Life in "Progress" City

From the golden gate city of San Francisco, who hasn't had a conservative in their city government since the gold rush days.........

Police arrested 18 members of the Service Employees International Union on Monday night after they blocked rush hour traffic on Market Street about a block from Civic Center Plaza to protest job cuts in the face of San Francisco's budget deficit.

Protesters, trying to prevent 500 city workers from being laid off, reassigned or given smaller paychecks, had notified police ahead of time of their plans. Nobody was injured in the demonstration, police said. The demonstrators were cited and released with an order to appear later in court.

Officers moved in after the group blocked traffic at the intersection of Market and Hayes streets for about 30 minutes, police said. It then took officers more than an hour to clear the roadway.

"I'm sure people were inconvenienced," Officer Boaz Mariles said. "We do our best to facilitate the flow of traffic, but we're challenged with these events."

So you would think that a truly "progressive" city would have union members love all over them like a Harvey Milk special.

But unions are like cock roaches. Once they get into your space, there's no love, just an ever and ever infinite appetite for more.

This is the kind of thing that happens in Europe.

What's so "progressive" about traffic jams?