Obviously this practice is at least legal, and I guess boycotting such companies would be legal too.

Equally obviously he is far less interested in protecting the value of the state employee's pension funds than he is in advancing his anticorporate leftist agenda--one assumes that they have these holdings in the first place because they are good investments--but that's pretty typical.

Beyond that, my personal feelings are similar to being a prisoner of war and seeing a fellow prisoner make it over the fence in the middle of the night and head for the hills. I could respond one of two ways: silently cheer that at least one of us is getting out. Or I could call down the guards on him. Why should he get out when I'm stuck here?

I have always thought that every tarnished nickel kept out of the hands of the Federal Government was a victory for all of us, but those who believe that wealth exists solely to be confiscated and looted from others so that we can get a piece of it might believe otherwise. The term "fair share" is usually inserted around here somewhere.