Okaaaaay.....

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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: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:31pm

*** 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.

Considering the important issue at steak today...the economy, national security, etc...your vote is pretty cheap if it can be bought for $120.

*** Personally, I know you can't stand Obama, you have made it abundantly clear.

Hmmm...and I thought I was being subtle. ; )

*** I don't like McCain, PERIOD, he will cost us MORE.

Cost you more than the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in NEW spending that Obama has planned? LOL! AND Barry has said that he's going to give 95% of American's a "tax break"...first of all, the top 5% starts at around $140K, not $250K so more Americans are going to get screwed, and 40% of Americans DON'T pay any taxes, so Barry is going to WRITE them $600 checks...where's this money coming from? Are you honestly foolish enough to think that raising the taxes on the top 3% of the country is going to cover that tab?...and the war debt that Barry is going to keep spending...and our national debt? Complete madness. You're screwing yourself if you vote for Obama.

*** Do you honestly think I give two hoots about the wealthy? Why should I? They don't give two hoots about us!

Why should they give a hoot about you? But it's in their interest to pay you fair salaries to work for them at jobs they created and sell you goods from the stores they own. Bad "rich people!" Bad "Rich people!"

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 6:38pm

*** 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.

The $700 Billion might be a good thing. We might have faced an economic catastrophe if we let all of these institutions fail simultaneously, so something drastic had to be done. Using a plan similar to that proposed by McCain, the Fed will step in and corral the "bad debt" making the institutions "solvent" and lender friendly again. Hopefully that will correct the market. On the upside, we, the government, have made great deals with these companies, much to their chagrin. If the market turns around, and it will, the government will be able to sell off it's stock and ownership in these giant companies in a few years and could possibly gain a huge profit for the American people...if everything works out the way they hope.

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Registered: 05-10-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 7:05pm

<<The fact remains that he saw a crisis ahead and tried to stop it >>


I don't understand why you think that McCain foresaw this crisis.

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Registered: 08-27-2001
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 8:13pm

McCain wants low taxes and decreased government spending.


I guess he'll have to shop at WalMart to fund the war.


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Registered: 09-16-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 8:20pm

I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing and fortunately don't have enough money to worry about losing it - but still it is a 700 billion dollar expense that should not have been necessary. Kind of ironic when you think about how often you were upset at Obama's economic plan. I don't think you will agree but still rather ironic.

"...if everything works out the way they hope." Funny that now it's OK to 'hope'! LOL
Guess I also have to 'hope' that something will 'change' with the way these companies are run too!

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Registered: 07-03-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 9:01pm

Oh, PULEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:16pm
Interesting statement, and that could be used as a reason, except the Republicans were running the show.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:19pm
I don't think that it was about that at all.

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Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 11:52pm
Hohoho...er...what?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-19-2008
In reply to: sopall1953
Sun, 09-21-2008 - 12:14am

*** I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing and fortunately don't have enough money to worry about losing it - but still it is a 700 billion dollar expense that should not have been necessary. Kind of ironic when you think about how often you were upset at Obama's economic plan. I don't think you will agree but still rather ironic.

Ironic? Obama wants to raise taxes and spend billions on socialist programs on the backs of a VERY small segment of the population. The Treasury is taking historic steps to protect the economy in a, hopefully one time event. I don't see the irony.

"...if everything works out the way they hope." Funny that now it's OK to 'hope'! LOL

As I said before, it's great to have hope, as long as you're hoping on something supported by a strong plan and expertise to back it up. Obama's "hope" is empty "hope."

*** Guess I also have to 'hope' that something will 'change' with the way these companies are run too!

True that.

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