The Connecticut Democrat Party Gasoline Powered Leaf Blower Crisis- The Mother Of All Crises

 My friend and colleague Tony De Angelo often uses a Rod Serling “Twilight Zone” visionary style analogy which I feel is quite apropos to describing the “State” of Connecticut.

So let us start our hypothetical episode of the Twilight Zone- (Nutmeg Version) with this opening.

Picture if you will: Connecticut, once a jewel of New England, now a smoldering economic dumpster fire fueled by the arrogance of a one-party Democrat driven machine that wouldn’t know fiscal responsibility if it slapped them in the face! The horrors pile up like unpaid bills—skyrocketing energy prices from King Governor Ned Lamont’s The Unaccountable’s green delusions and a corrupted and conflicted electric provider, a housing market choked by regulation and the most destructive zoning plans known to mankind, and $100 million of our hard-earned tax dollars shoveled into the gaping maw of "economic development" schemes that only develop the bank accounts of political insiders. Meanwhile, the streets teem with despair: crime festers, food rots on shelves too expensive to buy, and the taxpayer is left to bleed out under the weight of it all with few elected officials willing to fight where necessary to make effective change. 

Humor aside, the greatest mission of Connecticut government is as to how many ways that the Connecticut Democrat Party can make legal Connecticut Taxpayers lives harder and more expensive and miserable. Connecticut has one of the highest tax rates in the country, one of the worst economic environments for businesses, a massive illegal (if not, encouraged) drug problem, rampant crime, a legal system that favors criminals over victims and fraud in its election process. In addition, there are also many other economic and social problems including $100 to $150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded and unascertainable  liabilities, but just as vultures pick at defenseless prey, the Connecticut Democrat Party picks at nonsensical and incoherent "feel good" failed "green energy" issues that can do the most possible damage to their working and small business constituents.  This latest hit will be targeted upon those businesses and homeowners who use the deadly, noisy, polluting, cancer driven, inefficient, and horrific gasoline powered blowers that are typically used to blow grass clippings and leaves off yards, driveways, and roads.

 How we have lived with these dastardly kill machines for so many years with no issues is beyond comprehension. With this in mind, our great legislative leaders have constructed innovative legislation to set the masses free:

HB6263 AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE AND PURCHASE OF GAS-
POWERED HAND-HELD OR BACKPACK LEAF BLOWERS BY STATE
AGENCIES.

"On and after January 1, 2029, no person shall use, sell, offer for
sale or distribute in this state any gas-powered leaf blower, whether
hand-held or backpack style. The Commissioner of Consumer
Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of
chapter 54 of the general statutes, for the enforcement of the provisions
of this subsection. Each municipality may provide, by ordinance, for the
enforcement of the provisions of his section concerning the use of such machinery. "

(https://legiscan.com/CT/text/HB06263/id/3155062)

 
HB 6263 will ban all gas-powered blowers by 2029. It was sponsored by ten Democrat legislators who have ostensibly sworn off all uses of fossil fuels in their lives inclusive of tossing away their pens, coffee mugs, desk blotters, heaters, computers, and internet devices You, however, must be rendered inoperative. YOU must be forced to use electric blowers. But remember, as there are two major races in Connecticut (them, and YOU), YOU must be stopped. Of course, your electric blowers would still use fossil fuels as in electricity and would increase the costs of the remaining landscape and lawn businesses that would be able to afford to purchase them and find enough chargers to keep them running throughout their workday but more operatively killing small businesses is a Connecticut science. I wonder what the penalties would be for using an "illegal" gas blower? $10,000 fine? 1 to 3 years in prison? A criminal conviction so you would never be employable? Liens on real property? Ankle monitors? The damage this bill can do to the state has to make the Connecticut Democrat Party drool in delight as to its consequences it can force upon the Connecticut Taxpayer.

We all have heard the incessant, unabated, unceasing and perpetual rhetoric of green energy at all costs with the public be damned spewed by the Connecticut Democrat Party. Look at the sick, corrupt, and wasteful farce of the New London wind turbine project. Look at the "green" bus explosion of a Connecticut transit bus. Look at the many failures of governmental intervention on forcing green energy projects that have failed miserably while eating up precious Taxpayers dollars. What is the net result? More union building of prisons to house these horrible petroleum using felons that were just trying to work hard to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads?

The Connecticut Democrat Party will shrug this bill off along with the countless other bills that have damaged our state’s economy and social welfare with their total disrespect and disregard for the Connecticut Taxpayer. Remember, there is they, and there is you. HB6263 is just more of the insane dysfunctional-ism that is the norm for Connecticut's Omnipotent One-Party rule of a non-transparent and corrupt state government that rules the state without mercy. Citizen once again, be damned.