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One Nation=SEIU. Ironically, from the debris field left in their wake, it appears the folks who are paid to clean up behind others, refuse to clean-up behind themselves. Then, there are rumors some of them relieved themselves in the fountain.

Irony indeed! I am convinced that these choices - whether to toss that coke or bag of popcorn in the trash or in the grass - are driven by one's ideas about whether one should be responsible for himself or whether one believes that there should be a dedicated societal function (unionized of course) for every detail of life.

"I can't throw this away! That's a union function and requires specialized government training, and I'm not a member of that union!"

As a quick follow-up: At a HUGE corporation where I was a contractor, we received our computers. I've set up computers hundreds of times in my lifetime. Plug in the keyboard, the mouse, the monitor, the power, and you're good to go. Every other company - small, private ones - I would do this.

I started performing that very mundane task at this place and my goodness, the proverbial fecal material hit the ventilation device! "Stop! You can't do that! That's a union function!"

As a result, I waited all day until someone came and did in five minutes what I could have done in five minutes. They wasted their money paying me to do nothing while waiting, and doubtless the union wasted much of their money. I saw in that experience a first-hand microcosm of the problem with our government and its waste.