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Glenn pseudo-famously referred to a Chris Christie exchange with a reporter as “Common –Sense-Porn” which I think describes it pretty well. Unfortunately, it’s sort of changed on the air into “Chris Christie Porn” which is exponentially less appetizing. I will be pleading with him to change it back behind the scenes…wish me luck. Our stomachs depend on it.

Either way, here’s another moment of “Common Sense Porn”—Christie’s exchange with a teacher, about her unions.

Think about what happened here. He asked a group of teachers, already the 4^th highest paid in America, to work one year without a raise, and to contribute 1.5% of their salaries towards their own benefits…and the teachers union claims it is the biggest assault on education in the states industry-a brutal mass murder of all hope for our children’s future—and the systematic disemboweling of every toddler in America? Really?

This isn’t about teachers—it’s about the teachers’ unions. These two requests, in the middle of a financial disaster in New Jersey, are completely reasonable. Yet, the unions can’t help themselves from looking…well…stupid.

Here’s Christie again (from a youtube video made by someone who hates him) on hiking the fees on New Jersey Transit. Tough to hear, but try arguing with the logic “those who ride New Jersey Transit, should pay for New Jersey Transit.” I’ve had to deal with the fare hikes myself, but they’re the right thing to do.

The problem Christie will have is the same one every principled conservative has. People don’t like government spending, unless it’s on them. Look at these splits on his approval rating:

Meanwhile, public employee households disapprove of the governor by a margin of 58 to 33 percent, and non-public employee households approve by 48 to 36 percent.

People who work for the government don’t like cuts to government. This should make it obvious why the left always likes to expand government employment.

Another example of what’s wrong with our society/budgets/government/everything:

“I’d rather see a tax on millionaires also. It’s about time we stopped paying for everyone else,” said Lionel Nazco of Carlstadt.

So…you’re sick of one group “paying for everyone else”, but you’d like to see a new tax that would make one group pay for everyone else? And you were able to perform those mental gymnastics in two sentences? How can any sensible politician overcome something like that?

Where should you go to get all of your Weiner facts?  WeinerFacts.com of course!   Frequently mentioned on WeinerFacts.com is Congressman Anthony Weiner, who–instead of trying to help the country–is spending his time attacking Glenn so he can impress his friends on MSNBC.  Here’s a sampling of what you have been missing so far..

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I’m constantly amazed by this. At a nearby vitamin store, painted on the wall, was this:

If you can’t read it, it says “Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw

Sure, this quote is fine. But the guy who wrote it wasn’t. George Bernard Shaw spent much of his life preaching the benefits of killing off a significant percentage of the population because they were becoming a drain on society. If you think that sounds like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin, that’s because it sounds like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin.

Shaw might have been a decent author, but he was also an outward advocate for genocide. I doubt they’d throw a quote from Adolf up on the wall, regardless of how poetic it was, even if it did make me want to buy more protein powder or St. John’s Wort.

Perhaps this wonderfully capitalist company has no idea who Shaw really was. Maybe they would if they threw this quote up on the wall of their next store:

I never know exactly how to make my opinion clear because I object to all punishment whatsoever. I don’t want to punish anybody. But there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill…But it must be evident to all of you… you must all know half a dozen people at least who are of no use in this world…who are more trouble than they are worth.

And I think it would be a good thing, to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioner. And say every 5 years or every 7 years …just put them there and say ‘sir’ or ‘madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?’ If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight in the social group, if you ‘re not producing as much as you consume…then…clearly, we can not use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

On second thought, they would have to have a really big wall for that quote–but you get the point. If you catch George Bernard Shaw quoted at your local business, take a picture and send it to me at stu@glennbeck.com. It’s far more common than you’d expect. I suppose we can all take solace in the fact that his words are living in an unabashedly capitalist institution—right above the “Fiber & Digestion” section.

*To watch video of Shaw deliver this fabulous line, you can search youtube for our documentary The Revolutionary Holocaust, and see it for yourself. Surely, it will inspire you to buy more Fish Oil pills.