VOL. 114 - NO. 39 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 $.30 A COPY 2010 October Italian Heritage Month America in History Landing of Columbus Designs created & implemented by Constantino Brumidi (1805-1880), the Michelangelo of the United States Capitol OCTOBER IS ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH IN MASSACHUSETTS. CELEBRATE ITALIAN HERITAGE WITH A MONTH OF EVENTS. VIEW PAGES 7-10 FOR A CALENDAR LISTING OF EVENTS The Annual Kick-off event this year will be held on Friday, October 1 at the Grand Staircase of the State House, Boston, Massachusetts from 10:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Coro Dante will be performing the American and Italian anthems and other musical selections. Attend with friends and family and show your support for October Italian Heritage Month! A proclamation by Governor Deval Patrick will be read. Honored Guest: Acting Consul General of Italy, Luigi Munno. A wonderful program has been planned, so please join us! Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For additional information contact Dr. Stephen Maio 781-245-6536, Kevin Caira 978-657-7734, Lino Rullo 781-862-1633 or Hon. Joseph Ferrino 617-569-2110. BILL CLINTON: News Briefs Let’s Grab $3.4 Trillion from the Private Sector by Sal Giarratani by Dan Calabrese Bill Clinton was a much $1.6 trillion in cash re- find qualified people to hire. Tea Party, Tea Bags and better politician than serves. All that money could It wasn’t that long ago. It was Teed Off Americans Barack Obama will ever be, be used to hire people, but when unemployment was not only because he had the few hires are happening. around 5 percent and the If you listened to or watched a bevy of liberal ability to make you think he Clinton claims this is be- only people not working were commentators out there such as Rachael was on your side — Obama cause of a skills deficit on the most unreliable, un- Maddow on MSNBC, one would think the Tea can do that while campaign- the part of workers, so he skilled people out there. Party movement was the second coming of ing — but because Clinton wants to create a training When unemployment is 9.8 Mussolini. Liberals like to frame the movement had the ability to govern in program that would some- percent, as it is now, there by its extremes. Tea Partiers are not whacko a way that also made it look how magically qualify all are many more people who conservatives or hose spraying racists or guys like he was doing that. these people for jobs, and have the skills, if not the wearing invisible white sheets and hoods. I read If only government con- then put the money to work motivation or the good work the term Stalinist being used to speak of those trolled it all. on hiring. habits. And that’s not the protesters who think Scott Brown isn’t conser- So when he was asked in Oh, Bill. Democrats will sort of thing you fix with a vative enough in the US Senate. an interview with Yahoo never stop believing that training program. Some Tea Party activists are not just conservatives News and the Huffington Post capital in the private sector people are just not very good and not just Republicans; they are people just to explain the appeal of the can make society great if workers. They can maintain like everyone else who have become tired of tea party, Clinton deftly only it goes where Demo- gainful employment when government power growing at our expense and made it sound like he gets crats want it to go. the economy is booming, but also being expensive to boot. I am a Democrat, it — saying we should all lis- Three problems: during times of economic slightly right of center but hardly an ideologue. ten to the tea partiers be- 1. Banks and corporations uncertainty, the last thing I voted for Scott Brown back on January 19th cause they’re just making sit on capital as a hedge companies want to do, or and was angered by my own public employee the case that everyone but when they are worried about should do, is put them on the union spending my money to tear down Brown average Americans are do- the direction of the economy, payroll. and make Martha Coakley look good. They lost ing OK. and right now they’re very 3. If the workforce is so but by using my money. Of course, that’s not what worried about the likelihood unskilled, what does that say I believe the Tea Party movement is good for they’re saying at all. They’re of tax increases and even about the public education the body politic just like I thought the Clean saying that big government more out-of-control federal system and public universi- Gene movement back in 1968 was good for is out of control and it’s go- spending. They’re smart to ties that people like Clinton America too. Sometimes we have to go outside ing to bankrupt the nation sit on the capital in times keep telling us are so indis- the box and think differently. I understand the with its constant attempts like this, and they don’t need pensable? The ones run by frustration felt because I feel it too. My govern- to make sure everyone is politicians telling them to unionized teachers and ment looks adrift. My government looks money doing OK. spend it — on anything. Poli- professors? Why should we happy, my money happy. But Clinton wasn’t done. ticians, after all, are the accept another government Most people simply don’t care as long as Democrats will lose in No- ones whose spending habits training program to make up they’re not harmed. Most people apparently vember, he thinks, unless have gotten the nation for their deficiencies? would rather switch than fight. America has they make the case that $14 trillion in debt. The last This is the ultimate prob- done well for some 234 years now but we have there’s something positive thing we need is CEOs tak- lem with the sort of central- recently started forgetting our roots from back they’re prepared to do now. ing fiscal advice from planned economy so loved by in the American Revolution. We didn’t fight at And what should that be? them. Democrats. Why, there’s Bunker Hill, at Concord and Lexington or Well, Clinton says, banks are 2. Companies hire people $3.4 trillion out there! It (Continued on Page 11) sitting on $1.8 trillion in when they need people. I can should be creating jobs. We’ll uncommitted capital, and remember a time when com- corporations are sitting on panies were desperate to (Continued on Page 14) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 Res Publica by David Trumbull Write-in is Right-on! By now you have probably he is certainly never going AT HOME IN OLD ROME: THE DOMUS heard of Jim McKenna’s to look the other way campaign as the GOP can- from political corruption in Domus or domo are work which was the didate for Attorney General. Massachusetts, as Coakley the Latin words for “ostium.” Passage- He obtained nearly 28,000 did with the federal indict- house, building, man- ways or corridors were certified write-in votes on ment Dianne Wilkerson and sion, home, resi- called “fauces.” Guests Primary Day — a feat many others. dence or family. I feel were always ushered thought impossible! In Jim McKenna’s campaign that I must repeat a through the entrance fact, Jim is only the second for AG is focusing on three portion of two earlier court or “vestibulium,” person since the 1970s to elements to turn this state columns which and business affairs make the statewide ballot around: stated: “The shape, were always conducted as a write-in candidate in • Prosecuting political cor- nature or character Plan of a Domus in a room or space Massachusetts. ruption. of all structures that have called the “spatium.” This If anyone deserved an • Cracking down on state been built at any place or ticed paganism. Ancestor “spatium” was always lo- opponent this election cycle benefits for illegal immi- time in history have been worship was a recognized cated in the public portion of it’s Martha Coakley. Voters grants. influenced by their geo- part of their religious rites. the domus near the “atrium.” didn’t want to give her a free • Tightening the size of graphical location, geology, Socially, Imperial Rome was The “atrium” was always ride after seeing the flailing state government. climate, religious beliefs overcrowded, noisy, a barba- open to the sky for light and and negative campaign she Martha Coakley and her and/or their social attitudes. rous arena during the day- fresh air. The open portion ran against U.S. Senator out-of-touch Beacon Hill Understanding these influ- time and a treacherous above was called the “complu- Scott Brown. When Jim allies need a wake-up call, ences is prerequisite to jungle at night. vium” and any rain which fell McKenna heard Coakley say and that’s exactly where an understanding of their If we take all of these in- through was collected in a ‘it’s not illegal to be illegal you come in.