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  • Posted By: cani77 @ 09/21/2008 5:54:11 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?


    The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

    He believes people will vote against their own interests.

    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

    Hold them accountable NOW! while it will still help.

    Elect Obama Biden 2008

  • Posted By: busby @ 08/28/2008 3:03:39 PM

    Honey, honey, honey. She can vote for whoever she wants. Do any of you Obama supporters know what democracy is? If she feels more comfortable with McCain than so be it. You have no crystal ball and you don't know how Obama will do. You don;t even know if YOU'll be happy with him in two years. He will win if he convinces a majority of people to put their trust in him. It's as simple as that. So let up. This is still a free country. By the way I'm a democrat and I don't like him either. So don't call me a republican or a racist. I know it's painful but not all democrats can be made to listen to you. And see, I can be just as nasty and sarcastic as the rest of you. God bless.

  • Posted By: Honey Rogers @ 08/27/2008 2:39:11 PM

    Enter Your CommentSo let me get this. You'd rather vote for a Rpublican that was a cental partner with Bush, remember voting more than 90% with Bush/Cheney. Bush/Cheney both oiil men. What happened in that closed door meeting? Why is it we have no energy policy? Eight more years of abuse of power and incompetence by McBush. Barack is intelligent knows when to listen to assist with his decision making. McBush only listen to the little voices in his head, opens his mouth and then inseet his foot. He will kill us all.

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