i would like to start by thanking brenda greene and clarence reynolds of the organizers of this fine conference who do such a great job with it and it's a real honor to be participating in this event and the work of the center for black literature is extremely impressive year after year and it's a pleasure to be here that also like to thank calvin reid who has been a very, very consistent supporter not just of black writers and thought publishers, but independent publishers, graphic artists and various oddballs along the way. [laughter] but calvin has been at pw for a long time and i know personally he akashi books he was one of the earliest helped us get some recognition in a speech and due this month after month with others for the fledgling publishing endeavors and it is a constant cerda voice of encouragement. so i'm really appreciative of that. i think it's a really exciting time to be in the business right now. of course the economic landscape in america like much of the world right now is very discouraging. a lot of people don't have very much money, so of course that impacts

brenda greene who has the remarkable job organizing this production. they have done the job of heroes. wherever you are in the audience thank you for putting this together. we are going to spend the next hour or so looking at how a committee of writers and publishers and journalists are using social media to amplify the voices and the work of black writers. what is really great about this group assembled here on stage is the each handle social media from different platforms of information we have. we have academics, newsroom editors, magazine founders and book marketers. i have been having some e-mail conversations prior to today. what they have been saying is quite interesting. i will put floyd on the spot. for johnson e-mail me and said he is convinced social media will not do us any good in the long term. it might be doing us more harm so we are going to get to that in a second. montagu -- montague kobbe who works out of the caribbean looks at the global impact of social me and sees the way the technology is phasing struggling publication. he calls

brenda buttner, this is bulls and bears. let's get right to it. bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, tobin smith. jonas max ferris along with scott martin and jehmu green. and let workers collect benefits? >> you know, brenda, it's just another in a long line of goofy government programs, trying to get the economy started. and first of all, whenever i hear that people get money and companies get money in this case, for hiring temporary workers, the first thing i think of is fraud. you know, if this goes through, we can come back a year from now and we can start to count how many millions we're to expect. the bigger issue, you know, brenda, we, you know, as a nation started building cars and sent men into space and we built canals and railroads, and we know how to do any of those beforehand and you know who took the risk, the manufacturers, the companies, the corporations out there took the risk and if ne failthe failed. it's another way to transfer money from one to another without supposedly anyone taking any risk, it's goofy and should be be stopped. >> well, scott, actually about a third of the workers in georgia upon-- that's the state upon which t

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going in the wrong direction and people are still talking about green shoots and positive developments and i don't see any of it. >> brendawe're still growing as an economy, it may not be as fast as everybody would hope for, but 2.2% that's not anything to sneeze at really. >> absolutely, and the projections this year he for 2.5%, you know, one quarter, but it does feel to most people like we're in a recession and we'll continue to feel that way until the economy gets back to where it was before 2008, and especially before the wall street financial collapse. and the big drag right now on the economy is the housing market. and we need to do something about those 15 million americans who are underwater on their home mortgages, and they're current on their payments. unless we can do something about reducing their capital and helping them get out from under that burden, that was caused, none of their own doing, then, we've got a big problem and the way i would do it, i would let them buy down for a home owners whose mortgages are under$500,000, and let me just finish quickly here and get $50,000 of the capital knocked off and

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