Military procurements during the Obama administration have
been slender. Connecticut is still referred to in some corners as “the
provision state” because, since the Revolutionary War, Connecticut has provided
the national military with provisions. It continues to do so; Pratt&Whitney,
Electric Boat and Sikorsky are very much going concerns.
Obama’s military budget was considerably more modest than
Trump’s, as the President never tires of reminding the country. Dollars spent
on the military are, to no one’s surprise, good for Connecticut. Federal
dollars spent on military procurements produce Connecticut jobs, which produce
funds that replenish the state’s treasury -- all good, all the time.
This was the nightmare: The additional federal funding would
produce additional state treasury dollars, since more job holders produce more
tax revenue, and these blessings would allow Trump’s bitterest critics in
Connecticut – every member of Connecticut’s all Democrat U.S. Congressional
Delegation, plus outgoing Democrat Governor Dannel Malloy and his retinue -- to
claim fraudulently that the state’s ruinous progressive tax and spend policies
were responsible for the additional jobs and revenue. Malloy et al would point with pride to the job
production figures, attributing the good fortune to his wealth reduction
policies. And this would help his protégé, millionaire Ned Lamont, capture the
governor’s office.
According to a recent story in CTMirror, "'Donor state’ Conn. gets more than its fair share of federal contracting dollars,” the Trumpeter’s nightmare has now
become a daytime soap opera: “At the beginning of September, Connecticut
companies and non-profits had received more than $11.8 billion in federal
awards. Electric Boat is in final negotiations for the next block of
Virginia-class submarines, which could, with other pending Pentagon contracts,
give the state a big boost this year.”
Economic adviser to the Connecticut Business & Industry
Association Peter Gioia is happy: “We’ll probably have a record year on
defense.”
And he is not alone. U.S. Democrat Representative Joe "Two Sub" Courtney’s 2nd District already has received about $5.4 billion of
the federal contracting dollars that were spent in the state last year.
Electric Boat in Courtney’s District, we are told, “is in final negotiations
for the next block of Virginia-class submarines. [The contract] “would allow
for the construction of 10 Virginia-class subs, with the possibility of adding
an additional two, at an estimated purchase price of about $3.2 billion per
boat.”
Representative Rosa DeLauro’s 3rd congressional
district will scoop up about $3.7 billion Trump dollars, and “Rep. John
Larson’s 1st District, home of engine-maker Pratt&Whitney” will
pocket about $2.5 billion. Not a bad haul from a president the entire Democrat
U.S. Congressional delegation would like to see impeached, principally for his
bad manners. The chatter about impeachment quickly died down after polls showed
it was not a winning gambit for Democrats, and the endless chatter about
Russian collusion is showing signs of vaporization, even as special counsel
Robert Mueller secures convictions and plea deals from Trump associates that
have little or nothing to do with Russian collusion. Judicial Watch revealed a
while back that the Chinese had recovered all the emails on Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s illegal private server in real time; that means the Chinese were
picking up ALL the Clinton emails, some of which contained secret and top
secret information – AS SHE WAS TYPING THEM.
The Clintons' fast friend U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal and
his junior partner, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, have yet to threaten suits or
other actions against Saint Hillary, their attention having been diverted to
killing, by any means necessary, the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the
U.S. Supreme Court. Blumenthal, who virulently opposed all Trump nominations to the high court before Kavanaugh emerged as Trump’s nominee, may have been partly
responsible for the Antifa-like opposition displayed by political maenads during and after the prelude to the hearings. Still searching for impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors under Trump's bed, Blumenthal will ironically, along with other Democrat members of the state's U.S. Congressional Delegation, be the beneficiaries of the
Trump business bump in Connecticut.
Could Otto von Bismarck have gotten it right? “There is a
Providence,” he said “that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United
States of America.” Adjusted to fit modern times, Bismarck’s aphorism might read
“There is a Providence that protects idiot congressmen -- see Twain above –
drunkards and opium eaters, children, but not late term abortion babies, and
the United States of America as viewed by progressive Democrats.”
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