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Helping Themselves to the Public Pot O' Gold |
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Written by Dave Gould
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
New Bedford, MA - OPINION — Stealing from the public is OK as long as you do it under the guise of a community project. Doesn't matter if the funds are raised by taxes or school children, just matters that there is a lot of it. The folks who engage in this monetary shenanigans are a colorful bunch and I betcha you elected them or they paid to convince you to elect their friends. Best part is, if they get caught, the worst that happens is they receive a mild thumping in the press and then it's back to the pot of public delights. The public soon forgets or soon loses interest to more important issues like Barack Obama's wife's designer clothes or whether their expected family dog is a Shitzue or a Yorkie.
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Case in point, Barny Frank was caught tit deep in the failure of Freddie Mac and the resulting economic Barney Rubble ending with he and Fox news's Bill O'Reilly snarling at each other like angry Klingons. What a bad comparison for Congressman Frank because Klingons have teeth. All Blarney can do is gum and swallow his Klingon Gahk Serpent Worms. Ech! Doesn't matter that Congressman Frank assisted in the financial down fall of these United States, the fine folks of Massachusetts, oblivious as they usually are, still elected him.. by a wide margin. It's better we have Barney Frank spitting and stuttering in Washington than someone with teeth and the ability to understand the US Constitution, not just spend tax dollars willy nilly.
Anyone with a mildly functioning brain should be painfully aware of the questionable actions of Illinois Governor Blagojevich ending with his subsequents arrest. And to top it off, we all now get to watch American politics turn into an episode of Hee Haw as fully qualified Roland Burris is trounced out the Senate before he could even have a glass of water and seat. “Racism” screams the bearded black guy. “Confusion”, thinks Blagojevich... Ahhhh & Arrrrrr. There is nothing like a publically supported corrupt politician and his or her friends putting on a show for the people and the world. Yes folks, THEY are laughing at us. To finish off the cake, How about that Governor of New Mexico!.. And... exactly where in Africa was Rahm Emanual going.... and for how long? I hear yet another snicker from the suckers who checked yes to great hair instead of great wisdom. Oh my.
Locally, never mind the foibles of our own City Council and Mayor and the painful ineptitude they wreak from every crack and airleak in New Bedford's City Hall; how about the UNELECTED who seem to be behind all those never-accomplish-anything-much-charities and grand scheme to make-New-Bedford-better-than-Disney-World ideas that seem to churn through public money like the Trentin Tarantino Fargo wood chipper churned through dead bodies. One of those fine civic minded people of which I speak was granted by The Standard Times their woman of the year award. Hooray for Maureen Sylvia Armstrong. The Standard Times anointed her Superstar of Community Involvement! The article even mentions that she helps with 11 charities is a doting mother and loving wife. Someone quick, get me the Carebear barf bag. It's not that she has done anything requiring her leaving work to reside down the street at the neighboring jail, but I call into question whether her dedication to community is the result of being a good person or part of that mysterious group of various people who seem to get all the free state aid money and all of the government contracts. After all, her agency has provided a great deal of insurance products to New Bedford for many years taking millions of our tax dollars as payment. Service paid, service rendered.
The business park in Dartmouth where The Sylvia Group is located has a sign at the entrance announcing that rental inquiries are with Whelan Associates. You know Mr. Whelan, the God of the Bourne counting house on the waterfront next to Mayor Lang's new plastic fork motel. The guy whose name is tied to Fred Kalis and George Leontire in all those old stories involving the failed and embarrassed Oceanariam project. Why is all this so damn familiar? Ohhhhhhhh, that's right, they took what little money was left over after fleecing kids and tax payers and getting a bitch slapping from the state and quietly opened the Exploritorium in one of Mr. Whelan's downtown buildings. See I told you the names keep coming around. Why is that. What are these people getting in return besides a warm fuzzy feeling and their names on a brass plaque. Could it all be just so innocent? That's for someone else to investigate. Can't rely on the Standard Times to investigate, requires the expenditure of too much money and may hurt any potential ad sales that might be coming their way from the Exploritorium, ... ah, I mean the scaled down Oceanarium.
One thing is for certain, as long as the Southcoast citizens remain as genuinely uninvolved as they currently are, they can expect to be ripped of their tax money for more toys of the local rich and infamous.Only registered users can write comments.
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