The interesting quote to ‘Puter is that even the patron saint of government control of American’s lives, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thought public sector unions were such a threat to liberty that he was vehemently opposed to them. Per the editorial:
This is why most Democrats once opposed public-sector unionism. Such 20th-century liberal heroes as New York Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia and Franklin Roosevelt believed fervently in industrial unions. But they believed public employees had a special social obligation and could too easily exploit their monopoly position. How right they were.
Seems that public sector unions agree with FDR on their monopolistic advantages, but disagree that the unions have any special social obligation. Other than to line their pockets with taxpayer money at the expense of the children they teach.
As if to single-handedly prove ‘Puter’s point, reliable apologist for teachers’ union excesses, Rochester Teachers Association president Adam Urbanski issued a letter earlier this week
condemning proposed mayoral control of the schools. Despite mayoral control’s success in improving education in large, urban locations such as
Chicago and
New York City, teachers’ unions hate it. Mr. Urbanksi cites decreased funding and increased class size as two of his five reasons for opposing mayoral control. Mr. Urbanski’s other cited reasons are thinly-veiled appeals to retain the school board system, a system that has richly rewarded the union with inappropriate contracts.
And if you think Rochester is an outlier, you’d be wrong. Rochester’s unionized teachers are pikers
compared to D.C.’s teachers, who literally (and not in the normal figurative manner) stole over $5 million that should have been spent in classrooms on children.
Public sector unions, teachers’ unions in particular, are cancers on the body politic. Cancers that will either be carved out by force, or cancers that will kill the host body. It’s up to us to decide which outcome prevails.
Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.
’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.
The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.
His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.
He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.
Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.
‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.
