Reserves in the tank, so that as we embark on the journey that we take over the next couple of years, we are confident that we have got enough gas in the tank to see us through that journey. There are two kinds of budget, those that have a specific problem to solve, normally a crisis in the public finances. And there are those where there isnt much to do, chancellors just have to stand up and look like theyve been keeping busy. Well, this one is more in the latter category. Part of the reason for that is that brexit is looming over everything at the moment. The old slogan used to be, you must fix the roof while the sun is shining. Today might be, there is no point in fixing the roof if you think a great big tree might come toppling down on top of it. You should wait to see what happens. Until brexit, getting the deficit down was the main goal, and it slowly came under control. The idea is it carries on going down but the basicjob is farfrom done. Its fair to say that a lot of people, p
progress and he came to south carolina to roll out the policy. south carolina pwhrupbtd hblunt momentum, and he came and had the big loss to hillary clinton. he s trying to build his support among african-americans, and listen to what he told me earlier today. i think we are doing quite well with the african-american voter. i think the issues we are talking about resonate very strongly with the latino and african-american community, and i think if you walked around with me you would see a lot of support from the african-american community, and it s not just the justice system, it s the health care system, and that affects everybody, and even more in the
african-american community. in that pew poll we were talking about, one nugget that is standing out, 45% of african-americans didn t mention a preference, didn t have a first choice in their democratic candidate, so even kamala harris or elizabeth warren, that gives them hope they can expand their support with african-americans so they can come and give their pitches more. congressman, bernie sanders struggles last time with african-american voters n. south carolina he ran into a lot of trouble, and part of what people talked about as being an issue is that he would talk about economic justice as a broad issue and didn t want to or didn t seem to acknowledge that african-americans have particular concerns that they feel need to be acknowledged, that he just wants to talk about all people in the same way and
what have you seen him do to appeal to african-americans? for bernie sanders, he started in atlanta, georgia, talking to a group of 5,000 black millennials, and then coming out here to columbia, south carolina, having a basketball tournament and visiting churches and having a block party, trying to make his pitch to african-americans, and today he highlighted that trip with his criminal justice plan, about 6,000 words that goes kwraupbdz what he normally says on the trail. he includes the elements of ending cash bail or eliminating private prison facilities, and a full overhaul of the policing system in this country, and he goes beyond that and looks at ways to change the system from a more punitive criminal justice system to one that incentivizes
what it means is you re extraordinarily vulnerable as land owner. you can t get government financing or fema loans. on top of that, you re vulnerable to a number of different kinds of land takings almost. i will read from your article talking about the mitchell family. mitchell didn t trust the courts and didn t leave a will and instead let it become an heir s property, and let it become a piece of interest like owning stock in the property. when many african-americans didn t have access to the legal system and continued in the jim crow area many african-americans were suspicious of white southern court. 46% of african-americans do not have a will, more than twice the percentage of white americans. people with the best wills sometimes have the best lawyers and you pay the best money to those lawyers.