i am going to rant here

[JDPriestly]

34. It won't be good news.

The polling on Biden was a set-up so that it would look like Bernie's numbers compared to Hillary's are declining.

They aren't. Not by enough to make a real difference in the end.

This appearance that Bernie's poll numbers are falling following Biden's announcement was so predictable that I warned everyone on the Bernie Sanders group about it when the polls including Biden first came out.

Don't worry.

Hillary's day of testimony will soon be old news.

Hillary has borrowed from Bernie in her statement of issues. She is focusing on the income disparity issue but she does not understand what she is talking about.

She said to the New School of Social Research that more growth is the answer. Of course, growth is part of the answer. But our essential problem is that for many, may years now, most of the growth in income we get in the US goes to the very wealthiest in our country and, to the very wealthiest areas of our country.

In New York, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, to some extent San Diego, Miami and other large cities, wages are higher than elsewhere but housing costs and other costs are extremely high in proportion to wages.

Meanwhile in the South and Midwest and other areas less involved in international trade, wages are stagnant if not declining and living standards and property values have declined.

Hillary sees growth as the answer. She is wrong.

Growth will not solve the fundamental problem which is, as Bernie points out, the massive transfer of wealth from the vast majority of the people to a small number of people in the top 1% of our society.

We can only change this trend that is so destructive to our society and that prevents growth if we have government intervention to transfer some of the wealth at the top back to the rest of America. There are many ways to do that. A broad and encompassing social net is probably the easiest to implement. A higher minimum wage will help, but we will still have too few jobs -- good jobs -- if we continue to import manufactured goods from other countries to the extent that we dol

Our trade deficit is another problem that Hillary, with her emphasis on trade and foreign policy, that is giving away American assets to foreign interests which is what the trade is really about and using our military to rescue our "friends" around the world, cannot deal with.

Hillary's ideas are weak.

She wants a thousand points of life to rescue our country. That is not going to happen. That was George H.W. Bush's view, and we know how it worked out for him. Canned after his first term.

Here is Hillary's speech on the economy. She states the problem well. From there on it is downhill for her. Bernie's statement of the problems is only slightly different (not surprising since Hillary copied Bernie's statement). But Bernie offers solutions and explains where he will get the funding for his proposals.

Bernie will win. Keep the faith. It's up to us. I will wait until the Benghazi hearing frenzy is over and then be back out campaigning for Bernie.

Did anyone listen to the Benghazi hearings? Did anyone ever explain why the ambassadors were meeting in Benghazi rather than Tripoli. Benghazi was just a little consulate -- an outpost. Of course the security was not that great there. I'm wondering (and I don't know; I'm just asking) whether there was some problem about the CIA post that was in Benghazi and that is why the two ambassadors met in Benghazi. I'd sure like to know. Benghazi was a not a vacation spot at the time. There were a lot of problems there.

To what extent does Turkey secretly support ISIS? Was that what the ambassadors were talking about? Did our CIA support ISIS? Were we transferring weapons from Benghazi to the rebels in Syria with maybe the help of the Turkish government?

I have no idea. I'm just wondering. Does anyone know anything about why they were in Benghazi? They sure weren't attending an opera or some social function. What was going on?