Interesting episode of SNL this weekend. I guess they gave up on trying to Palinize the tea parties and moved on to a group that we can all hate together. Hope and Change, baby!

These public sector union thugs have gamed the system. From incompetent teacher rubber rooms to double dipping and abuse of disability rules. This is what happens when a democracy lets the government get too large or the voters get to used to monolithically voting for one party.

At least in the old days of Federalism and Capitalism, when someone else failed it was their problem. They had to make it right, go bankrupt, start over again. The point being is that the bad behavior changed. Now, the WPE administration is doing their best to institutionalize failure. So, go ahead, work hard, raise a family, pay taxes, save some money, the left's going to take it to subsidize their idiocy.

My dad always like to say the world is divided between the haves and the have nots. trite. And he said it in a way to convey that the haves are the bad people. No. It's the other way around. The "haves" have stuff because they worked for it. The "haves" have to protect their stuff from the "have nots." In fact, people who use terms like "haves" and "have nots" are generally using it in a way to justify taking from the "haves." Sorry, the pursuit of happiness includes being secure in your own possessions. Let me quote from my boy, P.J. O'Rourke:

I think the Old Testament is quite clear about that. The Bible might seem to be a strange place to be doing economic research, but I have been thinking, from a political economy point of view, about the Tenth Commandment. Now the first nine commandments concern theological principles--thou shall not steal and kill and so forth. Fair enough. Then there's the Tenth Commandment: "Thou shall not covet they neighbor's wife. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's." I mean, here are God's basic rules for how we should live, a very brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts, and right at the end of it is: "Don't envy your buddy his cow." What is that doing there? Why would God, with just 10 things to tell Moses, choose jealousy about the stuff the guy next door has? Well, think about how important to the well-being of a community that commandment actually is. What that commandment says is that if you want a donkey, if you want a pot roast, if you want a cleaning lady, don't bitch about it, go get your own!

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise: Go to hell! It's as simple as that.

Just reading about how the California unions have bankrupted that state and it seems to me that some predictions from hundreds of years ago have come true. We've replaced one tyrant 1000 miles away with 1000 tyrants one mile away.

Yup, public sector union thugs are America's new King George.

Seditious? I guess.

But, listen up, you lazy thugs. You will lose just like King George.

But since we are dealing with leftists, let's review the rule of thumb on lefty debating points.

1. They project.

2. They lie. In fact, if a lefty ever recounts what she heard someone say, they are lying. Play the video, bitches.

3. They forget.

et tu, Hillary? I never knew you were a tea-bagger.

Look, this is America. The government works for us. We reserve the right to fire you people whenever we want. That includes the shitheels who work the little jobs too.

Thankfully, the war is on and we have a modern politician willing to push back. In New Jersey, these teachers apparently get a pension worth $3 million for an investment of $120K over their career. Those of us in the private sector have to work hard and invest smart for that. And let's not forget the rubber rooms of NYC where teachers too incompetent to teach still get paid (thankfully, ending soon).

Better yet, these union thugs, get all union-thuggy over it too, whether it's fake (wink wink, nudge nudge) death threats or organized strikes and walk outs. But really, what is the difference between King George and a fire fighter who refuses to put out a fire unless you pay your protection money.

Breitbart has some nice links to violent union thugs too, I like this little pile of crap whacking the camera out of someone's hand.

And of course, there's Kenneth Gladney.

What is scary is that the left doesn't seem to recognize basic economics. A functioning society cannot prosper when too many people work for the government instead of work for themselves.

Furthermore, it is a pisser that these union thugs can write their silly pension plan promises. We, in the real world, can laugh at them and say that their plans are not economically viable. But now, we are on the hook for this crap, bailing out states and businesses that have stupid pensions. "Thanks for being responsible...yoink, it's our money now." Instapundit has been commenting on this crap for years. At the end, it's simple. There were two schools of thought. States like Texas had low tax and small government models while idiots like New Jersey and California went the high tax and big government route. All that they got was expensive but crappy services.

Let's go full Reagan. Fire them all. All bets off. Welcome to the real world.