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As heard on 11/5 Hot Off The Press
By Guy Page
As we wait until Thursday afternoon for the results of Tuesday’s Central Vermont Career Center $149 million bond vote, I see a connection between the tech center and Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in New York City.
It’s about hope. Or rather, hopelessness.
A lot of those young people that formed the core of his voting support were disgusted, disappointed and depressed by their own future in New York City. They saw older folks making bank and owning homes. They felt shut out. They’re rent serfs, paying thousands of dollars a month, huge cuts out of their paychecks, money they’ll never see back. They’re hungry for a piece of the pie.
Here in Vermont, there are many young people in their late teens and their twenties, pounding nails, driving trucks, sitting in offices.
They know they know how much money they make.
They know how much it costs to buy a house.
They know right now it’ll never happen for them. They’re angry.
We need to give these young people hope.
As Dave Soulia said yesterday in our Hot Off The Press interview about ACT 250, we need serious reform so that affordable housing can be built by the free market without tax money.
What a concept! Here’s the thing – when you look at the people on the Vermont Senate committee that scotched significant act 250 reform a couple years ago, almost all of them owned a big house out in the country.
They already had their piece of the pie. Their corner of Eden.
Young people working hard want to own their own home. To raise a family. And they’re shut out in Vermont just the way they are in New York City.
So you gotta make housing more affordable AND you’ve gotta teach bankable, buy-a-house skills. That’s the point of a bigger, better Tech Center. We need them to replace the retiring plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and auto mechanics.
On the other hand…. look at Vermont’s record for educating students. Read today’s Vermont Daily Chronicle: Mississippi students are doing better than Vermonters.
Are you serious? Mississippi?
Are we wise to entrust tech ed to a school system that is already failing students?
And there’s the question of paying for it. If you haven’t noticed, Montpelier, taxpayers are already scared you’re not getting the message about taxes. That you’re always just looking to buy with someone else’s money the bright and shiny object in front of you. While taxpayers wonder if they afford to stay in their homes.
Meanwhile young people in New York – and maybe here in Vermont, too – are looking at our economy and government and thinking, ‘All we’re seeing is what doesn’t work. Let’s try anything else.’
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Unfortunately, these young people that formed the core of Mamdani voting support were disgusted, disappointed and depressed by their own future in New York City.
How much more disappointed will they be when he rolls out all the free stuff. Unfortunately, it really won’t be free as taxes will skyrocket. No, I don’t think there will be Federal money at Mamdani fingers tips. The money trees in Central Park have no harvest this year. His first year trying to get experience to run the largest city in the east will be interesting.
Are there betting lines on how long it takes before these morons realize that they just elected Bill Deblasio on steroids will take how long ?
My biggest issue with this is the way the powers that be could not delay the introduction of this very, very expensive debt bonding until after we see how much more the spendthrifts in Mount Peculiar soak us for in this coming session (2026). $149,000,000 Is an awful lot of money when you factor in our socialist legislature’s lack of responsibility with the way they throw our money around . Maybe we should get a handle on them before we go and spend money that they have already stolen from us ?
“$149,000,000?” The bond I voted against yesterday was $600,000,000 (Montpelier)
Correction: My wife just told me it was $149,000,000. You were right Patrick. I was thinking of the $600,000 bond that Plainfield rejected.
@Joe… you voted!? I’m surprised. Did they give you grief?
Maybe this new crowd should have learned to be a carpenter, plumber and electrician and learned how to use their untaxed labor after buying their own land to built their own house. Maybe your house would be affordable. Fed up with central planning by the State of Vermont, get off your lazy …. and do something for yourself. Comment from Richard Day You can not bond your way out of this.
Be interesting to see if the more common sense element of the NYC population packs up and leaves that town. Hence increase in population of Vermont and the other 5 NE states. NJ is already a similar state as NYC, no use going there. Don’t need more NYC attitudes here, anuff is anuff.
I want to add perspective. I am 60 years old and didn’t purchase my first, very humble home until I was 35 years old, as I had no college education and did not meet the criteria for a good paying job. I made six dollars an hour and purchased a home costing $120,000. I purchased the house with another person who made $20,000 a year. Every penny was scrimped and saved. I understand that things are really difficult today, but this has been true for a long time due to individual circumstance and inflation. With this being said, I believe today’s youth are intentionally being made to feel resentful that they can’t afford to purchase a home in their twenties. Many in my generation didn’t purchase a home until they were in their 30s. The difference is that we were not intentionally propagandized into being resentful.
Debt is not an asset. I always wondered why years ago, the education system changed standard math principles to a “new math.” They also do not teach home economics anymore? From Gen X, all were taught to be consumers and borrowers. Note generations before did not overspend what they did not have and only borrowered when absolutely necessary. It was made very easy to do so with credit cards, “low interest” financing, and all sorts of costs thrown into one debt upon another debt to pay for other debts. You see how it works once you understand they rigged the system to rig the game – the game is over and no one seems understand the fake engine driving the machine by debt enslavement.
The video below is a pretty good representation of the game – discernment and having a basic knowledge of basic math gives the information a thumbs up rating. It is the premise of circular financing – the debts keep flipping around and bonds used as tools to collect interest payments (taxes) into infinity and beyond. There is no GDP, it is all IOU’s that will never be paid, in theory and reality now. Vapor paper – betting the house on things that don’t exist – like the silver and gold markets. A person bought shares on either, but the metal does not exist. They borrow the metals, with interest, sell the paper. Same as bundled mortgages – cut up like cocaine, added powdered sugar, and sold it off to numerous buyers – that is our economic system in a nutshell.
https://youtu.be/aMd5F4urHjY?si=rNTXIXkkZPcW8cXA
WOW, THANKS so much Melissa!!!
Saw a great line to quote this morning, “Blue States Do Blue Things”
Mamdani? NYC just elected Sideshow Bob.
The Simpsons, season 6, episode 5
“Ignore the guff about Zohran Mamdani’s victory being the fruits of a ‘working-class revolt’ – this is an Ivy League intifada, the revenge of Bushwick against Trumpland.”
“We told you that one day the foppish blacklisters of the mad modern campus would have real political power. We told you there’d come a time when they would leave their leafy playpen and drag their politics of self-pity that they doll up as socialism into high office. And now it’s happened.”
Excellent analysis: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/05/zohran-mamdanis-ivy-league-intifada/
And the parallels between the Bushwick set and VT’s trustafarians couldn’t be more clear.
Yes Tyler spot on!!!
And by the way, kindly scotch the chauvinism in regard to Mississippi, home of the blues, which also gave rise to jazz and rock ‘n roll.
What’s Vermont got? Phish? Puh-leeeaze!!!
With everything Mamdani wants and the rich leaving NYC, he will have to tax the middle class and the working poor too to pay for all the free stuff everyone is yelling for. Stupid. Everyone will see he’s taxing the people he says he wants to help! And they won’t get any richer or have that house by having a communist making the laws. Funny thing the leaders never get poorer only their constituents do. President Trump is not a dictator. He is making back the money Biden lost. Have people really examined dictators like Putin, Mao, Castro and countries like Russia, Cuba and Venezuela—they have their political opponents disappear. You live in fear and you certainly don’t have the 1st amendment to fall back on if you make the error of speaking out. Most people are poor and the leaders of those countries live in luxury—Putin has a yacht-a really big one while the average comrade makes very little and rents like the rest of them. No Mamdani is a rich brat who has never had a job before. Never had to live paycheck to paycheck and not have had to save for what people want like that first house-the American dream. Why can’t people see that it was that he was a bad choice. Capitalism gets you out of poverty that socialism will put you in. And you have to have an education to get out of poverty!!!
So how does Mississippi educate their children and get a better result than Vermonters? Why can’t Vermont adopt Mississippi’s plan to properly educate reading and math skills. Their plan is probably to go back to teaching the basics including phonics and spending time with every student to make sure they all can read and understand what they have just read-it’s called reading comprehension. I bet they are great spellers too. And learn math skills that they will need later on in life at their successful jobs like adding subtracting, multiplication and division skills, percentages and fractions, algebra and geometry. It’s important so why can’t the Vermont board of education teach Vermont children the basics???? Fire the teachers if they can’t teach these skills. Hire new teachers-aren’t they getting paid enough-according to accurate calculations the price per pupil is 24,000. Now that kind of money should be showing good results yet not in Vermont. Vermont is close to the bottom of the list of states test scores results for fourth and eighth graders for reading. Mississippi even beats them now!!! If the federal government plans to eliminate the federal. Dept of education and return education to the states then please look into what Mississippi is doing that Vermont isn’t and adopt it. I want to see kids loving to learn. Whether they go to college after high school or a trade school or open their own business. If the pay is good work at a dress shop. I want them to be educated enough to be successful so they can someday afford that house and live the American dream. It’s been promised to them and if they put in the work, they shouldn’t be denied it.
Vermont schools are too concerned with pronouns and not teaching things like critical thinking and life skills. And the entitlement has been engrained in you g voters by the promises of “Free! Free! Freel” Wait until they find out what the true cost is…….