The New York Times bleats with glee:
January 1, 2011
Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow
By MICHAEL POWELL
FLEMINGTON, N.J. — Ever since Marie Corfield’s confrontation with Gov. Chris Christie this fall over the state’s education cuts became a YouTube classic, she has received a stream of vituperative e-mails and Facebook postings.
"People I don’t even know are calling me horrible names," said Ms. Corfield, an art teacher who had pleaded the case of struggling teachers. "The mantra is that the problem is the unions, the unions, the unions."
Across the nation, a rising irritation with public employee unions is palpable, as a wounded economy has blown gaping holes in state, city and town budgets, and revealed that some public pension funds dangle perilously close to bankruptcy. In California, New York, Michigan and New Jersey, states where public unions wield much power and the culture historically tends to be pro-labor, even longtime liberal political leaders have demanded concessions — wage freezes, benefit cuts and tougher work rules.
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Whip it up, Grey Lady. You know that's where your heart is.
Nevertheless, Grover Norquist and his evil minions will still diss you as "Liberal Media."`
Finally, at the end of the article, probably buried on page 26, the sappy old Grey Lady owns up:
So how much is too much? On their face, New Jersey’s public salaries are not exorbitant. The state has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the country, and the average teacher makes $66,597, which even with benefits is on par with or slightly behind similarly educated private sector workers, according to Jeffrey H. Keefe, a Rutgers professor who studied the issue for the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
So sweet. Tossing in a crunchy crumb or two for the "little people" as British Petroleum's Carl-Henric Svanberg calls them.
Christ! The man almost made me renounce my Swedish ancestry.
And, if this damned nonsense about Assange goes any further, I may.
But his name, Svanberg! Swan Mountain, for Chrissake! Only a pushing, toadying, plutocrat-worshiping mountebank chooses a name like that!
Grover Norquist's day is made (Damn! Another damned plutocratic aristo Swede!):
Citing acolyte Governor Chris Christie, Norquist writes that states' "day of reckoning has arrived." Norquist avoids the "u" word while listing every other "ill" plaguing states' budgets:
Many states, including those with the country’s largest population centers, are now on a path to insolvency. This is primarily due to fiscally promiscuous lawmakers, skyrocketing Medicaid costs and unsustainable gold-plated government employee pension plans that most Americans could never dream of.
These states’ ballooning obligations simply cannot be met without either soaking state taxpayers or federal assistance — read: taking taxpayer dollars from properly managed states.
Heading into 2011, states are facing an overspending-generated budget shortfall of $72 billion, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Coupled with unfunded state and local pension obligations estimated in excess of $3 trillion — a half-trillion in California alone — one understands the concern that states are the next "too big to fail."
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As for Norquist the name, North Branch, revealing that he is the Northern Dwarf of the Four Directions, you remember those under-Earth mining coves?
The bloody fools took on a snotty upper-class tone after that whore Freyjia took a four-night turn sleeping with each of them for that stupid Brisling necklace. Turn a trick for a gaudy bit of trumpery, that was Freyjia all over the place.
Fortunately, I have enough Saami blood in my veins to disavow my Swedish heritage and join the nationless as far as heritage goes.
Will the Gypsy Tribe welcome me as well? There are rumors in the family, of Gypsies and horse thieves and the like.
And, as for Gypsies, Obama needs to name a few to his cabinet, put one up to be a Supreme Court Justice. It's about danged time the Gypsies were recognized and put into power, Dagnabbit!
Then the auld Grey Lady can grouse about encroaching Gypsies 'stead of public workers who want to be paid a living wage. And keep their pensions. And their health insurance. Geesh!