"look how great we are, we've killed the last great lion"

As the self-righteous media dances around the carcass of Paterno shouting "look how great we are, we've killed the last great lion" all they've done is rob the student athlete of their greatest benefactor, a coach who taught passing tests was just as important as passing a football. The board afforded none of the loyalty or even due process that Joe deserved, the man who transformed a farmers college to the great institution it is today. But it's all about the victims? or just their which hunt.

Wife showed me an interesting post basically saying that not raising taxes on millionaires leads to teachers reducing salaries. Makes a good headline, but logically flawed:

Teacher salaries are paid solely from your local property taxes, they have nothing to do with income whatsoever. Furthermore, your local payroll tax in PA (if yours has one) is collected where you work, not where you live. Taxed income only goes to teachers when the government decides to give money to municipalities, with strings attached of course, or as part of some initiative like NCLB. The federal government is why teachers have to teach kids how to pass standardized tests, not to actually learn. Which is why teachers know that government regulation in education is a bad thing.

OWS "wins" apparently,

By protesting republican lawn makers speaking at Penn. Really? Less free speech is a win?

So now we know that that the movement is in no way bipartisan. The tea party basically being the libertarian portion of conservatives. With Dem lawmakers calling them terrorists, for having the audacity to try to reduce government's out of control spending. Trying to get back to the principles that our country was founded on. They did that through actual democracy, voting. The "democracy" at work in Occupy Wall Street is mob rule, they are the polar opposite of the tea party, ultra progressive with massive entitlement programs (which even Clinton knows need restructuring), and demands that are both preposterous and often contradictory. They want socialism, plain and simple. The reason that they get backing from the Nazi's is rather simple. This is how Hitler came to power in Germany, told a bunch of unemployed folks who to blame, Jews (aka the wealthy), and in order to solve all their problems he had to totally change the system of government in Germany. It's history, learn from it. In this way the tea party and OWS are quite different, the tea party loves freedom wants government to stop spending us into ruin. The OWS hate the capitalistic system we were built on, they want to limit everyone's freedom so they get taken care of. Which of course draws praise from the liberal elite who always think us common folk need them to run our lives since we must be incapable of doing it ourselves without an ivy league education. They got want they wanted for 2 years, a liberal super majority, which spent like no tomorrow and added another underfunded entitlement, Obamacare. The great progressive experiment failed, miserably. To which the proper response was the tea party, not more government. The purpose of government is protect it citizens, both their rights & freedoms and also militarily, PERIOD. that's it. The problem is when people think entitlement is a right, and it's not. Yes, gleaning is biblical and should be done to help the poor. But I don't count the poor as someone with an iPhone & basic cable saying they can't afford their big home anymore. The poor are those who started the "Arab spring" who couldn't feed their families, anything. OWS seem like the type of people who see the Gates Foundation pouring money in to 3rd world countries and say to themselves "hey, I'm not happy with my status in life, if they can afford to give millions to some poor people in Africa I don't care about, why don't we tax them more so I get HD." The real poor of the world would literally set themselves aflame just to get the porta-potty and soup kitchen food for their families they are giving OWS. I'm sure the actually inner city homeless don't feel sorry for them. The shoe that they walked a mile in belonged to the rich, not the poor. Which left them wanting, not happy for what they have.

Anyone who has worked with any state agency knows that a government bureaucracy is the least efficient, least innovative, and most expensive way to do anything. They have no onus for self betterment or even just doing a good job, knowing any promotion is based on service time not performance as per union rules, simply putting their time in while complaining that they don't have the cushy benefits they used to. And ironically, government oversight over projects in construction is lax to say the least. It's how you get substandard construction on federally funded jobs. I see it all the time.