Connecticut: Its Not For Citizens Anymore

 It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

President Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

The great writings and the leadings of America’s founding fathers were unequivocally clear in that our government was to be governed by its people, or in effect, ruled by its people via its choice of elected officials. But to be clear, America-hating Connecticut has caused that design of government to perish and is now ruled not by elected officials, but by a coalition of Communists, Socialists, lobbyists, funders, fringe parts of the Democrat Socialists of America, a state run media, hedge funds and elected officials/political cronies/activists such as Ned Lamont, Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal, Rosa DeLauro, Jim Himes, Sean Scanlon, Stephanie Thomas, Erick Russell and William Tong, just to name a few. Connecticut is in a laughable and pathetic state which is due to this coalition of fanatics and psychopaths who claim to represent both illegal and legal citizens of Connecticut.

Connecticut Communist Socialist Democrat Czar-Tyrant-Supreme Ruler Attorney General William Tong is a case study in why he is unfit to serve and should be voted out of office. For if you disagree with him, especially if you endorse President Trump and his policies, you obviously are skating on thin ice with ruling Connecticut Democrat Party Politburo. A gentle criticism was levied from Republican Candidate for Attorney General, John Bolton    Last Thursday, Connecticut’s Attorney General – allegedly “the People’s Lawyer”– stood at a podium and told the people of Connecticut that if they stand with the President, they are — his words — “disqualified from serving in office.” He said it twice, and it was directed at all Republicans. Let every voter, of every party, hear that clearly: the state’s top law enforcement officer just declared that Americans are unfit to serve their neighbors simply because he may not agree with their politics. I'm John Bolton, and I'm running for Attorney General because Connecticut deserves an Attorney General who represents all of its people, regardless of their political beliefs. (https://x.com/jb4ag26/status/2100368430150938927)  A more directed and pointed commentary on this foul event was delivered by my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo who asked, point blank, if state Republicans are controlled by the state Democrat party in order to let such a display pass without criticism and anger by Republicans. https://x.com/TonyDeAngelo7/status/2098755883396174120 . However, the fundamental issue remains. The citizens of Connecticut do not rule Connecticut in any way, shape, or form.

 

 Meanwhile, we turn back to the rambling dictates of Attorney General Tong: “Connecticut is under attack every single day, and we need to build an even stronger firewall to protect Connecticut families,” the 53-year-old Democrat declared during a conversation Thursday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.” “I’ve been doing that for eight years, and have stood up to the most powerful forces, the biggest, most powerful corporate monopolies, the president of the United States. “I don’t care how big or bad you are. If you hurt Connecticut, I’m going to fight back.”  (https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/09/04/tong-vows-to-keep-fighting-trump/"

Many normal and legal Connecticut Taxpayers are both irate and livid about the daily exhibit of Tong's serious Trump Derangement Syndrome. Are we supposed to laugh him off or seek legal action against this Democrat bully? Are we supposed to petition for his psychiatric admission? One truly wonders. It is my opinion that Republican John Bolton represents a breath of fresh air for the office and that would be a much better solution than any of the above.

But Hey! When you are sitting at the top of the world, the rest of the world can roll along down a cliff. And there is one at the top of the world topping off the family coffers like the top guy. Governor Ned Lamont has been busy for eight years now bringing home the bacon for the Lamont family of hidden business, business deals and other assorted secret, non-transparent arrangements for the Oak HC hedge fund. Lamont does not answer questions on how much did his family's hedge fund profited from Infosys Limited, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, "ADVANCECT", Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US (CT), Mt. Sinai Genomics, "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Informatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", "4-CT", and "VillageMD ““The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey, “CT Next”, and the Tidal River Fund, “Baby Bonds” portfolio, the UCONN Foundation, to name a few.  But hey that is old news. Now Lamont, in his latest campaign is hammering Republican Candidate for Governor Ryan Fazio for many of the horrific state ills that Lamont and his Democrat Party created. That is exceptionally brazen coming for the corrupted Lamont syndicate and his Democrat cronies. Mysteriously, Fazio, and his campaign has been silent on the attack front concerning the King’s corruption, racketeering, and malfeasance and one can let their mind run wild as to how and why this is the case.

But I may be misguided. For after all, Lamont "found" $50,000,000 to save rural Connecticut hospitals that somehow is the evil president Trump money-the President Trump William Tong despises but apparently loves when it can buy votes for Connecticut's Socialists.  My good friend Tony De Angelo on X exposed this latest Democrat fraud and covered it on his THIRTY WITH TONY video show; In the category of the @ryanfazio campaign and the @CTGOPneed to wake up, please see the below. Tomorrow, Sept. 16 @GovNedLamontwill come to Putnam to tell us all about the Rural Health Grants HE brought to all of us. The grants come from Connecticut’s share of the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), a $50 billion, five-year initiative ($10 billion per year, 2026–2030) created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA / H.R. 1 / Public Law 119-21), signed in July 2025.) In simple English, the grants come from@POTUS

Trump Money. TRUMP Money. (In simpler English, the grants are being used against Republicans) You see that? Wake up, people. It gets late early out there. (https://x.com/TonyDeAngelo7/status/2100029082616373369). 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-_7bwsFJ8 (video)

 

 

You just cannot make this stuff up.

From top to bottom Connecticut's Democrats are a bunch of incompetent, incoherent, and scandalous political tools. Contrary to their lies that are amplified by either weak (or non-existent) opposition, Connecticut, still has $100,000,000,000 to $150,000,000,000 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. It has moved billions over dollars off budget over the years and hidden that from public view and comment. It has also established a multi-layered complex grift with state-funded non-profits that are completely exempt from Freedom of Information and real-time monitoring, with no legislative desire anywhere to change that. Politicians run and hide at the apropos demand for a citizen DOGE. There is no transparency and little truth being spoken in Hartford. Legal and disconnected Connecticut Taxpayers and voters are not pleased with their current Democrat One Party Rule in Hartford, despite biased election polls reflecting how poorly the Republican candidates are doing via a state-paid: poll effort to discourage voters. Voters are begging for some real leadership not incessant gibberish of their hatred of all things Republican and President Trump, for regardless of how the state Republican Party may feel, 44% of the state voted for him in 2024. Is it a wonder? Not at all. The unending and relentless criticisms of Democrats while offering no solutions, coupled with their unyielding support of illegal aliens is truly a spectacle of failed leadership and a violation of both the state and federal constitution.

Usually, it takes time to right bad situations. Things do not improve overnight. There are much better candidates that Connecticut Voters can vote for in November than these Socialist crybabies of hatred. Vote for them, and for for the last time, start Connecticut on a path of changing its awful direction where change is so critically needed.

Connecticut: The Land Of Steady Failures

 What should be the caption title of the State of Connecticut? In the past, we have seen “The Constitution State,” “The Land of Steady Habits,” and “The Nutmeg State” used to describe a relatively small state bordered by three other ones. However, I submit unto you that a much more apt and descriptive name for the state of Connecticut would be “The Perpetual Debtor State” as politicians of all stripes have done little but spend and bond the way to Connecticut’s economic oblivion for the past thirty-five years.

Does more state governmental spending of taxpayers’ dollars solve social problems? A simple look around will tell you that Connecticut does not solve anything, nor offer any resolutions to the state's social problems with the vast sums of cash being spent by its state government. Kindly note that Connecticut spends $28.1 billion dollars yearly, with the adoption of its new budget and spends over $11 billion dollars on social welfare programs. So why do conditions perpetually worsen?

As we examine more closely, we see that Connecticut being a state of roughly 3.3 million people, spends 40% of its budget on social welfare programs. If one reads even slanted state-run media reports regarding all the social welfare problems the state has in 2026, one could logically assume that the state is throwing away this money with no positive results in solving all these issues. As just one example from a recent article by the left-leaning, oft-quoted, and Democrat friendly nonprofit “Connecticut Voices For Children,” it is stated that, “Connecticut ranked 29th in the nation for the percentage of children living in high-poverty areas. At 7 percent, Connecticut reports a higher share of children living in concentrated poverty than most New England states." (https://ctvoices.org/press_releases/connecticut-ranks-7th-in-the-nation-for-child-well-being-but-economic-inequities-continue-to-hold-too-many-families-back/). Many wonder if the state is spending over 40% of its budget on social welfare programs, how could poverty increase? yet it does.

As much as it wants to spend, Connecticut never rids itself of the social problems of illegal drug use, deaths due to these same illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum-like living conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by numerous food banks throughout the state and increases in child poverty. If one multiplies the ever-increasing state spending on social welfare since the 1991 implementation of the Utopian State Income tax, billions of dollars, (many matched by Federal funding), have been spent in the last 37 years with little or any positive result. It becomes more evident daily that Connecticut has refined a state perpetually financed with taxpayer-paid spending on welfare, poverty, crime, illegal drug use, hopelessness, hopelessness, and penury. And again, one must realize that Connecticut still is a top five highest taxed state in the country having a poor economic and business climate with $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities, and massive industry and corporate losses. Where has all the money gone to produce such poor results? Or is this the intended consequences of attempting to strip a productive economy of its past vibrancy. and replace it with failed socialism and control of its youth?

Much to the chagrin and to the resistance of just about every Connecticut state office holder and candidate being afflicted with the debilitating disease of Trump Derangement Syndrome, there have been several plans and provisions under the Trump Administration to change this way of welfare life. My colleague Tony De Angelo has talked numerous times about the economic benefits for young people of the 530A Trump accounts, and is now in the process of challenging (if not, embarrassing) these same politicians asking why they wish for children in their districts to remain in perpetual poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXoj4oZgvW8&t=2132s) However, and in fairness, this program is doubly despised by Democrats in liberal states such as Connecticut. The same “Connecticut Voices For Children” (funded by angry, older,wealthy Liberals) also condemns them; "Proponents frame these as “freedom-based” fiscal tools. While all of this sounds good—for clarity, there can be value in these types of accounts—this policy may exacerbate racial inequality. Unlike Baby Bonds, a policy we’ve been championing, Trump accounts are not equity-based by design. What’s more, Trump accounts are private, market based investment vehicles intended as a diverted payroll tax
alternative to traditional Social Security." (https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Candidate-Briefing-Book-2026-6.23.pdf). How could the revered lunatics in this Liberal “Think Tank” ever arrive at such nonsensical conclusions? How is this investment intended to a baby or a child who is 5 years old or less be tabbed as a “Social Security” alternative? Are these children working a job paying contributions under FICA? Do the “Voices” (along with the equally mentally bereft Connecticut Treasurer Erick Russell) feel that “Trump Accounts” are for “white kids only?”  Why is it wrong with teaching young people the value of savings (tax free), and creating the desire to build wealth and economic freedom? With all that Connecticut spends on child welfare, why are so many kids in poverty? I will note that the Executive Director of Connecticut Voices For Children, Emily Byrne received $160,776 in Compensation in 2024 along with "Other" Compensation of $17,486. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61435280). That is an awful lot of money to pay to someone who has no concept whatsoever of how economics really work.

Maybe before one more Connecticut Taxpayer dollar is spent, a complete punitive audit/review of all these $11 billion dollars in social welfare spending is in order. because it is obvious to many that the funds are not correcting these various social atrocities found in Connecticut. Maybe candidates running for state office this year could actually offer real solutions rather than just spending even more money to get even poorer results, year in and year out. If there were any political courage whatsoever, illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum like livings conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by enormous food banks throughout the state and increase in child poverty can be alleviated through major changes in the state-run bureaucracy that embraces it. Maybe candidates can take Tony’s hint and while they are out door knocking, take a moment to explain how a Republican-designed Trump Account can provide more than enough money for their children’s education at Age 18 rather than their precious child becoming a welfare recipient or a lifelong debtor at that juncture, irrespective of the color of their skin. Or, conversely, will the brainless perceptions and prejudices of ignorant adults operate again to snatch failure from the jaws of success in what we now understand to be "The Connecticut Way?" Connecticut Taxpayers quickly need to see solutions from their failed government. They are tired of supporting this litany of failure. 

Will 2026 finally be the year of boldness and change that taxpayers have waited to see? It must be so, for there will be no other opportunity.

Connecticut: Its The Debt, Stupid

Over the past twenty years, I have been writing to tell readers again and again about the wretched state of Connecticut finances, and the incredible amount of debt heaped upon poor and innocent taxpayers by arrogant, ignorant, and uncaring politicians. I have also written time and time again about the stranglehold of the omnipotent and incompetent Connecticut Democrat Party, in addition to some of the weak-minded Connecticut Republicans that have made that party's job that much easier. Many times, I felt discouraged that I was not getting through. But when I finished and published last week’s article on the sickening and redundant $9,700,000,000 bipartisan approved bonding for largely special-interest and vanity projects, something happened. Multiple thousands pf people read the article over several platforms. My good friend and colleague made this a point of his February 17 Lee Elci Show segment. TONY DE ANGELO LEE ELCI- LEE ELCI SHOW 2 17 2026

 And all of this led to one point of critical mass. The Connecticut taxpayer is mad as hell at politicians and pontificators that have created a fiscal mess that will take years to shovel out of. State taxpayers, livid at the increasing amount of costs they face every day, are finally (and fully) lambasting politicians for the morass they have created for decades.

However, the only group of people not reading that memorandum and acting upon it are those very same arrogant and stiff-necked politicians that created the mess in the first place. Unfortunately the elementary concepts of (what is) the present value of a dollar, the time value of money and the opportunity cost of deficit spending are lost on almost the entire state government, who see fiscal management as throwing a sack of cash at their district and begging reelection. Nothing else matters to them, nor do they really care about the generational burdens they are heaping upon citizens. For reelection is Job No. 1. In turn, you, do not matter in the least.

As this selective arrogance and ignorance grow from elected officials, Connecticut's state government debt grows year in and year out. It has been like this since 1991. A recent Reason Foundation analysis of October 23, 2025, studied and reported on Connecticut's massive debt problem. Their report confirms what I have been stating for several years that the state has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. The following figures are taken from this report: (https://reason.org/transparency-project/gov-finance-2025/state/)

Total State Debt: Connecticut #7    $94.43 billion "On a per capita basis, Connecticut had the highest state debt, with $26,187 of debt per state resident at the end of 2023."  

State Government debt per capita Connecticut #1 $26,187

State Government long term debt Connecticut #7 $86.3 billion

 State Government long term debt per capita Connecticut #1 $23,934

 State Government net pension debt Connecticut #6 $40.36 billion "On a per capita basis, Illinois again had the most pension debt, with $11,355 per resident. Connecticut was (2) close behind with $11,192 per capita pension debt."

 State government other-post employment benefit debt Connecticut #7 $16.9 billion "The rest of the states with the most OPEB debt per capita at the end of 2023 were Connecticut ($4,687) ..."

State government other-post employment benefit debt per capita Connecticut #3 $4,687

Total of every state government's outstanding bonds, loans, and notes Connecticut #6 $29.17 billion "In per capita terms, the state governments of Hawaii and Connecticut rank first and second, respectively, with outstanding bonds of over $8,000 per resident."

Per capita amount of every state government's outstanding bonds, loans, and notes Connecticut #2, $8,090

If one examines the limited data one can find for Fiscal years 2024 and 2025, one will see the same excessive debt and borrowing for Connecticut. Connecticut continues to lead the nation in debt. This newer information is difficult to find as the Democrat Administration of Governor Ned Lamont does not believe in transparency whatsoever and would much rather hide these figures from the diligent Connecticut Taxpayers who are enslaved to Connecticut's drug infused spending and debt addictions.  How a state as small as Connecticut has this much debt and spends this amount yearly is incomprehensible, especially in this election year. Realistically, Connecticut politicians could give a damn about how much money they spend and how much debt the state has since it will not be their problem. The protected political elite of Connecticut, along with its cronies, sycophants, toadies, and lackeys will make sure they become vested in a perpetual state Taxpayer funded pension with unlimited lifetime benefits, in addition to lifetime health care, all paid at your expense. Why should these elitists and state-connected people settle for Medicare as the rest of working population must, when their damaging, fiscally inept policies that have driven the state to the brink of bankruptcy, entitles them to a superior lifetime health care plan for themselves and their families? “To the victors go the spoils!"  is the essence of the ruling Connecticut political elite. Connecticut is in essence broke and has been broke for years. And about every person wearing a political uniform does not give a damn about that, if they even understand the damage they are creating.

But again, who cares? 

The new Connecticut state budget, spending over $28 billion dollars for the year, follows the same yearly script. As we have been told for decades, more spending will solve all the state's problems such as food insecurity (as in the yearly salary of non-profit Connecticut Foodshare's President and CEO's Jason Jakubowski at near $400,000), homeless issues, illegal drug deaths and addictions, a crumbling transportation infrastructure,  widespread worker’s compensation fraud, excessively high taxes, a failing public education system where students cannot read nor write, voting fraud in Bridgeport and other locations, fraud and lost funds in the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development as more millions are heaped upon it,  and two incoherent, screaming United States Senators who are an insult to the voters of Connecticut.  And as the debt keeps growing, the same rhetoric is spewed with the same failed debt results. That is the reality of Connecticut's poor economy and horrific economic policies and programs.

The Republican candidates for Governor could easily win the upcoming election and all state offices by campaigning on the debt issue, expense reduction, and full transparency. If only they would challenge the failed economic policies of the Lamont Administration every step of the way and the financial enrichment that the Lamont family has nurtured through their hedge fund and their deceptive investments, victory and permanent change would be assured. Again after many years, we still do not have any answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners), investments in Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-service provider, and Unqork, both having documented common-investment ties to "Infosys", that same Infosys that received Connecticut taxpayers monies. We have no disclosures as to what happened in the Lamont-Infosys trip to India in February of 2025 completed under that secret cloak of that same-secret ADVANCE CT. Nor are any answers forthcoming from associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name several. Nor are there ever any answers to the questions concerning the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and other funny-money deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as the now-clearly Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”.  Again, your standard-issue Connecticut legislator never asks those questions, as getting re-elected, throwing cash, smiling in pictures, and signing on to inane and sometimes perverted causes take on a much higher priority.

Connecticut's debt and deception by the Lamont Administration continues to choke the state's economy. But again, who really cares except for Connecticut's Taxpayers who will never be heard and several non-paid citizen journalists who are condemned and vilified by the socialists who desperately glorify their own failures in society by pushing their perversions as policy parameters. 

Dear Candidates: The game, is over here: The lights need to come on. For once. For you. You need to grasp these concepts and actually, think. Connecticut and its debt are the real and true campaign issues in 2026. 

Too bad no one is listening. 

Connecticut: The Debt Creating Capital of the World

What is Connecticut best known for? Some may say pizza. Some may say the Elm Tree. Others may say the Charter Oak. But in more recent times, Connecticut has a strong history of debt, debt spending, borrowing and massive unfunded liabilities ever since the implementation of Lowell Weicker's "cure-all" state income tax in 1991. At that time, the state was running a large budget deficit and according to Weicker the only way out was to increase taxes in the middle of a recession through the implementation of a progressive state income tax. At  the time of that deadly decision, the population in Connecticut was approximately 3.29 million and the state budget was roughly $7.9 billion dollars. In 2026, the population in Connecticut is approximately 3.6 million. The state budget is going to be roughly $28 billion dollars. Therefore, in a 35-year period, Connecticut has increased state spending by over 300 percentage points with roughly the same amount of population. As time has marched on, the state income tax has increased over the years and is the mainline Heroin that elected officials use to continue to fuel their addiction to socialism type spending and never-ending debt and unfunded liabilities.

What does Connecticut have to show for this spending? Trees? Pizza? Basketball? Crime? Illegal migrants? Nothing, other than poor results, Connecticut ranks continually last and or in the bottom five of many business and economic categories. Connecticut ranks as one of the highest taxed states in the country along with having one of the highest electric rates in the country. Contrary to the spin that has been placed, Connecticut still has between $100 and $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with massive unfunded liabilities. These same unfunded liabilities are difficult to trace and account for but that is the norm for how Connecticut's state government works since the 1990s with tons and tons of obfuscation and no transparency. But who cares? As politicians decry fiscal mismanagement and the mortal sin of straying from the “fiscal guardrails” we see a new $10 billion dollar "bipartisan" bonding package (H.B. No. 7288) that just passed in the current legislative session in the spirit of unity, cooperation, and general welfare. (https://ctmirror.org/2025/06/04/ct-bond-package-local-aid-housing/) .

In attempting to understand what was passed and what it will  cost in future interest costs is exceptionally difficult to ascertain. However, from what I was able to gather from this document the result should make Connecticut taxpayers blood run cold. https://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa/Documents/year/UAB/2026UAB20260202_Bond%20Authorizations%20Available%20for%20Allocation.pdf

Here are just some of the items that are further heaping you and your loved ones into perpetual indentured servitude to the Pizza Capital of The World:

Alterations, renovations, and improvements to parking garages in Hartford (where no one wants to go)- $10 million dollars.

Grant in aid to the municipality of East Hartford for the purposes of “general economic development” activities-$30 million dollars.

Grant in aid to the municipality of East Hartford for the purposes of general economic development activities, including the development of the infrastructure and improvements to the riverfront the creation of housing units, through rehabilitation and new construction the demolition or redevelopment of vacant buildings and redevelopment (whatever that all may mean)- $20 million dollars.

Recapitalize CII programs Grant in aid to recapitalize the programs of Connecticut Innovations Inc described in chapter 581 of the general statutes- $20 million dollars.  (Translation: Connecticut Innovations, the "Venture Capital Arm" of Connecticut, and one-time investor in "Sema4, is losing its collective shirt and needs more of your taxpayer money to keep the boiler room fires burning).             

Alterations, renovations, and improvements to existing state-owned buildings for inmate housing programming and staff training space and additional inmate capacity and for support facilities and offsite improvements- $125 million dollars.

Manufacturing Assistance Act (“MAA”) Economic Development and Manufacturing Assistance Act of 1990 and the CT job training finance demonstration program- $450 million dollars.

Cannabis Establishment Loans (for us to see your tax dollars vanish in a smoky, green haze)- $50 million dollars.

Nonprofit Security, (so you can trust the State of Connecticut to protect your house of worship like it protects everything else)- $30 million dollars.

Grants in aid to provide matching funds necessary for municipalities school districts and school bus operators to submit federal grant applications in order to maximize federal funding for the purchase or lease of zero emission school buses (that cannot start in the cold and that just might stop dead on a winter’s day with your child on one) and electric vehicle charging or fueling infrastructure- $40 million dollars

Multi Family Retrofitting Projects in Environmental Justice Communities- $125 million dollars.

The list that I have quoted from is 20 pages long, with each recipient of funding being more quizzical and ridiculous than the next. Absolutely nothing is held back as Connecticut's march to economic oblivion using these bonded projects, continues. Any sane person would wonder as to why Connecticut is now spending over $28 billion dollars and is also forced to bond almost $10 billion more this fiscal year . In addition, it is a sure bet that Connecticut will show little to no economic improvement by the end of year, even with this massive amount of money being spent. But again, who cares? Just look serious, crow about “the necessity of the fiscal guardrails,” and hock out citizens blind with largely irrelevant and fatuous self-aggrandizing projects, over half of which will show nothing tangible. Yet the spending just continues unabated. There is never a mention of cutting spending and or a plan of action to start paying down an unrealistic state debt for a state as small as Connecticut. Meanwhile, additional debt is just loaded on the back on Connecticut taxpayers as the chasm between the state-connected haves, and the ordinary “have not” citizen, grows even deeper.

Connecticut Democrats have done an incredible job of burying citizens in needless debt  for close to four decades. Meanwhile, Republicans, who frankly could and should know better, have compounded the felony by confirming the error of Democrats in such a horrible bill as H.B. No. 7288 in an act of purported "bipartisanship". Nothing here is to be celebrated, and all should hang their heads in shame while the fewer and fewer remaining legitimate taxpayers of the state struggle to make the “have’s”  have more, once again.

 

 

News Flash: Connecticut Has A Bad And Incompetent Government

 Something is very obvious in Connecticut. Connecticut has a bad and incompetent government. Bad in the sense that it no longer represents its constituents. It no longer represents right versus wrong, truth versus lie, and fact versus fiction. It has produced many different incoherent, blabbering pieces of rhetoric to keep up a fictional lie of how well Connecticut is governed by the Connecticut Democrat Party. And the tipping point has been reached for Connecticut Taxpayers who are now seeing through the charade.

Connecticut has had bad government for many years, but ever since the devastation and oppression of the Covid-19 regime, the acceleration from bad to abysmal has become much more acute. Finger pointing has been perfected to an art form in the state by the Democrat Party. But have no fear. The Democrat Party takes no responsibility for the issues that are facing Connecticut in 2025, but of course, it never has.

The Horrors of Bad Government in Connecticut include (but are not limited to),

Excessively high local and state taxes inhibiting economic growth and economic and personal freedoms.

Excessively high insurance costs for auto insurance due to the rampant thefts and hijackings of vehicles, especially by repeat offenders along with the horrific mismanagement of residential crimes and the mishandling of natural disasters.

Excessively prohibitive costs of doing business in the state due to a myriad of complex rules, regulations and laws that increase the costs of doing business in the state and eliminate profitability for small businesses. (And as a tutorial of things to come with respect to the impending and disastrous "bipartisan" mismanagement of Artificial Intelligence for state businesses, please watch my friend Tony De Angelo’ THIRTY WITH TONY show of May 22, 2025, dealing with the horrors of “Senate Bill 2”

THE SHOW STUPID POLITICIAN TRICKS PART 2 THIRTY WITH TONY 5 22 2025 )

THE SHOW STUPID POLITICIAN TRICKS PART 2 THIRTY WITH TONY 5 22 2025

 

A constant illegal drug problem further exaggerated by the legalization and taxation of marijuana, while “psychedelic mushrooms” are moving from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box as the next legal drug of choice.

An irrational and sickening excess of the promotion of the harm and exploitation of children through sex changes, boys playing in girls’ sports, pornographic reading materials in libraries in schools, and the condemnation of parents having responsibility of their children. 

This should sicken everyone in the state.

The state's takeover of local zoning laws and regulations. (Communities be damned).

Fiscal guardrails that are shunned and destroyed by the Democrat Party.

No acknowledgement whatsoever of the 100 to 150 Billion Dollars of short- and long-term liabilities and unfunded liabilities weighing on the state. (Hint: The celebrated and oft-repeated Fiscal Guardrails do not even touch this grievous liability).

The state’s complete lack of transparency in how and why it governs and lack of disclosure of whosoever else may be involved.

A state ethics department that one would compliment to call it a joke.

 The continuing saga of the legal and ethical quagmire of Governor Lamont, the self-deals of the Lamont family, and the highly questionable (and non-transparent) dealings of First Lady Ann Lamont in matters of state government.

A bloated state bureaucracy of excessive and overpaid state employees, state commissioners, state assistant to the assistant employees, state departments, state committees and mythical "nonprofits" that are secret from the public view and whose dealings are intentionally exempted from Freedom of Information, (such as ADVANCE CT where state business policy involving Eversource, Yale, and other big players is engineered under shroud of secrecy, citizen be damned).

This is not the way Connecticut should be governed. This is not the way the Grand Duchy of Fenwick should be governed. This is bad government in action. This is worse than "Lord of the Flies". And what can be done about it? Can the Connecticut Taxpayer trust anyone in their government? Why should they? Maybe it is time to start all over in the state.  Connecticut's problems never go away nor does the constant spending of Connecticut Taxpayers monies resolve anything. The passing of greater laws does not resolve anything but create added benefits for the masses to benefit a privileged few. Connecticut has the same problems year in and year out. All of the excessive laws and excessive taxation just further exaggerates the same old problems.  Nothing changes. Why is that difficult to see in plain sight?

Term limits, spending caps, administrative salary reductions, and an overhaul of state laws/regulations and ethical politicians would be a great start in ending Connecticut's bad government. But in a state that has veered this excessively to the socialist left it is not possible. Or is it? Time will tell as the stale incoherent leftists and their incoherent and incompetent rhetoric fall on the deaf ears of the Connecticut Taxpayers and they start to scream loudly about this mockery masquerading as government.

The Community Investment Fund: Continuing Investments In Failure, Courtesy of Your Elected Officials

Since the beginning of the second Donald J. Trump Administration, we have lived in an era I like to call “The Age of Doge.” Announced in late 2024, this advisory body has been torching waste, fraud, and abuse and the streamlining of government operations, reflecting a cultural shift in how citizens view government. 

The interest in Doge increases every day, especially as more people realize how badly government at all levels has been ripping them off over a protracted period of years. Given the economic horrors of the last four years, no citizen in his or her right mind wants to see more of their scarce dollars going for impractical and superfluous governmental endeavors.

But alas, we have Connecticut.

For many years. Connecticut Taxpayers are taxed for many failed programs in the State of Connecticut. Connecticut continues to rank last or near last in many economic and business friendly categories while ranking as one of the highest taxed states in the country. Connecticut is a state where the governor and the legislature could not develop sound economic, energy and tax policy if their collective lives depended on it. But Connecticut can fund shaky non-profits, “quasi-publics” (whatever “quasi-public” means) and “Funds” with regularity and by using your tax dollars. The Community Investment Fund Board is just one of a series of interesting agencies that gets to spend $875 million tax dollars and has shown little to no result in helping Connecticut out of its 35-year economic quagmire to date.

The Community Investment Fund Board (“CIF”) states the following according to its website: "The CIF will award up to $175 million each fiscal year. It will be awarded over two or more application periods per year. If this catches your attention and you would like to send your local representatives a thank-you note, the fund is a statewide program authorized in Section 32-285a of the Connecticut General Statutes.

Of course, failure in Connecticut is often a team effort.
Several state entities work together to award CIF grants: The Department of Economic and Community Development ("DECD") administers the program by overseeing the application process, vetting applications, sending application summaries to the CIF Board, and managing awards and reporting. As my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo often says, the DECD should be abolished for non-performance, (but I digress). In addition, the CIF Board and Office of the Governor review applications and the summaries prepared by DECD and make recommendations to the State Bond Commission. The State Bond Commission drives Connecticut further into debt and ruin as it approves projects for grants. (https://portal.ct.gov/communityinvestmentfund/about-the-fund?language=en_US). 

Below is a description of the applicable projects for funding:

Eligible Projects: Promote economic or community development in the municipality where the project is located and Consistently and systematically advance fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved and marginalized communities such as Black, Latino and indigenous and native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; persons comprising the LGBTQ+ community; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality. (https://portal.ct.gov/communityinvestmentfund/about-the-fund?language=en_US). Query if those working and taxpaying citizens burdened with fuel costs, food costs and electricity costs are “otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality” and are therefore, qualifying. However, my sentiment is they do not.

If you would like to add some cherries and sprinkles to this sundae of failure, the CIF Board is led by "economic expert" co-chairs Matthew Ritter, Speaker of the House and Martin R. Looney, Senate President Pro Tempore. Being Connecticut politicians that could not start an economic fire with a book of matches and a gallon of gas, they did the only thing they knew how to do. Give cash.

On March 11, the Board gave away a lot of cash.

Included in the giveaways were $2 million to help Planned Parenthood of Southern New England renovate a property into a new home for its New London health center. As I stated in a recent blog Planned Parenthood of Southern New England's President and CEO Amanda Skinner earned $434,095 and $18,574 in "other" compensation in fiscal year 2023. This organization also has $57,330,020 in "net assets" in fiscal year 2023. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60263565) while also receiving an "emergency" funding of $800,000 from HB 7066 "An Act Concerning Interactions Between School Personnel And Immigration Authorities, The Purchase And Operation Of Certain Drones, Grants To Certain Nonprofit Organizations, And Student Athlete Compensation Through Endorsement Contracts And Revenue Sharing Agreements."  Obviously the $57,330,020 in "net assets" they have is not enough to repair this building in New London, they, being a poor charity and all.

$6.12 million was given to the Greater Dwight Development Corp. in New Haven to help build eleven units of affordable housing and community space. Linda Townsend Maier is the Executive Director of this organization and receives $120,113 along with $3,023 in "other" compensation in fiscal year 2023. This organization also has $2,809,764 in "net assets" in fiscal year 2023. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61414605). New Haven keeps rebuilding and has little to show for it except for high taxes and a high crime rate. But it is in the top 10 in the country in defying Federal law in trying to protect illegal aliens from deportation.

We also find that $1.6 million was given to Hartford to acquire and redevelop three properties in its Homestead Redevelopment Corridor. According to its website, this corridor is described as follows "The Homestead Avenue Redevelopment Plan aims to employ a mix of land use strategies to transform this key thoroughfare in the Upper Albany neighborhood. A shared community vision will be developed through community and stakeholder collaboration. This vision will guide actions to accelerate brownfield cleanup, revive vacant properties, facilitate new housing opportunities, and implement placemaking strategies that showcase Homestead Avenue and Upper Albany's distinctive character."  (https://www.activatehomesteadave.com/about). I was unable to find any financials with regards to this project on their website. Meanwhile, it is sad and fair to say that the only thing Hartford has excelled at in the last four decades are crime and economic desertion and decay, so throwing more money at a sinking ship will solve nothing. There are many great game-changing economic ideas such as making Hartford a Qualified Opportunity Zone or a tax-free zone with added police and public safety support. How about funding real merit-based schools with real teachers teaching real skills? (But since all those ideas are from the “Book of Trump,” the Legislature avoids them like the plague regardless of the value they bring to a city desperately needing value).

Unfortunately, the economic redundancy and paralyzed thinking is not just limited to legislative Democrats. As quoted in the March 12, 2025 Hartford Business Journal “A roughly $250 million plan to transform Enfield’s dying mall into a mix of apartments, hotels, retail and restaurant space is in line for a $10 million state grant after a state panel included the project among 35 grants tentatively approved for $77.14 million in state bonding. 

“…that could really be transformative for all of our communities as we are seeing malls in general needing to be repurposed,” said House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora (R-North Branford), a member of the Community Investment Fund 2030 board. “A lot of them are dying around the state, and Enfield is sort of leading the way potentially as to what that project should look like. I think we have other malls down the road that might need the same sort of redevelopment.” (https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/community-investment-fund-board-oks-7714m-in-grants-for-enfield-mall-redevelopment-other-ct?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Green%20Hub%20becomes%20major%20player%20in%20Waterbury%20%7C%20Tax%20pros%3A%20Don%20t%20wait%20to%20create%20business%20succession%20plan&utm_campaign=HBJ%20Today%20031225. )Funny how other than borrowing money the question is never asked as to what “repurposing” will mean in the final analysis, if it even gets that far? Stores? People are either afraid to shop and/or shop at home. Housing? Who will live in overpriced apartments in an anti-business state where businesses are leaving left and right? Nonprofits? Great. Let us build more non-taxpaying properties in the State of Connecticut. Funding for building the projects? If you are a banker, would you lend to such a questionable project? I guess is not a worry with the CIF, which can crank up taxpayer money in a heartbeat, can just borrow more, taxpayer again, be damned.

Of course, there were many other organizations receiving funding from the Community Investment Fund. They included the typical non-profit organizations to help feed people, help to community activities, house people, street scapes, etc. What should amaze Connecticut taxpayers is that in a $26.2 billion dollar state budget one should examine how much money is already spent on social welfare services and programs. What is the net result? More funding for the same types of programs with Community Investment Fund spending along with the same results, which are lacking in results. Has there ever been any critical thinking as to whether fewer organizations and personnel could be reorganized to deliver a greater impact on services? The private sector does it all the time. But this of course, is the Connecticut government. (So, perish that thought).

But the beat goes on. Connecticut still has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities that just never get addressed with the superficial all-purpose solution of reinstating the  "fiscal guardrails" and repetitive rhetoric on solving Connecticut's massive social and economic problems.  We really should have none of these social and economic problems with the money Connecticut Taxpayers have spent over the years. Yet we do. Connecticut has state agency after state agency with catchy, feel good “SomethingCT” type names and political nepotism continues as the norm with little results since the advent of the 1991 "cure-all" state income tax slammed on Connecticut Taxpayers, and such tax was the narcotic starting the state on the road to fiscal ruin.

For now. 34 years and counting Connecticut's decline is on view for all to see both economically and socially. The old/new funding by the Community Investment Fund Board is just more of the same. Throw good money after bad, drink to excess in the Legislative garage, and cheer about it all the way to bankruptcy.

 

Connecticut! A Train Wreck In The Making

 Connecticut! It is home to an estimated 3.6 million souls. This same Connecticut has spent the last 35 years playing demographic musical chairs in its continual mission to destroy itself from within.

Connecticut! Let us start with illegal immigration. For the last few years, Connecticut’s Fearless Leader King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable told us via his state-run mouthpieces that Connecticut did not have an illegal immigration problem, while anyone with any knowledge of facts rather than fiction found that statement to be laughable. Today, we see Illegal immigrants continually pouring in, while the state’s higher-educated, higher-income, and downright wealthier citizens tired of carrying the costs of this destructive foolishness, transition to saner, safer, and lower-taxed jurisdictions. Who can blame them? Connecticut boasts some of the nation’s most punishing property, state, and business taxes, not to mention sky-high housing, insurance, transportation, and electricity costs. Living in this liberal paradise does not come cheap. Just ask your wallet, or your neighbor.

 

Connecticut! If you want to be insulated from the plight of being a battered taxpaying legitimate citizen in Connecticut, there is another way! Join the government, or better still, the Connecticut State Legislature and become a member of the patrician class! Because if you are a member of the Legislature, you can go through life being a part of the most impractical, nonsensical and citizen crushing legislation ever known to mankind. But you need not care. Reality, and the burdens of the citizens you purport to represent are simply not your problem. You barrel forward in this current session, hell-bent on spending taxpayer cash with the restraint of a drunk at bar closing time and equivalent respect for the rule of law. After all, you are entitled.

 

Connecticut and governance? I really wonder as to how many legislators of any political stripe even understand this most critical concept in the least. As just one example, nonprofit governance in Connecticut is an overflowing out of control fiscal sewer. As you may recall, I recently shone a spotlight on the state’s nonprofit glut—24,195 active tax-exempt outfits as of 2025, according to ProPublica (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/states/CT)—a tangled web of political cronies and taxpayer-funded freeloaders, toadies, lackeys and hangers-on. Between 2019 and 2023, my analysis indicates that roughly 1,500 to 2,500 unique nonprofits consumed state funds, with annual recipient counts swinging from 600 to a bloated 1,200 in 2022, courtesy of budget dumps of your taxpayer money. Being in the Legislature, you may have heard about the Federal DOGE effort to root out fiscal waste, fraud, and abuse where a dilution in federal funding can severely impact the funding of your inept, illogical, and redundant pet causes, but you really do not care. Because, you see an inexhaustible resource in continually reaching into the pockets of state taxpayers. But in your mind that is fine, as who the hell cares about the average citizen, anyway?

 

Connecticut! Where the mind of most Democrat legislators treats their “causes” to be more important than life and reality. Take the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), a Boston-based outfit with suspiciously cozy ties to the Connecticut Democratic Party and the University of Connecticut (UConn). Its Executive Director, Paola Maynard Moll, rakes in $158,403 plus a tidy $30,532 in "other" compensation—nice work if you can get it, right? (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/270480740). House Democrats gush over its "Collaborative Effort" with such groups, conveniently forgetting to invite the minority party to the party. They wax poetic: "Using objectivity and scientific methods, they analyze the effects of policies or interventions. Their training allows them to synthesize knowledge across studies, determine policy effects, interpret nuance, and understand implementation challenges" (https://www.housedems.ct.gov/legislation-collaborative-effort). SSN even runs a sanctimonious "Help Others To Vote" gig at UConn (https://voting.socialwork.uconn.edu/help-others-to-vote/), which sounds noble until you recall Connecticut’s voter fraud debacles and the state’s nonprofit messes. Does any legislator ever question the propriety, redundancy, and usefulness of these myriad nonprofit cash cows? Why would they? Because governance may mean that the well will run dry at the time of your next glad-hand and photo op and your time to throw taxpayer cash around.

 

Connecticut! Where if this seems bad, unbelievably, things even get worse. We saw the taxpayer-gouging masterpiece Senate Bill 1453, "An Act Concerning Emergency Nonprofit Assistance," rammed through the House on Wednesday March 5, with the sole purpose of bankrolling Democratic pet causes. In typical Connecticut fashion, the language is so vague you would think it was intentionally designed to dodge questions.  

The delusional and self-interested haul is divided up as follows:

 (1) 45.3 percent to nonprofits coddling the LGBTQ+ community.

(2) 26.7 percent to reproductive health care squads like Planned Parenthood.

(3) 22.1 percent to refugee and immigration assistance—because Connecticut is a sanctuary state.

(4) 2.1 percent to community and youth empowerment (whatever that means); and

(5) 3.8 percent skimmed by the Judicial Department for “administration, whatever “administration” may mean:

 

(https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/ct/2025/bills/CTB00032774/).

 

Connecticut! Where in the face of DOGE and citizens pleading for spending restraint and fiscal governance, Connecticut Democrats laugh in their faces, plowing ahead with an agenda that spits on citizens while showering special interests with cash. The League of Women Voters of Connecticut snagged $200,000 in 2019 from the Democracy Fund—part of a $650,000 handout to 25 groups—because nothing screams "democracy" like state-subsidized voter drives in a fraud-riddled state. Meanwhile, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) pocketed $150,000 that year via the Immigrant Integration Pilot Program, one slice of a $300,000 pie for immigrant “resettlement”. Add in the NAACP of Connecticut ($100,000) and Lutheran Refugee Services ($100,000), and you have gotten a cool $700,000 to $950,000 annually from 2019 to 2023 for these niche crusades—totaling $3.5 million to $4.75 million over five years. That is miniscule next to the $1.4 billion in annual state contracts propping up 500-700 nonprofits yearly, a gravy train so lavish it would make Frank Nitti and John Gotti blush. But this of course is Connecticut, where self-dealing, fraud, drunk driving (and drunk law making) legislators, hidden business in state nonprofits and gargantuan un-ascertainable deficits are just normal operating procedure in the land of all things Nutmeg. 

 

Meanwhile, Connecticut government continues its duplicitous and carpetbagging ways, ostensibly undeterred by a nation and a large part of the state that finds this conduct reprehensible. This will lead to a collision course. Either the continued crushing taxation and spending will drive the last of productive capacities out of state, or the impending cuts in Federal funding will cause a different type of destruction from within. Neither scenario bodes well for the once proud and now teetering governance-less State of Connecticut.

Connecticut's Pork of HB 7066-To the Victims: You Will Be Spoiled

 As we discussed last week (and in drawing on the great Mark Twain) Connecticut Taxpayers are never, ever safe with the Democrat State legislature in session. Needless to say, there are no checks and balances to state government since Connecticut is ruled and driven with a hard, liberal fist of Connecticut Democrat Party socialism.  More evidence of this citizen-be-damned rule can be seen in one of the most incoherent bills seen in a long time: HB 7066 "An Act Concerning Interactions Between School Personnel And Immigration Authorities, The Purchase And Operation Of Certain Drones, Grants To Certain Nonprofit Organizations, And Student Athlete Compensation Through Endorsement Contracts And Revenue Sharing Agreements."  This catchy, feel good, political glad-handing and payoff bill is an excellent example of why both the Connecticut State Legislature and Connecticut's State Government is broken beyond repair. (https://legiscan.com/CT/text/HB07066/2025)

This bill (“bill”) spends over $2.88 million dollars of Connecticut Taxpayers monies on a variety of "feel good" and "politically correct" nonprofits and organizations having no benefit to the hardworking and taxpaying legitimate citizen. In a note of hope for the future, the bill's funding was somehow cut/reduced by DOGE or the "evil" Republicans such as Republican President Trump. The bill makes a stew of incoherent issues such as making foreign made drones illegal, procedures to ignore Federal laws regarding illegal immigration, and making sure student athletes especially at the University of Connecticut, (aka “U-Conned”) can get paid ridiculous amounts of money for playing a college sport. The bill itself is a gourmet feast of pork, political art, and incoherence at its worst.

As just one example, $800,000 is included in this bill for “Planned Parenthood of Southern New England”.  Planned Parenthood of Southern New England's President and CEO Amanda Skinner earned $434,095 and $18,574 in "other" compensation in fiscal year 2023. This organization also has $57,330,020 in "net assets" in fiscal year 2023. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60263565). Thus, one may assume that without this $800,000 from Connecticut Taxpayers that Planned Parenthood of Southern New England will either go out of business and or President and CEO Amanda Skinner would have to take a pay cut or have her position eliminated. Why is this $800,000 so critical to the operation of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England? Did any of the “talented public servants” in the Connecticut State Legislature bother to perform the simple five-minute analysis that I just did that would reflect this money is simply not needed? Did any of these same people question the salary paid to Amanda Skinner prior to the grant from the bill? Or does anyone there even care as to how they spend your tax money? (Why should we even bother to ask such a nonsensical question)

But wait! There is more!! Adding further insult to the Connecticut Taxpayer are grants to more than twenty nonprofit organizations. These include $62,500 to the “Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc.” The President and CEO of the “Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc.,” Susan Schnitzer, made $108,355 in salary and $12,130 in "other" compensation for fiscal year 2023.  This organization also has $1,684,033 in "net assets" in fiscal year 2023. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60669118). Thus, one may assume that without this $62,500 from Connecticut Taxpayers that they either will go out of business and or President and CEO Susan Schnitzer would have to take a pay cut. Why is this $62,500 so critical to their operation? Is any part of this funding to be expended in support of illegal immigration? Are you curious about this? (If you are, do not bother asking a legislator, as we can be absolutely sure none of them asked this question when the grant was contemplated or thereafter).

Also included for free cash is the “Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, Inc.” which will receive $225,000. Then-Executive Director Chris George of the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, Inc. made $122,987 in salary and $11,033 in "other" compensation for fiscal year 2023. This organization also has $4,864,659 in "net assets" in fiscal year 2023. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60653044). Thus, one may assume that without this $225,000 from Connecticut Taxpayers, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, Inc. will either go out of business and/or the successor of Executive Director Chris George would have to take a pay cut. Why is this $225,000 so critical to their operation? Will any part of this funding be used in the encouragement of illegal alien voting? It is known that in 2023, Chris George wrote on the site about his post-retirement plans being the “strengthening our democracy by working on voter registration and voter turnout.” Does this not provoke your curiosity? Does Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, Inc. have any involvement with illegal voter registration? Are they working on the up-and-up, or to the contrary? Will anyone in the Legislature ever ask the right questions or exercise fiscal governance in the least?

HB 7066 was deemed as an "Emergency Certification” bill. This legislative maneuver (which should deemed illegal) is used to fast-track legislation without vetting by legislative process, such as public hearings. The legislative process is made deliberately difficult to research and to understand by Connecticut Taxpayers to facilitate the repeated financial rape of them. Most certainly it is meant to be that way, and it is made excessively complex to push through junk bills like HB7066 that give the distinct appearance of payoffs and show an arrogant disagreement with Federal policies that Connecticut must now follow. For we know, garbage legislation  suits the political needs of the Connecticut Democrat Party and its sycophants’ supplicants, toadies, flunkies, and lackeys, (and who gives a rip-roaring red apple about you, anyway?)  

Moreover, how does this over $2.88 million dollars in "emergency certification” apply to Connecticut's venerated and celebrated "fiscal guardrails"? This is just another lie circulating in Connecticut's corrupt Legislature. The fiscal horrors of Connecticut are not discussed by either party. Connecticut's short- and long-term debt along with its unfunded liabilities is roughly $100 to $150 billion dollars. There is no plan whatsoever to resolve this fiscal tsunami and nightmare for Connecticut Taxpayers which deficit the "guardrails" do not touch. But holding on to false or incomplete fiscal ideals while blithely handing out money to cronies and twisted idealist and secretive projects is a Connecticut hallmark. And one really must question the amount of money given to "non-profits" especially in Connecticut.  Connecticut taxpayers seem to have no say in their government that they pay for nor are they allowed public comment especially for spending bills such as HB7066. 

And as usual Connecticut Taxpayers keep getting financially raped. The Connecticut of dodgy and questionable nonprofits and pilfering college leaders inter-alia continues unabated with the only hope of curtailing the same will be cutoffs in Federal funding. 

But rest assured, Connecticut will continue to soldier on to fiscal Armageddon with new heights in citizen disregard and crony-feeding. The Connecticut Democrat Party will make sure of that premise, ad infinitum, and forevermore.