The tea party plans to rally in support of Governor Walker. I don't know what kind of numbers they can amass, but frankly, I doubt they can come close to busloads of union thugs being shipped in from all over the country.And yet...and yet...
On Thursday, legislators were advised to return to their offices and lock their doors. Mobs roamed the halls, banging on the glass of the doors, pounding on the walls. No one could move in the halls or enter or leave the building. The glass of the Supreme Court's entrance was broken. Legislators were genuinely afraid. Our elected representatives were afraid. In our Capitol....there's something about this that makes me go "Tee Hee"...
Maybe I should just mutter "A pox on both your houses," and go walk the dogs.
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Street battles in the weimar republic. It is going to intensify.
They were rather stupid to actually start with schools - the sacred cows of even some semi-rational people.
Just imagine the fun and games when state governments can no longer pay the cops and robbers, er... the cops and other tax feeders like city garbage collectors.
It'll be a riot...
+1 ML.
Over the last few weeks, including a technology-in-education conference in Anchorage I just returned from, I've really started to see an uptick in the amount of juvenile squabbling over Master's table scraps, which various levels of government are just now starting to make squeezing noises about. At no point, anywhere, have I heard anyone acknowledge the idea that the teat may actually be drying up, or that the productive class has long been suffering far worse, or that the "funding" (the real F-word of record) that is considered an untouchable entitlement is in fact plunder, forcibly taken from others, in all our names.
With an enormous majority, the depth of the not-gettin-it is staggering. And as the insolvency problem becomes harder and harder to avoid, Master will start eating its own more and more.
And yet under the radar, real human beings can still be found, finding ways to work in spite of the system instead of because of it. (A technology conference is a good place to find such people.) Many of these don't even realize the irony of what they do, and how sharply it contrasts with what they profess. They still make me smile a little bit, because they just might get it some day. If they're actively searching for little ways to get around little rules, they're a quantum leap ahead of many of their peers, and just might see how linearly that idea scales.
At the moment, though, even most of them would simply faint, if I were to speak directly.
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