Why Taxpayers Have Stopped Believing In The Government

 Why have Taxpayers stopped believing in what the federal government says? There are many reasons including the years of economic and social misery of the Biden Administration foisted upon the public. Perhaps such mistrust is rooted in a 1,547-page United States “stop gap” budget bill that was to keep the country operating until March 2025. Included in that unread bill was all sorts of "pork"-related funding that would help to keep our National Debt at over $36.2 trillion dollars and growing by the second or a mere $271,790 owed per American Taxpayer. But ignorant taxpayer who are you? You are not supposed to question line items in that bill such as "essential" "funding of $8 billion for a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., $50 million to be spent annually for an extended drinking water program, five years' worth of funding for a healthcare education program, a re-authorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, the manufacture of more dangerous and exploding electric buses for the continued satisfaction of Kamala Harris, and a future pay raise for members of Congress" (https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f86669c0-bd72-11ef-8ec1-6b8ff665afb6.html). You are also not to question "a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which funded an advertisers’ “blacklist” of The New York Post and other outlets to purportedly crack down on “misinformation.”(https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/us-news/musk-and-ramaswamy-press-house-gop-to-kill-federal-funding-bill-ever-seen-a-bigger-piece-of-pork/).

I am curious if any of the United States Representatives in Connecticut bothered to read any part of this 1,547-page bill loaded with payouts and payoffs? Of course not, and Taxpayers know it does not work this way. As just one horrific example of the putrid state of government, we watched an embarrassing and unhinged Connecticut United States Representative Democrat/Socialist Rosa DeLauro storm to the speaker’s podium on December 19 and rant the following: “Yesterday a multi-billionaire, with apparently no working knowledge of government or of appropriations — a self-appointed president of the United States, Elon Musk — issued a marching order for House Republicans to go against their own elected leadership and shut down the government,” (https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/government-shutdown-house-vote-00195479). It is ironic that DeLauro, whose net worth is well over $20 million dollars, is jealous of Elon Musk's wealth given that in her 34-plus years in Congress she has done little actually "representing" the people of her district. It is ironic that one who has made her living being bought by the whims of monied people was now shrieking about a monied person espousing a contrary view to her own. One could not help but laugh at her speech, purple hair, and statements this week on the floor of Congress that were carried to millions on “X”. This is an excellent example of why Taxpayers stopped believing what their government says. In fact, if I were writing a dictionary of terms, I would not attempt to define “mistrust of government”, but rather would just insert a video of this horrific and embarrassing spectacle in its place. It really was that wretched of a performance, shameful even for the State of Connecticut.

Why have Taxpayers stopped believing what their state government says especially in such Democrat led states like Connecticut? There are many reasons. King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable has been the beneficiary of a masterwork in the utilization of millions of state tax dollars to craft stories obfuscating any mention of his continual pattern of leveraging state resources and funding for the benefit of his wife's hedge fund Oak HC/FT through numerous, questionable deals, no bid contracts, and specious transactions. [I have written numerous times about the Lamont associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name some that have found a way to deal with state-connected entities). But the state is also a great business bank to the Lamont family as well. My good friend and colleague Tony De Angelo first broke the real facts of the $15,000,000, 2% (two percent) “disappearing sweetheart” Connecticut loan to Lamont-family connected Sema-4 using state investments with no collateral or guarantee of repayment on his weekly segment on the Lee Elci radio program 94.9FM, along with the $5 million dollars directed to Lamont family-connected Digital Currency Group to (in theory) "move" 300 jobs to Stamford, CT. But if you did nothing other than watch local state-run media, you would be told that The Unaccountable is the economic, health and well-being, and governance Champion of the state. You will be told that The Unaccountable is "the most popular governor in the country", "saved us all from dying of Covid" and "single-handedly engineered the "Connecticut Comeback". You will never be told that The Unaccountable’s wife’s partnership holds multi-million-dollar capital investments in the Cayman Islands (or more accurately, the secret, tax-free haven, anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage Cayman Islands). But why do you need to know that? Its contrary to the narrative about The Unaccountable. The narrative costs millions of dollars to prop up by means of fictional stories. You are sinful and a conspiracy theorist if you do not believe it! This is why citizens who are the least bit sane have absolutely no trust in the Connecticut government anymore. (Why should they?)

However, the parade of Connecticut mistrust is long and wide. Decent mortgage and taxpaying homeowners battle with un-elected imperious bureaucrats and inane and delusional legislators pressuring local towns and cities to cede control of local zoning laws for the sake of "affordable" housing and "public" transportation, all for the sake of “the public good”. Or, how about the Connecticut comptroller's college system audit reveals 'systematic' misuse of state funds where the perpetrators are encouraged to stay on the job rather than be prosecuted? Democrat Comptroller Sean Scanlon wanders in water over his head with the problems that have been exposed with this audit. However, he gladly follows the Connecticut Democrat Party narrative of expressing surprise at the corruption and vows to address it even though the problems have been known for many months. But let's not stop there. How about the highest electric rates in the country thanks to an incoherent Democrat "green" energy manifesto? Connecticut still has $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities. It is a bottom feeder state with high taxes, poor infrastructure, horrible reputation, economically incoherent state union labor agreements, legislative Communist aspirants in-training, high crime, theft and murders, rampant illegal drug trafficking, state-enabled drug abuse, and a lack of any ethics or accountability from its Governor's office. But turn to state-run television and print media! You will be reassured that never happens in Connecticut and the Lamont cash trough is the blueprint for all Democrat elected officials. And you will never hear one word of any of these mentioned. Its just more in a myriad of reasons that Connecticut taxpayers cannot and do not trust their government anymore. (How could they?) 

Why have Taxpayers stopped believing what their local government says especially in Democrat led cities such as Bridgeport, Connecticut? There are many reasons. Take Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim as one. After being convicted of racketeering, extortion, and other crimes and serving prison time, Marse Joe gets elected back into office. He spent seven years in prison beginning in 2003 before he was voted back as Mayor of Bridgeport in 2015. His current legacy is the total corruption of the election process following the findings of voter and ballot fraud by loyal Democrat official Wanda Geter-Pataky on several occasions in at least several elections. In real terms your vote really does not count in Bridgeport nor can a functional two-party system exist in the city given the corruption of elections. Nor do they care. The establishment of Bridgeport, CT will see to that. This is why the citizens of Bridgeport do not trust their government anymore. (Why should they?)

So why have Taxpayers stopped believing what their government says? They have stopped for many reasons, and many more than I have mentioned above. We as Taxpayers are tired of the incoherent gibberish that we are force fed daily by the state-run media and our supposedly "elected" officials along with their elitist non-elected political appointees. They lie to us, wanting us to somehow transcend and transform their lies as truths and know truths to be lies. And their experiment has failed miserably for years as your state tax dollars go to continually prop us this farcical Uniparty of media and government. Taxpayer, once again, be damned.

Lying. The Life Blood of The Biden Family And Other Democrats.

Joe Biden is a pathetic and criminal President in the opinion of many Americans. He is an insult to the American Taxpayer. The United States Taxpayer has seen the President and his son deceive the country through chronic lies. Lies that summarize and are the context of Joe Biden's political career. Lies dating all the way back to 1965 at the Syracuse law School. Lies when he plagiarized campaign speeches by British politician Neil Kinnock, Robert, and John F. Kennedy during the time when he was running for President in 1987. And now, Joe Biden lies one more time to save himself and his son Hunter by pardoning him for all his crimes since 2014, even though he said he wasn't going to do that. One can argue that the numerous times that Biden denied he was going to pardon his son was just the usual gibberish spewing from the President's deranged mouth. More and greater lies as has been the currency of the life and times of Joe Biden.

How much money did the President's family earn from the Hunter shakedowns and the selling of Joe Biden's political influence during this ten-year time frame of the pardon? And how do we as American Taxpayers feel about the total disregard for the rule of law shown by this Democrat President and his party? The rule of law obviously does not apply to the President, his family, and/or the Democrat Party. They are allowed to sell out of our country for their personal gain. The rule of law obviously does not apply to the testimonies of the brave IRS whistleblowers who called out the family for their egregious illegal actions. Everything somehow did not exist, the laptop, the Russian hoax cover-up, the “big guy,” the gun, the drugs, Bobulinski, Jimmy Biden, Valerie Biden, the tax evasion. All gone in a second with the Big Daddy pardon of all time. And while this was happening, we saw the daily torture and suffering that President Trump was put through via false and incoherent legal challenges that were made up by Democrat hit men who we made to believe were unbiased Attorney Generals and humble public servants that were far above reproach or criticism if any one of us had questioned their specious actions.

Americans have just spent the past four years listening in disbelief as the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, and other governmental agencies all lied and covered up for Joe and Hunter Biden crimes. Americans clearly see a two-tier justice system and a justice system that really does not work for the common man, but only for the political elite. And don't forget the state-run media who has done an incredible job along with the Democrat Party propping up the failed Biden- Harris Administration along with the Biden crime family. It has been truly amazing to watch. You and I would both be in jail for what this family did for the past ten years, but Team Biden walks off of the political field scot-free.

However, let us always keep in mind that lying, malfeasance, unanswered questions, and a total lack of responsibility are the Gold Standards for Democrat run cities, systems, and officials in states like Connecticut and in many other places. Convicted Felon Mayor Joe Ganim and his accomplice Wanda Geter-Pataky of Bridgeport, CT have yet to face the least bit of accountability for the Bridgeport Ballot Scandal. The past two United State Senate races in Connecticut were both called either before, or, at the very minute the polls closed. And King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable continually escapes any inquiry or investigation regarding his myriad shaded dealings and scams during Covid-19, among a multiple of other things. But this kind of unmerited favor is expected by Democrats at all levels of government. Because why should they receive any less courtesy than Paterfamilias Joe Biden?

But let us be clear. We have just lived through a historic moment in our nation's history with this pardon. The pardon sickens many hard working, law abiding American Taxpayers that it happened. And guess what? We are truly powerless to do anything about it. Just the way the Democrat Party has envisioned it. Rip off the country, bring it to its knees, make a profit from it, suck taxpayer blood and treasure, and then walk away. Just like the Biden family is doing today. Crime does pay for the Biden family. Crime pays for other Democrats.

Do not forget that. It is a mockery of the rules and laws that govern us, but not them, in our country and state.

Connecticut's Corruption and High Taxes

Regardless of the whitewashing and fawning pap one may hear or read at the onset of another legislative session, Connecticut nonetheless continues its descent into economic and social senselessness via an administrative state fiat aided by a lapdog "elected" state legislature. As just two examples of the pride of King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his Omnipotent one-party ruling class, are the recent sham election of Bridgeport's Democrat convicted criminal Mayor Joe Ganim and his magically appearing absentee ballots, and the excessively high salaries paid out by the secretive State Family Leave department funded by Connecticut Taxpayers for this money draining program.

The City of Bridgeport, once a proud working-class industrial city, is now an absolute, unspeakable mess run by a powerful Democrat Party political machine that makes the old New York Tammany Hall Democrat political machine look like a nursery school. The hatchet job Ganim and his minions did to the voters of Bridgeport in his "re-election" in his crime filled city would be the plot for a Woody Allen movie if it were sadly, not reality. One must remember Ganim was convicted of racketeering, extortion, and other crimes. He spent seven years in prison beginning in 2003 before he amazingly enough voted back as mayor of Bridgeport in 2015. One can also argue that crime does pay in Bridgeport as one may wonder why a convicted felon who ripped off the city is allowed back in? Obvious voter and ballot fraud was committed when Democrat official Wanda Geter-Pataki (who also was accused in 2019 for basically the same thing), apparently stuffed absentee ballots into a drop box outside of the Margaret Morton Government center in a surveillance video. John Gomes, who was running for Mayor against the Ganim machine in the primary, filed 22 (twenty-two) separate complaints of voter fraud against the Ganim campaign. To make this sick and sad situation even worse, the Gomes campaign was apparently caught on video tape doing the same ballot stuffing thing. After hearing the testimony, a judge allowed for the general election to continue on November 7, 2023, whereby Ganim won by a mere 175 votes! Inexplicably, the Judge also ordered a new primary to take place on January 23, 2024, and surprise again Ganim won! Whether yet another election will take place in February remains to be seen at the time of this writing. Needless to say, this corruption is blessed by the incompetent and un-serious Democrat Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas who famously stated that “Election integrity is essential for public trust, and I would like to affirm my confidence in our state’s overall election security,” “This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system, this isn’t even about absentee ballot systems. It is about a few bad actors and an under-educated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate). Therefore, the problem of corruption in Bridgeport is because of "an under-educated electorate" where fraud, incompetence, and denial have nothing to do with it. (Get that).

Further, the obvious question then becomes as to why seemingly no one in the political universe seems the least bit interested in calling the election process fraudulent and aggressively crying out for the arrests and prosecutions of bad actors involved. The Unaccountable and several Democrats are even now urging John Gomes to give up all together. "Joe Ganim has won three times. At some point you gotta get back to governing. That would be my advice," Lamont said on January 30, 2024. But of course, Ned needs Wanda and her counterparts in the cities to manufacture continued gubernatorial victories and all the fraud, illegal absentee ballots cast, and irregularities about both the primary and election can be quickly and promptly disregarded. We disregard all, since Joe Ganim is the Supreme Ruler of Bridgeport, a ruler that Bridgeport Taxpayers must yield to by giving up their right to vote and to self-govern. It is a typical Connecticut Democrat Party mess and is naturally blessed by the Connecticut Democrat Party.

Of course, Connecticut would not be Connecticut without tax-sucking administrative state programs and bureaucracies. While state-run media churns faux and puffy stories of “Connecticut Fiscal Stability” one can never (ever) pay enough taxes in Democrat Connecticut to support this "stability". A prime example of this failure is The Connecticut Paid Family Medical Leave Act. For this program, the Tax is .05% of your earnings, up to $160,200. For this tax, there is no reimbursement for employees close to retirement nor for employees who never utilize the CT Paid Leave program. Further, the privileged class of state workers does not contribute to the fund. So, the rest of us must pay, and shut up.

The plan pays for up to 12 weeks of leave at a maximum weekly benefit of $941.40 as of 2024 according to their website (https://www.ctpaidleave.org/?language=en_US). AFLAC is the third-party claims administrator for the program, yet the actual Paid Family Medical Leave Authority employs 40 people as of 2023 at a payroll of a mere $3.9 million dollars, mind-boggling when an administrator is already in place: (https://openpayroll.ct.gov/#!/year/2023/department/Paid+Family+Medical+Leave+Auth).

What is even more interesting with this questionable program is a well-hidden report dated July 2023 that presents some amazing information (https://www.cbia.com/resources/hr-safety/connecticut-paid-leave-2023-annual-report). For example, on Page 22 of this report it shows a beginning fund balance of $446.3 million dollars, Contributions earned of $443 million dollars, investment income of $16.5 million dollars, incurred claims of $318 million dollars, other expenses of $45.8 million dollars and a net fund balance of $542 million dollars. Analyzing the figures in another way one can argue that those individuals who are paying this tax are being overtaxed if there is such a high fund balance at the end of this apparent fiscal year projected report. Why does this fund have this much money in it? Why is $542 million dollars taken out of Connecticut Taxpayers pockets? It is clear that the .05% tax is excessive given the small amount of claims that is being paid out and for the amount of private plans/self-insured plans that have been approved by the state. Ostensibly a large part of this rate goes to support a number of state employees in duplicative nonjobs, standard for the course in the Kingdom of Ned, the Unaccountable. Once again, hardworking Connecticut taxpayers who are diligent in their employment and not prone to take off time subsidize an entire legion of political appointees, bureaucrats, and a fair number of excuse makers and slackers, because this is the Connecticut way.

These are just two examples many that one can offer about a Democrat ruled state that embraces and encourages economic sloth, waste, and social senselessness. Elected leaders (or “Elected” leaders) take no constructive action other than to continually march to both economic and social ruin wanting the taxpayer to pay and be proud of the destruction they do on a daily basis. Think about losing your right to vote as we see in Bridgeport with a sham election. Think about how this same voter fraud in cities has been the defining factor in close statewide elections. As you listen to the endless blandishments from both parties praising The Unaccountable for “adhering to (fictional) fiscal guardrails” think about all of the increasing taxes you pay in Connecticut to support the continued Connecticut path to spending and failure as you struggle to survive economically. And just think about how the Connecticut Democrat Party's omnipotent one-party rule has made a once great state a cesspool of corruption, crime, sexual perversion, child abuse, incoherent gibberish, and excessively high taxes that you must accept as an obedient slave to King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable and his Omnipotent one-party ruling Democrat Party.

Once again, taxpayer, be damned.

Election Fraud Runs Rampant in Connecticut

Bridgeport is a sad state of affairs, which is a shame given its natural assets and location.  It has high taxes, a mountain of debt and a high crime rate.   Its current Mayor, Joe Ganim, was convicted in 2003 on a mere sixteen corruption charges, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, and mail fraud, and he served seven years in prison.  Not to be outdone and apparently to do more damage to the crime free city, Ganim became Mayor again in 2015 pretty much picking up where he left off.   During 2018-19, five municipal employees under Ganim were arrested.  Police chief Armando Perez and personnel director David Dunn were charged in September 2018 for conspiring to help Perez cheat to get the police chief position. The two were convicted and sentenced.  In May 2019, State Senator Dennis Bradley and school board member Jessica Martinez were charged for allegedly trying to fraudulently obtain state public campaign financing.  Also in May 2019, City Councilman Michael DeFilippo was charged for illegalities involving absentee or mail-in ballots.  

The past primary on September 12th for Mayor in Bridgeport saw Ganim incredibly winning again by a mere 251 votes when all absentee ballots were counted.  However, a September 5 video taken from the Morton Center in Bridgeport distributed by Mayor challenger John Gomes shows a city employee Wanda Geter-Pataki, who is the Vice-Chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, an employee of the City of Bridgeport, a front desk receptionist at the Bridgeport Government Center, and a supporter of Mayor Joe Ganim, stuffing what appear to be absentee ballots on multiple occasions into a publicly designated container.  Also, it has been stated that an internal surveillance video also shows that Geter-Pataki handed ballots to another unnamed city employee who proceeded to place those ballots in the same box.  Geter-Pataki has been placed on paid administrative leave from her job since this video.   As of the time of this writing, Mr. Gomes’ campaign has filed twenty-two separate complaints to both the Office of the Secretary of the State and the State Enforcement Elections Commission regarding voting issues.  State and Bridgeport police investigations are starting also as of the time of this writing.  The state is still investigating alleged voter fraud from the 2019 election with possible investigations into three people with close ties with the Ganim campaign.  

Regarding the alleged fraud, Connecticut's Democrat Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas condescendingly stated that: "This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system. This isn’t even about absentee ballot systems,” Thomas said. “It’s about a few bad actors and an undereducated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate). How is the electorate under-educated?  How many bad actors constantly are found in Democrat Bridgeport?  It is apparent by Secretary of State Thomas above quote that she is toeing the unaccountable for anything Democrat Party line that they can do no wrong and it is obviously the voter's fault for what they did.  Although Mr. Gomes is sincere in his request for heightened state oversight for a new election, regrettably more money for the serial ineptitude that is the Secretary of State's office will not solve this problem, given the ineptitude and unseriousness of said office, from the top down.

Taxpayers and homeowners, especially those in Bridgeport, should be sickened by many aspects of the ongoing corruption in Democrat Mayor Ganim's administration and campaign.  He obviously continues to place himself above the law like most Democrats in Connecticut do, following the pattern from His Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont “The Unaccountable”.  I do not understand how Connecticut allows a convicted felon to run for office again.  It is obvious to many that corruption reigns supreme in Bridgeport, Ganim and his political operatives use this poor decaying city as their personal bank accounts. Civil rights of its citizens are discarded, and ethics are non-existent.  Why is this happening over and over again in Bridgeport?  Where is the outcry by the elites in the Democrat Party over this obvious fraud and misconduct and their usual shrieks about “our democracy?”  Why are Taxpayers good monies being used to pay for this abuse of its vote and political system?  

As Democrat Party corruption in its purest sense keeps getting ignored, it becomes the norm.  The norm of a complete failure of the right to vote and the right to a democracy.  In Bridgeport and other Connecticut towns and cities these failures are embraced and rewarded.  Bridgeport deserves better than another two failed years of the Ganim extortion administration of economic and social failures.

 Ganim and his cartel need to go once and for all. And the clock may tick for 1776 in Bridgeport first before it ticks in other places.