“‘If I’m the bad guy to the average citizen … and their taxes have to go up to cover my raise, I’m very sorry about that, but I have to look out for myself and my membership,’ grunted Chris Mesley, president of the Albany, New York Police Officer’s Union. ‘As the president of the `local,’ I will not accept `zeroes’ [no increase in salaries or benefits]. If that means … ticking off some taxpayers, then so be it.’ It would be difficult to find a more candid expression of the parasite class’s predatory contempt for the productive than the words that departed Mesley’s snout. The police union capo will occasionally remove that appendage from the public trough just long enough to spew demands for an ever-larger share of the wealth produced through the honest labor of others, or to justify some corrupt privilege he claims as a ‘cog in the mighty machine of state.’ In all of this he is entirely typical of the army of public employees pillaging what little remains of America’s wealth.” (03/12/10)