There are two great articles below by Boston Globe that highlight the failures of local officials to adequately fulfill their responsibilities.
What is ignored is that budget cuts have slashed oversight and auditing $$$$.
While it's convenient to point fingers, the Tea Baggers a la Grover Norquist protest taxes and government in their schizophrenic frenzy.
You can't slash government and expect it to function. To believe otherwise is irrational.
We've already seen the results of slashing regulators and auditors in the S&L crisis, the current banking disasters, the current NECC disaster, numerous food poisonings and recalls, product recalls and much else.
If government is to protect us in our daily lives, let's not pretend the Koch Brothers' illogic makes sense.
Winchester Housing Chief Lally resigns after audit raises questions about his work habits
By Sean P. Murphy
Globe Staff / October 31, 2012
From Chelsea to Springfield, Massachusetts public housing chiefs face little accountability
Globe review finds a system vulnerable to incompetence, indolence, and worse
By Sean P. Murphy and Scott Allen
Globe Staff / October 13, 2012
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