Eroding Freedom

A main issue facing America and Freedom today is that children have been being indoctrinated for years into thinking the American people are to work for what the government wants. This is totally wrong! The government is suppose to work for us. So outside of weapons of war to defend America, tanks, bombs that sort of thing any hand held firearms that the government has the legal non criminal, and those without a mental illness should be able to buy, own and carry without any permits or registration. This also carries on to other areas of personal liberty and freedom the government is constantly eroding away with their laws.

Mental Health Issue

The elected public SERVANTS (politicians) do not want to talk about mental health. 1) because it would bring their mental health to the forefront of discussions. 2) it would lead back to the drug cartels (sorry Pharmaceutical companies) and the their payoffs (oh sorry again their donations) to the public servants.

Biker =ATM

Biker = ATM???

Bikers are among the most generous groups of people in America. This in itself is a very good thing. The issue I see with it is that we are being used and abused by most charities out there. They care nothing about the wants, needs, life styles of bikers, they only care about us as an ATM or money machine.

Do we ever see these “charity people” at a biker event supporting bikers? No.

In the old days we took care of our own. A brother or sister went down, we set up an event to help them. A member of a bikers family had an issue got sick, lost a job. Hey, they are family we did what we could to help them out. That's what it was. A biker loved animals, or veterans and there was a local volunteer charity that needed help, a run would be setup. We all supported each other in the biker community which is how it should be.

Word of this got out and the professional scam artists, I mean the CEO's of charities making 6 figure incomes saw this and decided to give themselves a raise by tapping bikers bank accounts, the generosity of the biker community.

To this extent they hired PR people to build “fantastic must go on rides” and use the MSM to build them up. Did you ever stop and think that you pay say $50 for the driver and passenger, you get a meal, they claim its a good one with trophies and other little things. So your $50 goes for the meal, police, the CEO's salary and the salary of all the other professionals involved in the run, how much actually goes to the charity, the supposed reason for the ride?

Now what about all those other local rides, someone is sick, someone got hurt, something happened. Have they supported local biker charity events? Have they ever rode a bike? Or are they the ones that call the police and the legislators and complain about the loud pipes, the music, rides going through their towns and that bikers don't wear helmets. But let's fleece the bikers for their money.

You won't find me on any of the above rides.

In my case animals, veterans or any other all volunteer run to help a biker or the family member of a biker going through hard times, that's the ride for me.

Before you go on a ride,take a good hard look at the charity, are they local so you know where the money is going. Are they all volunteer so you know that beside the run expenses, the person, family or group the ride is being held for gets all the rest of the money. And most important are they BIKERS or BIKER FAMILY? If they are, that's the ride and group to help and support. Let the wannabees and the egotists go on the rides for the groups that look down on us until they want our money.

(Don't feel these suggestions are just for bikers. They work for all groups. The main thing is Charity Begins at Home. Find a local, all volunteer charity and support it, not the businesses that call themselves charities.)

Becareful

I'm wondering, every time there is an issue with the Clinton's, the Deep State, or the DNC that becomes “big news” some act of violence hits innocents and then the spotlight is off the real issue. Look at the shooting in FL. A registered democrat with mental health issues who was known by the government (FBI) to be a possible threat. How hard would it have been for them to push him over the edge and give him the weapons. We've already seen the corruption and the Anti-American pro Clinton's, DNC, and the Deep State within the FBI. This also gives the communists/socialists a “reason” to strip weapons from Legal Americans who love and stand for America. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones. I just know we will never know the truth no matter what the MSM prints. But we should watch and keep our eyes and minds open to the fact that there are people in the USA who want us in boxcars on our way to camps.

No Tolls

This talk about tolls is just more proof of the incompetence of the CT legislature under Gov. Malloy and the democrats. It is nothing but tax and spend. Vehicle owners pay a sales tax when they purchase the vehicle, yearly taxes to towns and cities, taxes on the tires, repairs and maintenance of the vehicles and one of the highest gas taxes in the country. Despite all that instead of operating as a private company which can not just arbitrarily raise rates so they look for cost cutting methods all the CT legislature does is take more money from the workers with no concern what it does to their families budget and their lives.

I think it is time the Mass Transit system and the busway to nowhere starts paying for itself. I don't mean a profit, however it should cover all its own expenses without using taxpayers dollars. All its vehicles, salaries, fuel, maintenance and money for the up keep of the roads should be covered by the fares charged. If routes don't cover their costs they need to be eliminated, or if other routes make more than enough to cover themselves that money could be used for the lower performing routes. This is business 101 you have to make enough money to cover your expenses,apparently our democratic lawmakers never took the course or if they did they flunked it. It is time the middle class workers in CT got a break. The American Dream was to be able to better yourself, in CT that is not true all the democratic lawmakers here do is find ways to make sure we will never achieve the American Dream through their Tax and spend attitude.

No more closed doors!

One major issue that has caused the financial destruction of Connecticut is that our Elected Public Servants have forgotten that they are Servants not Rulers.

Our Elected Public Servants do not feel they answer to us but rather that we answer to them. This is very apparent when it comes to spending our, the taxpayers money on contracts. If we want to make Connecticut Great Again we need to have total control over the spending done by our elected public servants. As each one of us knows in our personal finances we can not spend more then we make. We can not run ourselves into debt and demand our employers pay us more to get us out of debt. Why should our public servants be able to do that? Why should they be able to treat the taxpaying citizens of Connecticut as an unlimited ATM with no concern of what it does to our personal finances and lives? Enough is enough!

Why are most if not all negotiations held behind closed doors! The only dealings the government should be doing behind closed doors is if directly relates to security. Security of the citizens. This means how we are being protected from terrorist threats, or how they hunt down child molesters, drug dealers. These things need to be kept secret.

Every contract that is entered into by the government be it for paper clips or rebuilding roads and buildings needs to be put out for open bid and all those bids and negotiations need to be open to the public and the media. This goes the same for all contracts for all unions and all other personnel hired by and employed by the citizens of Connecticut. No closed door deals! Everything out in the open for the public and media to view and report on. This back door dealing, you scratch my back I'll scratch yours is what has destroyed Connecticut! We need to replace all the elected public servants in Hartford with people who will make the Taxpaying Legal Citizens of Connecticut their priority, not the unions and the corporations that have bled Connecticut dry.

To many government employees

We need a lot less government employees.  In Cheshire on Rte 70 by the 84 eastbound entrance a manhole cover broke.  They had 3 state DOT trucks 1 protecting the work area and the other 2 past it just messing up traffic for no safety reason, and 6 people standing around while one did the welding.  What a waste of money!  In private sector it would have been 1 truck carrying the supplies and parked to protect the work zone and cones out.  The entire CT government from the state to the cities and towns is so bloated and that is one of the main main reason CT economy is in the state it is in.  DMV is another prime example of incompetence, right after the governors office and the legislature.