By Chris Powell With their party having lost much support from the working class in last November’s election, many Democratic state legislators in Connecticut think that a good way of making amends is to give unemployment compensation to strikers. City mayors and educators seek more money for what keeps failing To regrow Connecticut’s cities, firstContinue reading “Connecticut’s Democrats don’t understand their working-class problem”
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Attorney General Tong succeeds Trump as foremost insurrectionist
By Chris Powell The more fulminating they do, the more elected officials should be challenged and questioned by journalism. These days Connecticut’s fulminator-in-chief is Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, yet he gets a free ride from the state’s news organizations and even from the General Assembly’s Republican minority. Two weeks ago Tong was joinedContinue reading “Attorney General Tong succeeds Trump as foremost insurrectionist”
Connecticut’s working class is put on the path to oblivion
By Chris Powell Over the Labor Day weekend leading Democrats — starting with President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz — claimed loudly that theirs is the party of organized labor and working people. Insofar as organized labor — unions — consists these days mostly of government employees, the Democrats wereContinue reading “Connecticut’s working class is put on the path to oblivion”
Murphy’s money for nothing only makes poverty worse
By Chris Powell Running for re-election, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy proposes that the federal government spend $4 billion over four years to provide free summer camp to poor children. Connecticut might get $40 million of that. “Outside experiences, adventure experiences, summer experiences where you get to improve your socialization skills, where you have yourContinue reading “Murphy’s money for nothing only makes poverty worse”
Democrats scapegoat supermarkets for government’s inflation tax
By Chris Powell Democrats in Connecticut think they have found someone other than their national administration to blame for the inflation ravaging the country: supermarkets charging too much for groceries. So state Attorney General William Tong announced last week that he is sending letters to supermarket chains asking about their profits, and Democratic leaders inContinue reading “Democrats scapegoat supermarkets for government’s inflation tax”
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