The Never Ending Clinton Political Scandals-President Trump

I have always stated that history repeats itself.  In the history of our country I have seen it happen numerous times.  In my opinion we are reliving a time frame of 1964 to 1974 with civil unrest, war, and political corruption.
Political corruption in 2016 is investigated and reported upon by our media in a much different fashion than it was back in the 1972 to 1974 time frame.  President Nixon and his Watergate cover up led to Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.  Watergate for those too young to remember involved a far reaching probe of the wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee Party headquarters and its subsequent cover up by both Nixon and several members of his administration.  I remember reading and watching the daily hearings and speculation as to what occurred.  In my eyes it was a complex crisis that was difficult to follow and understand yet I tried my best by reading the each week Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, New Times, National Review and the daily papers.  It was the time before 24/7/365 non stop news programs like have we have today.  In my opinion the difference today is the media bias has underscored the seriousness of the Hillary Clinton email server scandal, has shunned any investigation into a supposed non profit Clinton foundation racket and refuses to look at any connections of the selling of the Hillary Clinton Secretary of States office in proportion to donations to the Clinton Foundation with certain pieces of laws/legislation/deals that occurred during that time period.
Watergate was a horrific time in my opinion in our nation's history.
The Clinton scandals that are being suppressed at this time are a horrific time in our nation's history.
And history is repeating itself again.
Nixon.  Clinton.  An abuse and disregard for power.   Nixon at least resigned from what he did.
Hillary Clinton may be given even more corrupted power by possibly being elected President, thus showing our country and world that the American set of rules and laws are not applicable to this individual.  An individual who with her family has been able to manipulate the highest office in the land to their personal financial gain and power while putting the nation at risk.  The Clinton family empire takes priority over the well being and security of America.  America is the Clinton family conquest of territory as they dictate their recklessness and total disregard for law to enhance their empire.  Sort of like a King and Queen of a country.
Has America regressed this far backwards to allow for this to happen?  Are we now a Monarchy?  A Dictatorship?  Why can't Taxpayers and voters of our country get answers?
I see the answer.   The answer is a change in who runs the White House.  The answer is in following the United States Constitution.  The answer is in electing a man who is not a paid professional politician but a successful businessman. 
The choice is there and it is not the Clinton Empire.
President Trump.  It is time to take back America from the Clinton Family trail of corruption, deception and theft.

Your Connecticut Taxpayers Monies At Work

Connecticut's remaining taxpayers work hard each day and night paying their taxes.  We pay an excessively high rate in state income taxes, state sales taxes, business taxes, user fees and licenses, secret gross earnings taxes on gasoline, excise taxes and miscellaneous nuisance taxes.  For our efforts the Democrat controlled State House and State Senate runs a constant budget deficit year-in and year-out a mere $1 Billion dollars in over spending.  Since the Utopian State Income Tax was passed in 1991, the Democrat controlled State House and State Senate has increased spending by 200% from a $7 Billion dollar budget in 1991 to over $20 Billion dollars in 2016.  Connecticut's short and long term funded and unfunded liabilities are from $70 to $80 Billion dollars also in 2016. 
This is the record that the Connecticut Democrats are running on for election and re election this November.  They have had thirty years of running Connecticut and they have successfully brought Connecticut to its economic ruin.  Connecticut as we know ranks last in many economic categories such as business development, economic freedom and tax rates.  Connecticut's economic vibrancy continues to erode daily due to the Connecticut Democrat Party and their irrational, illogical and detrimental economic policies.  There should be more to the State of Connecticut budget than just an overpaid management work force whose only concern is getting more and more politically created taxpayer funded positions so as to accumulate unheard of salaries, benefits and a never ending pension to those who pay their Democrat political dues.
Again this is the record that the Connecticut Democrats are running on for election and re election this November.   It is horrific.
Connecticut has been led too long by the Connecticut Democrat Party.  Their tax and spend policies make no economic sense any more.  They can no longer govern in any way, shape or form.
The Connecticut Democrat Party can be seen at work through their failed taxpayer funded baseball park in Hartford, their protection of unions at all costs and Dan Malloy's illegal campaign mailer just to name a few debacles.   In my opinion the list is endless.
It is Time To Take Back Connecticut in November.  Connecticut Taxpayers have reached a dead end with the Connecticut Democrat Party and their failed policies.  It is time for new leadership and an end to one party rule.  It is time to give the Connecticut Republican Party a chance to lead and govern Connecticut and to bring back economic vibrancy to what was once an economically dynamic state.  The cesspool of leadership that defines the Connecticut Democrat Party needs to be flushed out once and fall all in order for Connecticut to survive.
Vote Republican in November. 

Ethics In Politics. November 2016?

I wonder if ethics exists any more in Presidential politics?  I wonder if our President believes in truth and a value system.  A system that truth whether good or bad is essential for democracy to work in America and the spoken truth takes priority over lies that endanger our country.  That the spoken truth takes priority over personal financial gain.  It is like selling your high elected or appointed governmental position to the highest bidder for a supposed charity you run.   Does this sound familiar? Does the Iranian Nuclear deal fit this idea?   The Benghazi debacle?  Keeping your Doctor and lower health insurance premiums under the Affordable Health Care Act/Obamacare?  An $11 million dollar tax return released by the Clinton dynasty shows that 96% of their charitable donations are given beck to their foundation that they own.  And any investigation into their supposed foundation gets silenced by the Attorney General.  National legal political theft and financial gain seem to be the norm for Washington politics in 2016.
To the many voters I have spoken to they are irate at the lies they are hearing from both national and state Democrat Parties.  On a state level we are seeing a massive clean election law campaign mailing scandal unfold with an unsuccessful payoff of a state commission investigating it.  We are seeing a state economy unravel daily due to massive taxes and horrific regulations which endanger businesses staying in the state.   At what point are there any ethics left in Hartford?  Why are Connecticut Taxpayers continued to force to pay for the corruption of Hartford?  Why are Federal Taxpayers forced to pay for the corruption of Washington?
Democracy and ethics seem to me to go hand in hand.  Revisionist history seems to be the norm by liberalism gone amok.  I see that 2016 is a radical turning point in both our state and nation's history.
And I hope that time has not passed for those taxpayers who have been forced to pay their taxes to support these different levels of corruption in both our Federal and State governments.  Billions upon billions dollars of taxpayers monies wasted for personal and political gain.
It is Time To Take Back America in November.  It Is Time To Take Back Connecticut in November.

Indiana Ranks #17 In Fiscal Solvency. Connecticut Ranks #50 In Fiscal Solvency. Dan Malloy Can No Longer Govern.

Harsh rhetoric coupled with economic reality.  The economic reality of a Democrat led state government that has raised taxes constantly and has no regard for state laws.
Governor Dan Malloy really can not govern any more.  He is done.  His job now is to eliminate through his venom rhetoric anyone who stands in the way of the coronation of an equally corrupted politician to become the first women President of the United States.
All that stands in Dan Malloy's way is truth.  And truth to a liberal is whatever they want it to be.  Lies are truth to them.  Dan Malloy when running for election and re-election was not going to raise taxes but did.  Dan Malloy when running for re-election claimed there was no budget deficit but the deficit that supposedly never existed still is increasing unabated.  Dan Malloy when running for re-election claimed he made the tough decisions to get Connecticut back on track with an improving economy but the truth is that Connecticut ranks dead last or near last in many economic categories such as job creation, business climate, net population loss to name a few.  All these lies when Dan Malloy ran for re-election prove to me and a majority of voters in Connecticut that he and his Connecticut Democrat Party can not govern the state any more.
Yet Dan Malloy runs around our country bashing Vice Presidential candidate Indiana Governor Mike Pence.  Why?  Is Dan Malloy jealous of how well Indiana's economy is working.  Lower taxes, new job formation, positive population growth are all economic events that happened in Indiana not Connecticut.   Indiana ranks #17 in fiscal solvency while Connecticut ranks #50 before bankrupt Puerto Rico according to the Mercatus Center June 1, 2016 analysis.  Dan Malloy and the Connecticut Democrat Party are economically illiterate in resolving any of our economic issues.  The result is Dan Malloy and the Connecticut Democrat Party can only raise taxes and increase bonding to continue to spend their way to economic oblivion.
Yet Dan Malloy uns around our country bashing Vice Presidential candidate Indiana Governor Mike Pence.  Why?
Hopefully Dan Malloy and his fellow state Democrat elected General Assembly members will be out of work in November (or sooner in the case of Dan Malloy and his Federal probe of election law violations).  And hopefully Indiana will have a new Republican Governor when Mike Pence gets elected Vice President along with President Trump.
It is Time To Take Back Connecticut and America in November.

Malloy The Clinton Surrogate-While Connecticut Implodes Economically-President Trump-Vice President Pence

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy continues to amaze me.  I fully understand that he has been written off as Connecticut's Governor through economically irrational and illogical tax and spend policies.  I fully understand that he has been written off as Connecticut's Governor through his lies about the massive and growing state budget deficits and long term unfunded liabilities currently at $70 billion dollars and growing.  I fully understand that he has been written off as Connecticut's Governor through his lies by a shady reelection mailing he and his staff embraced and then hid with a yet another shady payoff deal with a non operational and politically motivated State Elections Committee.
Now since Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy is in danger of losing his Governorship in 2018 or sooner if impeached, he must audition for another job.  What better type of job for Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy than being a surrogate for the equally shady and unethical Hillary Clinton.  He can bash anyone and everyone so that Clinton sees that he is in her mold, taking down anyone who stands in her way of ruthless power and corruption.  Thus he will granted more power in Washington if the shady and unethical Hillary Clinton gets elected through a badly needed Cabinet position to get him out of Connecticut.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy has lost Connecticut.  He and his Connecticut Democrat Party are corrupt and totally insensitive to those in real need of help.  Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy has made a mockery of the State Constitution and the rules that govern the state.  Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy has made a mockery of the budget process.   Now he will make a mockery of the upcoming Presidential campaign
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy needs to get out of office.
President Trump-Vice President Pence.  Much to the dismay of the tyrant named Dan Malloy.
President Trump-Vice President Pence. 

Why Is Our Political System This Messed Up?

Why?
Hillary Clinton for President?
It makes no sense how the Democrat Party of the United States of America could back her with all of the massive character issues that she has.
Why?
Hillary Clinton for President?
Does she really have any type of programs that can help our country especially with its current $20 Trillion dollar National Debt?
Why?
Hillary Clinton for President?
Does she really believe in actual freedom for our country or is she willing to sell it off to finance her Foundation?
Why?
Hillary Clinton for President?
She has many different issues especially likeability when it comes to voting.
I can not see her winning in November nor most of the Democrats running for office.
Maybe it is Time to Take Back America in November.
President Trump-sounds much better to me.

240 Years Of Freedom July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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

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

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

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

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

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

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

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

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

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

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

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

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

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

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Connecticut's Stale 85th House Representative - More Of The Same Tax And Spend Rhetoric

State Representative from the 85th District, Mary Mushinsky, who won her first election in 1980 has been in office since 1981.  Over the past 35 years in office she has voted for nearly every tax increase that has come through the House including the economically debilitating state income tax and more recently the two highest tax increases in the state's history.   Since she is running for reelection Wallingford residents received in the mail on Friday a taxpayer funded four color printed brochure highlighting her "massive" accomplishments this past term.  From her reelection brochure:"Although there were no easy solutions this year, after a lot of hard work we approved a budget that is balanced, without tax or fee increases, without borrowing, and without dipping into the Rainy Day Fund."  Thus yesterday when Connecticut Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo certified a $315.8 million deficit in the outgoing budget and its Rainy Day Fund is now down to $90 million dollars, I am confused as to how Representative Mushinsky has a balanced budget without dipping into the Rainy Day Fund?   Thus one gets a taste of how Connecticut Democrats are able to keep manufacturing their economic lies, a $315 million dollar budget deficit is somehow a balanced budget?  Estimates for the fiscal 2016-17 budget are trending towards a $1 billion dollar deficit, since a great deal of the Democrat budget that she help to pass relies on "projected" savings.  When voters read this they apparently must impressed with the rhetoric as they keep sending her back to office each term.  Why is beyond me when one sees and must live in the economic quagmire of high taxes, high levels of corruption and an infrastructure that is beyond repair that Mushinsky has helped nurture over the past thirty fives years in office.  
The great irony that I find in her being reelected is that several residents in Wallingford feel the town is fiscally mismanaged even though it has a AAA Bond rating and low taxes.   They demand more fiscal conservatism on a local level and endorse the tax and spend policies and economic debacles of Democrat Representative Mushinsky on a state level.  
Have Wallingford taxpayers and voters had enough of Representative Mushinsky?  Can Wallingford taxpayers and voters actually state that they are better off economically than two years ago?  Four years ago?  Since 1991 when the state income tax took effect?  Can it be possible that Wallingford taxpayers and voters have had enough of this economic nightmare of high taxes and high budget deficits that Mushinsky has contributed to since 1981?  Serge Mihaly is this years Republican candidate to unseat Mushinsky.  Maybe taxpayers and voters who have had enough of the Mushinsky rhetoric will vote for him and his fiscal conservatism into Hartford.  Maybe they can try something different to take back Connecticut in November.
 

Brexit and the United States-God Saved The Queen

I have been asked over the week my thoughts on the Brexit situation and how it impacts our country.  I know this is away from my usual opinions on the worsening Connecticut economic debacle and the highly corrupted state political situation however as an economist I feel I should offer thoughts on it.
First in my opinion I feel it is an excellent choice on the part of Britain to regain its independence and economic sovereignty.  I do not believe nor have seen enough economic evidence that the European Union has created such economic prosperity in Europe and for other countries in the world to justify its expense.  Also I do not believe nor have seen enough economic evidence that the Euro currency has created great economic excitement nor economic stimulation for it to continue to thrive as a viable unified currency.  To me all it has done is propped up weaker countries and placed economic strain on stronger countries (like the United Kingdom).
Secondly the issue of radical terrorism has expanded in the European Union due to open borders and unlimited immigration policies that have been able to allow and nurture terrorism cells especially in France and Belgium.  Europe is far less safe than what it was in 1990.  The European Union liberal drum roll of being politically correct when it comes to immigration and radical terrorism/lack of profiling has created an unsafe and highly dangerous situation for both Europe and the United States.  The citizens of England had enough and chose freedom and  sovereignty as a nation. 
To me all the European Union has evolved in is a bureaucratic liberal experimental think tank that has no checks and balances in it.  They wish to force feed the Union with failed liberal social and economic experiments. 
England in my opinion now will prosper economically and terrorists will have a much more difficult time in their operations in the United Kingdom.  The fear mongering manipulations of our financial markets here in our country make little sense to me economically.  Why the stock market dropped the way it did on Friday proves that fear when properly placed in the media allows for financial/stock swings to beat up the small investors in the market while allowing for massive profits for the stock shorting gamblers and large institutional investors to gain.  There should be no fear over this exit.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the issues of the European Union in her famous quote "What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy." -- Margaret Thatcher   margaretthatcher.tv
 God saved The Queen this past week and God saved England.  Can God save America next?

Connecticut The Corrupted State

A constitution defined:  is a a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
In my opinion Connecticut has no constitution.  It has no principles or precedents governing.  It has corrupted leadership and elected officials. 
With Connecticut's Omnipotent One Party Rule fully entrenched the constitution be it with regards to a legally binding state constitutional spending cap or with the total disregard for Connecticut's Clean Election Law is ignored. 
It is without question this weeks corrupted agreement between the Connecticut Democrat Party and in particular with Governor Malloy and the State Elections Enforcement Commission was done in secret with no one being allowed to be interviewed by the Commission.  Mr. Malloy and his Connecticut Democrat Party were in  clear violation of House Bill No. 850-Public Act No. 13-60 (which I urge Connecticut Democrats to reread and to comprehend what laws campaign financing should be followed).  Malloy made expenditures well in excess of what this law allows in his mailings in the last election.  It can not be denied nor was it actually investigated by the State Elections Enforcement Commission (which to me now is another tool of the Connecticut Democrat Party).  Should taxpayers and voters expect anything different?
And the question that also needs to be asked is why taxpayers are paying taxes to support such a corrupted regime in Hartford?   If the Constitution is non existent what rule of law are we following in Connecticut?  Thus why are we paying taxes?
Connecticut should be referred to at all times as the "Corrupted State"  I would hope in the next legislative session after more items are taken off budget illegally, more taxes were raised and new taxes implemented, more secret hiring of politically connected Democrats occur, no discussion on most laws or the budget take place that some legislator brings up a law to change the official state nickname to "Connecticut-The Corrupted State".  At the same a new law could also be passed to tax anyone moving out of the state.  An exit tax-a fitting tribute to the cancer that has engulfed our state-the Connecticut Democrat Party.
It is time to take back Connecticut in November.

Connecticut and Its Economic Decline

It is evident that Connecticut is in and has been in an economic decline for many years now.  Since the passage of the Weicker state income tax that was supposed to solve all of Connecticut's problems we still see an economic decline.  For many years now, over and over again.  An economic decline that is far reaching from young and old citizens moving out of state along with many businesses and industries heading elsewhere.  An economic decline that encourages constant non productivity through a political elite ruling class that is embellished with high salaries, benefits and pensions while penalizing those who actually produce and earn their income through yet even new and higher taxes on their wages.  An economic decline that chooses to tax literally anything and everything in a never ending quest for more revenue to constantly satisfy the same political elite ruling class that has helped to bring Connecticut to economic ruin.  An economic decline as viewed by millions of taxpayers dollars being spent on a Hartford baseball stadium that can not be finished nor generate any income in the near future.  An economic decline in which the Governor picks who wins and who loses through taxpayer funded corporate welfare cash given to businesses who donate to his ruling party.
The list is endless in the chronic economic lie that the Connecticut Democrat Party and Dan Malloy have force fed taxpayers for years now.  More and higher taxes continue to bring Connecticut to its economic knees. 
And many of these same Democrats are running for re-election in November for their golden House and Senate seats.  Why?  To further Connecticut's economic decline?  To pad their pensions and benefits?
Think about the continuing economic decline of our state when you vote in November.  If you still live here.  It is time to take back Connecticut. 

Dan Malloy’s Governing Delusions

Dan Malloy as Governor of Connecticut has done an excellent job of grinding Connecticut into the ground since he has taken office in 2011.  It has been a long six years with his debacle of his second term not ending until 2018.  And it seems to most taxpayers in the state that if anything goes wrong it is easy to blame the Republicans for it.

It is too bad that Dan Malloy does not believe in either telling the truth nor accepting responsibility for the mess he has turned Connecticut into.  He accepts no responsibility for higher taxes, business and taxpayers moving out of state in droves nor his reelection campaign lies that there were no deficits in the state budget.

This is the record that the Connecticut Democrat Party is running on to continue their unyielding grip and control on the state House and Senate.  How does this party have any credibility with the taxpayers and voters of Connecticut is beyond me.  And it is also beyond many of the voters of Connecticut.  And many of the voters in Connecticut will be for in some cases for the first time in their lives voting Republican to stop the hemorrhaging of their state.

It is time to take back Connecticut from omnipotent one party rule in November.  It is time to force Dan Malloy and his Democrat party into economic reality once and for all.

Armed Forces Day May 21-Let Us Give Thanks to Those Who Serve

Saturday May 21 is Armed Forces Day.  It is a day to reflect and give thanks to all of our Men and Women who serve in our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard without ego or fanfare.  It is a time to reflect on all of those who gave their lives to preserve the freedom of our country. 
To me it is a thankless job especially when our national elected officials are ignorant of military and world matters.  America has always been asked to help in times of crisis or natural disaster.  It should be understood that the greatest country in the world is expected to lead in times of need or crisis.  Our country relies upon an all volunteer Armed Forces to help keep peace in our world, help protect our citizens abroad and to allow others the opportunity to live in a free society rather than under a dictatorship/tyrant rule as we still see in 50 countries of our world such as Cuba, Iran and North Korea to name a few.
Freedom is not and has never been free to achieve.  Millions upon millions of people have died in a quest to be free and to remain living free in our world.  Freedom should be taken for granted nor abused by politicians who in many cases are ignorant of their world history of freedom.
Let us rejoice and give thanks to all those who are current serving and have served in our Armed Forces every day of the year not just once a year.  For with out them the likelihood of us being free would be questionable.  Thank you all who have served and are serving our country.

What Is To Like About The Connecticut Democrats Fourth Deficit Budget?

Not much.  In trying to understand as an economist and as a taxpayer a complex $20 billion dollar budget in 48 hours or less, there is not much to like about this budget.  Nor did I like the past Connecticut Democrat Party/Malloy developed deficit ridden budgets.
This budget again lacked any input from the Republicans who represent a large part of the state.
This budget in theory does not raise any taxes however it again puts off the payments of GAAP debt for yet another year.  This only increases the interest payments the state must make in the future.
This budget also takes over more local control from cities and towns by creating in 2018 Regional Education Service Centers that will force cities and towns to consolidate human resources, finance and technology divisions.  This was done with no input from the 169 towns and cities in our state.
This budget has built in deficits in it due to the apparent creation of supposed savings and shifting of budget items around.  If you did this in private business you would probably be arrested for accounting fraud.  This is a well known magic trick of the Connecticut Democrat Party to help continue their economic debacle.  There will be no increased savings nor lack of spending.
This budget caps non union pensions at a mere $125,000 a year.  I am curious as to how many middle class citizens in the state receive this type of pension or any type of pension from their employer?
This budget also satisfies long time Democrat controlled cities by allowing Bridgeport to defer part of their pension payments into the state run pension system for municipal workers for two years  and Middletown receives $2 million dollars more in funding through the implementer rat function of the budget bill.  Political favors given without anyone knowing about it in an implementer bill is known as a rat.  Again in private business this amounts to bribery. 
What is to like about the Connecticut Democrats fourth budget?  Not much.  It is more of the same with the exceptions of cutting some spending.  But there was once again no structural reforms in the way the state does business.  Connecticut still has massive unfunded short and long term debt.  Depending on how one views it it is between $44 billion dollars and $80 billion dollars (figuring in long term benefit and pension obligations).  This economic issue was still not addressed nor will it ever be addressed with the continuing one party rule of the Connecticut Democrat Party.
I do not like this budget.  It is more of the same.  The Economic Armageddon is fast approaching thanks to the Connecticut Democrat Party.

Fourth Connecticut Democrat Budget-Will There Be A Fifth?

Four budgets now here in Connecticut.  Each budget only slightly different than the other.  Each based upon incredible and overly opportunistic projections of tax revenues that never seem to be met due to the decaying Connecticut economy.  Pet projects and political nepotism never being touched.  High level non-productive, highly paid and massive benefit do nothing positions never cut.  Those most in need due to illness and or disability have their programs slashed.  Mandated transportation for school children bus funding is cut.  Hospitals are taxed and are supposed to provide free care for those who have no insurance even though there is socialized health insurance that is supposedly affordable for all.
Thus four budgets have been created with no input, discussion or debate from the Republicans in Hartford who represent believe it or not a large percentage of the remaining Connecticut taxpayers who still live here.  The supposed spirit of bipartisanship is unknown and declared illegal by the Connecticut Democrat Party at times of budget negotiations.
More of the same for Connecticut taxpayers.  More budget deficits, more long term unfunded liabilities, more and higher taxes, more of Hartford's Omnipotent One Party Rule and their continuing economic nightmare.  Will it ever end for Connecticut taxpayers?
I do not think so.  This budget serves up the same economic lies as the last three.  In 2017 we will be reading about the new deficit much the same as the old deficit and the new taxes that are needed to cover it.  We will be reading about how the highest taxpayers of Connecticut are not paying their fair share even though they are moving out of state quickly due to the massive tax burdens they have.  It is the constant replay of the Connecticut Democrat Party's economic nightmare and debacle.  And it has to stop this November with the voting out of office in mass of these same Democrats who have ruined Connecticut beyond economic repair.  Taxpayers can not afford this economic burden placed on them now that they are truly the economic slaves to the Connecticut Democrat Party.
It is time to take back Connecticut in November. 

Continue To Spend Taxpayer Money That Does Not Exist-The Connecticut Democrat Party Plan

I am exhausted.  As a taxpayer I am tired at the end of the week working my three jobs. On my weekends I still must work on the classes that I teach grading papers and answering student questions.  I work seven days a week.  I work so I can pay a never ending state burden since taxes are constantly being raised for those who work for a living in Connecticut.
Connecticut has also a never ending budget deficit that increases on a daily basis.  Yesterday on April 29th it is now $256 million dollars and rising.  The current Democrat Party budget proposal is just as economically illiterate as the last one, in one area the Democrats are adding money they think they will receive from future legal settlements.  Maybe in all of our personal budgets we should add money we can dream about receiving, spend it and not worry about it if the money does not come in.  We as citizens of Connecticut can adopt the Connecticut Democrat Party way of budgeting and never worry about the consequences of it.  I am exhausted reading about this economically irrational way of budgeting that I feel is illegal to actually present to the public.  Remember the ignored Balance Budget Amendment?
Thus we are now looking at a Connecticut Democrat Party two year budget deficit for Fiscal 2016-17, 2017-18 of about $5 billion dollars.  Depending on the way you look at Connecticut's long term funded and unfunded liabilities the range is $60 to $80 billion dollars.  It is nothing new.  However there really is nothing new coming out of Hartford and the Connecticut Democrat Party as far as spending and debt prevention is concerned.
It is time to take back Connecticut in 2016.  It can only be done by voting out of office the do-nothing Democrat State Representatives and Senators and start fresh with a Republican majority in both the State House and Senate.  The time has come to end this misuse and waste of hard earned taxpayers monies each year, year in and year out for the past thirty years.  Connecticut due to the Connecticut Democrat Party has bankrupted the state and its taxpayers.  These irrational economic policies that are force fed to Connecticut taxpayers will only end with a balance in state government ending too many years of Omnipotent One Party Rule in Hartford.
I am exhausted.
It is really time to take back Connecticut.

Connecticut Democrats Fiddle While Connecticut Burns

Another week another budget deficit.
Another week while Connecticut Democrats play the blame game and Connecticut burns.
Burns through more taxpayers monies it does not have.
Throws more people out on the street with real needs while protecting a bloated upper level management salary, benefits and pension system.
The Connecticut Democrats in Hartford remind me of being on an all inclusive cruise ship while it is sinking and they are still sitting at the bar demanding their free drinks.   Even if they sink they still want their freebies, the heck with staying alive.
And another week of finger pointing, layoffs, cuts to cities and towns, rumors of new and higher taxes, on and on and on.  Nothing new, nothing different.
The new economic reality that the Connecticut Democrat Party is facing in the November election will be chilling for them.  A new world awaits them when they campaign and when voters go to the voting booth.  Connecticut in the most simplistic terms is broke and bankrupt.  It has now a never ending monthly budget deficit and a massive amount of long term unfunded debt and liabilities.  It can no longer borrow its way through this mess.  It has come to the end of its road.
The only way Connecticut can reform itself is in November.  It has to vote out of majority the tired and economically illiterate Democrats that have failed to lead the state for years now.  They have lead taxpayers to misery and continue to force them to move out of state for years now.  
The time has come for a change.  Let the Connecticut Democrat sink and go away this November.
Connecticut taxpayers deserve much better.

Malloy's New Budget-Same As the Old One-Tax Increases Now At the Local Level

More of the same.  That is the way the new Malloy Budget could be viewed as.  If you are a unionized Connecticut state employee you can view the budget as the end of your job and possibly your living in Connecticut any more.  The Democrat Governor made sure a great deal of pain would be felt for those most in need of state governmental services like disabled people and those employees who depend upon the state for employment.  Many Republican led cities and towns had a great deal of their allocated education funding monies completely taken away by Malloy in his new budget with those same cities and towns looking at massive property tax hikes. Thus the new budget still does not address any type of structural changes in the way Connecticut runs its salaries, benefits and pensions.  There was no addressing the multiple levels of non productive management found in our state government along with their bloated salaries, benefits and pensions.
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities President Mark E. Ojakian who earns over $332,000 a year plus benefits and an enormous pension (and apparently has never taught in his life) wants to have unpaid leaves as part of his solution to save money.  I have not heard either him or any of his highly paid coworkers state that they will be cutting their pay and benefits to help save money and avoid yet another tuition increase for state students.  I guess he can not deal with a pay cut in his political position nor can his coworkers. 
More of the same.  Malloy states the same thing over and over.  He has lied again.  Taxpayers now will brace themselves for the new local tax increases compliments of the Connecticut Democrat Party.  Nothing changes in Hartford; it is all about the protection of a ruling elitist political class, spending for those politically connected and damned be the Connecticut Taxpayer who has been enslaved to pay for this economic mess.

Why It Is Time To Take Back Connecticut in 2016

It is time to take back Connecticut.

Enough is enough.

Taxpayers have had enough.

Enough of excessive spending for political patronage jobs.

Enough of the crony capitalism of free money given to politically connected business.

Enough of excessive life time benefits and pensions that can no longer be funded.

Enough of excessive and high taxes.

Enough of the discarding of essential services for those who are truly disabled and needy.

Enough of the overpaid and nonteaching Board of Regents.

Enough of the bloated management structure of state government.

Enough of the chronic budget deficits and unrealistic spending.

Enough of the unrelenting and unlimited long term unfunded liabilities of Connecticut.

Enough of the lies of the Connecticut Democrat Party.

It is time to take back Connecticut.

Enough is enough.

Taxpayers have had enough.

It is really time to vote Connecticut Democrats out of office in November.

They show no leadership nor management abilities.

They show no respect for Connecticut Taxpayers.

It is time to take back Connecticut.

Connecticut's Imploding State Government

Layoffs.
Every state union and non union job is at stake.  Every gold lined pension and benefit job is at stake. Unions are at stake.  Everything that Connecticut's political patronage system and state employee unions have worked for over the years that have been extracted out of Connecticut Taxpayers is at stake.
Do the remaining Connecticut Taxpayer's care?  For haven't we been down this road numerous times before at the beginnings of the utopian state income tax in 1991?  The same state income tax that was supposed to give the state financial security forever?  And didn't?
Depending upon your interpretation there are 45,000 full time state employees.  There are as of 2014 46,766 state pension retirees that costs the state in both short term and long term liabilities about $1.6 billion dollars  http://ctsunlight.org/pensions/ 
I do not have an accurate figure of how many part time state employees there are (my guess is at least 10,000 due to part time jobs in education). According to the Legislature’s Office of Fiscal Analysis 1,941 job cuts saves $132.8 million, 2,913 job cuts saves $198.8 million, and 3,879 jobs cuts saves $267.8 million.  However Connecticut has a $1 billion dollar deficit for fiscal 2016-17.  So what else can be cut without raising taxes? The more shocking figure is the actual costs of state pensions and benefits for 46,766 former employees.
Thus how can taxes not be raised?  Will the remaining Connecticut Taxpayers sympathize with the state employee unions who claim high-income taxpayers do not pay enough?  Or will actually notice how many have moved to lower taxed states like Florida, South Carolina and that evil bathroom segregated state of North Carolina?
Layoffs.
Connecticut's state government continues to implode.  The band-aid approach has failed.  Wasted economic resources and tax dollars continue to be seen on a daily basis in our state economy.
Rome did burn many years ago.  Connecticut burns daily to the point of no economic return.  And Dan Malloy is worried about North Carolina?  Dan Malloy should worry about Connecticut maybe once in his never-ending do nothing administration.