Fundamentally McCain

AS LONG AS SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL THE ECONOMY WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE DOWNWARD HITS.
BOTH JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN GRASP THIS BASIC ECONOMIC TENET AND WILL SEEK TO REFORM IT.

BARACK OBAMA STRUTTING AROUND THE COUNTRY LIKE “CHIKEN LITTLE “ PROCLAIMING “THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING”, VOTE FOR ME, VOTE FOR ME, IS NOTHING BUT A FEAR MONGERING TACTIC.
THE REALITY IS THAT HIS ECONOMIC PLAN OF MORE TAXES AND MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING WOULD SPELL COMPLETE DISASTER AT THIS TIME.

What you think of Socialism? If you're for it - vote Obama as he's your guy to take you there--------Greg----http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/

The overall blame for the economy failure is greed! Companies lending money to people for mortgages they knew these people could no way afford and then foreclosing on them. At no time in history has the markets ever stayed stable and it doesn't matter who is in office. There is a cycle to almost everything and right now we are in one of those "slump" cycles. Putting someone in the Whitehouse who has no experience will devestate this country more. Let the slump take its course and then vote in someone with experience to get it back on track. My family is hurting just like everyone else and compared to some I'm dirt poor, but I believe McCain/Palin can do good for this country.

Fear-mongering?!! LOLOLOLOL

That's hilarious!! The administration that mastered Fear-Mongering as a political weapon is now warning us that the Democrat is fear-mongering.

You have cried "WOLF" so many times and tried to scare us with warnings of imminent terrorist attacks, and now you expect us to believe the OTHER guys are fear-mongering.

Wow. You've got chutzpah.

BOTH JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN GRASP THIS BASIC ECONOMIC TENET AND WILL SEEK TO REFORM IT.

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John McCain CAUSED IT. Republicans own this.

Charlie Gibson has a better grasp of any 'economic tenet' your clown princess spokesmodel can articulate and john mccain and phil gramm created the crisis. John's solution, and I'm quoting, 'I don't know'.

But there's no way to fix stupid - you're stuck on the short bus forever unless you at least try to imitate normal people. fake it if you have to - at least you'll survive.

m. smith2:59PMSep 17th 2008

Fear-mongering?!! LOLOLOLOL

That's hilarious!! The administration that mastered Fear-Mongering as a political weapon is now warning us that the Democrat is fear-mongering.

You have cried "WOLF" so many times and tried to scare us with warnings of imminent terrorist attacks, and now you expect us to believe the OTHER guys are fear-mongering.

Wow. You've got chutzpah.
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Thank you for the compliment. But it doesn't change the fact that your boy is doing the very same thing. Yes,I agree Republicans and Democrats share equal blame in a lot of what is wrong with this country. That's why I'm voting for the closest thing to an Independent Ticket running in this campaign. McCain and Palin.
If you had any "chutzpah" you'd do the same.

m. smith2:59PMSep 17th 2008
Fear-mongering?!! LOLOLOLOL

That's hilarious!! The administration that mastered Fear-Mongering as a political weapon is now warning us that the Democrat is fear-mongering.

You have cried "WOLF" so many times and tried to scare us with warnings of imminent terrorist attacks, and now you expect us to believe the OTHER guys are fear-mongering.

Wow. You've got chutzpah.
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Thank you for the compliment. But it doesn't change the fact that your boy is doing the very same thing. I will admit that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame in a lot of what is wrong with this country. That's why I'm voting for the closest thing to an Independent Ticket running in this campaign. McCain and Palin.
If you had any "chutzpah" you'd do the same.

Everyone knows by now that when you see McCain’s lips move he is lying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk&feature=email

Herbert Hoover was the President when the great depression started. He said in 1931 the economy is fundamentally sound.

McCain, sounding like Herbert Hoover, has repeated at least 22 times since January 2008 that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. He is now saying what he meant to say was the fundamental strength of the America worker remained strong. He wants to set up a commission to study the problem. In McCain's case setting up a commission is the last refuge of the scoundrel. McCain was truthful when he said he knows nothing about the economy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1X3efvVTLA

He is now forced to try to come up with a new distract and attack program against Senator Obama.

mccain is so pathetic he doesnt have a clue about the economy all he lnows is let's go to war that man doesn't even knoow how many houses he has while middle american is having trouble keeping one house is he out of touch? no he's in la la land

note to M.Smith - Where have you been??? those warnings of terrorist attacks are not crying Wolf! There were real and they were stopped by some really, smart and brave agents. There are attempts in almost every country and if you want to know about them, just listen to the news. Of course if you have no idea what is going on in the world, just don't listen to the news - oh, ya, from what you said, you obviously don't listen to the news.

In addition to the lack of regulation in the financial sector, the Bush administration and the Republican party also support less regulation of the environment, food, drugs, labor relations, and pretty much everything else. The goverment has become a slave to the interests of the multinational corporation. The constitution defines that one of the government's roles is to "promote the general welfare". This includes protecting Americans from corporate greed. The very idea that souless, greedy CEO's and their board of directors can self regulate in order to protect the American public is ludicrous.

McCain's Voting Record: He Does Not Support Our Troops and Veterans

This is chock full of links to the roll call votes, and the roll call votes have links to the actual underlying bills and amendments. I present this so that there is support and things that can be rattled off when saying that McCain is not a friend of the military. Feel free to use it as you want, but this can be tied into the "Double Talk Express". But here is a very quick statement - John McCain skipped close to a dozen votes on Iraq, and on at least another 10 occasions, he voted against arming and equipping the troops, providing adequate rest for the troops between deployments and for health care or other benefits for veterans.

In mid 2007, it is noted that McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq. However, here is a summary of a dozen votes (two that he missed and ten that he voted against) with respect to Iraq, funding for veterans or for troops, including equipment and armor. I have also included other snippets related to the time period when the vote occurred.

September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.

July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years.

March 2007: McCain was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all combat troops within one year. Around this time, an NBC News poll found that 55% of respondents indicated that the US goal of achieving victory in Iraq is not possible. This number has not moved significantly since then.

February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. However, at the time a CNN poll found that only 16% of respondents wanted to send more troops to Iraq (that number has since declined to around 10%), while 60% said that some or all should be withdrawn. This number has since gone up to around 70%.

June 2006: McCain voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.

May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.

April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs.

October 2003: McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.

April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.

August 2001: McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000. To his credit, he also voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he now supports making permanent, despite the dire financial condition this country is in, and despite the fact that he indicated in 2001 that these tax cuts unfairly benefited the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

So there it is. John McCain is yet another republican former military veteran who likes to talk a big game when it comes to having the support of the military. Yet, time and time again, he has gone out of his way to vote against the needs of those who are serving in our military. If he can’t even see his way to actually doing what the troops want, or what the veterans need, and he doesn’t have the support of veterans, then how can he be a credible commander in chief?

John McCain's recent definition of "Fundamental" is the American
worker. News for you John McCain. The American worker has always been
strong--no different than years before--and yet, this still happened.
What has happened is outsourcing, plant closings, wages stagnating,
soaring inflation, gas gouging, banks failing, people losing their
homes and their savings. The "fundamentals, you old fool, is the
oversight, regulations, living wages, affordable health care,
encouraging businesses to remain in the US instead of getting tax
breaks for going overseas. Investing in this country--our
infrastructure, our commitment to energy independence which does not
mean more drilling.It means solar, wind, biofuels and putting our
citizens to work by finally realizing all the potential that is ours
for the taking and the American people are begging for. McCain's
excuses are old and tired and so is he.

I thought this article should be of great importance to the voting public.

McCain’s Radical Agenda
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 15, 2008
Talk about a shock to the system. Has anyone bothered to notice the radical changes that John McCain and Sarah Palin are planning for the nation’s health insurance system?

These are changes that will set in motion nothing less than the dismantling of the employer-based coverage that protects most American families.

A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.

There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in this campaign has mostly been about nonsense — lipstick, celebrities and “Drill, baby, drill!”

For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.

“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their findings are being published on the Web site of the policy journal, Health Affairs.

According to the study: “The McCain plan will force millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the private insurance system — the nongroup market — where cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and people will lose access to benefits they have now.”

The net effect of the plan, the study said, “almost certainly will be to increase family costs for medical care.”

Under the McCain plan (now the McCain-Palin plan) employees who continue to receive employer-paid health benefits would look at their pay stubs each week or each month and find that additional money had been withheld to cover the taxes on the value of their benefits.

While there might be less money in the paycheck, that would not be anything to worry about, according to Senator McCain. That’s because the government would be offering all taxpayers a refundable tax credit — $2,500 for a single worker and $5,000 per family — to be used “to help pay for your health care.”

You may think this is a good move or a bad one — but it’s a monumental change in the way health coverage would be provided to scores of millions of Americans. Why not more attention?

The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.)

Taxing employer-paid health benefits is the first step in this transition, the equivalent of injecting poison into the system. It’s the beginning of the end.

When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many) will opt out of the employer-based plans — either to buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without coverage.

That will leave employers with a pool of older, less healthy workers to cover. That coverage will necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage more and more employers to give up on the idea of providing coverage at all.

The upshot is that many more Americans — millions more — will find themselves on their own in the bewildering and often treacherous health insurance marketplace. As Senator McCain has said: “I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to the patients themselves.”

Yet another radical element of McCain’s plan is his proposal to undermine state health insurance regulations by allowing consumers to buy insurance from sellers anywhere in the country. So a requirement in one state that insurers cover, for example, vaccinations, or annual physicals, or breast examinations, would essentially be meaningless.

In a refrain we’ve heard many times in recent years, Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market of these “needless and costly” insurance regulations.

This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.

You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system.

But we’re not even paying much attention.

Read that Lehman Brothers gave over $260,000.00 to the Obama campaign. Maybe Obama can give it back to help the struggling investors who may lose their money because the of nosedive. After all, isn't the mainstay of his party platform helping the poor and making the rich pay more?

Sometimes there can be a thin line between educating the public and instilling fear ... hopefully, this can be an "educating" moment for the American public on something important and substantive. At least we are getting beyond pigs, dogs, and lipstick!

The last eight yrs. have put us in this mess. I love my country and hope it will always lead the world to a better one.

I am discussed with the primaries, let us get back to the issues.

All I can do as an 83 yrs. old white female, is vote, as I have since I was able to vote.

Peggy - if a person had money to invest in Lehman, I doubt if they were "poor."

The Power of Christ compels you!
http://saintbrianthegodless.blogspot.com/

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Clinton was the first one to deregulate wall street. I still believe that Mc Cain is t he better choice and will vote for him and Palin. OBama just talks a lot and and gets his party to do the thinking for him and we all know that congress has done nothing for the American people and who has the control? the democrats