I am getting really tired of people making up facts and tortured, other universe "logic" to support their positions. I throw down the gauntlet to fact-check this:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/diane-ravitch

And I haven't heard any credible counters to this, either, other than "nanny, nanny, boo-hoo; your mother wears army boots":

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph


And, let us not forget this. Did this really happen, or not? Was it a pivotal event leading to growing unionism? Are there not *many* of "our songs" that deal with the rights of workers? Is this fiction?:

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refshirtwaist.html



Clearly, the public soapbox that demonizes those of us who live in a fact-based world is currently not dominated by fact or logical progressions. People owe it to themselves and their fellow travelers on "spaceship Earth" to get *out* of their amygdalas and into their intellectual brains to make the world a better place.

Saul