I did not see anything about these policies that Gov. Graham mentioned on his website and more importantly I am not seeing those investment numbers tied to US citizens, to US workers to jobs in the United States.

They are not doing the thing that most needs to be done, which is to renegotiate those trade agreements and come up with a division, like the CBO or GAO to analyze trade deficits, trade policy, agenda in detail and provide recommendations to Congress.

Where is the US citizens first for jobs in America promise?

Are you noticing no one in the audience is listening to these speakers? My God, a Republican coming along and endorsing a Democratic one would think would get some attention and of course these regular folk up speaking about being completely ignored.

I wrote a piece about the Green Collar Jobs pointing these problems.

They simply must address the arbitrage issue.

I mean this isn't like before, those jobs could be moved offshore in 6 months or if they get their way with comprehensive immigration reform and the massive increase in guest worker Visas...they can displace US workers that way as well.

(Johnny, I changed your post to more of an open thread in hopes we can get others to start discussing the Democratic platform and presentation in terms of policy).

Somehow they are just going to create these business friendly states to come and have jobs in them.

This is the DLC. Tax incentives to business, tax incentives to business.

Let's see. Howz that working out with the massive tax breaks already given to companies to invest here in the States? I believe IBM is moving offshore as fast as they can and in spite of tax incentives, promises and deals companies take these and then...move offshore.

ok, so firstly that's just plain wrong, you can do a startup throughout Europe, China, India easily. It's not just America and I'd claim Finland has way more support systems in place to make it even easier because one doesn't have to worry about being able to make the rent in the process as badly as it is in the United States.

So, does that mean everybody gets the chance to start a business in order to become a billionaire? I'm talking about the opening of Mark Warner's speech.

Oh God, this is not good listening to Warner for Americans already are the most highly educated in the world. This is higher education, not K12 and there is a glut of top tier engineers already who cannot find a job.

Sorry about the sudden flurry of GOP ads on the site. That's an automated program which places based on content. Trying to earn a little cash to pay for the site and so of course the minute the keyword "Democratic" popped up they are using this fact to promote their party!

Ha ha! bear in mind if anyone c___ licks (put those together this is a no no to say anyone should do such a thing) they pay for it!

Well, you'd think someone would talk more about Fannie and Freddie. Plus that FDIC is looking at bucket-load of banks! Odd.

I'm just so amused, how scripted. They started with Hillary signs and then transitioned to Obama signs. Somehow I don't think that is going to pull in the Clintonistas with that nice imagery.

I'm watching Bill Speech and I notice there isn't any mention of the financial crisis, the biggest economic implosion of this time.

This is incredible. This is government? We're having dueling public relations wars in this theater of campaigns. We have the rock star blast for accepting the nomination to rule

lead the nation and now we have immediate ads inserted placed on the TV coverage by the other side, along with denials promises to not rain on their parade while promoting leaks speculation, carefully timed repressed on the VP pick.

I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

Ya all, I mentioned this previously but unless someone else can explain something to me, this reeks like a glory hole for hedge funds.

Why, when startups need capital, they are not publicly traded and private do they need no capital gains tax?

They do not even go IPO sometimes for years because they are absorbing capital and building up a business.

One of the huge frauds of the dot con era was hype and fiction as well as an insider game in the IPO offering.

Is this just for corporate entities and not for the individuals and founders who started the company and were compensated with options? What about the alt. minimum tax?

1. Magically every hedge fund and private equity firm is a startup, wala, they pay no capital gains

2. in a traditional startup, there is extensive stock options...so are they saving even in private holdings there is no capital gains? Well, how is that going to keep private equity and VCs from plain trading these like baseball cards and what about the actual profits
beyond creating fictional businesses, labeling them startups and trading worthless options like baseball cards?

This sounds like it can make the Dot Con era look like legitimate business dealings.

uh, doesn't texting make a huge amount of money for cell phone companies?