McCain's economics just more of same

Oh yea, Obama wants higher taxes and social programs. The Dems also want to let the illegals to come here and keep them in power so the wages stay low due to their below market wages. Accoerding to the Dems anyone making over 30k is rich. I'll take McCain anyday over the socialist racist the Dems put up for president.

John McCain needs a web guru.

He should take a lesson from Barack and Ron Paul.

One problem, speaking from the right, is that the Republicans' profligacy has provided an opening for Obamaistas. If the economy heads south, calls to "save us from the market" have just begun.

@mike p
By "Social Programs"...you mean education, infrastructure and those pesky little un-American things like clinics and garbage collectors? Give me a quote where ANYONE has said that 30k is rich. The last time I checked that kind of salary is a thing of the past considering most jobs are in China now anyway. You talk about keeping jobs and wages here...and yet tax breaks are given to companies who move overseas. Nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since Bush took office, including some 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. Bush's new foreign tax breaks in S. 1637 will encourage companies to export more jobs by offering $37 billion in new foreign tax breaks. Please.

I may be one of the few black men that support John McCain. I have watched television most of my waking life, and I believe them when they say that the Middle East wants to get us. I don't know where Iraq or Iran is, but we have to stop them from coming over here and destroying our way of life. Sure the USDA can't protect our food source, and we can barely afford to pay for it. I don't like tomatoes anyway. Sure we pay a lot for gas, but it is a bargain compared to what they pay in Europe or Japan. Sure we are fighting two wars, and our military is experiencing record suicides, and has resorted to recruiting felons to send bodies on the front line. But by god...we have to win the good fight! We have to win "AT ALL COST!"

Even though life is much harder for me, and is going to get worse in the future from my calculations...I know that we Americans need to just support McCain, because we need to get Iran. We have to fight them too...See, I am not worried so much about that war, because I am not of draft age...I don't really mind seeing other peoples kids go to the front line (I don't have any)...I am so desensitized to violence, gore, and war (thanks to cable that I will soon have to turn off because I can no longer afford that - We have to make tough choices in tough times...I say electricity over cable. Next, it will be food over electricity after they raise it again...)

Yea, we have to support John McCain. Only a 72 year old man has the vision to see the future. He has lived so long in the past, he is prime for it. John McCain will make everything better, wait and see. War is good for the economy, at least the top 1%...we need them to get richer, so that we can work for them. John McCain doesn't need to know anything about the economy, Bush doesn't, and the country is doing just great. Obama is just too much of a change. He wants peace, work on America's deteriorating infrastructure - not Iraqs - and provide health care. He wants to raise our taxes to pay for those things. We can't support freeloaders! We need more war...WAR IS JUST AS GOOD AS OUTSOURCING...Everyone will see, in hindsight, that Bush was the greatest president ever...and McCain will be the best successor to his agenda this country has ever had. Come with me, walk into the light!

What crap.

The "tax breaks" for the "rich" include tax breaks for small business that allows them to invest in new equipment.

Increase taxes on small business and jobs will be lost.

On the other hand, Sen. Barack Obama and the democrats believe in taxing the snot out of everyone with an income to serve that "common good," which is socialist speak for people without the conviction to get a real job and/or live within their means. Raymond and the entitlement generation have spoken, and they choose Obama.

Mr. Gill should try to remove himself from Sen Obama's backside.

The riches really need more tax cut, because they are the ones create jobs and really produces something. Yes, more tax cut for the big oil companies is needed! Otherwise gasoline prices wont go down. McCain is the man to accomplish that mission Vote for McCain!

Ahhhh, another person who thinks the government can create jobs, and that re-distribution of wealth is the answer. Good luck with that. I'm suffering too with this economy, but it is businesses that create jobs, big government and higher taxes only hurt the economy. Complain about the wealthy but the majority of them pay far more than their share of taxes AND provide capital for businesses. You want a more prosperous economy read my lips FLAT TAX.

EMT wrote:

@mike p
By "Social Programs"...you mean education, infrastructure and those pesky little un-American things like clinics and garbage collectors? Give me a quote where ANYONE has said that 30k is rich. The last time I checked that kind of salary is a thing of the past considering most jobs are in China now anyway. You talk about keeping jobs and wages here...and yet tax breaks are given to companies who move overseas. Nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since Bush took office, including some 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. Bush's new foreign tax breaks in S. 1637 will encourage companies to export more jobs by offering $37 billion in new foreign tax breaks. Please.

How is the world do you equate garbage collection with social programs? Most garbage collection is private industry these days. At least teh successful ones. We are throwing record amounts at education and still the students struggle. Maybe we are teaching the wrong things and should go back to reading, writing, math, and science. Our children are struggling to compete with socialized themed learning agendas.

Oh, the top 5% pay about 90% of the taxes in this country. But I guess it's OK with you if they pay 98%, so long as the ones who didn't want to pay attention in school pay nothing.

The problem with the Obama's of the world is that they want the successful to continue to support dusfunction.

I absolutely support the idea of giving every citizens the tools they need to improve their lives. The key tools are the opportunity for an education and a workplace free of discrimination.

Guess what? We already provide that. Is it perfect? Hell no, the current way we do education is completely broken. We need to encourage competition and accountability in the education process.

On the other hand, those that get ahead, like myself, take those very tools and maximize the benefit through hard work and good decisions.

My point? This nation provides plenty of opportunity, some people just waste it. In fact, the left enables them to waste the opportunities by always having another excuse and another villain to blame.

Forget the straw man about exporting jobs, when you go to spend your hard earned dollar you look for the lowest price and/or best quality. American companies can't compete with the wages overseas so they use them or lose to them, if you were running the business you would do exactly the same thing.

Stuffed suit, Chicago politician and sophist, inexperienced rhetorician and constant abandoner of friends and associates vs. a military man and squadron leader who also happens to have 30 years experience in the senate. Yeah, let us vote for Obama. People rightly think Bush was too small and not bright enough for the job. That assessment was right. But Obama? The walking gaffe machine might make Bush look like a friggin' savant. The man has done virtually, nay, absolutely nothing of merit other than to proclaim himself meritorious in two self-promoting and inconsistent biographies. In the age of the blogosphere an Obama presidency is gonna' be quite a treat. He's not even POTUS yet and already has so many dirtbags in his past that there's no guessing what's to come. I'm sure it'll be juicy. I’m not voting for McCain. But the empty cult of Obama is a truly disturbing, unsettling thing; a spectacle and embarrassing farce I’m proud not to buy into.

Under Regan and Bush 1, we saw deregulation of business and the consequence was the Savings and Loan Crisis, 1986 to 1995, which ultimately cost us tax payers ~$125 billion. A major factor of the S&L Crisis was foolish, unregulated real estate lending. Bush 2 brings back those economic policies and, surprise surprise, we have a similar disaster. It's counter-intuitive, but everyone, rich and poor, benefits from sound government regulation of business. It's stupid to say intervention is always bad and to base government policy on that ideology. Bad intervention will yield bad results, but so will no intervention. Good intervention yields good results, especially by preventing bad ones.

Robert wrote:

Bad intervention will yield bad results, but so will no intervention. Good intervention yields good results, especially by preventing bad ones.

I can't disagree with this statement.

I will ask you to apply the same logic to social policy that has led to the breakdown of the nuclear family and dependence on taxpayer aid being a way of life.

Obama is living proof that plenty of opportunities exist in this nation regardless of the color of your skin or where you started from.

The piece that the left leaves out is that people should be expected to bust their tails to take advantage of these opportunities and they should not be allowed to fall back on the so called "safety net" as a way of life.

Obama's tax hike is for people that make more than 250k. McCain's plan gives away breaks for people that make over 2.5 mil. Someone PLEASE tell me exactly WHY you would vote against your own monetary interests. I have a killer education (paid for by me), and an awesome resume and have been steadily losing jobs to China. Not because of straw man political posturing, but to the real threat of outsourcing. Business regulation is absolutely necessary and those who say otherwise have something to hide. As for the educational end of the debate, Quit giving money to these religious private schools and education across the board gets better.

New speak from 1984 by the Senator Obama crowd: "Activists Si, dirty stinking lobbyists No".

Why is that people believe that the wealth actually invest their money back into America? If the rich generate so many jobs, then why is unemployment up? Outsourcing jobs to foreign markets is more profitable to business, but hurts the average American.

The truth is that it's not the rich that drive the American economy. THE MIDDLE CLASS DRIVES THE ECONOMY. Why? It's simple. The middle class takes on individual debt that wealthy people don't have too. The Middle Class homeowner more often obtains a mortgage. The problem with the housing market is that the Middle Class (because of outsourcing) can't continue to pay for their homes--plus the idiotic lending schemes. Middle Class Americans finance cars, furniture, etc. The rich don't have to.

I support advantages for the Middle Class American that drives the economy. The Obama tax plan is not about taking from rich and giving the "entitled." It about asking those that have gained the most from America to invest more back into America.

Besides, even the Bible teaches, "...For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48 And no, it is not taken out of context.

McCain is definitely offering more of the Republican lobbyist-driven corruption and failed policies that have already tanked the economy.

Larry,

Independent TX voter