Talk Back: Reactions to the VP Debate

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Talk Back: Reactions to the VP Debate
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Thu, 10-02-2008 - 5:14pm

Hi everyone --


We wanted to get your reaction to the Vice Presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin. Did you watch? What did you think -- and who do you consider the winner? Were there any surprises? Tell us what you considered to be the highlights, the low points and everything in between.


 


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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:55am

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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:56am

I guess that makes us "elitist."


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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:56am
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:58am

Janie-Come-Lately Hockey Mom


I would much rather have a real person in there as VP than someone who has been caught up in all the Washington stuff for years.

 

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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:59am
Joe Biden won hands down.
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Registered: 10-19-2004
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 9:59am

Biden apparently didn't realize that prior to the 2005 bankruptcy code changes, debtors could modify their mortgages through the bankruptcy plan.

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Registered: 10-19-2004
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:05am

I agree with you completely.


Everyone wants to focus on Palin not answering some of the questions--what about Obama?

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:06am
Cutting taxes is a proven way to grow the economy and create jobs.


Poppycock. Hell, McCain's own economic guru, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, when he was head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in 2005, released a report which said, in part:

....the budgetary impact of the economic changes was estimated to offset between 1 percent and 22 percent of the revenue loss from the tax cut over the first five years and add as much as 5 percent to that loss or offset as much as 32 percent of it over the second five years.


In other words, during the first five years of a 10-percent tax cut, the resulting economic impact on the budget would offset at most 22 percent of the federal revenues lost and during the second five years would offset at most 32 percent of the revenues lost. (source: MediaMatters).

Holtz-Eakin also told the Washington Post, in 2007, that "you are not going to get tax cuts to pay for themselves." So let's not have any false statements or deceptions on that score. Do lower taxes create jobs? Possibly; sometimes yes, sometimes not at all - depends upon the tax and a galaxy of other variables in the particular situation. And tax cuts are far from the only governmental or financial levers which can be used to stimulate job growth.

Ask any economist...every one will tell you that Obama's plan will be a disaster for our economy.


This is simply rubbish: 66% of economists favor Obama over McCain...for obvious reasons, related to their field of expertise:




66% of Economists are Economists for Obama



This is according to a new survey of 523 economists who are U.S. citizens and members of the American Economic Association. See a Powerpoint with methodology and detailed results here.

Click here for our list of Obama economic advisers and prominent economists who support Obama.







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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:08am
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Fri, 10-03-2008 - 10:09am
Biden, since he, ya know actually answered questions.
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