And outside of Pete Peterson and his top crier David Walker, George Soros, and a few others, there is not yet the hue and cry, the will, or any pragmatic plan to deal with this economic reality, which threatens to fast become a geopolitical disaster.

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But it is not enough and Starbucks, Citibank, Google, Banana Republic and a few others are calling on us to do more to revive the American economy.

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Now George Bush got more black votes--a higher percentage this time, this last election, than he did when he first ran, but it's--still you can say about 90 percent of the black people do not support him, despite appointments such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and a few others.

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And the nuclear deal, an example of the sort of highfalutin foreign policy that bothers only a few high-powered ministers, journalists and others in India, may not matter much.

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