Under the article reporting on the threatening of McHenry County Board members who voted for Governor Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda are a number of interesting comments.

This one, by “Priest” might get you thinking:

Forgive this self indulgence please…

I’ve been thinking about how to describe government to the uninitiated and to what the arguments across the political spectrum distill down.

Parasites keep coming to mind.

Parasites are not neutral.

They can be beneficial or destructive.

Occasionally a particular parasite can be one or the other at any given time.

This line of musing can be misinterpreted so please let me be clear.

This is directed at no individual or particular profession but is merely a line of thought based upon how destructive public unions are to a free society.

Trade unions are particularly harmed by public unions because people tend to lump them together and trade unions have been, and continue to be, a legitimate necessary force in the marketplace.

Public unions are another animal altogether.

This is a side path to the initial musing….

Parasites.

All of government in any society throughout history is a parasite on the body of producers.

In a healthy symbiotic relationship the parasite actually helps the producer to be more healthy and have a better chance of survival.

In a destructive relationship the parasite selfishly gorges itself on the producer and sickens or kills them.

Every single fight politically may be drawn down to this balance.

Today The People have precious few representatives in the fight to keep the body healthy.

Every last person paid for with public monies seems to be working very hard to suck as much from the body of the producers as their piggy little bodies can handle.

The few who are trying very hard to strike a balance are lumped in whole with the majority who are working for the destruction of the producing class.

It is a difficult situation for those who are trying to identify the healthy parasites from the little piggies so the destroyers may be removed forever from the body.

Back to public unions…

There is nothing a public union offers which is positive for the producer.

District 158 teachers decide to gather for a meeting outside of school while they were on strike.

They force good police to deal with weak sticks who should be fired or, worse yet, prosecuted.They work for terrible school contracts which pay administrators insane compensation/retirement benefits while keeping money from the actual classroom where the teacher is forced to work with little or no backup relative to the per student monies brought in to the district.

They promote the most ignorant people to public office through financial and physical help because those people are easily controlled.

They attempt to smear those who stand against them (Rauner was accused of paying no personal payroll taxes when the reality is he employs thousands who pay millions of dollars he produced through his efforts and investment).

Public unions are the parasite no one should support because they are a parasite which kills everything and everyone around them.

They do not recognize friend or foe.

Sigh….

A book could be written with these rambling musings using defense or roads or fire or health or any number of societal functions as the discussion points….

If the next time you look at a unit of government and measure their usefulness against how much parasitical behavior can be tolerated before they’re destructive you may surprise yourself at how much government can be cut from our lives with actual positive results.

But first and foremost we should work to abolish public unions and remove any members who actually have the gall to threaten others from civil company and freedom.