Cambridge Spending Other People's Money Society 2016 Campaign

Politicians enjoy taking credit for the work of others. Taxpayers make it possible for the Spending Other People's Money Society to spend money. Vice Chairman of Cambridge chapter of the SOPMS does not thank taxpayers. He acts as if it was his money to spend. Troubling ideas in his essay include: "universal, high-quality early childhood education for all children." That moves closer to where government bureaucrats rear children. This politician supports more scrutiny by government psychiatrists. He speaks for everyone. How does he know that? Cambridge taxpayers are supporting neighboring cities and towns? 

The Vice Mayor  mentions "homelessness and [the] opioid crisis." How much money is spent on studies, plans, and providing blankets rather than homes to these people? What about the tsunami of illegal drugs across the open southern border? Who are the "we?" What is "socially just?" Who is included in "one another?" and "all our residents?" Some Cambridge citizens  remain outside the interests of this globally concerned politician, who boasts of how he spends US, MA and Cambridge taxpayer funds. No mention of billion dollar online businesses making money from civilian messages and searches. No mention of weak security for online medical records. Why does clueless government fail to protect citizens from harm?  

[From article]
I personally am excited to see is the $1.3 million that will go toward moving Cambridge closer to affordable, universal, high-quality early childhood education for all children.
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There isn’t a person in our city administration who doesn’t understand and isn’t committed to finding ways to maintain affordable housing in Cambridge, and we will continue to direct funds to try and stabilize an ever-increasing housing market that is leading to higher rent and home ownership prices, not just in Cambridge but in the entire Metro Boston area.
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continued funding to address our homelessness and opioid crisis
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we know that we have more work to do in order to be the socially just community we want to be.
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What makes Cambridge different, is that our financial stability, combined with our commitment as a community to support one another, puts us in a position to address these complicated issues and to put resources behind them to move our city forward for all of our residents.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20160505/NEWS/160508264

Vice Mayor column: Cambridge pulls off difficult balance with budget
By Marc McGovern
Posted May. 5, 2016 at 12:13 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Prostitution Scandal Threatens Washington DC Bureaucracies

Palfrey hanged herself in 2008 before she was set to be sentenced for her crimes and left the book containing details of her 815 clients behind. Even though their names have not been revealed, the list of entities whos members used the services includes the FBI, IRS, the State Department and the Department of Commerce.

[From article]
The lawyer who represented the 'DC Madam' has released the names of 174 groups whose employees allegedly called her escort service.
Montgomery Blair Sibley listed the entities that include government agencies, embassies and huge companies that he says phoned Deborah Jeane Palfrey for call girls between 2000 and 2006.
Among those named were the FBI, IRS, the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the Embassy of Japan, Lockheed Martin and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
In an email to Daily Mail Online, Sibley said he obtained the information from cell phone numbers dug up in a subpoena conducted by Verizon.

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They are said to be included in a black book of clients that Palfrey left in Sibley's possession before she killed herself in 2008, before she could be sentenced for prostitution and racketeering.
Despite naming the organizations, Sibley is still barred from naming any of the supposed 815 clients who are said to have hired escorts.
Sibley represented Deborah Jeane Palfrey in 2008 when she was convicted of federal racketeering and various prostitution charges.
The scandal of her arrest rocked the nation's capital as some of the city's biggest power players, including father-of-four Senator David Vitter, were outed.
Palfrey hanged herself in 2008 before she was set to be sentenced for her crimes and left the book containing details of her clients behind.
The information inside the book was sealed by a judge, but Sibley has continued to battle with the authorities to try and get the names released.
He has been trying to side-step a retraining order that means he must keep the names under wraps.
On Monday he filed another motion, which included the names of 174 organizations in Exhibit B.
He said in the email: 'Back in February I had filed a lawsuit against Former Judge Roberts and the Clerk of the District Court in D.C. Superior Court -- the "state" court for the District of Columbia. Last week, the U.S. Attorney in her infinite wisdom removed that case to U.S. District Court which left me one last federal judicial opening.

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The attorney has hit headlines in the past. He filed a failed lawsuit claiming Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and also ran for president in 2012 as a write-in candidate
News of Palfrey's death in 2008 followed reports she handed a list of telephone numbers of 15,000 clients to a U.S. television network
She had vowed to identify as many well-known figures as possible to subpoena them as defense witnesses.
Palfrey had insisted her company, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a legal enterprise that provided 'high-end' clients with nude dancing and massage, but not sex and initially considered selling her phone records in order to raise money for her defense.
When she later released her phone records for free, they ended up shedding little further light on her clientele. 

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In what could be the biggest sex scandal in the U.S. capital for more than a decade, Ms Palfrey caused the resignation of married 65-year-old Randall Tobias, a deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The list also thrust another official, Pentagon adviser Harlan Ullman, into the heart of the scandal.
However Senator David Vitter was one of the biggest victims. He admitted to being on Palfrey's 'list' and was forced into a grovelling apology.
He suffered months of attack ads and recently addressed the scandal in a campaign video.
The 30-second commercial released in November shows Vitter sitting at a kitchen table as he talks to the camera, saying: 'Fifteen years ago, I failed my family but found forgiveness and love.'
'I learned that our falls aren't what define us but rather how we get up, accept responsibility and earn redemption,' Vitter says, as the ad next shows him eating dinner with his family.
However, Vitter never directly refers to his involvement in a prostitution ring in Washington D.C., which was discovered in 2007 - seven years after he began using the service, according to his own words.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3534959/Lawyer-represented-DC-Madam-releases-names-174-groups-including-FBI-IRS-State-Department-used-escort-service-2000-2006-t-reveal-individual-clients.html

Lawyer who represented the ‘DC Madam’ releases names of 174 groups - including the FBI, IRS and State Department - that 'used escort service between 2000 and 2006', but he still can't reveal the individual clients
Montgomery Blair Sibley listed entities that he says used Deborah Jeane Palfrey's services
Among those named were Lockheed Martin and PriceWaterhouseCoopers
He said he obtained the information from a subpoena of phone numbers
They are believed to be contained in Palfrey's black book of clients
She left the book in Sibley's possession before she killed herself in 2008
Despite naming the companies, Sibley still cannot name individuals
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:55 EST, 11 April 2016 | UPDATED: 20:50 EST, 11 April 2016

College Tribunals For Rape. Civil or Criminal?

Students appear confused by the lack of transparency of this bureaucracy, and skeptical of it. Is the newest bureaucracy performing criminal investigations and findings? Or policy, i.e., administrative investigations and findings? Students need to be clear about what this omniscient academic bureaucratic utopia is doing. Are students told they can pursue their complaints criminally in addition to what the university does? Do campus police refer complaints they receive to the district attorney or to the administration? What system does the campus police use for their legal duties? What the academic bureaucracy tells them or state law?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/24/odr-hears-34-cases/

After 34 Cases, Central Sexual Harassment Office Aims to Increase Staff
By ANDREW M. DUEHREN ,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
February 24, 2016

Democratic Party Elitism Eliminates Power Of the People

[From article]
The great American experiment is based on the revolutionary idea that power flows from the people not the government; the rights of people granted by the Creator, not the Divine right of kings.
Lincoln encapsulated that when he said:
…government of the people, by the people, for the people…
The Constitution defines a government where the people exercise power by electing -- and getting rid of -- politicians.
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America is no longer a country run by a government of the people. Decades of fascist maneuvering by Democrats has destroyed the representational nature of American government and disenfranchised the people.



The elimination of people power began with the Supreme Court’s acceptance of the idea of the “living” Constitution; i.e., the idea that the Constitution means whatever 5 judges thinks it means rather than what the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution thought it meant.
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the Court imposed on America its personal morality. A court that decides what it thinks the Constitution should mean is no different in nature than a monarch such as King George III;
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Recently the Court has solidified its power by declaring that citizens don’t have the right to sue when politicians don’t enforce the laws passed by the people directly. Seven million Californians passed Prop 8 that declared that marriage was between a man and a woman. The fascist Democrat politicians of California, including Jerry Brown, refused to defend the people’s law showing that Democrats do not believe that power flows from the people. But if the people don’t have standing to demand that the laws they pass be enforced clearly the people, in the eyes of the Supreme Court, have no power.
Similarly, Eric Holder and Obama declared themselves above the law by refusing to enforce DOMA -- and encouraging state attorneys-general to do the same. Clearly, if politicians can pick and choose which laws to follow, the people have no power, since even if they manage to get laws enacted, the people have no assurance that their “rulers” will follow those laws.
Of course, Obama’s imperial presidency and his refusal to act as though there are any Constitutional restraints on his personal power also work to remove the people from the decision-making process.
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The final step in disenfranchising the American people and making them subjects of a new royal class composed of government bureaucrats, judges, and politicians has been the rise of what’s called administrative law; rules created by unelected government workers that Americans must follow.
In America today, if Democrats think that men accused of rape on college campuses should be denied due process they need not pass a law, rather they only need an unelected and essentially unfireable government bureaucrat to write a letter to colleges threatening to remove all federal funding unless men’s due process is removed.
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The elimination of people power helps explains why the Democrat agenda advances despite electoral wins by Republicans. While many Republicans are in fact more interested in the donor class than the people, the reality is that under the government described by the Constitution, Democrats could not just stonewall. To advance their agenda Democrats would have to compromise.
Gridlock is the result not of partisanship but of the institutionalization of Democrat power through the Courts and administrative law -- and of course Obama’s executive orders.
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If anyone doubts that Americans are now controlled by their masters in government, they only need look at the fact that not only do government workers have job security, something the people don’t have in the Obama economy, but that they earn 78% more, on average, than the people. Liberals claim that that’s because government jobs require more skills than private sector jobs.
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In the Soviet Union, the nomenklatura, the ruling class, was marked by its special privileges and its higher pay, just like government employees and politicians in America today. Following the money tells us who are the rulers and who are the ruled in America today.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/returning_power_to_the_people.html

January 16, 2016
Returning Power to the People
By Tom Trinko

Harvard University Expands Without Limit

As Harvard University grows so does its bureaucracy. Its own KSG reported on inane events resulting from large bureaucracies, which require rules for all workers. Essays on tyranny of bureaucracy explain what administrators with chronic edifice complexes are bringing to Boston.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/12/22/allston-harvard-rights-transferred/

After Land Rights Deal, Harvard Continues Allston Expansion
By JONAH S. LEFKOE and HANNAH NATANSON,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
December 22, 2015

Separation Of Powers Abused By White House

[From article]
One virtue possessed by all bad presidents, whether they’re evil, venal, lazy, or incompetent, is that they always reveal the weakness of the political system at the time of their tenure. In this, Obama is no different than any other bozo that has inhabited the White House.
Separation of powers is the one element that distinguishes the United States from previous democratic systems. (And before people hurt themselves in their rush to point out that “the U.S. is a republic and not a democracy” -- a “republic” is any governmental system that’s not a monarchy. Nazi Germany and the USSR were “republics.” The U.S. is a republic utilizing a system of representative democracy.)
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Montesquieu’s understand of history informed him that concentration of power leads inevitably to despotism -- no matter how solidly a democratic system was founded, eventually an Augustus or a Lorenzo would show up, concentrate all power in his own person and eventually undermine senate or council. From that point on, whatever it might call itself, the state was a simple autocracy. There was never a way back, and the usual sequel was degeneration and collapse.
Montesquieu’s solution was separation of powers:
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Though often criticized -- largely by progressives who knew what had to be done and wanted what amounted to a temporary dictatorship to do it -- separation of powers has been a great success. At no point, even during the Civil War, has the United States ever been in danger of the deterioration into autocracy that plagued previous republics. But as the Obama administration has clearly revealed, separation of powers has been crippled for the better part of a century through the metastasis of the executive branch.
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The explosion of agencies under the New Deal, each of which was touted as necessary for the salvation of the country and most of which accomplished absolutely nothing, introduced a factor unforeseen by the Founders: concentration of power in the executive through organizational hyperdevelopment. All those agencies are under direct presidential control, and subject to his orders with no effective oversight from the other branches.
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To keep a neverending story short, this is how, eighty years later, we’ve attained our current state of a government overburdened with agencies that solve nothing while constantly spinning off sub-organizations.
This has badly skewed the balance of powers toward the executive, something that Obama has been quick to seize on in his effort at permanent transformation of the American system.
No president has more abused the power of the executive. Obama was raised in Indonesia during key formative years, a nation that in the 1960s was run as a strict military autocracy. At the time that Obama was attending school there, the state’s founder Achmed Sukarno had just been overthrown by Gen. Mohammed Suharto. Accompanying this transfer of power had been a nationwide purge that murdered at least 100,000.
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In the privacy of his head, Obama is not a president at all -- he’s a pemimpin, the Indonesian term for führer. (This can also be seen in his constant vacations, golf rounds, etc.
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One of the major techniques he learned is rule by decree -- to give orders without any effort at gaining consensus. How does he get away with it? In large part because he controls the agencies. Obama has discovered that the bloated hypertrophy of the bureaucracy has effectively put him beyond the reach of our system’s constitutional safeguards.
His decrees range from the idiotic to the grotesque -- his order to the EPA to shut down the coal industry, the repurposing of NASA as a Muslim PR effort, the post-legislative changes to ObamaCare
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It’s long been understood that agencies such as the EPA, the Department of Education, and the Department of Energy are useless. It’s now clear that they are a threat to the commonwealth.
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The Democrats [. . .] create these structures, these methods of short-circuiting the political process, and are shocked -- shocked -- when somebody else takes advantage of them.
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The real problem here is that the progressives -- and possibly a much larger segment of the country -- have simply forgotten how the American system is supposed to work. And that may well be the most lethal aspect of all.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/obama_versus_the_separation_of_powers.html

December 7, 2015
Obama Versus the Separation of Powers
By J.R. Dunn

Cambridge, MA Creates New Climate Change Bureaucracy

The project steering committee included no astronomers, no computer scientists, no geologists, and no meteorologists. All of this "science" is based on computer models, predicting the future. None of what nature does or will do is included in those projections. The models are meaningless without knowing what nature will do. The earth heats and cools itself with and without man. What do the computer models know about the future without knowing what nature will do? Will there be plans in case there is a mini ice age also? After allowing housing to be built in the Alewife flood plain, now the city will implement mitigation? "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." and "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/12/14/cambridge-assesses-climate-vulnerability/

Report Assesses Cambridge’s Climate Change Vulnerability
By BRIAN P. YU,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
December 13, 2015

Racism Works For Homosexuals, College Administrators, Whoever Seeks Money and Power

[From article]
Yale is not a hotbed of racism. Neither is Dartmouth. Neither is Columbia. Neither is Princeton. No reasonable person of color on any of these campuses really believes that he suffers interminable racial discrimination sanctioned by such institutions. The best inducement to cathartic rage the Ivy Leaguers can find is strips of black electric tape on some old portraits (unclear whether it's a hoax)
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there is not a climate of bigotry poisoning the air at the University of Missouri. That's where a gay black student council president and a hunger striker with a multi-millionaire father teamed up to get a few people fired and a whole country obsessed with their campus until Paris fell apart on international TV. The high point of the Mizzou Affair was of course a swastika traced in ostensible human excrement, which for some reason the press failed to recognize as likely anti-Jewish, not anti-black.
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It is usually not students, but rather provocateurs off campus or nestled in the administration who are behind the sit-ins, snap-fests, marches, and mass confessionals. The easiest way to prove this is by looking at the lists of demands. There is invariably a lot of bizarre attention paid to the misdeeds of some administrative position and calls for a reorganization of the bureaucratic leadership. "Fire the vice provost and promote the associate director." Students don't write stuff like that.
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the legal boilerplate is fitted toward catchphrases to push all the right buttons at the Office of Civil Rights: "hostile learning environment," "inclusivity," "free of intimidation," "safe spaces," "micro-aggressions," and "cultural competency." [. . .] These are not words that sophomores and juniors in college, even at Princeton, come up with, organically. Somewhere behind the scenes, diversity consultants, lawyers, and organizers are spoon-feeding the terminology to them and hoping they don't screw up in front of a bullhorn somewhere.
And of course, somewhere in the demands, the gays and the transgenders magically appear.
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To exploit the dreams of black people is older than the cotton gin. [. . .] But it is fully within the pattern of common behavior for protest hustlers to insult the very people they claim to champion.
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making sure that women with penises can shower next to women with vaginas, expanding the gay and lesbian pride center, and hiring more overpaid busybodies to investigate bias incidents and keep secret files on alleged bigots – none of this will change the angst and suffering of poor black communities across America.
So why is it all happening?
So [college administrators] partner up with politicians, organizers, grant administrators, rabble-rousers, and garden-variety scum to draw up plans for lots of street distractions. Rile up the commoners. Make it about some racial issue that will get everybody furious and won't go anywhere or change anything. Fake a hate crime if you have to.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/does_any_of_this_campus_turmoil_have_to_do_with_race.html

November 30, 2015
Does Any of This Campus Turmoil Have to Do with Race?
By Robert Oscar Lopez

Federal Regulations Slow Police Response Time

[From article]
New Orleans businessman Trey Monaghan, writing in an opinion piece last month, shared with agonizing detail how he chased a suspected burglar outside his newly opened restaurant on St. Claude Avenue, only to have to wait more than an hour for a police officer to show up.
"I started to realize that the police were not coming when the dispatcher told me she had to go," Monaghan wrote. "After a half hour, I decided I had to get back to fixing the problem the robber had created."
A call to New Orleans police, many residents have learned, likely comes with a wait – a long wait in most cases.
Residents who called NOPD through September of this year had to wait an average 73 minutes for police to dispatch an officer their way. That's nearly four times as long as it took in 2011, when the average dispatch time was 15 minutes, according to an analysis of NOPD calls for service by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and WVUE Fox 8 News.
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"If people don't feel the police department is going to be there, they'll stop calling," said Nahanni Pollard, a criminologist and faculty member at Douglas College in British Columbia. "It has the potential to allow crime to start. If you think police are not going to come, or they won't be there in three or four hours, that police deterrent will be eroded."
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He said longer response times have been an "unintended consequence," of the department's federal consent decree. The mandates aim to improve policing and halt what the Justice Department said were systematic violations by NOPD. The mandate requires NOPD officers to spend more time on an individual call, he and other police officers said, leading, in part, to longer waits for citizens.
Dispatchers cannot send new items to an officer who has not cleared his or her previous call. In time-consuming incidents, such as domestic disturbances, traffic accidents, burglar alarm checks or mentally ill subjects acting out violently, proper NOPD procedure now requires that officers have backup, record video from their body-worn cameras and complete detailed investigation checklists before leaving some scenes.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/10/new_orleans_police_response_ti.html#incart_2box

New Orleanians on average wait over 1 hour for police to arrive
By NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on October 26, 2015 at 10:00 PM, updated October 26, 2015 at 10:22 PM

Cambridge, MA Conference on Homelessness Determines Problem Needs More Study

Priority of Larry Oaks should be encouraged. Sandler recognizes limiting discussion to Cambridge may be misguided. Other cities have more accessible housing, e.g., Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Brockton, Worcester, Springfield, Pittsfield. Cunningham mentions "the voice of the Community." Who speaks better for people without homes, than those people? Only ownership is permanent housing. Even that can be ended by government taking. Councilor McGovern remains focused on delivering taxpayer funded health care to persons without homes. More business for the human services industry. Disappointing conclusion for another review of the findings. How many times must housing persons without homes be studied? How much time and money is wasted studying this problem instead of stopping the waste of taxpayer funds and housing people. Stop the nonsense. Here's an action plan. Get people off the streets.    



[From article]
Larry Oaks, director of Corporation for Supportive Housing, [. . .] said. “Who can address their other issues when they’re living on the street?”
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One idea was to offer landlords more incentives for providing affordable housing, possibly through the city’s housing department.
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Bill Cunningham expressed a concern that the meetings had not adequately represented “the voice of the community.”
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Questions arose as to whether the housing would be transitional or permanent housing; whether there was “flexible funding” for it, so people can get in without waiting for months; and whether there was funding for services to go along with the housing.
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“The homeless are mobile, so you need to help people beyond the borders of Cambridge,” said Martha Sandler, executive director of On the Rise,
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Another speaker added that suburban towns could be doing more to provide more low-income housing.
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Mark McGovern, director of Cambridge-Somerville Health Care for the Homeless, strongly recommended “low-barrier” shelters where homeless individuals can bring their belongings, pets and partners. There, he said, visitors could also access appropriate health services.
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“early warning systems” can help in prevention. Something as simple as someone not paying their rent could be a sign. Also assessments are needed of who needs what kind of assistance or intervention, and if it should be short or long term.
“People don’t know who to call or what services to ask for. We need to help them do that,” said Oaks.
Ultimately, though, the goal to is “move people on,” according to Oaks, so they are back in the mainstream.



The next steps in the process of helping the city’s homeless will be to review all the findings from last week and to draft an action plan, according to Shelly Chevalier, planning and development manager for the city’s Human Services Programs.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150923/NEWS/150928267

Housing challenges take focus at Cambridge Charrette on Homelessness
By Paul Angiolillo
Cambridge (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Sep. 23, 2015 at 2:10 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

US Government Is Larger Than Anyone Knows, Or Cares

[From article]
Background: In most of my classes I will either show the picture nearby of federal agency acronyms (remember that none of these are cabinet departments spelled out in the Constitution), or start writing them one-by-one on the blackboard while rattling off their name and purpose. If I show the slide I’ll see how many agencies students can identify from their acronym (usually not very many, and I’ve forgotten some of these myself), but if I recite them seriatim,after a few minutes students get the point: the government is massive, and largely beyond the direct—or even indirect—control of voters. (Recall Obama saying that he couldn’t control the “independent” National Labor Relations Board when it tried to stop Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina. No reporter thought to follow up: “Mr. President, just who does control the NLRB if it’s not you?”)
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Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute reports:
Digging through other counts offered by federal officials, he found an online Federal Register Index of 257.



United States Government Manual lists 316.
Then there was a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing during which a senator listed over 430 departments, agencies and sub-agencies.
“As bureaucracy sprawls, nobody can say with complete authority exactly how many federal agencies exist,” blogged Crews on the CEI site.



http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/09/just-how-big-is-the-government.php

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

BY STEVEN HAYWARD
JUST HOW BIG IS THE GOVERNMENT?
The answer is . . . no one really knows. At least the government can’t tell you.

Bud The Cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked thecowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Apple i phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Galaxy S5® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," saysBud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman for the U.S.Government", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered thecowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know S--- about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.”

“Now give me back my dog.”

The Watchman

Don't know if any or all of the figures cited herein are accurate. But the pattern described is very much a true account of how government works. 

NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."

So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"

So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"

So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"

So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."

So they laid-off the night watchman.

NOW slowly, let it sink in.

Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?

Anybody?

Anything?

No?

Didn't think so!

Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!

Ready??

It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.

The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh???

AND NOW IT'S 2015 -- 38 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
38 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.

Ah, yes --
good old Federal bureaucracy.

NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?

Hello!! Anybody Home?

Signed....The Night Watchman

No More Privacy For Medical Records, Including Psychiatry

Any notes made by therapists can and will be revealed to anyone who makes requests under this misguided program. It will enable not only prosecutors to use whatever you reveal to your therapist in court against you, but it will also allow the bureaucrats to divulge the same information to journalists who can humiliate and ridicule you for sport. Hear the loud silent objections from the alleged anti stigma lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatric industry? 



[From article]
Administrative subpoenas are issued unilaterally by government agencies -- meaning without approval by neutral judges -- and without probable cause stated under oath and affirmation as required by the Fourth Amendment. There are now 336 federal statutes authorizing administrative subpoenas, according to the Department of Justice.
[. . .]



In U.S. v Zadeh, the DEA obtained the records of 35 patient files without showing probable cause or obtaining a warrant issued by a judge. Citing New Deal-era case law, Judge Reed O’Connor noted that “[t]he Supreme Court has refused to require that [a federal] agency have probable cause to justify issuance of an administrative subpoena,” and that they may be issued “merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even just because it wants assurance that it is not." (Emphasis added).
In other words, the government may now use “fishing expeditions” for medical records.
[. . .]
Only judges may hear oaths necessary to issue warrants. Administrative subpoenas issued unilaterally by bureaucrats and without probable cause directly violate the Fourth Amendment.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/feds_get_the_power_to_seize_medical_records_on_fishing_expedition_investigations_with_no_subpoena_from_a_judge.html

July 20, 2015
Feds Get the Power to Seize Medical Records on 'Fishing Expedition' Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judge
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Immigration Officials Demonstrate They Know How To Appear To Be Busy

This exhibition of ineptitude reminds me of Robert Wagner, Jr. when he was Mayor of New York City. When there was a hurricane, a blizzard or some major event in the city, as Johnny Carson would say, "Mayor Wagner leaped into action and suspended alternate side of the street parking regulations." Always got a laugh. Thousands of illegal aliens swarm across the border every week. Immigration officials have nothing to do but issue press releases, revealing they filled out forms. 

[From article]
The agency has placed an immigration detainer on Darron Delon Dennis Wint, who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in last month’s killings of a D.C. couple, their 10-year-old child and the family’s housekeeper. ICE officials confirmed that Mr. Wint, who is a citizen of Guyana, could face deportation from the United States if he is convicted

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/7/dc-mansion-murders-darron-wint-flagged-for-deporta/#.VXTgtF75tyE.twitter

Lone suspect in D.C. mansion murders flagged for deportation
By Andrea Noble
The Washington Times
Sunday, June 7, 2015

U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) Explains To BLM Officials The Effect of Their Arrogance

[From article]
“Today, I wanted to take advantage of your presence here by letting you know things I’ve been hearing,” Gohmert said. “About the arrogance of people on U.S. Forest Service land and (Dept. of) Interior land – national forests - even from law enforcement, they say it’s just gotten tougher and tougher to deal with arrogant people on the national forests. Not getting access when they need it, not working with local law enforcement. And that’s been really helpful to me.”
“Some of us have been pushing for a while- let’s just dramatically cut back the U.S. Forest Service, the BLM, the Department of Interior and let each state manage the federal land within it’s boundaries.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/eric-scheiner/gohmert-blm-keep-arrogance-well-cut-your-budget

Gohmert to BLM: ‘Keep Up The Arrogance’ - We’ll Cut Your Budget
By Eric Scheiner

June 1, 2015 | 12:47 PM EDT

Florida City Wages Bureaucratic War on Churches

[From article]
“After we opened up the coffee bar and started doing services, I heard that he told people we were anti-gay,” Olive said. “So I went to his shop to ask him about that.”
I reached out to Amoroso on Wednesday but he did not return my telephone calls.
Pastor Olive told me he tried to convey to Amoroso that the church’s message is ‘Love God, Love People.’
“Our message to the gay community is the same as it is to the straight community,” he said.
The commissioner, Olive said, did not seem to appreciate his message.
“He pointed at me and said, ‘Listen, you better not have a church down there,” Olive told me.
By the strangest of coincidences, a code enforcement officer showed up for a Sunday service on Feb. 8. He was wearing a hoodie and was armed with a concealed video camera, according to the letter Liberty Counsel sent to the city.
[. . .]
For the record – the church was only licensed to sell java – not preach Jesus.
William Waters, the city’s community sustainability director, told me they have nothing against the church – they were simply responding to a complaint.
“We had a complaint that a gathering of people was taking place there in the form of a church,” he said. “We investigated that and determined that, yes, there were people gathered there.”
So if 115 people gather for coffee, that’s OK. But if they gather for worship – it’s against the law?
“We have to treat everybody the same,” Waters said. “We couldn’t give preferential treatment to churches versus other businesses.”
And in the city’s opinion, a church is, in fact, a business – just like grocery store, a Waffle House or an adult novelty shop.
[. . .]
“We’ve been there 99 years and we’ve never had to have a license,” she told the newspaper. “Where do you all of a sudden say the church has to have a license to gather and pray?”
Waters could not tell me how many churches have complied with the city’s demands. Local news accounts indicate the First Baptist Church paid nearly $500 in fees to the city.
Staver said the city’s actions violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution, the Florida Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the federal Religious Land Uses and Institutionalized Persons Act.
“Churches are not businesses and need not obtain such licenses,” Staver wrote in a letter to the city.
Waters said any church that refuses to comply could be shut down by the fire department.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/05/florida-city-wages-soviet-style-crackdown-on-churches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Florida city wages soviet-style crackdown on churches
By Todd Starnes

Published March 05, 2015

FoxNews.com

Bureaucracy Compels Wasting Taxpayer Funds, Enforcing Sexual Protocols

The Federal government's primary mission is to defend the nation. Congress added the FBI and the CIA to protect the borders and to maintain freedom for citizens to live, do business and for recreation. Now the federal government mandates oversight of sexual relations on campuses. The threat is an end of taxpayer funding if spineless administrators do not comply with the mindless mandates. Feckless university officials ask how high they must jump adding more administrators to their bureaucracy in order to comply, and to not lose federal taxpayer funds. Obedient students and faculty roll over and seek belly rubs as they give away their freedom for mammon. 

[From article]
In three separate documents, which combined span over 40 pages, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights clarified the role of Title IX coordinators, who are responsible for ensuring institutions receiving federal funding comply with Title IX, an anti-sex discrimination law. The guidance adds to efforts by the government to clarify Title IX requirements, including the release of Title IX policy recommendations last April.
[. . .]
The guidance stipulates that the institution “must not interfere” with the duties of the Title IX coordinator to ensure compliance.
“It's essentially unprecedented in federal regulatory law to put so much power of the federal government behind the protection of an administrative employee of the University,” Lake said.
[. . .]
Many other schools within the University, including the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School, have appointed Title IX coordinators who also serve in roles as administrators of student affairs.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/27/federal-government-titleix-coordinator/

Government Releases Guidance on Title IX Coordinator Position
By NOAH J. DELWICHE and IVAN B. K. LEVINGSTON,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
April 27, 2015

Lawless Washington DC Bureaucracies

Sir William Blackstone

[From article]
Everything you really need to know about the Constitution (and that’s barely an exaggeration) -- why it is structured the way it is, what led to it, its purposes -- is found in pages 2 – 12 of the March 9 concurring opinion by Justice Thomas in the Dept of Transportation v Assn of American Railroads case. Although it received little media attention, Justice Thomas has provided us a masterpiece of constitutional thinking, explaining why “administrative law” -- the practice of delegating to bureaucrats the making and enforcement of rules with the force of law – is so profoundly unconstitutional.
[. . .]
The Constitution corrected several flaws of the English system including limiting the authority of the legislative branch by placing the Constitution – this written law of the land – over all three branches of government.
[. . .]
Professor Philip Hamburger and his brilliant book, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, Justice Thomas shows America is back to the problems that the Constitution was written to prohibit by writing a mini-treatise on the Constitution itself.
[. . .]
William Blackstone…. defined a tyrannical government as one in which “the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men,” for “wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.”
[. . .]
vintage Justice Thomas -- plainly written, and just plain brilliant.
We have overseen and sanctioned the growth of an administrative system that concentrates the power to make laws and the power to enforce them in the hands of a vast and unaccountable administrative apparatus that finds no comfortable home in our constitutional structure. The end result may be trains that run on time (although I doubt it), but the cost is to our Constitution and the individual liberty it protects.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/a_littlenoted_masterpiece_of_constitutional_scholarship_by_justice_thomas.html

March 20, 2015
A little-noted masterpiece of constitutional scholarship by Justice Thomas
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Shrevesport, Louisiana Bans Little Free Library

Photo courtesy of Ricky Edgarton
CLOSED: A cease and desist letter has forced Shreveport resident Ricky Edgarton to padlock his Little Free Library.
[From article]
“They said it was an anonymous caller who complained about it, and when somebody complains then the city is obligated to act on it,” Edgarton said, adding he and his wife were incredulous when they received the letter.

http://watchdog.org/200070/little-free-library-2/

Shreveport man padlocks his Little Free Library after cease-and-desist letter
By Chris Butler
February 16, 2015