There is a good book on the subject of BUREAUCRACY, titled the same, by Guy Benveniste, 1977. Organizational mediocrity breeds like rats (pun intended)when elected officials create programs unaccountable for results. Such as the public skool system, which can lead to a lifetime of spelling errors.
When you have earned a BS in Civil Engineering (Transportation) you can advance your theories. Until then, be satisfied that people with such degrees are doing your thinking for you. It's what we get underpaid to do......
Union paid private bills for Tornillo
A UTD officer says reimbursement covered trips, clothing, groceries
BY JOE MOZINGO AND MANNY GARCIA
jmozingo@herald.com Murray Sisselman, 73 and dying of cancer, walked into the Rascal House deli near his home on Feb. 25 to meet with James Angleton Jr., the chief financial officer of United Teachers of Dade.
Sisselman, who served as UTD president for 27 years, wanted to come clean in his final days. He directed Angleton to a file cabinet packed with records showing that longtime union chief Pat Tornillo and his wife were apparently reimbursed for at least $155,000 in personal expenses in less than three years, including:
• More than $10,200 during the couple's short stay in St. Bart's and other Caribbean islands, covering airfare, meals, hotels, jewelry, French fragrances, cosmetics and swimwear.
• A five-night stay at The Pierre Hotel in New York City that cost the union $8,671.98.
• A $1,400 spa visit at the Silverado Resort in Napa Valley, Calif.
• A $4,158 shopping spree at Silvio Bresciani clothing in New York.
• $1,525 in merchandise from Wayside Antiques in Reddick, Fla.
The Herald reviewed 13 months of charges made between 2000 and 2003. They were incurred on two union credit cards and three of Tornillo's personal cards. The bills for all five accounts were submitted to the UTD for payment.
Tornillo, 77, declined to comment Friday evening.
''I'm not going to talk to you,'' he said.
The city planners where I live, are fighting a new proposed exit ramp off of the interstate, that would decrease congestion and improve safety in our town. Their reason is the tax revenue at the over-crowded shopping malls and restaurants. Because putting a new exit in, to the south, would allow people to completely by-pass the shopping district, on their way home from work. How is that for nice?
If you don't like our roads, go to Mexico.
Personally, I blame the French.
It is not all those who work for the government, it is those the politicians put in charge.
They dont have to be stupid they just follow blindly like Democrats and March in lockstep!
Remeber government jobs are gravy and like anything free and not held accountable no one wants off that gravy train.