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Poverty pays: Agency chief makes six figures for little work
Eagle-Tribune ^ | March 20, 2011 | Keith Eddings and Gretchen M. Putnam

Posted on 03/21/2011 4:51:21 PM PDT by Chuck N

LAWRENCE — Fighting poverty in the state's poorest community is supposed to be a full-time job.

But the head of the city's leading anti-poverty agency spends as little as 15 hours a week in the office. The remainder of his time is spent at the Elks Lodge on Andover Street, playing card games and video poker, enjoying long lunches, and indulging his taste for Romeo Y Julieta cigars, an investigation by The Eagle-Tribune has found.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: philipflaverriere
Unbelievable story. 84 year old making $144k and works 15 hours a week. The rest of the time, he's at the Elks....Ha...wonder what party he's affiliated with in Massachusetts. Heard about this from Howie Carr today.
1 posted on 03/21/2011 4:51:32 PM PDT by Chuck N
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To: Chuck N

“Poverty pays: Agency chief makes six figures for little work”

He is a ‘poverty fighter,’ no? He fought and he is no longer poor :). Mission accomplished.


2 posted on 03/21/2011 4:56:58 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (No blood for ($4 a gallon) oil!)
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To: Chuck N

I bet he completes all the work he needs to do in those 15 hours.

Agencies like this have lots of layers of supervisors and managers to oversee the employees doing the work.

Lot of chiefs and a relative few indians.


3 posted on 03/21/2011 4:58:31 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: Chuck N

demoKaRATZ. Equal opportunity pigs at the trough.

The demoKaRATZ party is the new STALINISTs. Jack boots, Siberian camps, et al.

Just ask a SEIU union thug, life is good! Krack a few heads and steal their money!

Trumpka says its just fine!!

Hey, union thugs, we out number you. This will NOT be a replay of Reds against the Czarist Whites.

You time is neigh. Make the most of it. Because it will be your last HUrah.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 5:03:29 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (PS. The muzlim nations think my handle is a prime example of "hate speach." Oh Well.)
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To: Chuck N

Your tax dollars at work. And play.


5 posted on 03/21/2011 5:10:57 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I'd get it myself but I don't have any thumbs.)
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To: Chuck N

I feel like a gerbil at this moment. Maybe a hampster.

Somebody grab my little running wheel. I have never seen the guy in the penthouse over in the next room. The one who eats fish tongues and drinks ice water flown in from Antarctica.


6 posted on 03/21/2011 5:13:41 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Chuck N

Little things like this, or a self-immolating Tusian vegetable vendor, start civil wars.

7 posted on 03/21/2011 5:24:19 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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To: Chuck N

And we wonder why we lost the war on poverty. Wonder how many millions of these trough hogs there are?

Pray for America


8 posted on 03/21/2011 5:30:10 PM PDT by bray (Hey Country Club, hold your noses this election!)
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To: bray

there are no jobs unless you want to work 40 hours a week


9 posted on 03/21/2011 5:44:46 PM PDT by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: Chuck N

My God, why would anyone 84 years old even want to have a job? He’s got to have enough money by now.


10 posted on 03/21/2011 5:45:42 PM PDT by PLMerite (Thanks for fixing the clock.)
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To: PLMerite

Probably because he likes collecting $184.62 an hour pay...


11 posted on 03/21/2011 6:02:27 PM PDT by DB
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To: Chuck N

But when budgets get tight, they’ll threaten police, fire and teachers first...


12 posted on 03/21/2011 6:18:20 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Chuck N
Someone tell me again why I'm bustin' my rear end as a business owner - so I can pay taxes to support criminals like this guy?
13 posted on 03/21/2011 6:19:08 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ( Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.)
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To: Chuck N
Hell if he was a Kennedy he could run the fuel aide for the poor and drag in 650,000 a year.
14 posted on 03/21/2011 6:25:52 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: LostInBayport

Government simply cannot handle money. They always spend it wrong. I’d slash 50% of every single government budget in the entire country. Then I’d step back and consider further cuts.


15 posted on 03/21/2011 6:28:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: TonyInOhio
Someone tell me again why I'm bustin' my rear end as a business owner - so I can pay taxes to support criminals like this guy?

Excellent question. I have decided, over the past couple of months, that I'm no longer doing it. I have no debt and am ready to just pull the plug. The only reluctance I had was my 14 full time employees. I'm working more than ever for nominal returns - it just isn't worth it anymore.

16 posted on 03/21/2011 7:25:06 PM PDT by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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To: RobertClark

How could there be any poverty left to administer? We’ve spent trillions upon trillions to eliminate it ... LBJ and the Kennedys promised!


17 posted on 03/21/2011 7:37:13 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Chuck N

The incredible Goverment scam engine keeps rolling along, and states are broke because of them, outrageous pensions and illegal aliens who cost 500% more than they ever produce.

Time to re-take our nation, this maggot needs to be fired.


18 posted on 03/21/2011 11:03:17 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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