Ah, the classic … raise up the Private Sector, don’t bring us down….

And where would the money come from …. the “tooth fairy” ?

The ONLY reason Public Sector pensions are so excessively and unjustifiably high, is because you are stealing the money (via forced taxes) from the Taxpayers, 85% of whom are not Public Sector workers riding this gravy train.

When that question is answered affirmatively, then the pension is indeed excessive. And it would be answered affirmatively for virtually ALL Public Sector workers everywhere.

You’d better learn to work or you’ll be eating catfood

“reality” always trumps “legality”, and

“keep plucking that chicken”

In California, we’re waiting for the Democratic Party to take a two-thirds majority in both houses of our legislature next November. Then we can finally make some real progress on the problems our Republican minority has been dragging its feet on for so long.

Across the U.S., hispanics are a growing political force that the Republicans have done everything in their collective power to offend as often as possible. Along with other shifting demographics, such as the natural passing of the Greatest Generation and, with it, the reactionary Republican voter base, you’ll see some dying spasms from the right wing. One clear example is the recent report that the Koch brothers are going to buy the Reason Foundation, thereby turning a fringe Libertarian think tank into a mainstream Republican tool for their own power.

Ardent protest and demands to your politicians will only go so far, and the commitments already made will prove far too disruptive and cumbersome to unwind – kind of like Obamacare.

It’ll be fun to watch all of the teeth gnashing and angst from people like yourself and the libertarian tools at the OC Register, Reason, Cato, and the various “Watchdog” sites funded by the same old John Bircher interests.