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Keating 5 Scandal, Resulting Economic Downturn & John McCain
polfeeds.com — Obama invokes McCain's involvement in the Keating Five Scandal and resulting economic fallout, accuses McCain of pursuing the same policies that helped cause economic downturn in the early 90s.
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- truthfightsback, on 10/06/2008, -0/+4Finally. John McCain has 7 glass houses, and he's throwing stones.
Welcome back to the era of Voodoo Economics, thanks to JohnMcCain.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_The_Most_ ...
As fellow Digger Olon97 said:
"McCain's Keating 5 lesson learned: create campaign reform laws with loopholes that he can exploit 20 years later.
"McCain's Keating 5 lesson NOT learned: let the regulators do their jobs, and keep regulations on the books that keep bank-type entities from hanging themselves with excessive risk taking, losing thousands of people's savings in the process.
"Thousands lost all their savings as a result of McCain's pressure on regulators in the late 80s, and hundreds of thousands have already been impacted by the same sort of mistakes now."
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