ARGH!!!

And how does ProCAP find the cash to pay Bill Fischer to be their spokesperson? Seems like a luxury when, oh, I don't know, you owe $2.2 mil to various creditors.

You guys clamor for privitization of services that could be provided by the city, then cry foul at the funding of those nongovernmental nonprofits? Um, OK.

Granted this organization needs better management, but this line of reasoning is quite odd. If providing a bridge loan is cheaper than taking over the functions that would be lost if PROCAP goes under, it's money well spent. If not, it isn't. Why is that so confusing?

I'm also not sure why you'd think it a concern for the city if PROCAP pays back loans with money from federal or other grants. The city funds all kinds of programs with state or federal money without any confusion. It's sort of like wondering how a business unit could bill internal clients for IT work. How could that be?! Must be gold mines in the data center!

Once upon a time, the co-workers of one habitually VERY late, or "I have to leave early" did not want the co-workers pay docked for the time (8 or 9 hours per week) absent from work. When I asked them to collect and pay the worker, they did NOT agree! Hmmm, guess when the phatom "somebody" is directed at the fools who want to give away money, the "giving" swiftly changes!

You guys clamor for privitization of services that could be provided by the city, then cry foul at the funding of those nongovernmental nonprofits? Um, OK.

More intellectual dishonesty from Russ of exactly the type we've all come to expect from him. Nobody here wants privatization just for the sake of privatization. What libertarians and conservatives in fact want is privatization of appropriate services through an open and competitive bidding process to lower costs and increase quality. We also want rigorous and transparent oversight of the process with periodic review and auditing handled by competent and impartial persons. The real issues here are the lack of oversight and accountability regarding use of taxpayer funds, and the appropriate response to gross mismanagement and fraud involving said funds. No shocker that Russ misses all this and mischaracterizes it as a "privatization" issue.

Russ,

The meaning of privitizaion seems to have evaded you. Private organizations don't have mayoral-appointed board members, or recevie automatic geographic-based rights to administer government funds without having to go through a contracting or bidding process. And whatever you want to call ProCAP, a "quasi-public organization" or something similar, you still can't create money for paying back a loan by passing transfer payments from a government departments to quasi-accountable quasi-govenrnment departments.

Unfortunately, this kind of corruption and fraud isn't limited to Providence. To the knuckledragger who wants to cry foul, claiming that those concerned are hypocrites because they support privatization.. These CAP and other type agencies aren't examples of privatization, these are staffed by the same criminal entitlement mindset types that have infested public agencies. These types aren't looking to serve the public, but fatten themselves on the public dole, for their own profit. I'd highly recommend an investigation of the rest of the CAP and related agencies, starting with Westbay Community Action in Warwick, and then moving on to the public housing authority in Warwick. Serious digging will expose a variety of sins.