We are Government We Print Our Own Money and Take Yours

There is a line in an old Don Henley song that says “A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun. Below is a fine example.


Lawyer pleads guilty to stealing $865,000

A Stratford lawyer is facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to stealing more than $800,000 from nearly a dozen clients.

John M. Rodia, of Minerva Street, Derby, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge George Thim to six counts of first-degree larceny and five counts of third-degree larceny. Read more

This is a case of someone who has clearly lost his way. The very idea of helping yourself to vast sums of money that you did not earn is not just wrong…its criminal, which is why this soon-to-be former attorney is heading off to jail for a good long time.

But wait, doesn’t that sound familiar? Someone else is advocating helping themselves to vast amounts of money that did not earn.

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I just find it ironic that on the Federal level the answer seems to be, “Print more money faster, and raise taxes so we can keep spending”

And here in Connecticut the answer seems to be “We can’t print money so we’ll just take it, so we can keep spending.”