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AUSTRIA: NATIONALISTS WIN 22.4% OF THE VOTE
Will the lefties now arrest them as the Greek lefties are doing to nationalists in that country?
For lefties, the word democracy is just for slogans when you're winning. If you start losing, you ban the opposition and invent trumped up charges to arrest them. That way you don't have to campaign against them and you'll stay in power.
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AGENDA FOR TOMORROW'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING
There are a couple of interesting items on the agenda.
Consent Calender Item # 5 will fund some pedestrian improvements to W. 19th Street. This is interesting because it's an improvement for the Westside, and will help take the vision of 19 West a step closer to reality.
Consent Calendar Item # 12 will establish an IT Department. We have mixed feelings about this one. We
The staff report says this is going to cost us $230,000 per year. The reality is that it's going to cost us more. Here's why. It is a typical practice of our local government to hire executives for various positions (which is the major part of this item as well), and while the public thinks these executives will then take care of whatever it is they were hired to do, these executives often simply farm out the work to experts. So, we get another executive who simply writes more staff reports asking for more money to do the job we thought he was going to do, and he has to keep writing those staff reports to prove he is a valuable employee.
Our questions are simple: Why is this needed? How will it save money? How will it help the citizens of Costa Mesa? We couldn't find any solid answers or facts in the staff report which was just a bunch of vague and general boiler plate bureaucratese and inflated words which could have as easily been describing why we should buy new shovels or desks.
Is it too hard for the government to tell us exactly why we need this and what the exact benefits for the citizens of this city will be and to do it succinctly and with actual charts and comparisons with other cities?
Here's an example, that we just made up, of the type of writing that we see in this staff report (and many other staff reports): This will give us a modern user-friendly synchronized approach to optimize our information cascade and will ensure that our logistical innovative future plans will properly time-phase with our platforms and will ensure that our framework will be correctly coordinated with our maximized data bases.
Now, what did we just write? It sounds important doesn't it? But, it means nothing. It's just nonsense and strung together inflated words. It's gobbledygook. It's bureaucratese.
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