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| Logan -- Connecticut Post, Brian Pounds |
George Logan lost a race in 2022 to third term U.S.
Representative in Connecticut’s 5th U.S. Congressional District
Jahana Hayes by a heart stopping slender margin. Logan lost by 1,842 votes out
of over 250,000 votes cast.
An energetic Republican politician who served as a member of
the Connecticut State Senate representing Connecticut's 17th District,
Logan is back for round two, and he has brought some friends with him. Speaker
of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson recently stumped with Logan
at a successful Hartford fundraiser.
The current 2024 race will be different than the 2022 race
because, while the personalities are the same, political circumstances have
changed.
COVID has expired, according to President Joe Biden. Schools
have been reopened, but education, for various reasons unrelated to monies
spent, has suffered throughout the nation. Some businesses that had survived
the politically induced shutdowns during the COVID epidemic have reopened, but
many small businesses were casualties of political decisions. Business offices
in struggling, tax starved cities have been hollowed out by workers retreating
to their homes during the COVID hysteria. And even some larger businesses
closed or were sadly diminished by excessive taxation and regulations.
The neo-progressive call to appropriate business assets is
unending. Bidenomics – the incessant neo-progressive demand for more regulation
and higher business taxes, collected by businesses but paid by business clients
-- is a proven failure. Neo-progressive Democrats in Connecticut, who have
forgotten everything and learned nothing from the Biden administration’s
mishandling of the national economy, continue to press for more money and
budget-busting, inflationary spending.
The nation’s grownups, heirs to a crippling
national debt of $32.4 trillion, appear to have awakened from solipsistic
fantasies peddled by neo-progressives that their debt may be passed on to their
children and their children’s children without adverse consequences.
The 2024 election will be a political contest between two
parties -- the woke, and the awakened.
Successful politics is the art of telling people what they
already know to be true. Democrats, full of pretenses, have failed their
constituents in this regard. We know that real inflation compounded is
approaching 18 percent, that the southern border no longer prevents
border-jumpers, some of them criminal, many of them unknown, from slipping into
border states where, improperly processed, others are deported to a variety of
poorly secured cities walled by sanctuary laws that do not facilitate their
return to their home countries. And we also know from embittering experiences
that the prices of needed products are sky high.
For the 12 months ending February the annual inflation rate
for the United States rose to 3.2%, compared to the previous rate of 3.1%,
already high. The annual inflation rate in 2020 was 1.23%. Inflation, a hideous
hidden tax, is an economy killer. Since 1913, the United States has experienced
a staggering compounded 2,555% inflation. Compounding inflation means that
something that cost $9.80 in January 1913 would now cost $296.28 in July 2023.
Most classical economists attribute inflation to “too many dollars” -- the
excessive printing and borrowing of money to pay off government debt --
“chasing too few goods.” The current U.S. national debt is $33.99 trillion.
In his Logan for Congress page,
Logan lists six priorities:
1) A very modest proposal -- if it isn’t a problem, don’t
advance a solution that exacerbates the problem. The first duty of a U.S.
Representative is to represent in Congress productive actions and programs that
benefit those you claim to represent. This is called leadership.
2) Fix inflation. Logan vows to “oppose massive
spending packages that lead to out-of-control inflation, which is hurting our
families, seniors, and veterans.”
3) Oppose failed policies and “fight power grabs by
out-of-touch politicians who think they know better than the people of
Connecticut.”
4) Boost energy production and independence. Logan “will
support American energy independence in order to reduce gas prices and continue
working towards clean energy solutions here at home.”
5) Support safety measures. He “will always support our law
enforcement officers, firefighters, and EMS [Emergency Medical Services] and
work to provide them with the necessary resources needed to protect our
families and students.”
6) Through rational national and international policies,
Logan will “always stand with our brave men and women who have served and
protected our country.”
7) Secure America’s borders. “Our communities are fighting a
deadly battle with fentanyl and opioid addiction. We must secure our border and
fight the drug cartels who are profiting from America’s addiction crisis and
enabled by do-nothing politicians in Washington.”
Logan says he is running for a seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives because, “It’s time for someone different to tackle the problems
we face in Connecticut and in Washington, D.C. The status quo isn’t working for
the people of Connecticut and it’s certainly not working in Washington, D.C.
either. I am living proof that the American dream is alive and well. And I’m
running for Congress because that dream can’t end with me. I want my children
and future generations to have the opportunity to reach their full potential in
life.”
The compartmentalizing of various ethnic groups by Democrats
for election purposes into voting tribes – women, students, the poor, non-
whites – have not yet convinced majorities in any of these groups that a free-market
system cannot allocate social rewards on the basis of personal energy and
industry, a hopeful sign in this the winter of our discontents.
Logan is fully prepared to argue the case for free markets
and social unity.
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