Lamont and CT General Assembly The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley, / An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, / For promis’d joy! -- Robert Burns There are only two ways to reduce the price of energy: 1) increase the supply of energy, and 2) reduce the demand for energy, always a questionable proposition. All things else being equal, energy demand in Connecticut is more or less a constant. Reducing energy demand is a backhanded way of increasing supply. Fewer users of energy = an increase in the supply of energy without disturbing the curr e nt distribution balance through the addition of new energy suppliers. This arrangement suits lazy politicians of long standing, and energy companies of long standing that fear competition. Bottom line: method 2) better suits prevailing energy companies , not a few dependent on grateful legislators, by restricting access to the market of energy producer s that might c...
“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session” ― Gideon J. Tucker The French proverb “The more things change the more th e y remain the same ” applies with special force in Connecticut politics. The dominant Democrat Part y in the state may wish people to believe they are agents of change , but in truth this party , lately crowded with neo- progressives , has been in power for at least 30 years, perhaps more . And the Democrat party machine has ruled the urban p olitisphere i n the state for 50 years and more – with predicable results. In 2017 , the balance of power in the General Assembly was such tha t the legislature, under pressure from Republicans, seriously addressed for the first time in decades the state’s spending addiction . So called “ guardrails ” were established so that Connecticut might address a persistent and longstanding problem. Fo r about ( half a century ) , Connecticut’s expenditures had exceed...