The only way to continue supporting public employee unions' ceaseless demands and their steadily escalating salaries and benefits is through higher taxes or with drastically reduced core government services year after year.  Every cent that goes to their luxuries comes directly from strapped tax-paying family budgets.  Taxpayers are receiving fewer and less basic government services as public employees get fatter at the trough.

The end of this continuum is arriving, one way or the other.

Taxpayers have run out of money . . . and patience.  The bill is coming due, and the politically promised money just isn't there -- by a long shot.

We're tired of this taxpayer-funded double standard. We're fed up with working harder and longer and being taxed more for less just to support the grand lifestyle to which public employees have become accustomed.

This system of abuse and its unconscionable sense of entitlement is about to crash and burn if it isn't very quickly reformed.  When under its own weight it inevitably does, there simply won't be enough taxpayers to further victimize to pay for its unimaginable cost.  We will have been tapped dry, bankrupted.  All of us.  And with us, so too will be the greedy public employees with their unfunded promises -- all victims of political expedience.

This end is not far off, and the juggernaut plods steadily toward us.  It will arrive sooner or later.  If nothing is done to correct past largesse at taxpayers' expense, it will arrive sooner.  In some places it already has.