I feel crazy seeing some of these responses to Bernie's speech.

[Whimsey]

142. Real equality

would be putting children's welfare first. That is what Hillary fought for when she was first out of school.

My nephew lives in Prague with his Czech wife and three daughters. She was able to be a stay at home mom and receive a stipend from the government to offset her loss of employment while guaranteed a job back with her employer.

Let's have family friendly policies. All I ever hear is individual worker benefits. I am sorry, but Bernie is a union guy. Unions are important but families are more important. Hillary was one of the first persons working to get health care benefits for all children back in the seventies. She went to work at the Childrens Defense Fund out of law school. She got vilified by the republicans for her "socialist" book "It takes A Village to Raise a Child" years ago.

You know how a society survives? It's next generation. Our children are the most important factor in the survival of this country and Hillary is the only candidate with a history of advocating for our children. If our economic system put children first, I would be thrilled. Find me an economic system that does. It is not socialism.

Income equality constantly shifts. I graduated from law school in 1981. The top marginal rates were 50% for earned income and 70% for unearned income. Reagan's tax cut "ERTA" reduced those to about 40% and I do not remember, and really reduced the estate tax. All of these have continued to be decreased. I have no problem with making these rates more progressive. But what I do not like is Bernie vilifying everyone who has been successful. He has created class warfare which is ugly and unnecessary.

Both of my parents grew up poor, we were solidly middle class, and now I float in and out of the top 1%. My husband was the same. He is a CPA/Attorney, and I gave up my career when I moved to his very small town to be a stay at home mom. He is self-employed, does not advertise, is very good at what he does (no litigation), and gets referrals. So why are we bad people because we are both smart and have been financially successful. That is part of the problem with Bernie's message. He lumps everyone in the same boat based on their income. That is as discriminatory as Trump is.

I am done ranting. I need to go to bed.