Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Unions are great for union workers.
They boost pay and benefits to levels that drive companies to offshore jobs and lay people off, or even fold completely.
They protect bad employees from being fired, so the good ones have to work in a hostile environment.
They also make it necessary to place large numbers of people in limbo.
Just ask the Providence, Rhode Island teachers.
Every one of the 1,926 teachers have been given notice that they may be let go.
The district had to send out the notifications in order to meet requirements that call for advanced notification of any job actions.
Now these teachers can fret and worry until the last day of school, when final decisions will list those actually being cut.

John "effing" Kerry, tax dodger

John Kerry bought a yacht for ~$7M and docked it in Rhode Island instead of his home state of Massachusetts.
Why?
Well Rhode Island doesn't charge the taxes that Mass. does, so Kerry avoided $473K of taxes.
Having the boat built in New Zealand instead of the US is a slap in the face to US boat builders and one wonders what taxes may have been avoided there.

None of us is holding our breath waiting for Kerry to be hurt by all of this.
Massachusetts voters have consumed way too much cool aid.