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| Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm |
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/
McCain on banking and health
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.
Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.
So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!>>>

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<How about all the CEO's of these financial institutions that failed? What should happen to them? >
They should be rewarded with whopping bonuses and golden parachutes so that they can add that to their incredible wealth which is invested /stored in off-shore accounts in the Grand Caymans.
Sopal
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McCain has said that our economy is in trouble and trying to use the 0bama talking points isn't helping your argument.
"It's clearly in the congressional record that he saw it coming and tried to correct it."
I really don't know how you can keep saying McCain saw this economic crisis coming. I just don't see how you and the Republicans can keep repeating that when the truth is that even Senator McCain admits that it caught him and his advisors by surprise. I think you should watch this again (I can only assume you have seen this widely seen video)
http://www.nhelects.com/NHPrimaryVideos.asp?MultiID=77&HTitle=VLTitle
Here is his summation:
"So, I’d like to tell you that I did anticipate it, but I have to give you straight talk, I did not.”
Please explain to me how Republicans can keep saying self-serving things that simply are clearly flat out wrong in a huge way.
"I hope that ALL people who are complaisant in this are PUT IN JAIL. I don't care what party they belong to."
My husband and I were talking about this the other day.
Thanks for the link. McCain is being very rational and practical in that clip. I suggest everyone watch it. It is clear he is talking about the potential magnitude of the this debacle when he makes that comment.
You cannot hide from the fact that McCain saw a crisis coming, even though he may not have known how huge it could become at least three years ago, because it is in THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Please follow the link and read his words.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190
Why do you think that McCain and his Republican cohorts who controlled the Senate back then didn't pass that bill? It would be guaranteed to be signed by Bush, so why didn't they do their job and get the bill to the floor for a vote?
Sopal
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I just don't understand how you can keep arguing McCain foresaw our economic crisis when the man himself says he didn't!
"So, I’d like to tell you that I did anticipate it, but I have to give you straight talk, I did not.”
That is what McCain said about the economic crisis.
You keep pointing me to a bill that McCain never followed up on to implement some reforms to Fannie and Freddie in 2005. Then what did McCain do? Nothing. He let it all blow over. That is why he said he did not anticipate the current crisis. You have no support for your assertion that McCain saw this crisis coming. Everything, including the words out of his own mouth, point to the contrary.
I have a word in general not about you but about Republican politicians. They think we are stupid. They lie to our faces while their policies are an abysmal, incompetently executed failure. America is waking up. We get the joke now. Republican politicians are incompetent, corrupt liars.
Republicans have no credibility. I wish it weren't true. I wish they were better. I voted for Reagan. McCain and Bush are no Reagan. In fact, the Reagans never got along with either clan. Nancy still holds a grudge, quite rightly, against McCain for how horribly he treated his ex-wife who was good friends with the Reagans. A lot of good people in the Reagan Administration, like Jim Webb, feel the same way. They are disgusted with what the Republican Party has sunk to.
Why do you refuse to look at the congressional record? Of the two men who are seeking the presidency, one of them saw a crisis coming and tried to stop it. That man was McCain, and there is the congressional record to prove it. The other, Osama, took money from these organizations to look the other way.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_HlpZ8azA
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