Okaaaaay.....

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Okaaaaay.....
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Fri, 09-19-2008 - 11:22pm

Crazy:


 


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/


 


September 19, 2008,  7:24 pm
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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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 5:57pm

"Lie...McCain never said that."

Wow. I really don't know how you can keep saying McCain saw this economic crisis coming - you've got no explanation at all really. 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.

Obama on the other hand saw a lot of this mess coming, but in the face of Republican stubborness and use of the filibuster in a way they decried the Dems for using, Obama could not push anything through.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/151421/072/286/600779

Maybe we would not have had to resort to our now massive 700 billion dollar bailout. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rescue_plan_seeks_700B_to_buy_0920.html

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 5:57pm

*** If the maverick was so concerned, why didn't he go to Frist and demand that Frist bring this up for a vote?

I might ask the same thing of Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtKTUsHrcm4

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:00pm

McCain wants low taxes and decreased government spending. That's good for everyone.

Obama wants to raise taxes, increase spending and have bigger government regulating more of your life. That's not good for anyone.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:03pm
Interesting thoughts!

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:06pm
Actually, I not only googled it, but addressed it in another thread.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:13pm
If all McCain will give my Dh is an 18.00 tax break and Obama will give him a 476.00 taxbreak, I think we would need our heads examined to vote for McCain. Personally, I know you can't stand Obama, you have made it abundantly clear. I don't like McCain, PERIOD, he will cost us MORE. Do you honestly think I give two hoots about the wealthy? Why should I? They don't give two hoots about us!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:14pm

"Lie...McCain never said that."

*** Wow. I really don't know how you can keep saying McCain saw this economic crisis coming - you've got no explanation at all really. 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)

I didn't say that McCain saw THIS "crisis" coming, I said, and provided links to, McCain's (and Bush's) recognition of a problematic situation concerning the lending practices of financial institutions and that they both tried to address them.

I also provided a link to Obama saying that he did see THIS "crisis" coming but he did nothing to "raise the alarm" to do anything about it.

*** Maybe we would not have had to resort to our now massive 700 billion dollar bailout. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rescue_plan_seeks_700B_to_buy_0920.html

Because of the failure of financial institutions that operate under Democrat oversight.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:15pm
Liberalism. It plays well politically...on both sides...to want "poor people" to own homes.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:18pm
As I said, there are many ways to block a bill...but to be fair, I think both parties were interested in the prospect of putting "the little people" into homes...even if they couldn't afford it. Politics at it's worst...and now we're paying for it. But the salient point was that McCain did recognize problems in the system and did try to address them...three years ago...and Bush, two years before that.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:24pm
Well it may be kind a moot point now if we are about to spend 700 Billion to bail out the financial markets - don't see how anyone can consider cutting taxes, still support a war, and spend 700 billion on this mess.

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