I do hope the pensions and city employees now understand that holding down your employer and extracting every last cent at every turn -- as well as avoiding modernization while hiding behind union-enforced work rules may not have been best strategy. Their union should have fought against 13th checks to pensioners, and absurd investments managed by fools as their nest egg.

This is not to dismiss all the other historical screwing of the taxpayers by Wall Street, the state, Kwame, and everyone else in existence. The flaws of others does not excuse your flaws.