(15Sept2025) Dear Audie Cornish

On CNN This Morning with Audie Cornish, this morning, Audie says she finds lots of people who diagnose the Democrats' problem, and none with solutions. What I have to say is that everyone sees the Dems problem as a political problem. Likewise, everyone sees America's problem as political. 

America's problem is economic decline, long-term economic decline. It is an economic problem. It does not have political solutions. There is an economic solution, which is to significantly reduce the debt of the private sector:

However, most everyone who does focus on econ is focused only on reducing federal debt.

 

A guest on CNN's Audie Cornish show this morning -- Sara somebody -- was saying Democrats don't pick up on how hard it is for people (or young people, Sara might have said) to get jobs. Dems do not focus on the economy at all -- until after any upcoming election, and even then, only briefly. Dems make no economic argument.

The next bit of news I noticed on CNN this morning was that the New York State Governor on 14 September endorsed Mamdani for NYCity mayor -- some 2½ months after the July 1 certification of the vote count. 

The only thing I know about Mamdani is that somebody on CNN (or maybe MSNBC) once referred to him as a commie (or maybe as a socialist). I still remember that, from months ago. Maybe the Governor remembers it, too. A typical Democrat, Governor Hochul hesitated to endorse until the hesitation itself became the news.

Here. I said this before:

I don't know what's going on in their minds. But it looks to me as if Democrats have something like "math anxiety" about economics. Dems seem to think that if they go for sound economic argument, they will necessarily come to the same conclusions as the Republicans.

I don't know how they could possibly think this, as it is based on the flawed premise that Republican economics is sound. Actually, the problem is

This little piggy has bad policy

That little piggy has none

All we need, really, is a few tweaks to policy, and to vote for people who understand that the financial sector is more than big enough already.