Connecticut's Inherent Corruption #4

I truly can not keep up with all of Connecticut's Inherent Corruptions that are currently going on for all taxpayers to view.
I truly can not even narrow down the donations, the loans and the forgiveness of all these different loans thanks to the hard working taxpayers of Connecticut.
Thus we are in full reelection mode for Mr. Malloy and Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule.  Give me a donation and we will give you a loan.  All perfectly legal and thanks to the hard working (what is remaining of) taxpayers of Connecticut.
Back to my original Connecticut's Inherent Corruption Swick Speak Blog of 1/4/14, there are now even more issues to the Earl O'Garro, Jr. whose Hybrid Insurance Group failed to pay insurance premiums totaling $670,000 for the City of Hartford policies that they carried with his company and owes the Department of Economic Development $376,000 plus of taxpayers monies.  He has apparently defaulted on those loans and may be in debt to the tune of $1 million dollars through various lawsuits, state records and other records according to a Hartford Courant report http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-ogarro-second-court-order-0114-20140113,0,1639332.story
O'Garro, Jr. has now been charged with failing to pay wages to five of his employees and has been arrested for it by the State Police and released to appear in court on 1/23/14.   By the way he also owned a restaurant in Middletown.  What a mess, but hey isn't he politically connected and therefore should not be concerned with it?
I have a simple question for Mr. Malloy and Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule-when are Connecticut's hard working taxpayers going to get their $376,000 back?  What is the schedule and plan?  When is it going to be communicated to the hard working (what is remaining of) taxpayers of Connecticut?
I guess I will be waiting a long time for my answer.

Connecticut's Inherent Corruption #3

10 jobs per year per loan-for a total of $5,150, 000 spread among four loans.  $4,750,000 of these loans are deferred until 2017 and 2018.   Welcome to Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development's taxpayer-funded aid program.  Free taxpayers money with liberal repayment terms all for a mere 10  jobs a year being created supposedly.
Connecticut's Inherent Corruption #3 features Back9Network which is a fledgling Hartford-based cable golf network that's received more than $5 million in state grants and loans from Connecticut's taxpayers.   They owe the state a great deal of money.  They were supposed to start broadcasting January 1, 2014 and have not yet.  They are also being sued by one of the their former Vice President's for $80,000 which he has claimed he spent in his own money for the company and apparently was let go by the company.
But to me here the more fascinating part of this issue: The loans, one in 2012 for $750,000 and one in 2013 for $4 million, for which payments are deferred until 2017 and 2018 loans were made under the Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development's Manufacturers' Assistance Act program.
Here from the Department of Economic and Community Development website is what it means:
Economic and Manufacturing Assistance Act (MAA) – Incentive-driven direct loans for projects when there is a strong economic development potential
Eligible uses for MAA funds
Planning, including but not limited to: feasibility studies, engineering, appraisals, market studies and related activities
Acquisition of real property, machinery or equipment or any combination, provided such assistance does not exceed the fair market value
Construction of site and infrastructure improvements relating to a municipal or business development project
Construction/renovation/demolition of buildings
Relocation expenses for the purpose of assisting manufacturing or other economic-based businesses to locate, construct, renovate or acquire a facility
Working capital in conjunction with a business development project
Business support services such as labor training, day care, energy conservation, pollution control, recycling and the like, in conjunction with other state agency

I am unclear as an economist as to how these loans and funds apply to a Cable TV Golf Channel.  But again what do I know about economic development and free taxpayers monies.   I do not know how to play Connecticut's "Pay For Play"  Economic Game with Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule. 

Connecticut's Inherent Corruption #2

I was asked by several of my readers to continue to expand on my last blog regarding what many are calling "Pay for Play" or Connecticut's Inherent Corruption scandals.  There are many thus I plan on writing about as many as I can.  
Today I would like to feature another questionable donation to Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule - Connecticut's Democratic Party.  This time it is Affordable Housing-one could ask what is actually affordable in Connecticut with its high tax rate?
I feel these contributions again focus upon the "Pay for Play" mentality of our state government.  One must remember that anyone including state contractors can contribute to any state party's federal account-how this is legal or ethical is debatable in my economic opinion?   But it seems to me that this is the way to "Pay for Play" in Hartford.  Make a contribution then get a state contract-how this is saving taxpayer's monies is any ones guess, but when you are in power - you do whatever you want.
Bruce Whittaker, Jr. who owns the Millennium Group, also has a Division of his company, Millennium Real Estate Services LLC, that manages Sasco Creek Apartments which is owned by the Westport Housing Authority.  Mr. Whittaker gave $5000 to the Democrats on November 19, 2013-amazing enough on November 21, 2013, Millennium received a 4% loan from the Connecticut Housing Authority and $5.7 million in "gap funding" from the Department of Housing for Sasco Creek Apartments to redevelop it adding 54 more units to the current 33 mobile home units that are there.  The original 33 units were built in 1985.  Gap funding may be in the form of a grant and or loan.  From Connecticut's Department of Housing website - "DOH seeks to leverage non-State funds to catalyze the creation and/or preservation of affordable multifamily housing to promote healthy lives, strong communities and a robust economy."
Connecticut really has a robust economy?  According to who?  
Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule - Connecticut's Democratic Party?  "Pay for Play"  Yet another example.

owner of Millenium Real Estate, gave $5,000 on Nov. 19.
Two days later, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Sasco Creek Apartments, owned by the Westport Housing Authority and managed by Millenium, would receive a 4 percent loan from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and $5.7 million in “gap funding” from the new Department of Housing.
Employees of Viking Construction gave $3,500 in November. Anthony Gaglio Jr., the company president, donated $10,000 in July and has made large donations to the Democratic Party in the past. In September 2012, he posed for a picture with Malloy in front of a sign highlighting the “cooperation” of the state in the construction of The Heights at Darien, a Viking project.
Matthew Anderson of Imagineers donated $2,500. The company administers Section 8 housing vouchers for some housing authorities.
- See more at: http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/01/03/affordable-housing-industry-adds-to-democratic-coffers/#sthash.fdA5erSk.dpuf

Connecticut's Inherent Corruption

Apparently it has become legal for Connecticut to be corrupt.  One must give a contribution to the Democratic Party and thus one's business or individual person gets a state contract and or taxpayer funded position in our state.  Thus in my economic opinion Connecticut has become inherently corrupted.
Trying to gather information on this pay for play corrupted state government has become difficult.  The media avoids the subject since it must be lock and step to with Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule.  We get little if any answers from our taxpayer funded elected officials either.
The pay for play issue which should make all state taxpayers call their legislators is what the Department of Economic Development did with $376,000 plus of taxpayers monies.  That money was given to politically connected Earl O'Garro, Jr. whose Hybrid Insurance Group failed to pay insurance premiums totaling $670,000 for the City of Hartford policies that they carried with his company. The money was apparently wired to his company rather than the insurance carrier that holds the policy as is the norm.  His company back in 2012 was given a mere $126,000 of taxpayers monies in loans and grants to move from Windsor to a building in Hartford which was owned by Hartford's Treasurer Adam Cloud (who apparently authorized the wire payment to O'Garro's company not the carrier for the premiums), his brother and his father. 
What a political mess.  But not to worry as we see little news regarding what is being done to get this taxpayer money back.  I also feel sorry for the City of Hartford's taxpayers who just saw $670,000 of their money go out the window.
Thus we have Example #1 of Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule corruption and scandal.  Maybe Mr. Malloy could take time out of his busy fundraising schedule and address it.  And maybe taxpayers could get a better explanation of where their $376,000 went. 
Connecticut's Inherent Corruption-alive and well in this election year.

Sunday's Random Thoughts

Some Random Sunday Thoughts-back from my writing vacation:
Apparently if you do business in Connecticut one must make a contribution to Hartford's Ominpotent One Party-The Elite Democratic Party.  Obviously, it is legal and encouraged.  Think about it next time you paying one of Connecticut's many highest taxes in the country.  Think about it when you paying one of the highest gas prices in the country while stuck in yet another traffic jam on one of Connecticut's highways.
Obamacare still does not work, nor do we know how much taxpayers will be paying both for their new policies and the new hidden taxes of the plan.  Obamacare remains an inept economic debacle.  Taxpayers and voters will ultimately blame the Democratic party for this nightmare.  It still should be repealed immediately.
Any news on the different Obama scandals?  The NSA?  The IRS?  Obamacare?   Benghazi?   EPA emails?  Circumventing the Constitution?  Recess Appointments?  Just wondering if any truths will be found?
Oh well just three more years of this economic debacle of an Administration...

Yes I Am Now A Victim Of Obamacare-My Policy Was Cancelled

I am victim.  Should I be surprised?  Should I be angry?  Should I just marvel at the economic stupidity of this Administration in its implementation of this socialized health care program?  However I am still a victim.

I have a health insurance policy today, which will be ending when it is time for renewal.  The insurance company has stated that there will similar plans available to the one I currently have.  Really?  What new deductibles will I be forced to pay for?  What new mandated procedures that I will not use must I pay for?  How much higher will my premiums go up in this new policy?

It is a secret.  It is a secret to understand the economic illiteracy of Obamacare.  A plan developed on whim with many political favors being paid off and special interest lobbying groups being compensated.  All in the name of a failed socialized health care plan.  All in the name to desperately try to create a socialized single payer system.  

Obamacare is the medical and economic nightmare we must endure forced upon us by the Democratic Party in Washington.  They own it, their names are on it. 

I also find it amusing that the Connecticut Socialized Health Care exchange known as Access Health, CT is spending a mere $75,000 to have three murals painted and placed in three health care buildings throughout the state.  What a new and creative way to waste taxpayer’s monies here in Connecticut-notice also how the media does not cover this story.

But hey-I am a victim of the largest health care scam that our economy will ever have to endure and pay for.   And many more will be victims of Obamacare.  It is the new cancer of our economy.

Mr. Malloy's Economic Wasteland

We know there is an election upon us in 2014.  We know here in Connecticut we are near last in all economic categories as compared to other states.  We have one of the highest tax rates in the country along with almost the highest costs in workers compensation insurance, unemployment compensation taxes, high local property taxes, a lack of economic growth, and a dismal business climate.
Voters in Connecticut hopefully will recognize that this is the record of Mr. Malloy and Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule in the State Legislature.
I am curious as to how the state is going to end up with yet again another massive budget deficit after Mr. Malloy's massive $1.8 billion dollar tax increase when he took office-I thought this was going to resolve the state's fiscal deficit issues?  What happened?  What is the Governor's explanation?  Is it he has only been in office for three years now?  For three years now we see a lack of economic growth, a lack of economic development (except for those companies who contribute to the Democratic party) and a continual net loss of citizens in the state.  That is apparently an excellent record to run a reelection campaign upon.
Mr. Malloy has helped to nurture more of the same helping make Connecticut a vast economic wasteland.
We really need to see a democracy in Hartford again.  We need to see a state government that actually represents the taxpayers that pay for it.  We need to end the brutal regime of Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule.

The Iranian Deal-Why?

What is the point of the new deal with Iran?  What is the benefit of it to the world?
I am confused once again by the foreign policy amateur hour in Washington.
The United States releases Iranian assets to prop up their economy.
The Iranian government gives up?  Their ability to create a nuclear weapon?  What is different about this agreement that the Iranians will abide by that is different from the agreements of 1994,2005 and 2007 that they did not abide by?
Doesn't this agreement allow for Iran to continue to enrich uranium?  And what purpose realistically does Iran's nuclear program serve in a "peaceful" sense when they control massive amounts of oil and natural gas?  What about the gross human rights violations and political prisoners in Iran?

Thus we prop back up the Iranian economy and get no concessions from them-at a time when the economic sanctions were working.  More superb and well thought out foreign policy on the part of the Obama Administration-agree to a one sided deal with Iran.
Maybe just maybe some members of our Congress on both sides of the aisle could question and veto this agreement which is not in any way shape or form good for the United States or the world.  But for an Administration that has brought us Obamacare, Benghazi, the NSA scandal, and the IRS scandal we should just expect more of the same.  Incompetence at the highest level of our government.

Nuclear Option-Obamacare-NSA Scandal-IRS Scandal-Benghazi Scandal-Does It Ever End?

Does this Administration have any leadership ability whatsoever after five years in office?

Now we have a nuclear option being used in the Senate by the Democrats.  Why?

To push through radicals for our court system since the Democrats are in grave danger of losing the Senate in 2014?

We still have not received any answers to all of the questions of the Obamacare debacle.

We still have not received any answers to all of the questions of the NSA security scandal.

We still have not received any answers to all of the questions of the IRS scandal.

We still have not received any answers to all of the questions of the Benghazi murders of United States citizens.

We have not received many answers in five years of the Administration.

Why?

Is Mr. Obama capable of governing this office of the Presidency?  Or does he feel he is an Emperor ruling over his serfs in serfdom?  Why?

I am still waiting for answers as a taxpayer.  I guess I have to wait until 2017 for leadership and answers-hopefully we will still have a country by then.

The Questions That Still Are Not Answered About Our Affordable Health Care Act

In my last blog I raised several questions about Obamacare, the new socialized health care plan forced upon us by Democrats in Congress along with our President.

None of the questions have been answered at this time.  

Thus I still have many unresolved questions and issues about this debacle of a health care plan. I still would like to know how much it will costing taxpayers to implement and keep funded in the future.  I still would like to know more about the new improved Congressional plan that is being offered to our Congress and their staffs.  This plan seems to be incredibly low in cost due to a massive taxpayer’s subsidy for it along much better coverage that what you and I common taxpayers are eligible for and theoretically can afford with no taxpayers subsidies.  I still wonder how and why that is legal.   Why did Congress basically exempt themselves from Obamacare?  How are reimbursements going to be paid and by whom to health care procedures and doctors?  Is this a part of the actual bill?  Why was the health care website not checked for security purposes?  Why were there no background checks for those employed as these navigators?  And what will happen as personal information is hacked-will Obamacare take care of this?

This Affordable Care Act will define Mr. Obama, his Presidency and the Democrat party in general.  It is an economic and medical debacle and nightmare.  They own it.  

And my questions still do not get answered especially how much this is going to cost taxpayers.

I Apologize-You Still Must Accept My Health Care Plan-Any Questions?

Why should we still accept Obamacare?  Are there any economic advantages or medical advantages to socialized health care?  Why were five million policies cancelled due to this law?  What was economically and medically wrong with these policies?  Why is Congress not subject to Obamacare but has exempted themselves from it? Were any members of Congress or this Administrations policies cancelled?  How much is it actually going to cost to develop a workable health insurance web site portal?  What will be the costs in the long run to maintain it?  What is a one year extension of your current plan actually going to do for you? How will the additional costs to Medicare and Medicare going to be paid for?  By taxpayers through yet even higher medical care taxes?  Higher payroll taxes?  What provisions in Obamacare are related to medical tort and medical malpractice settlement reforms?  At what age does medical care start to be rationed due to costs?
He apologized-You Still Must Accept His Health Care Plan-Any Questions?  Good.  There are no answers from this Administration.  I do not accept this apology.

Wallingford Voters-The Choice Is Clear On Tuesday-Vote Dickinson And The Republican Team

Wallingford voters have a clear choice for Mayor and those who will serve on both the Town Council and Board of Education.  Mayor William Dickinson has done a tremendous job as our Mayor for many years now.  He has the knowledge, education and leadership qualities to continue to lead Wallingford for the next two years.  He has no ego and does have the skills to continue to govern Wallingford.

If we truly look at the Democratic candidate for Mayor-do we really see management skills?  I do not see any according to his resume.  Do we see the advanced education along with finance expertise/knowledge to lead Wallingford?  I do not see any according to his resume. Do we see anything other than the constant drum beat of me, me, me in his campaign?  I see very little in Mr. Zandri’s qualification to run our town, nor was I impressed in his actions as a Town Councilor.  Being an IT person does not qualify you as a leader of multi-million dollar entity along with all of the essential day to day management functions that this position requires.

For Town Council Republican candidates Vincent Cervoni, Tom Laffin,  Craig Fishbein, John LeTourneau, Christine Mansfield, Bob Parisi and Ray Rys, all bring quality leadership and management to the Council.  They do not need power point slides nor ego to provide steady and conservative leadership to our town.  Our Republican Board of Education candidates all place needs before ego in their decisions also.

On Tuesday Vote William Dickinson and the Republican team for Wallingford.  I know  if you love our town as much as I do you will stay the course of exceptional leadership and government and Vote Republican.

Wallingford = Strong Republican Leadership

Wallingford has strong Republican leadership.  Whether we look at the Mayor, the Town Council or the Board of Education, we see strong and dedicated Republican leadership.  We see a Republican Mayor who is strong in leadership and in economic values.  We see a Republican Board of Education that values our students while understanding its fiscal responsibilities to taxpayers.  We see a Republican Town Council that exhibits fiscal restraint and respects taxpayers while providing funding for services for our town.
Our town is excellent shape financially.  It has one of the highest bond ratings in the state.  This is due to a dynamic Republican Mayor who places Wallingford's needs first rather than his political ego.  He and our Republican Town Councilors do not need power point presentations to resolve supposed issues in Wallingford.  They take action-not relying on rhetoric and or irrational economic arguments.
Wallingford Republicans lead and have led our community with low taxes, low electric rates, an Aaa bond rating and excellent services.
They deserve to continue to lead in 2014.
Vote Mayor Dickinson and the Republican team for Town Council and Board of Education next week.

Obamacare's Utopian Agenda And Economic Fantasy Developed Through Lies

Sorry, you can not keep your current health care plan.  There is no way economically possible that you can or that the current plan that you have still actually exists.  It is reality with Obamacare.  It is reality that Mr. Obama and his Administration lied to Americans about being able to keep your current health care plan.  You can't.  Look at all the companies who now must change their health care plans, find new plans, see coverage lowered and premiums skyrocket.  That is the new Socialism of health care in 2013.  That is the Obamacare Utopian Agenda and Economic Fantasy.  It is in reality all economic lies.
All lies just like Benghanzi, NSA, and the IRS scandals.  Lies and more lies.  Just like all of the lies about Obamacare.
What are the actual costs for his socialized health care plan?  Just pick a number from the sky-we are probably looking at at least $2 trillion dollars over the next two years for implementation and enforcement.
$2 trillion dollars could have been used to buy insurance for those, trillions, billions and or millions (pick a number since this is also a lie also) of Americans who supposedly do not have health insurance.
Why?  Why are taxpayers monies being used to prop up this already failed Obamacare Utopian Agenda and Economic Fantasy?
Americans deserve better than this.  The lies are horrific and disturbing.  And this rogue socialistic program needs to end now.

Wallingford AAA Bond Rating And Low Mill Rate=Well Managed Government

Why is a Aaa bond rating bad?  Why is a low tax mill rate bad?  In my economic opinion it is a sign of economic efficiency in the town government of Wallingford.   Wallingford's mill rate is one of the lowest in the area at 26.22 mills.  Since the state mandates by law a revaulation of all property every five years property values have a tendency to go up as Wallingford is a very desirable place to live with a Aaa bond rating, excellent schools, low electric rates and low stable taxes.  Thus we see much higher property values in Wallingford as compared to other towns that have lower property values, higher tax mill rates and higher property taxes being paid out.  I know I would rather have a residential property that had great value when I was ready to sell it and have it be in demand when I sold it.  I experienced this when I sold my other house in Wallingford in 2009 (at the supposed peak of the economic downturn).
Trying to follow the Democratic arguments on how property is valued in our town and thus taxed makes no economic sense to me.  The state mandates the town to revaluate its property every five years.  It is the law.  If the Democrats do not like this then change the law on a state level, after all you are in charge in Hartford controlling all aspects of government there.  The formula that is used by the town is the one that is mandated by the state.  We are fortunate to see as much business and industry that we have in Wallingford which shifts a great deal of the property tax burden from residential property taxes to business property taxes.  The robust business and industry we have in 2013 in Wallingford helps to create a stable tax base which in my economic opinion is the envy of many other surrounding communities.
The economic reality of Wallingford is that it has a stable tax rate, it has exceptionally high property values and it has a dynamic business climate with economic growth being seen on a daily basis on our Route 5 corridor.
Aaa bond rating to me are rare.  Wallingford stands above our communities with its economic efficiency.
Low tax mill rates are rare in Connecticut.  Wallingford stands above our communities with its mill rate efficiency.
Well managed government can only take place when a Mayor places the town's needs above his political ego and ambitions.  Well managed government takes place with actions not stale and economically irrational rants about how bad things are supposedly.
The Democrats and Mr. Zandri still have not communicated how they are going to pay for all of their new and improved programs which in my economic opinion will burden Wallingford for future generations with higher residential property taxes.
The choice in November becomes more clear each day.
Vote Mayor Dickinson for another term along with his Republican majorities for Town Council and the Board of Education.

Voter Disinformation In Wallingford-Vote Dickinson For Mayor

Democrats normally do not stop at any level in voter disinformation.  Their task is to present the worse possible light even when things are great to advance their thoughts and ideas be as skewed as they are from reality, especially economic reality.  The current election in Wallingford is an excellent example.
Wallingford has been governed by an economically frugal and economically conservative Mayor William Dickinson for many years now and enjoys an Aaa bond rating.  It seems to be a source of discontent in 2013 that the Mayor does such an excellent job in running and managing the town fiscally.
In this election his opponent is pulling out all of the stops from the Democrat playbook on how to misinform the voting public.
As someone who has taught economics for many years now and have been involved in municipal finance for fourteen years I can not rationalize any of Mr. Zandri's economic arguments with regards to Wallingford's mill rate and assessments.  Contrary to his convoluted economic arguments the town follows the law imposed by the State of Connecticut with regards to assessments and mill rates.  Thus the voter disinformation on this non issue.
It has to really bother Wallingford Democrats that they are not allowed to tax and spend in free form and with free will like they do in Hartford and Washington.  Mr. Zandri has not presented to voters one piece of information as to how he will pay for any of his massive expansion of town programs and technologies.  Is the money going to fall from the sky?  Or realistically are our taxes going to increase dramatically because of these expansions?  In my economic opinion taxes can only go up and surpluses will be drained dramatically if he is elected.
Wallingford voters do have a choice.  They can have much higher taxes in 2014.  Or they can reelect Mayor William Dickinson with a Republican majority Town Council and Board of Education and maintain a fiscally sound community.

Re-elect William Dickinson For Mayor Of Wallingford

It is election day here in Wallingford in a few weeks.  For the past few months voters in Wallingford have been inundated with the usual anti-Wallingford, anti-Mayor Dickinson rhetoric.  This campaign has seen what amounts to wondering what town we are actually living in.
To me as a both as a voter and taxpayer the issues are clear.  Wallingford is one of the best fiscally run and managed communities in Connecticut.  It has a low tax rate, low electric rates, excellent schools and services, and an excellent bond rating.
It has been done with the guidance of a Mayor who places the town first before his needs and political ego.
It has been done with the guidance of a Mayor who has placed fiscal conservatism along rational economic thought first before the desires of special interest groups.
It has been done with the guidance of a Mayor who leads with actions rather than empty talk and promises.
It has been done with the guidance of a Mayor who does not have to constantly be on social media and tweeting all that he has done, will do or promises to do.  Mayor Dickinson actually accomplishes.
The economic reality of 2013 shows that good government does exist when a Mayor makes the harsh choices to be thrifty with every penny of taxpayers monies.  In my economic opinion this does not exist with the economically irrational Democratic leadership in both Hartford and Washington.
Wallingford voters have a choice.  We have an excellent government with Mayor Dickinson and six Republican Town Councilors and Republican Board of Education.  Vote them back into office November 5, 2013.  Do not be persuaded by the false promises and false economic realities that the opposition provides.

Democratic Economic Disinformation Is Everywhere-Washington, Hartford, Wallingford

Whether it is on the Local, State, or Federal level, I continue to be amazed at the economic disinformation that the Democratic party force feeds the public.
For the Washington governmental shutdown which is in reality is saving taxpayers a great deal of money, we hear obviously that is completely the Republicans fault.  It is the Republicans fault that the President will not be part of a non partisan, open type of communications government that speaks to the other side and tries to resolve its differences.  If you do not agree with this Administration's convoluted theories of economics you are not spoken to or heard from.  I guess that is good government in Washington.  Either agree or face the consequences, sort of like a Dictatorship.
Economic fantasies continue to grow and prosper among the ruling elite of Hartford's One Party Rule which continues to talk about the Governor inheriting the largest budget deficit in the state's history.  All Mr. Malloy did was to pass the largest tax increase in our state's history and we still have - guess what - a budget deficit, which will not go away any time soon.  Especially with the massive amount of unfunded liabilities that exist in our state government.  But if we do not think about them they will go away...for the next Administration.
Finally in Wallingford, the Democratic Mayoral candidate Mr. Zandri  has placed a new twist on our town's efficiency such as its  Aaa bond rating, low taxes, low electric rates and excellent school system.  He apparently does not believe we have one of the most transparent area governments, nor believes we have a low tax rate by the disinformation he has created about our tax mill rate.  I suppose if he ever got elected, he could state that his future tax increases are actually tax cuts and other related economic fantasies.  His grand plans will definitely cost taxpayers a great deal more in taxes, economically it can not be done any other way. In my economic opinion many taxpayers fear his economic rhetoric and will stay the course and re elect Mayor William Dickinson for another term.
Democratic economic disinformation is everywhere, it is truly is a burden to our economy and to the taxpayers who must pay for it.

G O V E R N M E N T S H U T D O W N - But Where Is Our Tax Money Going? $16,750,221,318,255.68 Trillion Dollar National Debt And Rising...

Our National Debt is $16,750,221,318,255.68 and rising.  $16.75 trillion and rising.  And with Federal Government unfunded liabilities we are looking at additional $100 trillion dollars which is off budget and out-of-sight from taxpayers.  Economically we could be considered bankrupt.
If one wonders where their tax monies they are paying is going during our government shutdown, it is a valid question given all of the doomsday economic rhetoric we are hearing at this time.  First in the first five years of the Obama Administration, the National Debt has increased by $4.93 trillion dollars, for those who despise all things Republican, under the Bush Administration it increased by $4.89 trillion dollars in eight years.  We still have three more years of this Administration, thus we may and probably will see an additional $3 to $6 trillion dollars in National Debt.  Our current tax monies are being used to basically continue paying the interest on the National Debt and to run certain services of government especially the salaries and benefits of the members of Congress and their staffs.  Our current Administration wants to prove its point by making this "shutdown" as nasty as possible, thus we are seeing the staged closings of our National Parks, Monuments, etc. (with the exception having a taxpayer funded rally for immigration at a "closed" governmental facility) with as much perceived pain as possible.  To me as a taxpayer it is laughable and insulting to my continued financial support of this rogue and economically irrational administration and government.   I thought our elected officials serve us?  Or are we now serfs in a non democracy type of serfdom?
The National Debt is out of control.  The costs of our new socialized health care system are out of control.  And the issues here for our new fiscal year should be to cut spending, come up with a plan to resolve the National Debt, come up with a plan to allow the free markets to create jobs and economic growth not government and most importantly allow the free markets to dynamically allow for better health insurance for all.
When will this Administration understand coherent economic thought?
Our National Debt is my $16,750,221,318,255.68 and rising.  That is the real issue that is avoided by all in politics and our ultra liberal media.

Vincent Cervoni For Wallingford Town Council

Mr. Cervoni is the Vice Chairman of the Wallingford Town Council.  I am going to use one of my votes to re elect him this November.  I had an opportunity to talk to him a few weeks back about his campaign and views for the upcoming election.

What do you feel is your greatest accomplishment or accomplishments as a member of the Council?

Mr. Cervoni: I don't take individual credit for individual accomplishments.  I am part of a team that is part of this administration.  In this term, my team kept the bonded indebtedness per-capita below $1000, bringing it closer to $900.  My team helped this Town maintain an Aaa bond rating.  These are important parts of the budget matrix that help keep tax increases very modest.  I'm also proud to have been part of the team that instituted an enterprise ambulance service.  By all reports, the enterprise ambulance service has proven to be a win-win for the residents.  My latest information is that the enterprise ambulance service has done so well that four more paramedics are being hired.

Low taxes, economic growth, forward thinking are all parts of Mr. Cervoni's platform and again he puts the needs of our community above personal political gain.  And that personal political gain and political posturing is very evident on the other side of the Town Council aisle. 

Mr. Cervoni has been in my opinion a strong and effective Council member, he is articulate and offers a great deal of insight on many issues that come forward to the Council.  Voters can check out more information on his website  www.vincentcervoni.com