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- GoneGreen, on 09/15/2008, -3/+71We need to listen to Mr. McCain... he has already stated on numerous occasions that he doesn't have a clue about the economy... you cannot teach an OLD dog new tricks; he still doesn't have a clue.
- liberD, on 09/15/2008, -1/+57Just because you say it doesn't make it so John McCain. How can he say that the economy is fundamentally strong? When firms like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have to be seized by the government to avoid going bankrupt..and then Lehmann Brothers goes bankrupt...thousands of American lives are "fundamentally" effected.
That suggests to me that something is fundamentally wrong with our economy. Although for a man who has so many houses he's lost count; for a man who says being a Senator in Washington has allowed him to be sheltered from the woes of the masses, I'm not surprised that his notion of fundamental is twisted. - inactive, on 09/15/2008, -1/+55Says the guy with 11 houses who will benefit the most from his own tax cut. I call shens.
- sullivanst, on 09/15/2008, -2/+43Unbelievable. McCain thinks the answer to this is to "reduce burden of government" - in other words, deregulate even more. A LACK OF REGULATION IS THE PROBLEM HERE, NOT THE SOLUTION.
We CANNOT afford to let McCain be President. We just can't: he'd be an unmitigated disaster on healthcare and the economy, and would further stoke worldwide resentment of America. - beac, on 09/15/2008, -2/+30Please, McCain supporters-- WAKE UP!!
John McCain has NO IDEA what's really going on with our economy. He is DANGEROUSLY out-of-touch.
Furthermore, he has sacrificed his honor and his 'maverick' status in the craven pursuit of the White House. His support of Bush has INCREASED year after year. McCain is NOT even in control of his own campaign and wouldn't be in control if he wins. DO you want LOBBYISTS and OIL MEN running our country for another four years? - dBass, on 09/15/2008, -2/+23Who's dumber? McCain, the repug faithful, racist against anybody but a white guy, or "low information voters"?
How much more obvious does it have to be that McCain is a dolt, and not qualified to be POTUS? Yet the MSM and pollsters "tweaking" results are reporting a neck and neck horse race. It's all so surreal. - akinapb, on 09/16/2008, -3/+24Before some McCain supporters come in here and claim that Huffington Post is left-wing biased propaganda, I'd just like to implore them to actually read the article and watch the videos. Sam Stein is a qualified reporter, and he understands the neutrality of the press is of the utmost importance. So please, at least attempt to be reasonable and rational people; read the article, it brings light to the McCain ticket.
On a different note, can we seriously allow a McCain and Palin to be the leaders of this nation, when they both know little to nothing about economics? It seems It's easy for McCain and Palin to support the Iraq War and pretend that the U.S. spending $12 billion dollars a month seems like a rather trivial issue, but it seriously is not. We can pretend that McCain massive tax cuts won't have an adverse effect on our governments ability to function, but we seriously cannot. Alan Greenspan said that the only way a civilization can survive, is if we ration for the future. John McCain can't grasp this concept, and we can't allow his incompetence stand in our way to secure a prosperous future for our children. Think about it this way, John McCain has nothing to lose, America has everything to lose.
Granted, if Obama takes the Presidency, and he f's up even more than Bush did, hell, I'd vote Republican in 2012, but then again Obama has the intelligence to understand that if he is not up for the challenge, he too has everything to lose.
This election is more about pigs, lipsticks, Obama being Muslim, or whatever other trivial ***** the media takes. It basically is about our future and how we will prosper as a nation. We don't need a good soldier to fix our nation, or a 18 month governor who doesn't know anything about foriegn policy or economics; we need a good leader who can bring us together and transcend us into the 21th century. Obama gives us that hope, he has that potential to fundamentally alter history and restore American prestige and honor we once had. We all know, John McCain doesn't have this zeal, he doesn't have this potential, not when 7 of his main advisers are all big-shot Washington lobbyists.
Do research, look past the lies, vote not on religion, or character but on the issues.
factcheck.org - SheilaNoya, on 09/15/2008, -2/+23McCain used to constantly preach about REMOVING business regulations. He has consistently claimed that his "Free Market" approach to the economy would help corporations compete in the Global Economy.
Now he's flip-flopped and is saying we need MORE regulation.
It's amazing how McCain's "talking points" suddenly changes after a major financial disaster has wiped out Wall Street due to relaxed business regulations and another failed Free Market approach. McCain is now trying to act like it's someone else's fault and he will fix it --- what a laugh. He's clueless and trying to bury his past statements with new lies. - anonblog2008, on 09/15/2008, -2/+23...And this comes from the guy who told the Wall Street Journal in late November 2007, "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated."
For once I agree with McCain...he does need to be educated about the Economy. - glog, on 09/15/2008, -1/+21I wonder if he found this precious information on the interwebs?
- edmondburke, on 09/15/2008, -1/+20Dear Lord, what a statement!!!Well, folks he did say he didn't know anthing about 'the economy, stupid'!
How appropriate that he should 'shoot himself in the foot'! AGAIN - inactive, on 09/15/2008, -3/+21Fundamentally sound?
It fundamentally sounds like an avalanche to me. - inactive, on 09/15/2008, -1/+17At this point he's just going with the motions whilst getting flung head long into whatever his party wants him to do. He was never popular to begin with, he just coasted out of the radar till the other candidates killed each other off with cynicism and bad mouthing. So this pitiful moderate conservative is the last hold out for a immature, aggressive and greedy party. He's already clearly acknowledged his lack of understanding in the economy during the primaries so anything he says about the economy should be interpreted as what his handlers have fed him, and even then it will be by the same party that still borrows $10 billion dollars every month from China to fund an unnecessary war. Git - R - Dun right repubs?, no matter the cost literally.
- operasara, on 09/16/2008, -2/+18I'm sure his economy is fine. He married into his money.
- NoDrama, on 09/16/2008, -2/+17If he's wrong about the economy, then why would I trust him to be right on taxes?
If he's wrong about the economy, then why would I trust him to be right on foreign policy?
f he's wrong about the economy, then why would I trust him to be right on education?
If he's wrong about the economy, then why would I trust him to be right on health care?
If he's voted with Bush 90% of the time or more, then why would I trust him? - Folksie, on 09/15/2008, -1/+13This should show to any thinking person that this man has NO CLUE about anything economic...and since we the taxpayers now have to bail out the rich bankers and have DOUBLED our national debt overnight, call me crazy but I want somebody who might understand money a little bit. Not that Obama is any better...oh how I wish Ron Paul could be president, then our grandkids wouldn't end up being slaves for China once they come to collect the cash we borrowed from them that we don't have. The economy is going to collapse...and it might actually be kinda cool. SCREW THE FED, they should be abolished...though I think they will once the economy collapses, but I'd love to get them out of the picture and avoid economic collapse if possible. As a patriot, (and a taxpayer) it INFURIATES me that the American public has to shoulder the burden for irresponsible rich guys and their sketchy investments that didn't pay off. It's unconstitutional, and it's socialism. Neither McCain or Obama will truly make any difference, they're both from the money party anyway. And anybody who tells you that a 3rd party vote is a waste, is either brainwashed or in cahoots with the money party. Rant complete.
- iainc, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11I think Mad Mac is trying to make the electorate as confused as he is.
- LucasVB, on 09/16/2008, -0/+10Also worth pointing out, at the same time he said this, his new ***** ad tells us the economy is in crisis: http://youtube.com/?v=pd-pMhboEX4
Make up your mind, old man! - flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+9How can he admit to the fact that our economy has been destroyed after 8 years of leadership by his fellow GOP Neocon?
- lopla, on 09/16/2008, -0/+9He really is Bush 2.0, say something enough and believe it is so -even though it's not. We really need another 4 yrs of this crap.
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8Republicans: tell me how we pay for more stuff without taxes?
Hmmm, let's see...
1)A war
2) debt and interest on debt
3) few corporations pay ANY taxes whatosever anyway
How do you propose to sustain the bush spending plans?
Also, which blue-chip US companies have moved overseas because of the "outrageous corporate tax rates" of america when compared to other countries? TYIA - chrissku, on 09/16/2008, -1/+9If my wife was worth over 100 million dollars I probably wouldn't see any problem with our economy either. McCain is clearly way out of touch with the average American. We're hurting right now Senator. Wake up.
- peheimbach, on 09/16/2008, -2/+10Here's something to make stick -- 262 pages of deregulation stuffed into (smuggled into, more like) a must-pass bill by a Republican, and McCain's chief advisor, nicknamed Senator Enron -- which directly created the framework for this mess. Don't even need to go into details about credit swaps -- just keep it short enough for the Sheeple out there: 262 pages of deregulation tricked into law by Phil Gramm - the chap who'll likely make up for Johnny and Susie's lack of Econ 101.
Here's something else to make stick (related here only by the fact that it's in the first comment):
"I sit here in Tennessee with my wife, seriously worried about our home, gas, my family, our life style, my job. I can't trust McCain as he has changed from who he was and now just stretch[e]s the truth."
I can't trust McCain. I cannot trust McCain. He's a woman-hater. He's fighting cancer. He's probably fighting Alzheimers (why do you REALLY think he's changing?)"
And remember -- in Orwell's 1984, poverty / economic struggle did a pretty good job (among other things) of keeping the lid on people's desire to speak out against their government. - Shenss, on 09/16/2008, -2/+10Yes?
- flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7Dude stfu and go away.
Our country is *currently* at an all-time RECORD HIGH DEFICIT and an all-time record high NATIONAL DEBT
It is unlikely either candidate will be able to balance the budget after the ***** this president has gotten us into.
Who do you think you are fooling with your *****? - ScienceDoc, on 09/15/2008, -3/+10Like at some of the other posts. It is a McSame neocon freakish who's who. McSame is a nut.
- gluecode, on 09/16/2008, -1/+8Only an unsound person can say that at this moment.
- Synova, on 09/16/2008, -1/+7It's like he thinks no one will hear his lies over the explosive crash of our economy?
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -2/+8We are on the brink of another great depression and this fossil has the tenacity to spew this garbage?
Let's look at history and what the people in his position said about being "fundamentally sound" meant...
Stock prices began to decline in early September 1929, however. On October 24 (known as Black Thursday) prices fell sharply as investors unloaded their stocks. The following Tuesday, 16 million shares were sold — a record at the time — and the market dropped 43 points. Brokers called in their margin debts, which few could pay, and people who had been millionaires on paper (because of the value of the stock they held) became paupers overnight. Stories of ruined men jumping to their deaths from their office windows underscored just how terribly the crash affected investors. Despite pronouncements by President Hoover, John D. Rockefeller, and other business leaders that the economy was fundamentally sound, it was impossible to stem the panic in the market. By the end of October, $30 million worth of stock had vanished. - fuzzybeard, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Senator McCain's reality check appears to have bounced. "Fundamentals of our economy are sound?" Try telling that to one of my so-workers who was worried *literally* sick today since most of her retirement savings are tied up in mutuals managed by Merrill Lynch!
- iainc, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6... and the so-called "moral right" still vote for him due to a raft of crazy single issues, even if it costs them everything. Crazy.
- koreaski, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6jesus. if he wins its gonna be this ***** all the time.
this cannot be. do people love him? if we were attacked would the country act towards him as they did to bush?
save us. save us.
ok. no. no, they'll love palin. she'll like comfort the nation and be really nasty and mean. so the nation backs her big time. mcCain is in the hospital for a long time. in fact he's in there so long that when the next election comes up he's a cgi creation purportedly broadcasting from a secret location alive and well.
McCain/Palin wins takes it again in 2012. Christmas is ruined again and the tv won't turn off, Palin is screaming the 15 minutes of hate. her accent has spread to like minded wives. glossy eyes. normals were having to fake it. Oh YAH. oh YaH.
everyone still wore tina fey glasses, and tina fey had killed herself in 2011. didn't hurt the brand at all. she was missed in certain circles - flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6You are certainly drunk.
The middle class is slowly disappearing. The gap between the rich and the poor is growing at an alarming rate. If you studied history at all, you know what happens when that gap gets too wide.
The simple fact is TAX BREAKS for 95% of Americans IS NOT SOCIALISM. Only idiots try and parrot this idea! Why are the top 1% of Americans getting richer while the other 99% are getting poorer? Do you think that is okay?
Something is obviously wrong, and McCain's answer to cut taxes for the top 1% is simply not the answer. - bpmox, on 09/16/2008, -1/+7too late
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -1/+6You got one thing right, you are drunk.
- flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -1/+6Taxes don't matter.
Bush gave lots of tax refunds, but did he cut federal spending? No. He simply borrowed and inflated the dollar.
Inflation = the big hidden tax
And this happens because our currency is not linked to any form of stable commodity such as gold or silver. Every time throughout history when countries want to over extend themselves, they don't TAX ANYBODY... they delink the currency and print more money!
Who ends up with the burden? The citizen who's dollar is now worth less.
We Americans as a whole don't understand this because they don't teach it in schools. - PhilLesh69, on 09/16/2008, -1/+6huh? starbucks?
You do know that the nascar dads and soccer moms, you know the 28% of the population that still loves Bush, and will blindly vote for McCain are the ones that go to Starbucks even though they have a ***** coffee maker in their kitchen, don't you?
If you would stop watching Fox News, you would realize you don't identify with these morons, and you wouldn't feel so supportive of McCain.
Eventually, you'd learn that both parties are being used by the people who own this country, and they take advantage of divisive politics (like I did in my first paragraph) to keep making money and controlling the direction of this country while we all bicker about stupid "issues". - flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5But... he was right about the surge??
JUST KIDDING
The surge was a bad idea for a bad war we shouldn't have gotten in. Obviously it worked, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea at the time.
If I leap off a cliff with no parachute and survive, that doesn't mean I should have done it. - iainc, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5LOL!
- flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that you are a dumbass who is trying to mislead people.
From your article:
""It seems really unlikely that they're going to be balancing the budget," said Leonard Burman, director of The Tax Policy Center run by Brookings and the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C."
That's *they're*... PLURAL.
That's right, retard... it will be very difficult for either candidate to balance the budget... now why do you think that is? Can you do simple addition here? Can you use that brain of yours, or have you ceded all control to the GOP's propaganda campaign?
Your stupid Republican president BUSH is to blame. Now shut the hell up and find some other misleading lie to try and propagate. - flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4No. Wrong.
There has never been such high federal deficit or debt in America as there is today. That is from George Walker Bush - the REPUBLICAN president for the last 8 years. The man whom McCain closely agrees with philosophically and politically.
If you remember correctly, the last Democrat (Clinton) achieved a national surplus.
So how about you shut the hell up and stop trying to spread ***** lies? Hmm? - erbalot, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4I love it when i don't see many buried comments, it means the McCain supporters couldn't find any piece of the article to exploit.
- Iphis, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5This guy is comical. I thought we had the pentagon to supply generals. It's the largest building in the world for god's sake. Certainly the republicans can find a candidate with some economic sense and let the military supply the generals. With our current military spending, I am sure there are plenty to go around.
- flameboy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Careful there... it is very hard to know what is caused by lack of regulation and what is caused by POOR or FAULTY regulation.
- KJSatz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4McCain no longer agrees with his own campaign finance reform bill. He no longer supports a torture ban. He supports the tax cuts to the gates of hell. The surge hasn't made room for the promised political reconciliation that would mark real success.* McCain's energy plan, please correct me, doesn't actually have new funding for alternative energy.
* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/world/middleeast ... - GreasyLou, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5Please, McCain supporters try to comment on this one or mark the article as inaccurate. I dare you.
- RawOysters, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4Just like what his brother GW said, "We're just in a slowdown". Really sad.
- j.carcinogen, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3What a ***** liar and idiot. He'll say something about reducing spending, then the next sentence is about expanding the military and paying soldiers more and teachers more, more aid to countries like Georgia, more involvement in healthcare.... sounds like more spending to me *****.
- GoneGreen, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3This election is about issues and judgement. Obama understands the issues and has shown wise judgement. McCain on the other hand: doesn't understand the issues and continually shows poor judgement. The choice is clear.
- davidrools, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3Well, George Bush has been saying the same thing for the past few months. So it must be true. And McCain is a maverick!
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