He went on, "I've talked to Hillary about this, what I might be able to do as V.P. I've been a civil-rights lawyer, and I care about the equity issues, but I've been a mayor and a governor, so I can do economic-development deals, and I care about the prosperity issues.
So, it should come as no surprise that Latino voters are, right now, deeply preoccupied with pocketbook and prosperity issues such as unemployment, education and health care.
It turns out that the only skeptics D'Souza takes seriously come at the morality-of-prosperity issue from the right.
He has discussed contributing another $10 million to groups aligned with Charles and David Koch, the billionaire oil and chemical executives who founded Americans for Prosperity, another issue group.
Vice President Al Gore and Mr. Lieberman, his running mate, have signaled that they will make prosperity their core issue in the final push toward the election on Nov. 7.
When public health or industrial prosperity is the issue, the libertarian right reliably challenges the sloppy idea that fresh state powers constitute an automatic solution.
Tim Phillips is president of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative issue advocacy group with 34 state chapters and 1.9 million grass-roots activists fighting for limited government, free markets and the defeat of President Obama in this year's election.
The ad cites a Feb. 12, 2012, "Need to Know" document from Americans for Prosperity, a conservative issue advocacy group founded by David Koch, that also talked about "personal savings accounts for Social Security".
"She's a powerful trailblazer," said Shayne Lee, a sociologist of religion at Tulane University who closely follows what has become known as the neo-Pentecostal movement, which emphasizes self-improvement and prosperity over social issues like poverty and crime.
But failure to mend the errors in the present system might have more profound consequences for global prosperity than the issues the candidates are debating.
