Detroit News' Manny Lopez has not done his homework again!

Response to a comment posted by Manny Lopez in his link to Daniel Howes piece published on March 13, 2011.

Tricky Rick Snyder said during his mum-on-the-issues, near wordless/explanation-less campaign, "THE STATE HAS A BROKEN SYSTEM OF TRYING TO PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS too often, saying 'This industry is good, this industry is bad.' I've been doing venture capital for a lot of years. I've been picking winners and losers for a living. It's hard work. The government isn't competent to do that work."

Manny Lopez and his editorial klatsch (Eliminate the easy way out, 3/15/11) have the temerity go where "government isn't competent" to go, to pick those whom they fervently desire to make "losers."

Manny's selection of "losers" (those wonderful people who serve and protect us up and down this great state), who are now targeted, under the gun, by Snyder's neo-Englerites and greenpea Legislature) is extremely arrogant and ungrateful.

New legislators are being duped into pushing and complying with the nationwide agenda of the far right corporatist American Legislative Exchange Council, which is funded in large part by the THE BROTHERS KOCH and also is backed by Michigan's billionaire elite: the Dick & Betsy ideologues.

Manny's A OK with this. The loss of state sovereignty and right of self-determination, independent of BIG MONEY CRAFTED LEGISLATION piped into Lansing; being bought and paid for right under his nose, isn't a troubling concern for Manny or the Detroit/Mac Center News.

Making the service people of Michigan "losers" is ignoble and ungrateful. Since when are those who foster outright political reprisal and nasty/aggressive legislative dictatorial tactics; such as are being currently bum-rushed through Michigan's Legislature; thought to the "winners?"

Manny's buddies, citizen-appeal-deaf pro-corporatist cyborgs, may think of themselves as "winners," promoting their anti-public tactics, but their "win" is going to be a tragic loss for Michigan, our children and families alike.


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