The Ghost of Deficits Past

OHHHHH BAAAMMMMMMAAAAAH!

The frightful moan is heard every night after midnight throughout the White House.

OHHHHH BAAAMMMMMMAAAAAH!

Servants huddle, trembling, under their blankets; the sounds of clanking chains and screaming red ink banshees cause pale, shaken Secret Service agents to nervously check their weapons - they know that nothing they carry on their hip or under their shoulder can defeat the creature that roams these halls.

OHHHHH BAAAMMMMMMAAAAAH!

This ungodly din is the efforts of an ethereal being who seeks to remind a man of flesh and blood, a man who thinks himself superior to all American Presidents who walked the earth before him, that he ignores at peril of our national comity what others knew long before him.

Keep the effing unions out of government.

From Weasel Zippers:

Roosevelt’s reign certainly was the bright dawn of modern unionism. The legal and administrative paths that led to 35% of the nation’s workforce eventually unionizing by a mid-1950s peak were laid by Roosevelt.

But only for the private sector. Roosevelt openly opposed bargaining rights for government unions.

“The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, “I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place” in the public sector. “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government.”

And with his liberal bend if FDR says you're out of line, you're off the charts completely.