I urge both HRC and BS supporters to read this latest HP post about the economy.

The numbers are most positive but maybe not good enough for sum. The gap between white and black employment and hence income is still wide and moving down. This is a critical point to understand why "income gap" doesn't have the same meaning to blacks as it does to whites. Bernie is correct to say the income gap is a huge problem. But Hillary is correct when she says that the causes of income gap are not merely just Wall Street generated. She is also correct in pointing out that the problems of discrimination are a big contributing factor. Black voters hear this and they understand the issue from that perspective. They identify more with HRC than BS for that reason. They hear what BS is saying and know in their gut he is speaking largely for the middle and upper middle class of whites. Closing the income gap is great...if you have income. Student debt hits everyone but when you can't even get one of those loans to go to school it rings hollow.

It's not about "old blacks out of touch" or "pandering" or "smarter than that" whites. It is more complicated.
There are not only differences in message and messenger there are differences in receivers of the messages and what is received. If you miss this...you miss a lot.

So, Sanders says "Look, Democrats can say what they want..."

So, he really does not want to identify with Democrats. It becomes more clear everyday. He is the third party his supporters are looking for so he should be running as that and not as a Dem. His words, not mine.

Interesting commentary on BS

Ok Cruz, you blame left wing pols for the blight in Detroit and other cities. Who do you blame

for rural rot? The stretches of waste and broken down homes and decaying farms? Just asking.

Trade agreements..

Our trade agreements haven't worked as promised. But trade agreements can be re-negotiated or
rescinded. We just have to be ready to pay the price. Good won't be cheap, inflation will soar, and consumers will be bitching agains. What really needs to happen to grow jobs here, raise wages is that stock holders have to become more active with their stock boards. We can make good quality stuff here and create more jobs with good wages BUT that means prices of goods will soar, stock dividends will have to decrease, and corporate profits will have to come down. Stockholders will have to stop expecting those huge returns on investments as profit margins for companies will necessarily go down. Of course, the government could always subsidize the stockholder profits and dividends...but then that would be capitalism, would it? We can close our markets to China and other countries forging our trade deficits...but then you have explain to the very people who are angry about trade agreements that Wal Mart is no longer the place to shop... and those cheap goods are no longer available.

In short, it's complicated. Realistically, since the consumer will never give up their cheap goods we have to come up with creating an economy of the future including the relevant training and education systems needed to fuel it. That is going to take time and no one that I know is patient. There is a future in building things to support a green environment and solar energy. We could invest in newer, cleaner, safer, and more efficient rapid transit and rail systems. Problem is, rail systems are largely privately owned...(here we go Ayn Rand). We could build all the parts to such systems right here in America instead of from manufacturers abroad. But who is going to do the work if our citizens are not educated or trained for working in those areas. Like I said, it's complicated.

But for sure, just yelling about how bad the trade agreements have been (and in some cases they have been good for many businesses) without planning on how to recover from them is not good enough. And just saying we need to keep the jobs here and buy America doesn't get it done either. WE need the investment, the knowledge, the unity, and the will to build our economy which is still better the most of the world's.

No evidence of hacking...

What!??? Trump is a fraud??? Say it isn't so....

The really BIG thing revealed so far in tonight's debate won't even be discussed.

The deficit is 554 billion? That is a huge REDUCTION from where it was when Obama came into office. No one will talk about it and we know why. The deficit used to be the clarion cry of all Republicans. It used to be they couldn't utter two sentences without saying "deficit."

If the Dems don't point this out on Sunday, shame on them.

Damn, this sounds like Trump and the media today.

Another great endorsement for HRC. Will-i-am