Union bosses love taxpayers' wallets  Those fat pensions don't
grow on trees, ya know    • Pin It  Not ask but demand.  Got a
problem?  View/Submit Comments for this story   Or the way a
butcher sizes up some hanging beef before going to work on it.
Except, you're the beef.  And after you give up the money, the
guy smiles to himself and slides into a nice black Escalade. He
doesn't thank you. But he sure thanks the politicians who made
it happen. He helps re-elect them, so they or their families
make fortunes.  But you? You don't get thanks. He'd no more
thank you than he'd thank a dog.  Now, do you have a problem
with that?  Pardon me? I didn't hear you. So let me ask you
again.   Then you must be in Illinois.  That's the state where
Chicago machine politicians and their union muscle boys slap
taxpayers in the mouth, year after year after year, and all
voters do is repeat that line from "Animal House," "Thank you,
sir, may I have another?"  It's revealed in some fascinating
(and infuriating) Tribune stories