John McCaniac to the Rescue

Well I for one am impressed on just how stupid the republican nominee for president is. As a self-proclaimed not so knowledgeable on economics kind of guy, John McCain is going to suspend his campaign to rescue Amerika.

Well I guess he means suspend any meaningful part of his campaign but not the muck racking mudslinging or ugly blatantly untrue TV commercials.

Well at least he can unleash his barely potty trained pit bull, who can still gallivant around the country and show everybody how unqualified she is to be Mayor of a tiny village let alone Vice President of this country just one heart beat away from being President of Amerika.

Have you seen the Katie interview yet? YIKES!!!!!!

So far I have to say that Congress has done a good job since in like a scene from the Godfather T. Sec. Henry Paulson delivered a “three page ransom note that said give me $700 billion, or I’d hate to see anything bad happen to that nice economy of yours.” I got that line from Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.

I for one am glad that the Republicans decided to bolt from rushing into an agreement as flawed as the rush to war with Iraq.

Since we have allowed this situation to get this far this bailout needs to have lots of strings attached. In fact the hell with strings we need ropes chains and muzzles. Plus the Treasury better get a good return on their buck. Maybe that will bailout our social security problem too.

There is no way my tax dollars should reward the Greed Is Good crowd in corporate Amerika who through mismanagement corruption and bad judgment put their companies and our economy at risk.

But just how that ole coot McCain’s sour puss in Washington is going to help get a deal done when all he has done since the convention is slime Obama is beyond me. John don’t worry about it according to your own assessment the American Economy is fundamentally sound.

Here comes the smoke and mirrors again. John McCaniac riding the white horse to the White House to proclaim “We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans” hooray John to the rescue he is putting politics aside that is except for his slime machine.

John stay the hell out of the way get out your leash and take your pit bull for a walk and let congress do its job.

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Who’s to Blame For The Wall Street Crisis? We All Are.

Pay attention everyone let’s have a little reality check. This financial crisis is not rocket science. It’s just like the obesity crisis. It ain’t the good carb bad carb, the good fats bad fats, it’s the calories stupid. If you eat more than you burn you get fat period.


It’s not the big bad credit card companies who are causing your debt it’s a lack of discipline in keeping a budget and spending more than you make, period.


When you make bad loans, bundle them up and sell them to Fannie and Freddie you are going to have worthless paper that the borrower will be unable to repay.


When you make unsound financial decisions your business fails, period. That is unless, you have friends who can make laws and spend other people’s money i.e. taxpayer dollars to prop your sorry asses up.


Well it’s time to pay up America. Trillions of dollars are going up in smoke thanks to the likes of the Gordon Gekko’s from the movie Wall Street and a congress that deregulated the very controls that could have kept this crisis from happening.


We will be ushering in a new era and hopefully some real conservatism, and fiscal responsibility. Greed is not good and America has abandoned the philosophy and principles that once made it great.


What the Bush administration and more recently McCain have abandoned, is true conservative values. We need to practice prudence and fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and a self-reliant republic.


What the vast majority of American people have abandoned is, saving for retirement and a rainy day. For years, most Americans have spent more than they earn. Credit card debt, consumer debt, auto debt, mortgage debt, and corporate debt, all are at record levels. And with pensions and savings being wiped out, much of that debt may never be repaid.


Wall Street now cries Government must save us. We are too big to fail, the consequences will be dire. The consequences are dire and we must not allow this to happen again. We must operate with free market consequences not government socialism for Wall Street.


If we do not operate with genuine free market consequences we must intervene and put the leash and muzzle on Wall Street.


Here is the reality. Our economy is running because foreigners are buying our bonds and lending us money but this is going to come to an abrupt halt because they will rightly fear that if they ever get paid back and all it will be in cheaper dollars.


America lead by the money that influence in congress has abandoned the principles that once made us great. We have marched lock step forward into a global economy where we all depend on one another. American companies have moved plants and factories to anywhere labor is cheap forget about the American worker. The American consumer buys more cheaply form abroad what we used to make in the good ole USA. Can your even buy shoes, clothes, bikes, radios, TV’s or computers made in America?


Now our trade deficits are out of control. At home tax cuts for the rich, endless war, welfare for people who don’t deserve it and out of control government spending by the so called conservative Bush administration is sinking the value of the dollar. Just look at the soaring value of gold to the dollar.


Yet John McCain would make the Bush tax cuts permanent expand the military, move NATO into Georgia and start a war with Iran. Barack Obama is promising tax cuts to everyone but the wealthiest two percent.


Our democracy is at stake due to the fiscal crisis. A Scotsman named Alexander Tyler, a History professor from Scotland living about the time that our constitution was written in 1787 said this.


“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves a generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”


What we are witnessing today is how empires end. What we have now is an America who is unable to defend its own borders, protect its currency, or even balance its budget. With out the discipline to solve this crisis Medicare and Social Security headed for disastrous consequences with under-Funded liabilities that will come to trillions of dollars.


Who do they want to manage this crisis? Bush and company want to give total control to Hank Paulson and Ben Bernake without oversight. They want to entrust an unelected financial elite with the assignment of getting us out of a disaster into which and unelected financial elite got us into in the first place with us as just spectators.


We used to be the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in world history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved. What is the solution to this crisis? Don’t lend money to people who can’t pay it back and who want government welfare to bail them out. Don’t save businesses that don’t follow sound fiscal principles. Invent it here, make it her, buy it here, and live within your means.


The rich, the middle class, and the poor are going to have to bite the bullet and realize that the free lunch is over and the bill has com due.


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Obama Fight Back Pleeeeease.!!!!!

They are swiftboating Obama and if he and Biden don't stop using the rope a dope tactic like Mohammed Ali did to wear-out his opponents, they will get KO’d just like Kerry and they will be left in November scratching their heads and saying, are the American people really that blind.

Well the fact is more than half of them never vote at all so at least half of the American people don’t even care about our country.

Of the people that vote almost half voted for Bush twice so about three quarters of the American people are completely out of touch with reality and if you put lipstick on a pig they will elect it vice president.

McCain the war hero is acting like coward hiding behind his spin doctors. He continually attacks Obama with half truths, out of context quotes, and outright lies. McCain can’t run on his own record, he must run from it.

The phony indignation the Republicans are faking, the newest ads that McCain has put out for the mass media. Chris Matthews had some Republican senators and congressmen on asking direct questions did they believe that Obama was actually calling Paulin a pig with lipstick and every last one started dancing like Sugar Ray Leonard did to Roberto Duran and did not directly answer the question.

Well Mr. McCain himself has used this phrase several times during the campaign as well as many other prominent Republicans have used the same phrase as was shown on Matthews show.

Both sides have declared a truce to commemorate the attacks on September 11, 2001 but McCain keeps up the cheap shots up to the last minute.

He released a TV ad saying Obama Favored “comprehensive sex education” for Kindergartners which is another line of crap what Obama favors is teaching children about inappropriate touching like the kind that happens when a child is molested by someone he or she trusts like their priest, or minister or congressman.

Now this ad refers to legislation Obama voted for, but did not sponsor in the Illinois Senate that allowed school boards to develop “age-appropriate” sex education courses at all levels, kindergarten teachers were given the approval to teach about appropriated and inappropriate touching to combat molestation. So what is McCain saying that McCain wants to protect the child molester.
Another McCain ad pins the swirl of Internet rumors about McCain's running mate to the Obama campaign. The reference to a mini-army was drawn from a Wall Street Journal column by conservative John Fund. A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said yesterday that neither it nor the Obama campaign had any researchers or lawyers in Alaska.

Obama did fight back and say "We've got an energy crisis, we have an education system that is not working for too many of our children and making us less competitive. We have an economy that is creating hardship for families all across America. We've got two wars going on, veterans coming home not being cared for, and this is what they want to talk about."

Obama aides say the assaults will not work but I disagree, the untrue fabricated assaults on Kerry in the 2004 election where his downfall. Obama’s running mate Senator Joe Biden denounced the negativity pointing out that Bush smeared McCain in his 2000 race for the presidency and said "What really disappoints me is the very tactics used against him, they're trying to use against Barack Obama now," he said. "It's literally saddening. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. But I guess I should learn to expect everything."

Senator Obama you don’t even have to lie or tell half truths to hit back, their record speak for itself. McCain is no Einstein, finishing 5th from the bottom of his class from the U.S. Naval Academy. Out of 899 he finished 894.
He had extramarital affairs, in which he accepted the blame. He associated and was involved in the Keating Five scandal and was rebuked for his role by the Senate Ethics Committee.

McCain long ago made clear that the American economy is not his strong suit. In November 2005, McCain acknowledged: "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."

Two years later, McCain admitted making little progress in grasping Economics. As the Boston Globe reported in December 2007, economic policy is "a subject on which McCain has said he feels he is unknowledgeable and that filling the void would be a priority when selecting a vice-presidential nominee." To address this glaring shortfall, Republican presidential nominee claimed he had turned to the equivalent of Economics for Dummies:

"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." Given the recent housing market meltdown, the forced bail out of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the hysteria gripping Wall Street and the global financial system. Americans should be concerned about the identity of McCain's mentor. After all, Greenspan played a critical role in bringing the United States to the brink of economic disaster.

In 1997 McCain was the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and he accepted funds from corporations and businesses under the committee’s purview. He voted against Bush’s tax cuts for the rich but has since recanted and votes for permanent tax breaks while the country has a massive deficit because of the war in Iraq and Bush’s spending orgy.

So Senator Obama if you want to be president, don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, don’t jump into an ass kicking contest with one leg, hit back and hit hard because these lies will bury your chances of being president, and stick us with John McCainiac and his pit bull with lipstick, at a time when this country needs smart intelligent leadership. You must lead us out of the hole that the Bush / Cheney administration and their Republican rubber stamp congress has put us into.

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Just the Facts

Well the two parties have had their conventions bought and paid for by the corporate high rollers. All the candidates got to speak and stretch truth as politicians do.

John McCain said that the health care plan that Obama proposes would “force small businesses to cut jobs” and would put “a bureaucrat between your and your doctor.” In reality Obama’s plan exempts small businesses, and it also would allow those who have insurance now to could keep the coverage that they have.

Obama’s plan requires businesses to contribute to the cost of insurance for employees or pay some unspecified amount into a new public plan. But his proposal specifically says, “Small businesses will be exempt from this requirement.” And it offers additional help to small businesses that want to provide health care in the form of a refundable tax credit of up to half the cost of premiums. Neither McCain or Obama has defined what exactly a “small business” is.

Obama’s plan doesn’t “force” families into a “government-run health care system.” His plan mandates that children have coverage; there’s no mandate for adults. People can keep the health insurance they have now or chose from private plans, or opt for a new public plan that will offer coverage similar to what members of Congress have. Obama would also expand Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. His plan certainly expands government-offered insurance – and McCain’s doesn’t – but it’s not a solely government-run plan, as McCain implied. And if Obama's public plan turns out to be similar to what federal employees have, as he says it would be, we're not sure how "a bureaucrat" would stand "between you and your doctor." The possible exception would be persons covered by Medicaid or SCHIP.

McCain accused Obama for voting for “corporate welfare” for oil companies. In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $300 million over 11 years while providing $5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, and energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

The bill McCain is talking about here is the 2005 energy bill, which actually raised taxes on the oil industry a little bit overall – by about $300 million, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Meanwhile, McCain himself proposes to cut the corporate rate for all companies – oil included – and that would result in an estimated $4 billion cut for the five largest U.S.-based oil companies, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Obama, on the other hand, is promising that he'll strip oil companies of "tax breaks" to the tune of an amount yet to be determined.

It's true that Obama voted for the 2005 bill. He said he favored the $5.8 billion (over 11 years) that it contained in tax incentives for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels. McCain voted against it on the grounds that the $2.6 billion it contained for oil and gas incentives was too much, even though the bill also took away $2.9 billion from the industry, for a net tax increase of $300 million. Describing such a complex measure as "corporate welfare" is misleading.
McCain said oil imports to the U.S. send “$700 billion a year to countries that don’t like us very much.” The fact is that America is on track to import a total of $536 billion of oil and almost 1/3 of this comes from Canada, Mexico, and England.

McCain promised to increase the use of “wind, tide, and solar” energy. His actual energy plan contains no new money for renewable energy and has said that renewable sources won’t produce as much as people think.

McCain in his speech called for “reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs.” The only problem is that he failed to cite a single program that he would eliminate or reduce.

McCain has not said which programs he considers to be "failed programs." He thus makes the spending cuts sound less painful than they will be should he fulfill his previously stated promise to balance the federal budget by 2013 while also making all Bush tax cuts permanent and adding new cuts of his own. McCain repeated his promise to eliminate "earmarks" from federal spending bills, saying "the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it." That drew applause, but the fact is that earmarks amount to only $16.9 billion in the current fiscal year, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Meanwhile, the deficit is expected to be more than $200 billion in 2009. And McCain's tax cuts will add billions more to future deficits unless offset by spending cuts, which he so far has not been willing to identify. What would he cut?

A McCain adviser, former CBO chairman Douglas Holtz-Eakin, has said that McCain "will provide the leadership to achieve bipartisan spending restraint" and "will perform a comprehensive review of all programs, projects and activities of the federal government" to find programs to cut or eliminate. But that, of course, will come after people have cast their votes.

McCain said Obama would “close” markets to trade but the facts are Obama said he wants to renegotiate NAFTA to strengthen environmental and labor provisions.
Obama has said he thinks it's unwise to repeal the trade deal, because to do so "would actually result in more job loss ... than job gains." And in a June interview with Fortune magazine, he stated that he didn’t plan on pulling out of NAFTA.

John McCain said “We must use all resources and develop all technologies necessary to rescue our economy from the damage caused by rising oil prices and restore the health of our planet.”

McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, ridiculed Obama for using similar high-sounding words:

Palin, Sept. 3: What does he actually seek to accomplish after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? That crack drew jeers and laughter. Perhaps Republicans see a distinction between "healing the planet" and "restoring” the health of our planet," but I don’t see it.

The republican spin machine is in overdrive with only weeks before the election that will define America for the next 4 years. They may feed you a line of Bullcrap but we don’t have to swallow it.

source http://www.factcheck.org

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