THANK YOU, ILLINOIS TAXPAYERS, for my cushy life. “Protests against efforts to reform pay scales, teaching loads, and retirement benefits employ a ‘solidarity forever, the union makes us strong’ rhetoric. What these professors and other government workers do not understand is that they are not demanding a share of the profits from the fat-cat bourgeoisie. They are squeezing taxpayers—for whom the professors purport to advocate—whose lives are in most cases far harsher than their own.”