It’s Going to Get Worse

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  Posted By: pab3809 @ 05/28/2008 12:11:07 AM

  Nins,
  
  Yes, the average taxpayer is getting the raw end of the deal from Mr. Bush and his self-decribed group of "Haves & Have Mores"; but Clinton was even worse than Bush in terms of Corporate giveaways and other taxpayer takaways.
  
  McCain does have a history of voting against the corporate welfare plans and costly subsidies. I wish I could say the same for Obama; but I can't.
  
  Obama doesn't have much of a history of anything. He doesn't have a plan, which he can articulate, for what he would do as President. So far his tactic has been to look at Hillary's plans, find a weakness and say "I wouldn't do that!" and then he will look at McCain's ideas and again say, "I wouldn't do that!" Well, just what would Obama do? When will he begin to share his plans in more depth than "I will be different & I will make it better." When do we get the 'how'?
  
  Obama is a scary choice to be President. Like Hillary said, if you look at this from the perspective of a Hiring Manager and you rank the candidates in terms of experience and skill sets .... Obama is a distant 3rd.
  
  

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  Posted By: UScitizen @ 05/26/2008 8:36:36 AM

  When the average family income can't afford the average price of a house, there's going to be a correction.. either in the average house price or the average house size, specs, quality. "Creative" financing couldn't sustain the overbuidling of the average house but for so long...I make a good salary and there is not way I can afford a good house in my state, with taxes, upkeep, etc.. I thought it must be inheritances keeping the market afloat.. now I see it was unchecked fantasy by buyers, banks, and regulators.

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  Posted By: Nins @ 05/26/2008 1:50:53 AM

  
  
  Oil and war, war and oil. Environmental destruction. Endless greed. US corporations getting tax breaks while shipping jobs overseas to countries that have no environmental protection laws, no workers' rights, no human rights. Countries where people are factory slaves and the air is so polluted you can hardly breathe. US military violating the Geneva convention, torturing prisoners. US government imprisoning people without charging them with any crimes, and holding them for years without trial. Working class Americans losing their homes in a mortgage banking scandal, and the government bails out the banks, not the working people.
  
  It's simple:
  
  If you are sickened by these things, vote for Obama. If you think these are good things, vote for McCain.
  
  I'm a Republican and I own two corporations. I thought it would be a cold day in hell before I ever said anything like this. But the unprecedented corporate greed aided and abetted by an unscrupulous Presidential administration is now starting to take down the US economy. I have to stand up and protest.
  
  Corporations are good only insofar as they strengthen America. When they start to weaken us, we need to re-evaluate the rules and regulations governing business.
  
  And we need to get rid of George W. Bush, along with all of his misguided policies that have dragged our once proud nation into the mud.