Parasites Always Kill the Host

This little beauty to the left is a photograph of a parasite called a "roundworm."  The website, The Life Tree, describes this cutey as follows:

The intestinal roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides infection in humans follows the ingestion of Ascaris eggs that have contaminated foods or soil. In the small intestine the larvae are liberated and migrate through the intestinal wall, reaching the lungs, where they may produce a host sensitization that results in lung inflammation and fluid retention. About 10 days later, the larvae pass from the respiratory passages into the digestive tract and mature into egg-producing worms, which grow to some 15 to 40 cm (6 to 16 inches) in length, in the small intestine. Serious, even fatal, complications of ascariasis result from the infiltration of the larvae into sensitive tissues, such as the brain, and from the migration of the adult worms into various body structures where they produce abcesses and toxic manifestations.

That sounds pretty painful and uncomfortable, doesn't it?  One could also use the same definition to describe Leftist Liberals and their pals in the public and private sector unions.  Collectivists throughout history have always loved to saddle up to the unions of any particular country because, of course, Leftists are for "the little guy."  I use to be of the mindset that unions were fine as long as they weren't feeding off the public treasury via favors from politicians looking to get reelected.  That's part of the problem though, isn't it?  There are no such barriers to prevent these people from bleeding the host (the taxpayers) and the public treasury dry.  Due to this, I have completely changed my opinion regarding unions.  Public unions entrenched in the bureaucracy are especially vicious; they are the hardest to get rid of or reign in because our illustrious leaders never get rid of the bureaucracies!  To deal with public unions, my ideal solution would be to get rid of all non-essential bureaucracies (which for me, is everything but self-defense).  As for private sector unions, they are a little easier to deal with.  At the very least, I would legislate a separation between the private sector unions and the government:  no more hand-outs, no more favors.  National Review Online addresses the troubles unions cause in the article, The Enemy Within, by Iain Murray and F. Vincent Vernuccio.  They describe how Margaret Thatcher dealt with unions:

When Margaret Thatcher went to battle with the public-sector unions, she pursued a two-pronged strategy: First she removed the unions’ privileges; then she undermined their power base by privatizing functions wherever possible, fragmenting the unions’ bargaining monopolies. If America is to shake off the burdens imposed by the public-sector-union behemoth, both of these remedies will need to be deployed, in that order.

This sounds like a good start.  However, Ayn Rand was a big fan of closing the loopholes in America's Constitution which allowed collectivists to insert their malignancy into the system in the first place...and, as an Objectivist, I agree with her.  Doing anything less is simply treating the symptoms rather than curing the disease.  Good 'ole Maggie's idea sounds wonderful; however, it certainly doesn't appear to be anything that would have prevented Britain's collectivist enemies from reengaging their destructive policies once they regained power.  To quote from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand:

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Frankly, if I had my way, we would call a Constitutional Convention and add an Amendment forever closing the ability of the collectivists to wreak their financial havoc on this supposedly free-nation (it's becoming less and less free as the decades roll on).  That way, if they felt it necessary to satiate their bleeding, irrational, compassion for every sob story on the face of the planet they would then have to do it themselves and only through the voluntary cooperation of others rather than using the force of government to hold a gun to the heads of innocent citizen's demanding they give up their life and freedom; but, perhaps that's just me.