Border Patrol Getting' Busy

They're on paid leave, of course.

"Police, Firefighters, and Teachers"

Watching the Sunday morning news shows is usually a waste of time, but we learned something new from the delusional leftists who were trying to spin the Scott Walker victory: Public sector employment, the way they made it sound, is entirely made up of police, firefighters, and teachers.

Anytime anyone talks about even modest budget reductions, the liberals usually trot out the scare tactics and the fear mongering.

Like most people, when we think of government employees, the clerk at the DMV or the deputy assistant under secretary for such-and-such comes to mind--the kind of "unessential workers" that never have to show up during a snowstorm. If there were far less of these bureaucratic paper shufflers and placeholders, there likely would be more room in the budget to hire additional police, firefighters, and qualified teachers.

Added: As NRO's Jim Geraghty writes:

...if localities want to hire more police, fire, or teaching personnel, there are several tools to do that beyond begging Washington to borrow more money to distribute to localities. The first is to cut other areas of local government — the less beloved categories of administrative staff, make-work patronage jobs, etc. The second is to reform their pension systems.

Piers Morgan vs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Like John Stewart of the Daily Show, Larry King's left-wing replacement on CNN, Celebrity Apprentice winner Piers Morgan, moved away--for once--from the usual liberal propaganda in this interview with Democrat talking point machine Debbie Wasserman Schultz about Gov. Scott Walker's triumph in Tuesday's recall election:



Perhaps because of lack of knowledge, Morgan let her get away with crowing about the Democrats possibly winning one of the four state senate seats up for recall. The Wisconsin state senate is out of session and if the Dems wind up getting that one seat (apparently a recount may be involved) to flip the senate to their side, their victory may be meaningless and merely symbolic. In November, the Republicans are strongly favored to take back control.

 In the aftermath of the Wisconsin recall, Rick Manning of The Hill had these thoughts:

It is disconcerting that those who were viewed as “public servants” now have higher average salaries, better pensions and better healthcare plans than those who pay the taxes to support them. At some point the public employee unions and the politicians who support them have made the taxpayers the servants of the government, working to pay for healthcare plans for the public employee that they cannot afford for their own families. That is the real story of Wisconsin, the rebellion of those who pay the freight against the public employee unions who have turned taxpayers into servants.

FiscalTimes columnist Liz Peek similarly weighed in on the Walker victory:

Democrats tried to divide Wisconsin into people who were for or against public unions. At the end, the strategy crumbled, because voters saw only one state, one budget, one common good. ..

The New York Times and other liberal outfits will lay the blame for this unthinkable turn of events – Wisconsin went for Obama by 14 points – by noting that Walker outspent his rival many times over. There is no question that heavy advertising by Walker’s supporters helped his cause. But only because his message made sense. In cities and states across our country, citizens are losing their libraries, their parks and their pre-school programs because benefits for public union employees have crowded out everything else.  Money for education is being sucked into a dark pool of protected tenure and guaranteed investment returns on pension assets. Money for public safety is going to rigged retirement pay and disproportionate disability awards. These distortions cannot continue...

Walker’s victory was not the only one this week for those trying to right the balance between public interest and public unions. In San Diego and San Jose, voters approved measures that demanded union workers pay more towards their health care and pensions.

 

Law Firm Posts $10,000 Full-Time Attorney Job

If you still think that going to law school is a good idea, consider this:

The [Boston Business Journal] received an emailed tip this week from someone who says they’re an employed, Boston  College Law School (BC Law) graduate. The tipster sent screen grabs of a job listing on BC Law’s career site. The post advertises a full-time associate position at a small Boston law firm, Gilbert & O’Bryan LLP, paying just $10,000 per year. (That's $10K, it's not a typo.)

That salary comes out to about $4.81 per hour. The Massachusetts minimum wage is $8.00.

In October 2010, another BC law student made news by asking for a full refund if he dropped out.

More evidence that the legal job market has unfortunately imploded not just in Boston but everywhere, and in what is politely called a "challenging legal environment," law school is probably an expensive waste of time for most.

Jon Stewart Mocks MSNBeSad After Walker Recall Win

Once in a while, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart of the Daily Show strays from the liberal orthodoxy and does some good work. In this Mad Men parody called "Madison Men," he contrasts the Fox News coverage of the Scott Walker Win with MSNBC:




More denial on display from Walker opponents in this video:


[h/t for both videos: Althouse]

Vets Applauded on 68th D-Day Anniversary

Travelers applaud WWII Vets at Reagan Washington National Airport yesterday on the 68th anniversary of D-Day: Omaha Beach:

Good Morning: Scott Walker is still Wisconsin Governor

Who was more delusional last night--Miami Heat coach Eric Spoelstra or those creepy, delusional propagandists on MSNBC who claimed Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker's recall election victory over the massive Big Labor and Democrat machine was "good news for Obama" and that Obama was "the real winner"?

Here is Walker's victory speech: