Then What?

I guess it's slowly sinking in amongst the rightwingers that socialism has been a part of our government since the Great Depression when Social Security was created and into Medicare and the like. They are also realizing that social services including police and fire protection reek of socialism as well. And, of course, socialism is the same thing as communism, nazism and fascism so, all these things are bad. You just can't have a system with an "ism" after it. Muslimism comes to mind. Islamism. Capitalism- that one's OK. Forget about that one. God clearly intended that to be our only "ism" when he guided the hands of the Founders as they forged the Constituition, clearly meaning that the 2nd amendment was the important, all encompassing (everything else is just filler) part of the paperwork.

The reichwingers are the most hands-on m-effers this side of the Founding Fathers. These guys can do it all! They can protect the country (with their guns) so, no need for a standing Army. These guns also trickle down to police work. No need for cops if everyone has a gun. Immigration? Guns can handle that too... I don't know how they intend to build roads or put out fires with guns but, I'm sure they're working on it.

The Chicago Tribune, a conservative newspaper here in town, is against Illinois teachers having pensions. Four percent of the teachers in Illinois make $100k per year. 96% do not. I'm not sure where the Tribune went to school but, 4% is a lot less than 96%. So, the vast majority, DO NOT make $100k. Until earler this year, the Tribune was in the baseball business and they seemed to have no problem with 25 of their employees getting paid millions to play baseball (with the best pension in the world this side of AIG maybe) and only working 6 months out of the year. Lazy ass teachers work nine months out of the year and none have them can hit for power. I guess the rub is that ticket, hot dog and beer sales paid the Cub players while taxes- from you and me- pay the light-hitting teachers. So, naturally, save money by eliminating the fat cat teachers and doing away with their pensions.

I'll say this about communists: Though they methods are harsh, they know the value of educators. That is why they kill them when they enter a village. They know that to succeed in their quest for domination, they must first kill the intellectuals- anyone who may use thought and logic against them and influence others. It's crude but effective. The Trib though, would rather starve them out. Take away the carrot of a pension, the chance at making a good, honest living educating our sons and daughters and you save millions in pension money and hundreds of dollars in bullets. This from the folks who brought Milton Bradley to the city.

I'm not sure what their remedy is for teachers and their fat salaries. Teachers, firemen, cops DO NOT make enough money. To offer them less and NO retirement, is absurd. What sort of teacher might your children get if light factory work paid better? Shouldn't you care? Shouldn't the Worlds Greatest Newspaper (WGN) care? Why are they trying to out-crazy the wingnuts? To me, this is as absurd as the wingers who call for armed insurrection because we have a colored president.

Your average republican these days sounds more like an anarchist than the bearded hippie living in a commune ever could have. It's one thing to listen to the tired rhetoric of the need for "smaller government" everytime they lose an election (note that government was anything but small during eight years of Bush or Reagan...) but, they seem to be taking it a bit too far these days as they lean so far right they are falling over the gun nuts living in the woods of Idaho and Michigan. They really expect that all 300+ million of us can survive on our own just like the Founding Fathers allegedly intended? Simply eliminate social services, welfare, Social Security, unemployment, Corporate taxes (they are people too, now) and we individuals will either make it or we won't? Then what?

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Despite a Civil war and a sad record of race relations in our past, this might be the worst chapter in our history.

Then what?