Well…today may be a day of a lot of short ones in response to lies and omissions that are coming out of the commentators on the right…I’ll start with Daniel Howes of the Detroit News…in his column this morning he talks about “failed states” and makes the assertion that the reason they have failed is the high incidence of unionization in those states, and the people that live there are at fault because their unions have been able to wrestle a living wage out of their employers instead of giving millions to the ceos. What he conveniently forgets to mention in his trashing of the middle class is that the conservative’s star state, Texas, with one of the lowest union membership rates in the country is on track to have a 25 billion dollar deficit this year; even with the destruction of the minimal social safety net they used to have, ranking it next to California. What do you say to that Daniel? Just another incidence where the right will make up facts and use outright lies to try to destroy the hated unions….Daniel, you should be ashamed…