted estimated cost of fringe benefits is over $7.7 million dollars. Why? It is inarguable that over a half billion dollars of taxpayers’ monies is wasted here, as Connecticut would still be dead last in all economic categories had not one dollar been spent by the DECD. Also keep in mind that the state would have had all of the funds not so wasted in the treasury in this case.

But wait! There’s More!! Help is supposedly now on the way for you, Mr. and Mrs Vassal, with "cuts in your electric bill" as somehow SB-4 "AN ACT CONCERNING ENERGY AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY. To improve service and reduce costs for electricity ratepayers in the state.", does this trick. In reading and rereading this bill from an economic point of view, I really cannot see how it will save more than a few dollars of one's electric bill nor do I understand why the Republican minority voted in favor of it. The gist of this bill is to use state bonds to pay down some of the public benefits portion of your electric bill. Could any elected official tell me from where does state bond money come from other than the Connecticut Taxpayer or any foolish investor purchasing a Connecticut bond that is in danger of default? Thus, the burden of these "public benefits" changes paid by the Connecticut Taxpayer and ratepayer is the continuing due tribute for the massive amount of bonding the state embarks upon year in and year out. How does address the shortages of electricity in the state due to the incredible amount of "green" energy mandates that the state requires from its remaining two electric companies? The bill vaguely addresses bringing more natural gas into the state to produce electricity and allowing the evil nuclear energy segment of energy to have some new and limited capabilities. That said, who will be the great minds, leaders, and fiscal engineers who will marshal these bold new sources right to your wall switch in your home? Hint: You will not see these players sitting on the state bench, even if you look all of the way down (and even into the stands).

The new overspending by this $55.8 billion dollars budget is an incredible power grab by the Connecticut Democrat Party with little opposition by the Republicans. Since the outcome was a foregone conclusion, a great stand for principle and sanity for the woe-begotten taxpayer could have been made if every Republican had walked out of the chamber refusing to consent to this budgetary and faux legislative farce in the least way.  But principles, courage, clarity, and boldness in Connecticut always take a back seat every year to “collegiality and bipartisanship.” And as the steadiest habit of all, the collegial and bipartisan results are always worse than those of the last budget.

Once again, the Connecticut Taxpayer is damned by elitist power brokers and state-serving bureaucrats who care not one iota for those who actually work for a living in the state. And these days, they no longer even bother to hide this grievous fact.