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rescinded.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

Elton John goes under the bus...i guess.

Elton John at Hillary Clinton fundraiser in NYC: "This is a very important year for America and she's the only hope you have"

Obama still failing as a President.

Watching MSNBC: They still don't get it. Talking about Trump and his supporters.

The media and most everyone else dillydallying around what motivates his base. This is largely the same base that suffered through the downturn in the economy under Bush 8 years...they were left out then as they seem to feel they were left out under Obama. There was not this anger or meanness.. The reason is simple.

Pure racism dressed up as economic and social anger, rage at the "establishment" in DC (whom by the way they put in DC hoping against hope that they could thwart the black guy sitting in the WH). The Trump base has added to their numbers because now they have a spokesman who seems to share their racist, xenophobic views. They are coming out of the woodwork like ants running to the tipped over honey jar oozing fresh new honey.

The numbers and facts just don't support the level of anger they say they have over the economy. Those same angry folks are out at all the family restaurants, shopping malls, beaches, booking cruises, buying new cars, smart phones and paying exorbitantly high costs for gouging plans that come with them, they now enjoy health insurance coverage that they never had before, their children are now able to be covered until 25, private schools are turning people away because there is no more room for them, gasoline is at an all time low, the millennials are spending lots of money on their favorite fads and super star concerts, there seems to be no limit to the amount of jewelry being sold at all levels. So the BS about being angry and left out of the economy is bunk! All the usual reasons for being angry about the economy are based on bulls--t the media and the GOP through talk radio and cable news tells them to believe.

We here all know and so do they out there what is really behind this anger. Their greatest hope for a failed Obama Presidency never materialized much to their chagrin. And for that they blame the establishment and for that they are angry.