Doctor Bentivegna is an ophthalmologist living in Connecticut. He has written numerous op-ed pieces for The Hartford Courant and The New York Times regarding health care, tort reform, and the political situation in Haiti.

Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.January 1, 2019

Predictions for 2019

January 1, 2019 Unlike most columnists who make annual predications and hope you forget them, I will review the predictions I made for 2018 before proceeding: 1. The Republicans will hold the House and pick up Senate seats. Half right 2. The stock market will gain at least another 10%. Wrong 3. The mullahs are going down. Wrong for now but will be correct in the foreseeable future. 4. North Korea will be brought under control. Debatable. North Korea has stopped testing ballistic missiles but is ignoring its promise to end its nuclear program. 5. The Steelers will win the Super Bowl. Wrong. But we wuz robbed. Given this lackluster record, I will now proceed to 2019 predictions: 1. The stock market will remain flat. Many stocks are simply overvalued according to traditional metrics, especially the FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google). These … [Read more...]

Immigration – The Protracted Conflict

December 26, 2018 My grandfather had a scar on his face. It extended across his right cheek, from his ear lobe to his lower jaw. It was thick, ragged and ugly; as it had never been surgically repaired. The coal miners in the Scranton area of Pennsylvania went on strike in the early 1900s. This was at a time when there was no safety net. If you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. The workers at the mine could barely support their families; thus the strike. The mine owners sent recruiters to Sicily and convinced my grandfather; a shepherd who lived in a corrupt society dominated by Mafia thugs and ennobled clergy, that life would be better in America. The next thing Grandpa knew, he was walking into a coal mine while a bunch of angry men on strike were screaming at him in a language he did not understand. Suddenly, a man with a knife slashed his face. My grandfather’s immigration to the United States was legal; unlike those pouring over our borders today, but that is not the point. Immigration in this country … [Read more...]

Comments

Kevin Kolenda says

January 1, 2019 at 2:52 pm

Then I can surmise that you should know this . . . yer father would pull the lever for Donald Trump also . . because he came here legally . . .

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Bring Connecticut Back – Vote for Republican Bob Stefanowski

October 29, 2018 My wife and I moved to Connecticut thirty years ago. The economy was booming and businesses were hiring. We loved living in Fairfield. Our two daughters received excellent educations in the public schools. My friends, my neighbors, my wife and I looked forward to having our children settle in Connecticut as we became grandparents. But it didn’t happen. Our children are gone. To visit our grandchildren, we sit in New York and Boston traffic. We wait at LaGuardia and Kennedy to catch flights to Florida, California and Colorado. How did this happen? How did a state that led the country in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth from 1976 until 1991 end up with the third worse business climate in the country? How did we actually lose population in the past several years? Why did General Electric, Aetna and multiple small businesses leave for greener pastures? And why don’t our children want to live here? The answer is that an incompetent political class has used the hard-working Connecticut … [Read more...]