McCain on Liberal D.C. Rule: ‘Grab Ahold of Your Wallets!’

I actually disagree with Sen. McCain on this one. You won’t be able to hold onto your wallet because the Democrats will be holding it for you!

We’re so afraid of change all we can do is moan and gron about it….

I love the Republicans…asking us to hold on to our wallets if a Democrat gets elected. Who sent the country into a recession? Who got us into a war that costs millions each day? Who bloated the federal government to a size never seen in history? Hint…it wasn’t the Democrats. It’s time to chuck those old never-been-true cliches and tell the truth. The Republicans cost millions their jobs, their houses and their future. It’ll take a Democrat to clean up their mess and give us our prosperity back.

A Lesson in Obamaeconomics..
(no this didn’t happen to me, but I can’t wait to try it out in practice)
Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept.
He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed the money more.
“I guess that the redistribution of wealth thing is easier to swallow as a concept than in practical application.”

McCain’s words, as usual, are belied by his proposals and record. He says whatever he thinks will work at the moment and assumes that we’re a nation of morons who’ve forgetten what he said the day before. This “hold onto your wallets” stuff comes from the man who:
voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout (and partial “socialization” of nine of the country’s largest banks),
has voted for Bush’s record breaking budgets and is eager to keep spending $10 billion per month in Iraq,
proposes to spend $300 billion to buy up mortgages from banks so that the taxpayers get stuck paying the difference between the “bubble” and actual values.
wants to “spread the wealth” by providing health care tax credits financed by taxing my health care benefits.
says that he’s going to take a meat cleaver to the budget while his running mate proposes a $50 billion program for special needs children.
What a shameless, flailing hypocrite. When McCain/Palin accuse their opponents of doing something, it’s probably because they’re already doing it themselves.

Sorry, John – but my wallet, and my savings accounts were in a whole lot better shape under Clinton than they were under Bush – and so were most Americans. And you have been with Phil Gramm and George Bush evrey step of the way.
How long are people going to believe these lies?

mccain would take from the middle class and call the poor class beggers,where have we seen that happen before.3rd world countries??

OH McCain! stop being chicken little ,
i know you wanted to keep the tax breaks for the WEALTHY intact just like your masters cheney/george bush.
I guess this is your alarm to the rich.
But for us citizens with Democrats in power; will be happy to GRAB on to Universal healthcare, investment in infrastructure in states which will CREATE JOBS. do away with no child left behind and invest in REAL EDUCATION from early childcare. ENERGY the ENVIRONMENT… ETC.
finally as tax payers.. that money will see its way back to the people instead of starting unnecessary WARS and FREE CORPORATE welfare that ship jobs overseas.

eddie O: “At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient needed the money more.”
By your belief in ‘taxing’ the middle class and your clear position in the upper, served class, I would guess you’re a true Republican (as if the smugness didn’t give it away).

Obama is not trustworthy, he broke his word on campaign finance and saying he wouldn’t wear the flag pin. He’s a fake.
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Obama is not trustworthy, he broke his word on campaign finance and saying he wouldn’t wear the flag pin.
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McCain broke his word on running a respectable campaign, the Bush tax cuts, a woman’s right to chose, immigration, and certainly lied about putting his country first.
I think I’ll get over the flag pin.

Oh, all those poor rich people! It is such a burden to have all that money, how can we make them suffer with taxes on top of all of the pain they already endure?

The noncredible extremism on this board is a good example of why McCain is behind. We moderates/independents aren’t willing to trust a campaign that dehumanizes other Americans and that makes outlandish claims.

Obama simply cannot deliver on the promises that he is making. You will find out that $250K will quickly become $150K and that the hard working middle class will be the ones asked to be patriotic and “Spread the wealth around”.

Worried about Obama… I am worried about Palin.
She’s been famous for like a month…
And she’s already ego tripping. Blowing lots of cash, telling tall tales, and backstabbing the prince who lifted her out of Cinderella-land.
I don’t want her anywhere near the White House.

Concerned in Ohio…
If you think we are living in some kind of far-left dystopia…
How do you define “middle of the road”?
The Michigan Militia? Mussolini? Or are they too lefty for you.

How is this new? This is the same tired, stupid arguement he has been making all election. And it might work if his party hadn’t just oversaw the largest expansion of the deficet in our history and capped it off with nationalizing our entire financial system.

Wake up, people.Some Democratic Congress members have discussed seizing 401(k)s and putting them in a government account that would yield three percent. Forever.
Cavuto says that Congress is also considering eliminating the tax breaks for 401(k)s. This of course would discourage any savings at all against your own future. As it is, far too many Americans live on credit and don’t save a penny. That would discourage EVERYBODY from saving. After all, this is also not only going to affect the “richest five percent”. This affects every workng American with a 401(k) or IRA. It doesn’t, however, affect wild-eyed young people looking for some hopey-changey excitement while their parents support them.

I am so tired of hearing about a flagpin!

Concerned in Ohio: You describe yourself as center-right.
I agree – you’re smack in the center of the EXTREMIST right.
Doesn’t matter. Your party’s TOAST.

The trouble is there is nothing left in our wallets. This Republican administration has managed to spend our dollars on the war, Haliburton, Blackwater….and then they even spent our kid’s money on Wall Street. So what can the Dems do thats any worse?

James Danley complained that the “You won’t be able to hold onto your wallet because the Democrats will be holding it for you!” Well, in a McCain/Palin administration you won’t have to worry about that because nobody could afford wallets. Their administration would be no different than four more years of Bush, except we’d be paying a lot more for Queen Palin and her families clothes.

it is impossible to say a positive word about Sarah Palin.
Thanks for your free and open minded forum. Jake A…..

I would rather have to look after holding on to my wallet, than
needing to try and hold on to the son and daugther that i have loved, reared and nurtured.
only to see them killed in wars.

BR: “Wake up, people.Some Democratic Congress members have discussed seizing 401(k)s and putting them in a government account that would yield three percent. Forever.”
Citation please. I have heard no comments about seizing assets, only changing the tax exemption code. Lets try to deal in reality rather than partisan fear mongering.

Just voted for Obama without conviction. McCain really sounds like he is grasping at straws. When you are playing defense with 8 days to go you really are in trouble. If you want to scream socialism please go to Siberia where no one can here you scream!!! Sure is easy to scream socialism from your couch, but to actually live it would be a different situation. If heaven forbid John McSame dropped dead guess who is president, Oh wait we already had a VP run the country for 8 years before and look where it got us.
Obama/Biden 08

McCain said today that he was going to win. LOL.
I guess that’s because he can’t use ‘the google’ and look up the Electoral Projections sites out there.
His advisers won’t tell him the truth for they fear his terrible outbursts of anger and his scandalous cursing.
Of the 87 electoral projection sites on the Internet, 86 show that Obama will win. 62 of them have Obama leading in states with already more than 300 votes.
But don’t tell McCain. He’ll explode. Let the old man enjoy the race as long as it lasts. Pretty soon he’ll be lost in the boredom of his retirement.

I wish McCain a long and enjoyable retirement.

The Dems will sure be disappointed when they find out my wallet is empty because of McCain and his cohorts.

Barack Obama is going to lower your taxes. He is going to lower your taxes by getting you thrown into the unemployment line.

John Mccain is going to break your heart
he has tried to run on a platform of being heavy on national security. and he thinks most of the world is a threat.
so if barack is goind to empty your wallet.
mccain is going to break your heart
by killing your sons and daughters trying to WIN the war-the war we should never have been in-in the first place.
so if your think it will be obma taking your wallet
it will be mccain taking a loved ones life.
money or life?

The good news is that if you don’t like this message from McCain, you just have to wait another day or two and he’ll have a new one. Or, just maybe, the problem is that he never had one and his running mate’s best attempt is “boo”. Just in time for halloween…

Wake up McCain! We’ve already lost our wallets!
But what do you care? You’re married to a millionaire, have 7 houses and 13 cars.

NEXT GIMMICK, PLEASE – this one’s already worn out.
OBAMA = PREZ
McCAIN = TOAST

Concerned in OH, I’ve never seen that text, and it’s certainly interesting, but the obvious question is: How is it relevant to the story?

Oh, it was an Obama quote? How about that?
I don’t generally bother reading long cut/paste posts.
IT ALL SOUNDS PERFECTLY REASONABLE TO ME – WHAT’S YOUR POINT?

You know, the other night in the debate with Senator Obama, I said his eloquence is admirable, but pay attention to his words. We talk about offshore drilling and he said he would quote, consider, offshore drilling. We talked about nuclear power, well it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah.”
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Well after we all have radiation poisoning, and no health care who cares.
Does this guy have any common sense at all?

You know, I’m sick to death of hearing people complain about the war when they’ve had nothing to do with it. Oh, we have to get out. You know, they said that in Vietnam and we left. Know what happened? The people that helped us were slaughtered along with two million Cambodians. The Dems, and peaceniks, just walked away. It’s easy to complain when you don’t have to serve. Did you serve, did someone you know serve, did it cost you anything? Or are you just sitting back on that fat back side of yours complaining about something you know nothing about. My husband spent a year in Vietnam, fighting to keep you safe. He got three planes shot out from under him so you could sit there with your beer in one hand and your remote in the other, drinking in all the nonsense Obama is spewing. Our founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves to see how easily your willing to give up the freedoms they fought to give you. I’m sick to death of your whining. What are you going to do when you find out all those promises the King made are nothing but hot air? What will you say when the businesses he taxes decide to leave the country and your job is gone. Companies don’t pay taxes, we do. When companies get taxed they lay off workers, and close down plants. The Republicans didn’t cause this money problem, the Dems did. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and now you want them to fix it. I’ve finely discovered who the Piped Piper is. It’s Obama and you’re the mindless rabble that are following him over the cliff. Will don’t come to us to bail you out. The Dems make a mess and then we Rep. have to come clean it up. Well, this time you’re going to have to lay in it. Sadly your short sightedness, will hurt us as well. That’s what’s really sad about all this. You’ll drag us all down.

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Sadly John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin has badly damaged his credibility on all subjects pertaining to the well-being of the American people.
A McCain source on Palin (from CNN, today, “Palin’s Going Rogue”):
“Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic,” said another McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the “hardest” to get her “up to speed than any candidate in history.”
If McCain can’t pick a decent VP, it’s time for him to leave the stage.”
That is for sure.

B.Stan:
>The Republicans didn’t cause this money problem, the Dems did. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and now you want them to fix it.
The U.S. economy is enormously complicated. Screwing it up takes a great deal of cooperation. Claiming that one party is responsible is just political grandstanding. Even claiming that only politicians are responsible is staggeringly naive.
Second, my father served in Vietnam, losing his left leg and 2 fingers on his left arm. He was, and remains, a Democrat. Plenty of people that served (and died) in Vietnam are Democrats. I’ll be charitable and assume you’re a troll. If you’re not, with all due respect, try to sound less vile next time.

“A flood of new state polls the last couple of days — virtually one new survey an hour — has widened the hypothetical Electoral College lead of Barack Obama to its largest size yet, according to the latest state poll research published today by Karl Rove & Co.
Obama now holds 317 electoral votes to 157 for John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket, and 64 more votes remain in the tossup category.”

In 1986, as a result of a Republican led tax cut my tax bill went up $2000.00 on a salary of $26,000.00 (I received no pay increase over the previous year because of an economic downturn in Iowa.
After the Bush / Republican tax cut we were given a few years ago my tax bill went up $2000.00 over the preceding year. I had received an $800.00 pay raise.
The Republicans talk about less taxes, but the code seems to become more convoluted and results in a tax increase for the middle-class. Each year after the Bush tax cuts I have had more and more taken out of my pay check for income taxes by having to change deductions on my W-4 to none. Before said tax cuts I would usually have around $800.00 refunded—curious isn’t it? I no longer get a refund, but always must send in a check for around $600.00. I’ve had to “hold on to my wallet” during the Republican administration.

Democrats have only a 1,000 vote advantage !”
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Don’t be silly all that says is that 1,000 more Democrats have voted so to that date then Republicans. That is 104,000 Republicans voted 105,000 Democrats. It is not results. No one knows how they voted.

I checked my wallet, and it’s already been emptied by borrow and spend Republicans. At least Democrats have the sense to try to cover their spending. And a quick look at Census Bureau stats shows that the top 10% of this country have been skimming off double their share of wealth. Now that’s redistribution – Republican style.

“I checked my wallet, and it’s already been emptied by borrow and spend Republicans. At least Democrats have the sense to try to cover their spending. And a quick look at Census Bureau stats shows that the top 10% of this country have been skimming off double their share of wealth. Now that’s redistribution – Republican style.”
Exactly VV. Thanks.

pefros: you’re welcome.

Explosive video,
headlined on Drudge,
Obama laments constitutional constraints on……
WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION
via the courts,
but happily suggests that’s what the legislature is for.
I see why Biden was so touchy on the “is Obama a Marzist” question. It hit a little too close to home.
Obama IS a Marxist. That’s scary.

A gentleman whose family immigrated to the USA from Switzerland before WWII wrote a letter to the editor of the Dallas Morning News a few weeks ago in which he suggested that we should think in terms of how much a person has left after taxes rather than percentages.
He pointed out that highest taxation level during WWII was around 70% (I don’t know if that is true or not), but a person taxed at that rate on $1,000,000.00 would have $300,000.00 to live on after taxes (of course in 1940 that was worth more than it is today).
$1,000,000.00 taxed at 35% would leave $650,000.00 to live on.
$42,000 taxed at 20% would leave $33,800.00 to live on.
If the tax rate on $42,000.00 is reduced by 5% to 15% that would leave $35,700.00 to live on.
I don’t know how all of this will work itself out, I just present this for people to think about.

No concerned in OH it hasn’t worked out very well. We’ve seen the results over the past 8 years of Republican governement.
Billions and Billions of dollars rung up in deficits by Republicans.
Who did they think was going to pay for it? 7/11 workers? Macdonalds restaurant employees?

Jesus said, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
Luke reported, “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. . . . There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.”
Obama said, “I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you–that they’ve got the chance at success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Coach A: Make sure all the members of the team get a chance to play in the game even if only for a few minutes. Doesn’t leave anyone sitting out on the bench for every game of the season.
Coach B: Only play the team members who you think will successfully win the game. Leave the others that aren’t “naturally” skilled sit on the bench.
Which coach would you prefer your son or daughter play under?

“Messiah”, “Obamabot” . .. all the right-wing childish name calling … you Republicans are going to lose this election. Please try to grow up and take it like an adult.

Barack Obama on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM, 2001: The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society… and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that…
This is the guy you zombies want to be our president. Wake up already!!

Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and poor people? Bush-McCain-Palin! I have degrees in Economics and Finance. I earn over $50,000.00 a year. On election years during the Bush administration I have received $1.00 per month tax break in 2002, $2.00 per month, tax break in 2004, $1.00 per month tax break in 2006. On off election years during the Bush administration I received a tax increase of $100.00 per month in 2003, $200.00, per month tax increase in 2006, $300.00 dollar per month tax increase in 2008. This is a net tax increase during the Bush administration of $596.00 I pay per month. Republican’s and Independent’s how is this a tax break for the middle class and working poor? I pay $596.00 more per month in taxes since the Bush administration started giving huge tax cuts to the wealthiest people in this country. I have not changed tax brackets during the past 8 years. Do the math Republican’s and Independents if you earn under $250,000.00 your pay more taxes under the Bush-McCain-Palin plan and those who make more than $250,000.00 pay less taxes. Republican’s and Independent’s what part of the Bush-McCain-Palin huge tax decrease to the rich and huge tax increase to the middle class and working poor don’t you understand? Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and working poor? It is Bush-McCain-Palin!

Concerned in OH: If you really read and considered what I wrote, you might change your mind and switch to Coach A—I didn’t say his team was not a winning team, I said he allows all the team memebers “at least a few minutes” in the game. The idea is that one of those that Coach B keeps on the bench just might provide the impetus for team success. Now wouldn’t that benefit everyone?
No I’m not one of those who believe in altering grades so that everyone passes. But I do believe in making certain that all my students have a chance to succeed by rising to the highest level they are capable of.

Oops I’m sorry Republican’s and Independent’s and Democrats I got some of my years wrong and left out one tax break in my previous posts. I worked 14 hours today so I ‘m a little bit tired. Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and working poor? Bush-McCain-Palin! I have degrees in Economics and Finance. My net income is over $50,000.00 a year. On election years during the Bush administration I have received $1.00 per month tax break in 2002, $2.00 per month, tax break in 2004, $1.00 per month tax break in 2006 and in 2008 a $1.00 per month tax break. On off election years during the Bush administration I received a tax increase of $100.00 per month in 2003, $200.00, per month tax increase in 2005, $300.00 dollar per month tax increase in 2007. This is a net tax increase during the Bush administration of $595.00 I pay per month. Republican’s and Independent’s how is this a tax break for the middle class and working poor? I pay $595.00 more per month in taxes since the Bush administration started giving huge tax cuts to the wealthiest people in this country. I have not changed tax brackets during the past 8 years. Do the math Republican’s and Independents if you earn under $250,000.00 your pay more taxes under the Bush-McCain-Palin plan and those who make more than $250,000.00 pay less taxes. Republican’s and Independent’s what part of the Bush-McCain-Palin huge tax decrease to the rich and huge tax increase to the middle class and working poor don’t you understand? Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and working poor? It is Bush-McCain-Palin!

We the middle class and working poor can only hope and pray that the Republican’s of this country will learn to question the leaders of Republican party, the Republican owned lying propaganda machine and learn to discern and recognize the truth when they see it. Until then the Republican’s will remain ignorant, arrogant and fight for the destruction of the economy of the middle class and working poor like good little puppets of the top one half of one per cent of the richest people in this country.

Why does McCain go to muslim country to adopt bridget mccain? Why does cindy mccain boast of charitable work in muslim countries like bosnia and kosovo? In these aweful financial times why does mccain want freetrade with colombia, is it because of his relationship to gordon liddy colombian terrorist? Does Palin pal around with alaskan terrorist separatist Vogler and AIP? These questions cannot be answered by mailing muslim hate dvds like ‘obsession’ to homes and churches in swing states.

Are people really considering voting for a man who supported Bush’s economic policies 90% of the time for eight long years and hoping that his policies would be starkly different? This is a sick country with some sick people!

Is it possible to support McCain and claim to be wise! That is the 64 thousand dollar question. Only the rich can make that claim..only the rich!

Some of the comments on this site reflect observations made by Richard Hofstadter in “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.”
“I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.”
“The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequence of someone’s will. Very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing); he has a special technique for seduction.”
Hofstadter wrote that forty-four years ago. It could have been written yesterday.

and thank god you had 10dollars to give.

Well, well, hold on to our wallets if obama gets in. I remember that the Republicans have held the wallets for quite awhile. I remember Bush’s dad saying NO NEW TAXES, guess what = TAX RAISE. This Bush gives us a tax cut – didn’t affect the people it should, unless you have money. It made a BIG, BIG 2 cents a month for me.
So lets, talk taxes. Where does McCain get all this money to bail out the homeowners?????? TAXPAYERS. There are some of these people I do feel for, but how many of these people bought homes that they could not afford, because the mortgage co’s. put through the loans.
You know how much money you make and should be able to know what you can afford.
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2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT ‘REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH’ NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT

susie,
george bush just nationalized the banking system and gave paulson and his cronies 700billion, of the taxpayers money, while many lose their homes.
george bush is a soc.? a marxist?
a rep?
paulson who asked for the money, and also asked that there be no govt. oversight in his redistribution of your wealth. made off like a bandit last year,
earned 700million dollars, from the wall street firm he worked for.
john mccain will have to answer for the mess george bush made.
mccain will not win this election.
bush stopped mccains firs try at becoming president, and bush has stopped mccain from becoming president again.

If the American public is truly concerned about the Voting Problems in America, then they should vote Dems all the way down the chain, because Republicans have fillibustered or stoped any kind of legislation to reform our voting system from fraud and hacking time and time again. We need a voting system we can belive in. This you will see reformed with a Dem President and legislation.

When is ABC going to cover Obama’s statements from the 2001 interview that it’s a tragedy that the Supreme Court didn’t push more for “redistributive change”???
How about at least a segment here?
Let’s talk about Obama’s promising Socialism.

he is not promising socialism.
it is a waste of time, poor planning on john mccain’ campaign.
we see how john mccain would have run this country.
what? 7 or 8 days away from election.
john mccain and palin should be hammering home trying to get what they are going to do for the country
mccain should be trying to get the undecided vote.
he will not get it by staying negative on obama.
he needs to tell what he is going to do.
mccain should have tunnel vision now
tell what he is going to do.
that would be the honorable thing to do.
and i use to think john mccain was an honorable man.
but i guess not. so instead of trying to win this election with what he will do.
he will lose by staying negative and misleading the people.
as long as mccain is not talking about what he will do for the country and staying neg. with obama he is misleading.

“Why after they have screamed about the bush taking away freedoms for 8 years are the democrats now 100% for the biggest increase in politician power ever.”
This is absolutely absurd.
Democrats hacked into Palin’s emails and MADE THEM PUBLIC.
Democrats hacked into Joe the Plumber’s personal records.
NOT REPUBLICANS.
Obama and the thug Democrats can be expected to use these fascist tactics to silence their criticis.

Concerned in OH: you want a quote where Jesus talks about government—”render to caesar the things that are caesar’s and to God the things that are God”—”Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. . . . This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect, if honor, then honor. (Romans 13) Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law. . . . Love you neighbor as yourself.”

Ours is a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” it is not them vs. us—-it is we the people—that’s why we need to be sure that those whom we elect are “doing the people’s business.”

“Lets make America what it always used to be, decent!”
Decent?
Fewer people pay taxes than ever before.
The wealthy pay more of the burden than they ever paid before.
Democrats violate the rights of those who disagree with them, not Republicans.
Bush never made anyone’s emails public. It was an Obama aide who went through the passports, not a Republican.
Democrats attacked Republicans in Minnesota, not the other way around.
Democrats interrupted the RNC, not the other way around.
Obama told his minions to “get in their faces”, not Republicans.
The truth is tough sometimes.

“Coach A: Make sure all the members of the team get a chance to play in the game even if only for a few minutes. Doesn’t leave anyone sitting out on the bench for every game of the season.
Coach B: Only play the team members who you think will successfully win the game. Leave the others that aren’t “naturally” skilled sit on the bench.”
Is that how the NBA and the NFL and MLB work?
I am all for guaranteed equal opportunity, NOT for guaranteed equal outcome.

Not much left in my wallet. Somebody decided to pour much of it down a pit in the Middle East, greasing crooked contractors, opium-exporting warlords, and oilfield bums. In one instance, an entire planeload of cash just evaporated, disappeared with no explanation or investigation.
Geez, when was the last time we even had a balanced federal budget? Oh yeah, it was when those crazy “tax and spend” Democrats held the White House…
Lies don’t improve with age.

Hey McCain,
Looks like you missed the memo but the party that has bled our wallets both in the economy and Iraq War fiasco was the REPUBLICAN party. It is absolutely ridiculous for you to suggest you can some how continue your $10 billion/month war in Iraq and still give everyone $5000 health credits WITHOUT raising taxes, and in fact, CUTTING THEM.
How are you going to pay for all of this? Not borrow from the Chinese, surely, the amount we already owe them has around twelve zeroes behind already. Whatever happened to the party of fiscal responsibility?

YUKON democrats will increase spending, deficits, waste and the power of politicians. And, complete one party control will result in huge increases in the power of the government over US citizens.

drjohn and lee: I’m not talking about professional athletic teams—talking about amateur teams in schools and those sponsored by civic organizations—talking about team memebers who come out for practice everytime practice is scheduled who work their hearts out and are still left to sit on the bench most of the time because they aren’t “good enough” in the coach’s mind “win the game.”
I also did not say all members of the team get equal time on the field. I go with coach A because even the “not so good players” get a chance on the playing field even if it is only for a “few minutes.”
It is just possible that someone in that latter group may prove to be outstanding when placed in the “heat of battle”.
Coach B will never know because he / she has written the “bench warmers” off.

‘drjohn and lee: I’m not talking about professional athletic teams—talking about amateur teams in schools and those sponsored by civic organizations—talking about team memebers who come out for practice everytime practice is scheduled who work their hearts out and are still left to sit on the bench most of the time because they aren’t “good enough” in the coach’s mind “win the game.”‘
With children, sure, but only to a point.
Life is not fair. Letting kids grow up thinking that you’ll always get your turn to play is not realistic.
Thinking you’ll get through school and get high grades because you merely show up is not real life.
The same left wingers who don’t want people to feed animals lest they become dependent on man love to see people become dependent.
And who was it who said
“Give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach him how to fish and he eats tomorrow”?

drjohn: no, I don’t also believe that “if you don’t work, you don’t eat”.
What is reported by Luke didn’t continue because of greed and sloth (laziness). So “regulations” had to be put in place like “if you don’t work, you don’t eat.” The colonists in Jamestown, VA (1607) had the same idea as the early Christians—same thing happened—same regulation put in place.
Luke reported, “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. . . . There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.”
Obama said, “I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you–that they’ve got the chance at success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
If this were a perfect world no regulation would be necessary—but it isn’t perfect, so regulation is necessary.

drjohn,
Do you not think $10 billion per month in Iraq is quite alot of money too? That’s what McCain would like to continue. McCain is wishy-washy about sending a team of snipers or Navy SEALs to take out Osama if they get him in their cross-hairs in Pakistan, he keeps insisting the terror front is there, instead of saving money and helping the troops in Afghanistan who need support. Obama isn’t.
Wealth redistribution means seizing ALL your property and money and distributing it equally among everyone. Not JUST tax credits. Now, if you’re rich and paying higher taxes but the government hasn’t attempted to seize your mansion, you can say quite confidently you are not living in a socialist country.

“YUKON democrats will increase spending, deficits, waste and the power of politicians. And, complete one party control will result in huge increases in the power of the government over US citizens.”
And when Republicans were in control? Increased spending, deficits, waste, corruption, an alarming erosion of civil rights and a concerted attack on the system of checks and balances by the executive branch.
News flash: “the government” is nothing more or less than the collective will of the American people… and the government NEEDS to exert more power over certain citizens. Maybe if we’d exercised a little oversight with those nutty Wall Street tycoons and their funky mortgage-backed derivatives, we wouldn’t be in such a mess right now.

drjohn: Your right, life isn’t fair. That does not mean that those in charge should not give everyone a chance, if even for a few minutes, to test their wings.
My students do not get a free ride just because they “show up”. But they cannot leave my classroom without knowing they had a chance. Whether or not a person chooses to take the chance is his / her decision to make, not mine.

“My students do not get a free ride just because they “show up”. But they cannot leave my classroom without knowing they had a chance. Whether or not a person chooses to take the chance is his / her decision to make, not mine.”
Yes, George.
By all means give them a chance.
Give them ALL an equal chance.
You can’t do more than that. But oyou can’t guarantee they’ll do anything with it. You can’t guarantee they’ll be a success.

so you complained to the management.
i hope you put whatever you were buying back, and walked out.
that will really show them. and from now on you can just go to another store and shop, where you don’t see the obama stickers on the employees, because the stickers are all in the back on there lockers.

“drjohn: After the wealthy pay their taxes, how much do they have left to live on?
If the tax rate is 35% on $1,000,000.00 they have around $650,000.00 to live on.
Even if the rate is as high as 70% they have $300,000.00 to live on.
A person who makes $42,000.00 a year and is taxed at a rate of 20% has around $33,000.00 left to live on.
Who is still better off?”
This is a socialist argument, George. It is class warfare.
This country allows for that person making 42,000 to work himself or herself to a position of making a million a year.
That’s the beauty of it. It’s there for you to go for it.

“And who managed the economy for the past eight years?
The Democrats did not dump the bailout into our laps. Bush did. The Republican White House screwed up big time, and they had to swallow the Socialism pill because they had no choice- they blundered, and they had no choice but to bailout in order to stop the economy from a total collapse. In the case of the bailout, we don’t like it, but because of Bush’s disastrous handling, there’s little choice but to swallow it.
McCain wants the government to bailout the bad mortgages. The so-called “Socialist” Obama smacked that down. Would you call McCain socialist? ”
Geez, come on.
Democrats blocked EVER SINGLE effort to reform the GSE’s.
EVERY SINGLE ONE.
This crisis was preventable, but Democrats wanted to preserve the socialism of housing. They denied anything was wrong-repeatedly.
I am against this bailout.
Chuck Schumer said that this was a necessity.
Please do yourself a favor and stay within the facts.

“It is class warfare.”
No, class warfare is when they drag the worthless parasites out of their McMansions kicking and screaming, line them up against the wall and shoot them.
This is a civil discussion about a small tax increase.
Let’s not indulge in hyperbole.

drjohn,
Look, even if I take your word for that, I’m looking at the candidates individually, and can you tell me JUST HOW McCain is going to pay for the Iraq war or give everyone $5000 health care credits if he’s not going to raise anyone’s taxes? Cutting earmarks is hardly enough.

“McCain co-sponsored a bill to increase regulation of GSE’s in 2005 and 2006.
That’s the truth.
Every single Democrat opposed voted against it in a party line vote.
That’s a FACT.”
Weeeelllll, not really.
The Republican-controlled Senate never brought the bill up for a vote, effectively killing it without the political hit of having to vote against it. True, many Democrats were also on record as opposing aspects of the bill… but they never got a chance to vote on it, or filibuster against it.
In addition, McCain didn’t sign on to the bill until after the housing bubble had peaked and disaster was all but unavoidable. It’s a classic case of closing the barn door after the cows have run off.
Taking out the politics for just a microsecond, in all honesty, there’s plenty of blame to go around for the mortgage crisis. As long as the economy was going great guns, EVERYBODY, Republican and Democrat alike, was happy to look the other way. It was a period of “irrational exuberance”.
And putting the politics back in… part of the blame has to go to Clinton, whose centrist economic policies were just a little too lenient and cozy with the financial industry.

Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and working poor? Bush-McCain-Palin! I have degrees in Economics and Finance. My net income is over $50,000.00 a year. On election years during the Bush administration I have received $1.00 per month tax break in 2002, $2.00 per month, tax break in 2004, $1.00 per month tax break in 2006 and in 2008 a $1.00 per month tax break. On off election years during the Bush administration I received a tax increase of $100.00 per month in 2003, $200.00, per month tax increase in 2005, $300.00 dollar per month tax increase in 2007. This is a net tax increase during the Bush administration of $595.00 I pay per month. Republican’s and Independent’s how is this a tax break for the middle class and working poor? I pay $595.00 more per month in taxes since the Bush administration started giving huge tax cuts to the wealthiest people in this country. I have not changed tax brackets during the past 8 years. Do the math Republican’s and Independents if you earn under $250,000.00 your pay more taxes under the Bush-McCain-Palin plan and those who make more than $250,000.00 pay less taxes. Republican’s and Independent’s what part of the Bush-McCain-Palin huge tax decrease to the rich and huge tax increase to the middle class and working poor don’t you understand? Who is robbing the wallets of the middle class and working poor? It is Bush-McCain-Palin!

“Do the math Republican’s and Independents if you earn under $250,000.00 your pay more taxes under the Bush-McCain-Palin plan and those who make more than $250,000.00 pay less taxes.”
Do the other math. The real math.
Reid-Pelosi-Obama? Even if you believe Obama, by the time the other two cretins get done along with Barney Frank it’ll be $50,000, not $250,000.
And do the other math- you can’t give a tax break to someone who pays not taxes now. It’s called a handout.

We the middle class and working poor can only hope and pray that the Republican’s of this country will learn to question the leaders of the Republican party, the Republican owned lying propaganda machine and learn to discern and recognize the truth when they see it. Until then the Republicans will remain ignorant, arrogant and fight for the destruction of the economy of the middle class and working poor like good little puppets of the top one half of one per cent of the richest people in this country.

To All the hard-working Obama supporters
A vote for Obama means you better
get ready to spread your hard earned cash around to all those who don’t care for earning a living!
Your candidate said it “You know, spread the wealth around”

“The top 5% of the wealthiest people have more tax loop holes and pay less taxes or no taxes at all( example: Camen Island Tax Shelters).”
Sorry, but it’s just not true.
Check the stats for yourself instead of simply making claims.

“Affordable housing for poor and working-class families didn’t precipitate the crisis.”
The heck it didn’t.
Putting people in houses with mortgages they could not afford was EXACTLY why we have this crisis.
And Democrats PUSHED for this since Carter!
Golly, would you guys please know the facts!

James321. How does Obama plan to pay for the tax cuts to the under $250,000 crowd? Take it from those in the top 5%? Guess what, they will just put their money where it won’t be taxed, like tax-free municipal bonds or offshore accounts. Then Obama will have to lower the cutoff from $250k to a much lower level. I can see him proposing it be the level where people begin to receive the Earned Income Credit. In effect, only those who actually pay taxes will bear the burden for those who don’t. Sounds like distribution of wealth to me. If you don’t think this could happen, look at how the federal government has handled shortfalls in the past. They have taken more and more of the money earmarked for Social Security, and they have changed the rules on how and what you can do with your retirement funds, that come from “qualified plans”, e.g. 401ks, 41 times since the creation of “qualified plans”. If you believe that Obama wouldn’t do such a thing, you are not living in reality.

Where was McCain from 2001-2007 when the Repubs who controlled Congress were spending like money was going out of style? He should have been proclaiming “Hang onto your wallets!” then!

drjohn. For your information, Barnie Frank (chair of the house banking and finance committee charged with oversight of financial institutions and the one on whose watch this financial meltdown happened), Nancy Pelosi, and several other Democrats are on record in 2004 as stating that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were well managed and sound and not in any financial danger. They praised the CEO of Fannie Mae for his management of the organization and accused those who were questioning the health of those two organizations as spreading falsehoods and trying to smear the names of good people. And yet, we can look back now and see that they were very wrong and in an attempt to shift blame from themselves are blaming the problems on the Republicans
I believe there is plenty of blame to go around. President Bush has made some big mistakes and taken some very bad advice or not listened to very good advice. The Republican and Democratic parties are guilty of equally guilty of corruption and self-serving behavior. Neither party has a corner on the virtue market. I see McCain and Obama as being no different.
What I also see is that those who are on the receiving end of government handouts favor Obama’s position while those who are on the giving end favor McCain.
Remember what Alexis de Tocqueville said about America: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

Dr. John The Bush Administration gave tax cuts to encourage companies to take their factory and service sector jobs over seas. Millions of jobs have been lost to foreign countries. Most of those people have not been able to get new jobs because very few jobs have been created by the business sector and our government to replace the number of jobs lost. Today there are many more well educated and very experienced people who are long term unemployed now than any other time in our history thanks to the Bush-McCain-Palin tax plan and supply side economics. Too bad McCain-Palin and the rest of the ignorant lying Republican propaganda machine socialist economists don’t understand the real effects of the blunders of the Bush-McCain-Palin greedy unethical socialist economic strategies. Dr. John it’s sad you and your fellow Republican’s are buying into the lies and greedy unethical socialist economic strategies of Bush-McCain-Palin lying propaganda media machine. Hopefully you and your fellow Republican’s will some day be able to discern and recognize truth when you see it, hear it and be set free from hateful, arrogant, egotistical ignorance spewed forth from you and your fellow Republican’s.

Quig,
Obama has stated he will eliminate many of the tax loop holes including the off shore tax shelters.

Check out Media Matters for facts rather than talking points and hyperbole about the role Fannie and Freddie in the economic meltdown.
Even Greenspan and Cox said last week that the agencies may have “contributed to” but “did not cause” the meltdown.

How much of a moron do you have to be to believe what mccain is spewing?
The debt and deficit has ballooned under the republican administration and he’s looking to blame the dems? Yeah, think how bad it would have been if it wasn’t the fiscally conservative party at the helm.
Dementia. That’s about the only excuse for Mccain these days. He’s lost his honor and won’t be getting back up.

Sorry, I accidentally deleted “accounted.” It should have read: “…in 2006 the top 5% accounted for just 36.66%…”

People should of been holding on to their wallets 8 years ago and elected a different President. The irony is most people although they haven’t paid more in taxes, earn less thanks to the policies of McSame/Bush.

alwriter: Bush didn’t cause the foreclosures, the banks and lender’s caused their own destruction. They lent money to these young people who don’t have the money to buy a condo in the first place with no down payment or 5% down. After about a year they gave the condo back, stoped making payments and rented again leaving the banks and lenders in a finacial mess. Banks and Lender’s should have required 25% down. And the trouble with some of these young people they wanted to live like the rich with a beer pocket. It doesn’t work that way.

drjohn: You are right about those democrats. And they are the worst democrats elected to congress and the biggest failures with a house speaker that wants to control. That’s why she didn’t want Hillary in office. Nancy likes power and she wants to be the only woman in power. I was hoping the house would become republican so Nancy would step down. I have been a democrat all my life but am voting McCain. I don’t like Obama’s tactics and how he swindled Hillary out of the nomination. The majority of the young people better wake up and think before they vote otherwise we will have a depression worse than 1929. Even the owner of the Miami Dolphins want to sell his team fast because he fears an Obama win and the tax increases he will raise on millions of Americans in businesses or not in business.