FROM OUR FEBRUARY 2026 PRINTED EDITION
by Bernard P. Giroux,
ASA, MRA
Living in the commonwealth is like living in an old European oligarchy. The state is populated by about six million souls, but the real political power resides in the ten-mile semi-circle enclosed by what was S.R. 128, encircling the metropolitan area of Boston, the state capitol, currently governing as a one-party state. The rest of the state, containing 10,555 square miles, geographically, does not matter.
Theoretically, the state lies within the United States of America, which is a constitutional republic governed by the U.S. Constitution, a document which enshrines the summary of the precepts and tenets agreed to by 39 patriots and signed on September 17, 1787. The Constitution is the basis for the rules of how to manage this country. One of the authors of the U.S. Constitution, John Adams, was from the commonwealth. He also drafted the Constitution of the commonwealth.
Whatever principles and political philosophy which brought about the U.S. Constitution and the commonwealth’s Constitution have been blatantly disregarded by the current elected body consisting of the Mass. Legislature and most certainly by its governor and its attorney general. The very sad thing is that the citizens of this state are now being treated as subjects who are to follow the dictates and mandates of the legislative body and the governor, rather than as citizens of a state belonging to a constitutional republic. None of these legislators follow the precept that a constitution is a document which provides for the protection, safety, and general welfare of the citizens for whom it was written. They are not leaders, they are masters.
The citizens have voted to require an audit of the Legislature, which received better than a 70% approval from the voters. To date, the Legislature has ignored that demand from its voters, because, after all, they are the sovereign oligarchical body within the commonwealth and are the only ones who know what is best for its subjects. In terms of its fiscal responsibility, the commonwealth is 49th out of the 50 states in term of its fiscal solvency. In terms of fiscal management, the governor has exceeded the prescribed budget by at least $6 billion. In terms of providing for the protection, safety and general welfare of its citizens, the governor ignores federal laws and has declared the state a sanctuary state and spent billions on protecting and comforting illegal aliens who have absolutely no claim nor stake in the health, welfare or safety and fiscal health of the commonwealth. All this was done without approval from the electorate.
An election is coming. It is imperative that the voting public remove and replace the sitting legislators and, especially the sitting governor if the commonwealth is to survive fiscally and as a productive and solvent entity of the United States of America. ♦
