Right here and right now it seems that the best thing for the Democrats is to team Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to create a super candidate. Craft a peace policy, craft an economic policy and craft a winning ticket for the fall.
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Our perilous economy relies, when it is working well, on interconnectedness. Truckers drive freight to stores where people who need goods can make their purchases. In between, mechanics and gas pump jockeys and employees of a myriad of service companies each get their small share. Truckers and motorists alike are driving less and that is driving down the cash flow of mechanics and gas pump jockeys who drove less and perhaps shopped less as heating oil prices rose last winter. At the top end of the economy, the folks who like to benefit from making the decisions, are still claiming an ever-larger share. At the low end and now even in the middle, folks who were formerly pretty much OK are counting miles, trading for smaller cars, purchasing fewer items. It’s all connected, each part to the other, as if there were only one dollar in the world passing with blinding speed from hand to hand.
