FED’s ‘MONEY-PRINTING QUAGMIRE’ STICKS IT TO THE KAPANSKIS (BUT OF COURSE)
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
First of a Two-Part Series
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JAN. 3, 2022) — Leave it to the Bay State’s senior senator, the redoubtable Elizabeth Warren, to come up with it. For Liz, it must be the nation’s most pressing problem.
Granny Clampett, when not going after Tesla’s Mean Mr. Musk, said federal regulators “need to crack down” on the financial industry. Why, do you ask? Because of their role in causing out-of-control “carbon dioxide emissions.” Funny, I didn’t know moving money around on computers caused toxic emissions, other than the figurative kind of greed and larceny. According the Warren’s reasoning, however, the financial wizards bear ultimate responsibility because they lend money to the companies that do pollute.
Granny might just as well say it: America should revert to Third World status, because if it had no industry, it wouldn’t have harmful emissions. And let’s get rid of motor vehicles. Banks finance those, too. Only developed countries have that First World problem. THE PLANET wonders if Warren would be willing to eschew her lavish lifestyle, fancy home, and all the senatorial perks that go along with being among the noblesse oblige. Warren, like many of her colleagues from both sides of the aisle, is great at the noblesse part, not so good on the oblige. Kinda like Pittsfield’s podunk pols.
Actually, anyone truly concerned about the machinations of the financial industry should only take a look at the Fed’s actions over the past, what, 15 years or so, maybe less, from about the time of the “Great” Recession of 2008. From that year through 2014, the Fed flooded the markets with $3.5 trillion in newly printed dollars, money, of course, backed by nothing. To put this in perspective, that infusion was a whopping three times the amount of created money the Fed had authorized in its previous 95 years of existence.
The creation of fiat money has gone unabated. Since 2020, the Fed has issued a full third of all cash now in circulation.
The implications of such foolishness are well detailed in an article by Christopher Leonard published by Politico on Dec. 28.
Don’t know about you, but THE PLANET has always been fascinated by economics: how money works, how arbitrary it is, and the effect it has not just on output but input, that is, what it does to people’s principles — souls, if you will.
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When the Fed released all the fake money, worthless except on trust, it increased the demand for stocks, corporate and personal debt, real estate bonds, and such. Coupled with artificially low interest rates, cash flow drove prices up, causing more income inequity than racism, poverty, and all other bad discrimination combined (yes, there is and should be good discrimination in life). It also has created dangerous asset bubbles and spurred inflation, the kind that’s presently and relentlessly hammering Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski into pancakes.
The Fed has put the Kapanskis and the court in what Leonard calls “a money-printing quagmire” from which there is no easy way out. In fact, after so many years of Fed irresponsibility under the administrations of Bush Lite, Obama, Trump, and now Biden, the cure has become so painful — high interest rates, rising unemployment, social instability, limits on growth — that no one has the political spine to administer the medicine and announce, “The ‘free’ ride is over.” Again, the same thing has happened on a micro scale in podunk Pittsfield: Spineless public officials refusing to reign in spending.
Leonard talks about a series of 11-1 voted taken by the Fed’s all-powerful Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to continue its reckless policies, the lone regular holdout being FOMC member Tom Hoenig, former president of the Fed’s bank in Kansas City.
Hoenig would not go along with the crowd. He wanted to stop the unleashed printing of money and to raise interest rates–The Cure.
THE PLANET thanks our good friend for his expertise.
This series concludes on Wednesday’s PLANET.
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LOVE TO ALL.
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Mayor Linda Tyer’s State of the City address at Berkshire Community College on Monday, January 3rd, 2022 – Sarcasm: I am the elitist Mayor of Pittsfield politics who lives in a mansion in a millionaires’ only Gated Community, and when I am at work, I proudly sit on tens of millions of dollars in Biden Bucks plus Kufflink’s excessive Slush Funds, but the people are not worthy of knowing how my administration will spend the city’s financial windfall, over-the-top reserves and “Free Cash” – never mind that I may be illegally violating the State’s Open Meeting Law and “Ethics” Laws. I drive a Lexus to City Hall, while the economically distressed North Street business district is also known as “Social Services Alley” (and toilet) and the neighborhoods that abut dangerous downtown Pittsfield are also known as “The Ring of Poverty”. I have passed the largest city budgets in the history of corrupt Pittsfield politics, and in return, the unworthy people get to send their children to Pittsfield’s inner-city Level 5 public schools. On public safety, Pittsfield always ranks in the top 10 cities in Massachusetts for violent crime, according to the FBI’s yearly reports. Between Pittsfield’s failing public school system and Pittsfield’s systemic violent crime, I like to call Pittsfield a “Vibrant and Dynamic” community. Then there is the 23-year-old debacle called PEDA, which has millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities that only grow larger, while the mostly vacant and very polluted post-industrial land will never attract a Fortune 500 corporation. On Nuciforo’s Berkshire Roots pot growing buildings on Dalton Avenue, I don’t care that the abutting neighborhoods complain about the dead skunk-like pot odor the people have to smell because I like the pot revenues that I get to spend on needless bicycle paths and plungers that get plowed over after it snows. On Beacon Hill, Trippy Country Buffet is Boston’s progressive champion, but I hope you watched out for her wrath when the Old Country Buffet suddenly closed its doors. Chrome Dome Adam Hinds bought a $690,000 home in Amherst, Massachusetts last year of 2021, but soon enough, Paul Marxism will be the next useless Berkshire-based State Senator next year of 2023. In the Swamp, PAC Man Richie Neal is too busy representing K Street Corporate Lobbyist Firms to be of any use to Pittsfield. Maryland Ed Markey is still spewing his HOT AIR that he will save the world with his Utopian Green New Deal that would bankrupt our already bankrupt country. Elizabeth Warren blames everything on Wall Street and the Big Banks, yet she supported Joe Biden for U.S. President in 2020, despite Joe Biden receiving the most money in the Swamp from Wall Street and Big Banks in 2020. In other words, the Swamp is full of greedy, lying and corrupt politicians who only spew HOT AIR while living in homes that are even more upscale than my swanky mansion within a few feet of the Hancock border. After the 2022 Pittsfield City Council and School Committee are sworn in, I invite you all for a skinny dip in Silver Lake because when it is not glowing in the dark, it doesn’t fully freeze all winter. In closing, I am honored to serve as the Mayor of Pittsfield politics so I can continue with “Business as usual” that has put Pittsfield into the proverbial ditch.
Jonathan A. Melle
I feel with certainty that it will be 99 percent promotional bullshit with a dash of “look at all the wonderful things I have done for you ungrateful assholes.”.
What she will NOT be talking about is who the beneficiaries of her opulent spending sprees are. She will NOT be discussing horrific overdoses in her city under her watch. She will NOT be discussing muggings, armed robberies or the lack of traffic enforcement. She will NOT be admitting that the insanely expensive North stree traffic klusterfuck was complete folly. She will NOT try to justify the latest huge tax increase. NOR will she tell you she has another one planned for the coming year.
Let’s go Kinda
YOU supported Joe Biden for president in 2020!
You’ve also expressed your support on this blog the past six years for Antifa, Elizabeth Warren and Linda Tyer!
You are part of the problem!
In 3, 2, 1……here comes a Trump is a “womanizing….” who believes in “Nazism.”
Right Jon?
The Lovely Linda isn’t all that bad, but Trump on the other hand….
Way off.
You actually read that?
The Lovely Linda’s Pittsfield politics priorities in 2022:
ARPA
Mayor Linda Tyer said her administration will be spending nearly $41 million in federal coronavirus relief money. The city will fund a portion of the YMCA renovation that will help expand the facility’s childcare program, a major renovation of the Ashley Reservoir that is a key part of the city’s drinking water infrastructure, air quality improvements to the Pittsfield fire stations, upgrades to the sidewalks in the Morningside and West Side neighborhoods and close the funding gap for the Fenn Street homeless shelter planned for the First United Methodist Church. Also, her administration will spend an additional $1 million to continue the At Home in Pittsfield program to fund exterior home repairs for low-income Pittsfield homeowners. Also, the city will use local ARPA money in 2022 to build a new heating and ventilation system at Pittsfield High School and Reid Middle School. That project follows the announcement that a master planning project with a focus on Crosby, Conte and Morningside elementary schools has been earmarked to receive $200,000 from the state’s ARPA money.
Economic development
The city will buy the former Hess Station on Tyler Street to fight blight. Also, the city will use a state grant to make site improvements on Site 9, which is a 16-acre space in PEDA.
Coronavirus
The city and Berkshire region are fighting the 2-year-old Covid-19 pandemic. The city has begun distributing a batch of 11,000 at-home coronavirus test kits from the state. Mayor Linda Tyer wants to keep Pittsfield public schools open.
Public safety
Mayor Linda Tyer wants to build a new police station, as well as a training tower for the Pittsfield Fire Department. She said that fast-growing mold has sprung up in the police station building, damaging equipment and supplies following recent flooding.
City Government & Public Education
Mayor Linda Tyer will hire the first city and schools chief diversity officers in 2021.
Source: “‘Promise and possibility’: Mayor Linda Tyer lays out vision for Pittsfield’s future in 2022 State of the City address”, By Meg Britton-Mehlisch, The Berkshire Eagle, January 3, 2021.
Correction: I meant to write 2022 instead of 2021.
Wonder if that’s why the hate rag got the new printing press, to help our city leaders print some dinero$! They have to keep paying for their inflated budget somehow and maybe they are just going to follow the feds lead. How these so called leaders keep getting elected in is very puzzling to me. The two top thoughts would be uneducated voters or voter rigging. I can’t decide between the two so maybe it’s a little of both. On another hand welcome back Dan, hope you were able to get your rest.
Thanks, SHIRL. Got some great R&R.
Lizzie Warren would never reduce her lavish lifestyle like she wants to turn us into a third world country. Just like she wanted peace and quiet in her neighborhood while urging the 2020 rioters to “get the violence out of their systems” in the poor neighborhoods. Liz is a total phony.
Native Americans, especially NA women have been discriminated against for a long time. Can’t Lizzie enjoy a little “fruits of her labor.” She suffered for so long.
It’s very tough on a person to lie your way into a job and have to live with the shame. And not only any job, but Harvard Law. Lizzie’s “earned” it.
A real role model young girls can look up to…
Kinda like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now there is a role model for every mans daughter…and she loves Trump to boot. What is not to like?
I’m gonna grab me a beer. Want one?
And in The Big Apple if you are white, you are now Discriminated against even more because you go to the back of the vaccine line while blacks and Hispanics go to the front because they have
More risk factors due to “systemic racism”
How does anybody actually prove what race they are? How much black or Hispanic do you have to be to jump the line? Or is it the honor system like voting. This bullshit has been going on for years with brownie points for college admissions and civil service tests. Not only is it discrimination they are no standards of proof.
I have been told i am black from the waist down
So do you like fat white chicks then?
Excellent points. Common origins indicate we are some of everything, all of nothing. Allowing “line jumping” based on claimed racial distinctions is racist.
Some years back a fake black became the NAACP head.
You sure it doesn’t have to do with lifestyle choices like food, beverage, and exercise, or la k thereof, or is it da governments fault more blacks and Hispanics are obese?
It’s the government’s fault. Encouraged em to breed like rabbits and gave em free groceries from cradle to jail, and the more kids, the more money, bigger apartment etc and now Biden giving them 300 per month cash per kid, no work required plus free apartment, heat, phone, internet, and groceries.
According to the Beagle, PPS has an equity task force to study diversity & equity issues within the schools. Also the School Committee wants public input on whether school resource officers are needed.
First of all, the SC should be focused on delivering quality instruction in reading, math, english, science which is severely lacking in the district. Students are leaving in droves.
Secondly, it appears the Supt. is stalling on getting SROs into each school, perhaps because the PPD is currently shorthanded. Discipline needs to be enforced. This has been discussed earlier on this blog.
The schools are a disaster!
LEN
Good one. The LAST thing PPS needs is a study of “diversity and equity issues.” Those are best handle with your sentence “Discipline needs to be enforced.” Also, major curriculum reform to emphasize the subjects you mention.
Whenever she wants “public input” that is code for “I decide what public input is” and you have no way of knowing whether I am lying or not.
She bragged about this in her state of the city address. And she is bragging about hiring a Chief of DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity), for schools and city. A double waste of money. Whites and Irish need not apply.
What a f7^%#$*’n waste of $$$$.
Yes, but her compliant council approved it.
And that “compliant council”, like ducklings in a row minus two, will be approving just about, if not everything, this mayor hand feeds them. They know what awaits the independent thinker on this Pittsfield council and the Pete Combo will be there to remind them should they step even a tad out of line.
Perhaps we can call out each vote by name right here each Wednesday just to prove my point. We could probably do it right now as the rubber stamp is pretty much all set in place as designed.
I like that idea. List every agenda item and how each counselor voted…you would think that would be what the press would do with all government votes. Educate the voters!
The last thing the cabal that runs Pittsfield wants is for the voters to become educated. The VERY LAST thing. An ignorant constituency is their bread and butter.
Bullying is a hugamongous problem. Bullies want power to compensate for their small appendages. Why not let the biggest bullies beat up the smaller bullies (who still deserve it by the way even though they are the lesser of the problem) This solves the problem in house and does not cost the city a dime nor does it deplete much needed police personnel.
Benefits include but are not limited to:
I don’t get how in the world can racism be a public health crisis in the places that democrats have been running for eons? I mean the democrats in these blue areas have told the black population, if they vote for them over and over during any election and only for them ,they wouldn’t experience this issue while they are in charge.
One huge public health crisis is black-on-black violence in large cities. Chicago, anyone?
Poverty and school choice and drug addiction……Mass murder everyday with white on white school shootings in suburbs….ANYone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-GaoFPbLeM
Now use be pickin on da blacks. It ain’t der fault, it’s da guns fault, ya feel what im saying man?
Das right. Jus like the car killed the kids in da parade, as main stream media reported. Not the black raciss driver, the car mind you.
But Lonnie Durfee burned bales of hay that supported Xiden/Harris. That offended the masses, according to DA Wrong Way. And boy did Lonnie ever pay for it.
Black on black violence? What’s that Dan? According to progressives like AOC, Wrong Way, and their brain power, we (the white man) are the root cause of it.
How we are the cause of it is never quite explained. But you know if Wrong Way speaks on it, it must better true. Just like all the racial inequalities in policing in the Berkshires she always mentions, but fails to ever back up with facts.
Be happy you don’t want the booster so says the doctor that led to the creation of The original Covid-19 buster. States it will effect your natural immune system and make it so you will continually need a booster. Hold out, omnicron is a cold so work through it with water, stay at home and have your chicken noodle soup.
I got a 0.26 percent raise last year and my pay has increased less than 2,000 aggregate over past 6 years. Maybe I should join The Great Resignation and suck on the taxpayer tit. Whaddya think Mr. Melle? Would you rather be working ? If I was a broad I could just get knocked up and have kids but I am a poor white male.
Thanks for the dressing down. It is only fair because I like to dress down our corrupt Pols.
No your a hypocrite and have an agenDa.
….just like everyone else….
Dan, did you hear Fauci will get a 350,000 per year pension?
The mayor was wearing a space suit this morning at the anticipation of the Orbit Award maybe?
And millions of residuals as a stockholder at from pharm.
He and his family also gets daily death threats from people who are afraid of shots.
He is one of the people responsible for this virus so I could see why people would be angry. However I think he and China should be sued for the destruction that they have committed against the world
On the plus side, he never, not even once, ushered a herd of drugged up MAGA maniacs into the Capitol building to try to overthrow a democratic government. So at least he has that going for him.
I don’t know he may be connected to Pelosi and the FBI
Slavery is happening in Berkshire County. Telling people they have rights & failing to uphold that – is a trick. So many decisions I could have made if I was not lied to.
Please explain.
Fucksrs ruined lives – no sweat. HahHaa.
Joe, love your handle! We can always use another Joe around here.
Police fabricated evidence bore false witness at trial etc. Wrongful conviction. Conspiracy to cover-up. Destroyed evidence. Ignored records requests. Resignations. Involuntary servitude. Right here right now. Stolen identity.
Facts??????????????????
That stupid bike direction on west housatonic turning right onto center is awful. Come on Ricki!,,,
Go old Ricky’s Rumpus!!
We’re gonna need a bigger platform! Know what I mean l o fucking elllll
RSVP – JOETAX
my badd
The Babylon Bee predicts;
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/babylon-bees-top-predictions-2022
I’ll be waiting for the rejunction of the planets state of the city nonsense. Less than thirty people at the gathering today. Then it turned into a revival and best of friends huddle.
Did ya get your tax bill today? This mayor is eating us for lunch. I always thought Barry would reign her in but I could not have been more wrong.
The mayors main claim to fame today was her great friendship and admiration for the two Peet’s and a micro beer opening with four new employees and even more to come?…. THATS IT ?
Rumor has it Tom Brady has reached out to the Planet to help as a wide receiver? Is this true?
We cannot comment. Talks under way.
What’s your forty speed today Dan?
Word is that Tyer will pull a Antonio when the new councilor s frustrate her. PCTV is ready.
Funny. “Pulling an Antonio.” An addition to the lexicon.
Plant to close Pittsfield High in 5 to 6 years
Is that before or after they spend millions on new boilers?
Didn’t they put in new boilers 10 years ago? I know they ordered to small of a boiler for the building but why do they need a new one? Shutter half the school seeing how they have half the population
Watching Lazy Linda do jumping jacks, topless, in the Fenn Street parking lot?
I’m blind just thinking about it.
At least Linda will have two in attendance: Barry and Jon Melle. Who knows Jon, maybe she’ll discuss your emails after her exercise session?
May not work as a tourist attraction though
What ever happened to the challenge with the n Adams mayors. Tyer and Mackey should renew that one.
I hear he is in market for a new tablet and Tyer wanted to give him one but city can’t find any of the thousands they paid for.
After reading some comments today on the planet, it struck me, the government is using a lot of their money on bike lanes and safe biking, however automobiles are paying for it through excise tax, gas tax, registration,etc. My question is when will the bike crowd start paying? They should have to get licenses, register and pay taxes. If they are using the roads they should help pay for the upkeep!
Special interest groups are on the RECEIVING end in Pittsfield. Not the PAYING end. This is well documented and will continue at least until over 40 million dollars is doled out.
And while they’re at it eliminate the pick your pocket tax.
Warren is just like the rest of retribution of wealth people.They are willing to take from others just not from themselves and give. You know, pay your fair share mantra crap.
The Ruling Elites, Financial Elites and Corporate Elites are all in bed with each other from North America to Europe to Asia. The rest of us are all supposed to be in socioeconomic conflict with each other. It is the old Divide & Conquer theory that has been used since human history began. When anyone calls out how classist our political system is, they face retribution from the Elites who always get richer and more powerful.
Dan,
I am so livid over Tyer’s pathetic state of the city address, which she delivered in violation of state rules requiring masks on all college campus’, indoors, and her general failure as mayor of this once fine city, that I am offering you 50,000 for your blog, as long as you let me rename it Shitsfield. I will re-name the Coverted Orbit Award in your honor to sweeten the pot.
Sarcasm: But the Lovely Linda represents you, Joe Kapanski. You should be grateful.
I’ll be grateful when she’s run outta town!
No way she stays here once her term is up. No one knows how bad this place is as well as she does. Partly because she had a large hand in it. She moved to the farthest most tree line the day she took the job and I don’t see her hanging around more than a week once the bow starts pointing upward.
Sometimes you talk stupid o.
But he often makes a lot of sense.
JOE
Thanks for the offer. THE PLANET has yet to look at the state of the city. We don’t need to. We know it sucks.
The State of the City of Pittsfield politics is ALWAYS “Business as usual”, which means that the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski were beaten down over the generations and conditioned to “Assume the position”, while the notorious insider provincial political hacks and their cronies enrich themselves at the public trough. When only 20 percent of registered voters show up at municipal election day, the image was NOT painted by Norman Rockwell and auctioned off by The Berkshire Museum!
You got that right and let me add that I do not want to own the blog if it requires more than a few hours work per week and now that I put my thinking cap on, I am thinking this labor of love of yours is quite laborious, no?
It’s easy to do.If you just tell it like it is.
Perhaps but a lot of policing is required of the comments section. There in lies the work.
I will pay 51 g name the orbit after the aforementioned and call us Puppetville
Read an interesting article on mass psychosis and it reminds me of what happens here in the beautiful Berkshires! You have 30% of the blind followers who can’t see reason or any other point of view, 40% who just want to go along with the in crowd and then 30% who are the other point of view and constantly get called names and have a harder time. Looks at how Germany, who had an educated population could have followed Hitler. My question is how do the Democrats follow their leaders?
With their heads up their arses that’s how.
Trump watched his own insurrection on a large color TV from a safe distance as his own daughter pleaded with him to stop it. No one knows if Hitlers daughter tried to stop him but if she did it did not work.
You should read my post you are the first 30%. Have you figured out who Ray Epps is? And why were elite commandos in place before anything happened? Lots of unanswered questions. Still waiting for the committee to release Pelosi and Schumer’s emails for the month leading up to 1/6
Watch Fox Nations’ Patriot Purge for some facts not heretofore reported.
Fox facts = Alternative facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-GaoFPbLeM
I just finished reading Tyer’s state of city address, which was about a 2 minute read, and I’m a slow reader. I cannot believe she didn’t mention crime once. All she said about police was they need a new station. What about crime Linda??????? Did you not campaign on crime. You are as uselss as tits on a bull. And if you want to give the cops a new station, why don’t you use some of the 41 million federal dollars for it, and the money you are going to piss away for not one, but two, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officers. Oh, and to give away another cool million for home improvements???? You are outta your effing mind???? (that’s a rhetorical question because you clearly are off your rocker). You ought to be ashamed of yourself. And an Equity Task Force to dismantle inequities? If you took all the money you have pissed away on the shit spotter, and free home improvements, and added it to the other wasteful spending you authorized, a new station could already be underway.
Huh? The savings on the water plant would have bought two police stations. The spotter is obsolete.dump it!
I agree with everything you say. Except I do wonder about the home improvements. That might be something, a rare something, Johnny paycheck ever got back from her administration. Unless of course it is doled out on a special interest, who you know basis like every thing else she has done in the last six years.
It is totally wrong to use my tax money to give free home improvements period, but if you are
going to allow it, then it should be equal and fair across the board, and it is so not. The bottom line is if you can’t afford to stay in your home, whether due to high taxes or what not,
move. Taint the governments job to pick winners and losers in the home improved business.
Lots of New York City types just moved in and they can afford the taxes and to stay in Pittsfield homes. Yer gonna love em, especially as your taxes climb ever upward.
I hear this but are there any facts? How many New Yorkers really moved here?
Just look to see where all the NY licensed cars park at night. Thought they were supposed to switch over to MA within 30 days. Do I see the ticket lady go after them?
The jail property on 2nd street is perfect for a new POLICE station.We also need a 5 year plan to close and sell the 250,000 sf dilapidated PHS structure.School committee needs to get this done…..the air quality environment in the building is awlful for staff and students.The structure was built for 2000 kids and there is 650 kids.
Total bulkshit that we are still paying for the second street jail. New station could go there or at PHS site. And a new station was needed way more than a replacement school, and woulda cost way less.
Quite amusing that they are going to spend tens of millions on a new police station when they can’t even find enough cops to work in it. But logic was never a Pittsfield government strong suit.
Less so now than evah.
Maybe working out of a shithole is one reason among many others, that the city can’t keep cops. Maybe there are other reasons too, like a DA that won’t prosecute after the cops make arrests, like a mayor that tolerates bums on every corner, like the war on cops in general, started by that raciss Obama, like the Black Lies Matter folk, like the defund da police movement, like the money wasted on a shit spotter while the cops work out of a shithole, like a mayor that doesn’t actually give two shits about crime, because she has been mayor for years, and yet tell us how many times she mentioned crime in her latest bull shit speech????
You should add nepotism that was running rampant, you needed to know someone to get hired for decades
I totally disagree about her plan to dole out more tax dollars for home improvements. This is outrageous! I hope the city council votes this plan down. The council should request a certified accounting of where the GE funds were dispersed – what homeowners received how much. How many and who applied for and were turned down for 5he previous handouts as well.
Stop the bleeding!
And GE money, which was spent way outside the guidelines, might as well have gone for the new station
Best post of day. Who got what?………
It all top secret squirrel shit, as someone pointed out on this blog a few years back, there should be a running list on city website spelling it all out, but instead you have to dig for it. Beacon Cinema got new chairs to increase value of their business, then sold it. If I recall, Tyer had a photo op in one of them.
And add in a few million more pissed away on overtime and useless salting of roads, crazy road repairs, and let’s not forget Beacon Bucks and who knows what else?
Road repairs?? There must be at least one hundred manhole covers sinking beneath the road bed in Pittsfield. I bet there is someone in some other town that knows how to fix these things. Maybe if the bike riders association were to smile at the mayor she would have these things fixed for them. As we know they have a lot more clout with this mayor than reglar taxpayer folk.
It took Obama 8 years to save the economy with Wall Street at 8700 and we were hours from a world financial collapse.Obama.Obama handed Trump a beautiful growing economy and a Wall Street at 19,000 a 125% growth…..After We bailed out our failed economy Trumps QST republican order of business was to take 2 trillion out and give it to the wealthy and back to Wall Street……Father forgive the average FOX viewer for they know not what they do.The Trump/Rush/Bannon takeover was at hand.
Go drink some more Jonesville Koolaid ya fool
Ya sure your next sexually attraced to TSC, because ya talking like AOC now Tell
Funny…I like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-GaoFPbLeM
Yeah, those shovel ready jobs saved the day.
You mean Obama worst President ever elected ,the great divider? He never saved anything, but his Vice Presidents ass.
Would like to congratulate Mayor Linda on her speech. It was totally amazing that she was able to address the hard working taxpayers without say dynamic, brilliant or innovative, although her word for 2022 is collaborative. That is the only accolade I can give her! Several times during her address she reminded me of Bumbling Biden, falling over her words and tossing her paperwork on the podium. During her speech her hair was hiding her face, is that her new way of hiding from the taxpayers or does Bare Bare think she is sexy? After all she was hiding from the taxpayers most of 2021, except for photo-ops or dancing in the park. She did not address any of the major issues in Pittsfield. No mention of bike lanes, pot holed streets, cell tower issue, crime, major shortage of police officers, schools one step away from being taken over by the state, homeless and the shutting down of the woman’s shelter, the Springside bike track, panhandlers on every corner, lack of affordable housing, lack of street lighting, lack of retail and as usual I could go on and on. What about an update on how many employees at Wayfair (is it even open anymore), how many new employees for the Pittsfield rocket ship business we funded, and most importantly how much tax money has been brought in by the daily openings of more pot shops? I do agree that the police need a new station, but by building a new station is this going to create less crime, traffic enforcement and does she think a new station will draw more new officers, why do so many new hires quit or go elsewhere? Thought a police officer was suppose to be out on the streets stopping crime. How about how much money is being brought in by her parking ticket maniacs? She spoke constantly about COVID, which many including myself are very Tyered of hearing as an excuse for the state of the City and the Country. Mayor Linda unfortunately suffers from a disease that is almost as bad as COVID and that disease is called “I” disease. She has spread this disease to most of the City Council, School Department and Department Heads completely causes them to forget they were elected to represent the voters. It is going to be a very rough 2022, it was very ironical that we all got our tax bills while she was speaking, wait until the water bills arrive. She has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the Kapinski’s. Her Administration is nothing but a broken record we all have to suffer through for two more years!
Way to tell it like it is Merry. Was she and her audience violating state rules about masks on campus? because my sources indicate masks are required indoors.
Telli – People like them are exempt, they don’t have to abide by their own rules. Just us little taxpaying hampsters have to ride their spinning political lying wheel. Also, wondering how much behind the door monies were traded with Freddie Rutberg to shut off on-line commenting on the Berkshire Beagle about this “collaborative” event?
And the pot revenue? What’s up there ?
YES who is benefiting from the Pot revenue
Another great soure of money for a new station. But Tyer keeps saying she can’t find any money.
I remember the mayor talking about TEAM when she was first running for mayor. She claimed there was no I in TEAM and would work with everyone and be open to listening to all positions on issues. What she failed to tell everyone is there is ME in TEAM and that is how she has operated, This is all about ME doing whatever I want when I want.
Yup. There’s also “ATM” in “team,” which is how city government has been operating with its reckless spending.
Boy is that one ever accurate
Courts are closed for the month but not to worry. Andrea “Reject all Blame” Harrington is extremely busy pushing for the Kapanskis to fund IV drug sites in Pittsfield. It’s going to be great – just look at NYC. The crusade not to help addicts lead drug free productive lives but to make drug use “safe” in with a drug market right here in Berkshire County. No presssure or judging, no demands or accountability.
You have to hand it to Wrong Way. If your progressive intervention policies result in a growth in drug trafficking leading to one of the highest overdose death rates in the state you better shift the focus. Hey Berkshire County, let’s do something about something I, Andrea Harrington caused.
There may be a place for Harrington’s misguided laissez faire approach to treating addicts like they are all hardened and hopeless street junkies. Maybe it’s called NYC or Portugal and maye she should go there.
Meanwhile, the Kapanskis can engage in “Harm Redcution” by voting for someone, anyone other than Andrea Harrington.
DA Andrea Harrington
@harringtonforda
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Way to go NYC for using #harmreduction to save lives!! The people that I work for in Berkshire County deserve the same access to life saving medical care. Let’s get it #mapoli.
https://filtermag.org/nyc-overdose-prevention-sites/
“Harm reduction.” Orwellian at its most cynical best. Terrible policy.
Harm reduction: The practice of providing advice and helpful suggestions to a novice regarding potentially dangerous activities in the hope that they will heed the advice and not cause hurt or harm to themselves or others.
Practicing harm reduction, Keith showed Brittany how to IV drugs. According to him he didn’t want the wrong person showing her the wrong way, because he knew she was a dumbass.
I need a safe space to shoot drugs. What about Main St West Stockbridge, that way I can Winona Ryder myself some groceries at the sametime.
God help us all! When is election and are any heavyweights going to run and knock her out in first round? Are there no attorneys with steel balls anymore?
New York City Progressive DA just declared anarchy. He will not incarcerate at all except for the most violent crimes. Goodbye to your wallet and purse. Goodbye safety. Do not go to NYC. Especially if you are black or brown “the data” shows you are most likely to be victimized.
Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases
By Larry Celona and Tamar Lapin
January 4, 2022 11:32am Updated
Alvin Bragg was sworn in as District Attorney on Jan. 1
Manhattan’s new district attorney has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences in a slew of criminal cases, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday.
In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.
Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” except for in homicide and a handful of other cases.
“This rule may be excepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic
analysis of the facts, criminal history, victim’s input (particularly in cases of
violence or trauma), and any other information available,” the memo reads.
Assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind the “impacts of incarceration” including on public safety, barriers to housing and employment, financial cost and race disparities, Bragg instructed.
In cases where prosecutors do seek to put a convict behind bars, the request can be for no more than 20 years for a determinate sentence, meaning one that can’t be reviewed or changed by a parole board.
Alvin Bragg was sworn in as Manhattan’s new district attorney on Jan. 1.
“The Office shall not seek a sentence of life without parole,” the memo states.
Bragg, who was sworn into office Jan. 1, also made clear his mission is to reduce the number of defendants locked up pretrial, telling his prosecutors, “Particularly given the ongoing crisis at Rikers, we must reserve pretrial detention for very serious cases.”
The 48-year-old also vowed to stop pursuing many low-level offenses in his note to staff, titled: “Achieving Fairness and Safety.”
A civil rights lawyer and former federal prosecutor, he drew on his own experiences growing up in the 1980s in Harlem in his note to staff — and during the campaign — saying it has influenced his belief in reforming the criminal justice system.
“Data, and my personal experiences, show that reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer,” the memo reads.
RILEY
“a set of progressive policies” … “a holistic analysis of the facts” … “Achieving Fairness …”
Nuff Ced.
Achieving fairness means even the score for criminals. I can’t imagine who else they think they are helping. We can only hope this type of negligent and incompetent form of so called government beats a hasty retreat in 22.
Our da is on board 100%.
Prosecutors are supposed to seek justice impartially. Any time you hear one mention race your sh*t detector should go off like a Pittsfield shotspotter.
Junkies make horrible parents. They lie, betray and abandon their own innocent babies. In some cases, they come close to killing their own innocent babies. If they’re not going to get clean and live with the harm they’ve cause, they should go straight to HELL!. They end up estranged from the families who love them because for some there is a limit to witnessing the self-destruction of a beloved adult junkie child. The mourning period over a beloved child lost to drugs starts long before they actually die from an OD. Junkies belong in jail if they commit crimes against innocent people to support their own bad choices. If they die because of their own bad choices, that’s on them. Enabling junkies with a safe shooting gallery is not harm reduction, its perpetuating a junkie’s own self-destruction, and prolonging the mourning of those who love them.
FRAUD UPON THE COURT
Nothing to do with air quality & everything to do with corruption.
Hey DA, you might see it differently if you saw someone you love nodding off & weighing 80 lbs. CLUELESS. What about the families of the addicts? We don’t want to smash the stigma. We want it to STOP BEING ACCEPTABLE – THIS AINT THE LIFE WE WANT. THERES NO HAPPINESS IN SEEING PEOPLE DYING. WE WANT TO PURSUE HAPPINESS. NO MORE DOPE!
NO TOLERANCE
ZERO
Kidding. Not when shooting up is encouraged.Who do you think benefits with free shooting up? The same Pharm that gave you Covid injections
It’s not just pharm kid. It’s brien center, cso, bhs, sheriff, judges, lawyers, housing, police, landlords & the banks & the beat down goes on —- how bout the ones doing the PROPERTY GRAB
Someone outside Berkshire County is bundling campaign contributions for Harrington from law firms, ceos, real estate developers, the gaming commission. All of them are in the Boston area. Wonder who that is?
The fifth annual hippo awards () this years nominees…
Stooge. Bellyaching for a radio station and doesn’t use it anymore?
J Mel. One day for the Mayor the next day ain’t. Same for Sleepy Joe.
President Peter. Three minutes for you but whatever for who he knows. (Wrap it up)
Pee Pee . It’s all about the beer baby.
Mayor Tyer. Campaigned on blight five years ago and Hess and many others still stand
On the Lovely Linda, I agree with her political views about Human Rights, caring about poor neighborhoods, and having a positive post-GE vision for Pittsfield. I disagree with her living in a mansion in a Gated Community and driving a Lexus luxury car while serving as Mayor of an economically distressed and very unequal community. I disagree with her having Matt Kerwood manage Pittsfield’s municipal finances, especially Kufflink’s excessive Slush Funds with her record high municipal budgets. I disagree with her giving out-of-town millionaires millions of dollars in Kapanski Ka$h. I disagree with her possibly illegally shutting out the public from her administration’s spending of the nearly $41 million in Biden Bucks. I disagree with her allowing Nuciforo’s Berkshire Roots polluting abutting neighborhoods behind his Dalton Avenue pot growing buildings with dead skunk-like pot odors. I disagree with her on Pittsfield’s violent crime problem. I disagree with her on Pittsfield’s indefensible Level 5 inner city public schools. I disagree with her on being out-of-touch with anyone who is not part of her provincial political faction founded by Godfather Jimmy Ruberto – the King of the notorious Good Old Boys – that dishes out retribution to rule by fear and strong-arm tactics. I disagree with her on the 23-year-old PEDA debacle that only accumulates millions of dollars in growing unfunded liabilities, while most of the so-called business park land sits vacant and is still very polluted with industrial chemicals called PCBs. She should call out PEDA as the failure that it always has been, and then shut it down and then sue GE to remediate the post-industrial wasteland. For the record, I must state that Mayor Linda Tyer inherited all of Pittsfield politics’ problems that welcomed her to the corner office in early-2016.
On Joe Biden, he campaigned against Donald Trump as a uniter of a divided country, but it proved to only be a false tagline. Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden gets a free pass by the MSM, while Donald Trump and his oldest children face scrutiny. Joe Biden spent well over $10 trillion federal dollars in 2021, but hardly any of it went to help the people who are most in need. Joe Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan led to a humanitarian crisis whereby over one million children there will tragically die of preventable causes during the Winter of 2021/2022, and an estimated 14 million people and Peoples there will tragically die of preventable causes during the Winter of 2021/2022. Joe Biden called Putin a “KILLER” and he threatened China with World War 3 over its military aggression in Taiwan. Between the debacle in Afghanistan and Biden calling Putin a “KILLER” and threatening Russia with World War 3 if they invade Ukraine and Biden threatening China with World War 3 if they invade Taiwan, Joe Biden may end up leading human history in the most deaths of innocent people and Peoples if he makes good on his threats. Did Joe Biden forget that he voted for Bush 2’s invasion of Iraq nearly 2 decades ago? What is the difference between Joe Biden voting for the US Government to invade Iraq and take over most of their second largest oil reserves in the world versus Russia threatening to invade Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan? Is Joe Biden a “KILLER” like Putin? Joe Biden’s hypocritical and hostile words and threats of World War 3 against Russia and China did not help his Democratic Party’s Utopian Green New Deal propaganda that the world rolled its collective eyes at in Glasgow Scotland in 2021. In the 2022 midterm elections, Joe Biden will see a “Red Wave” whereby the Republican Party will win control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress. In 2023 to 2024, there will be total gridlock with a lot of HOT AIR in the Swamp.
Jonathan Melle
Soros
I’m beginning to think AOC was right about men especially conservatives being upset because they can’t date her. Sexually frustrated! I see it going on here with the beautiful mayor and da with the remarks about them.
Yes dating them is what we citizens really want. Perhaps the mayor and da could talk to some actual citizens in treatment. Then they would understand what it is like to be alive today because someone held them accountable when they broke they law.
Definitely need accountability for addicts who break the law. They need to be arrested and sentenced to a treatment program. I know it’s not perfect, some will never come clean. Tough love over, enabling them to harm themselves or others. We can’t give up on them and allow shooting galleries. Anyone But Andrea Harrington as DA.
AOC is a clown. Don’t know how she got voted into office. Then again we voted in the fake Indian.
Yeah right Andrea Never to Blame Harrington, the media covering you unfairly because you are a woman is the problem. Not your incompetence.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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Dec 31, 2021
The fact that these people are so creepy/weird yet are also the ones responsible for shaping the NEWS HEADLINES we all see in media should be really concerning.
I don’t even want to know what knuckle-dragging thoughts these people have all day while covering women in politics
@harringtonforda
Replying to @AOC
Thanks for saying this because no one else will. I am the first female DA in my county and this is totally a thing.
4:08 PM · Dec 31, 2021·Tw
Who would want to date AOC? She is a constantly angry person.
She is someone who cares for the less fortunate underclass non privileged people. Those who suffer health inequality, food insecurity, financial inequality, affordable housing which is inadequate most times for human being’s to live in. I wish more like her would be willing to represent the people. Not many will want to go through what she does in order to serve. I know it’s not the pay keeping her going on serving. Rather it is her inner being of caring for the forgotten.
This is what they want us to believe anyway!
That’s why she was in Florida vacationing , drives a Tesla and makes big dough. What I posted was actually a comment on Facebook from one of her supporters.
I did notice she was vacationing maskless in the Republican state of Florida, maybe she was looking for someone with brains
Interesting but Georgia and Wisconsin are continuing their investigations into illegal voting. I thought it was already discovered that it didn’t happen. Somehow they forgot there were cameras placed at the drop boxes in Georgia that showed people stuffing the boxes between 12am and 5am, now that’s when people are voting. One person has even confessed he was paid $10 a vote…nothing says election credibility like money for votes! When will we return to in person voting with an ID?