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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Well, this blog:
You are right that Alaska has a relatively more expensive cost of living. What you don't take into account is the rebate they all get.
"Dividends plus one-time rebate to infuse state economy
By Tim Bradner
Alaska Journal of Commerce
It's dividend time again in Alaska, and this year's payment is a whopper - $3,269 with the permanent fund dividend combined with a one-time state energy rebate."
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/091408/hom_20080914011.shtml
So add up the over $15,000 that the Palin household gets from the dividend, and that offsets the cost of living.
Here are the two candidates' platforms:
Obama: fixing the economy
McCain: attacking Obama with a bunch of smears
You decide who has a better chance of fixing our economy. The guy who is focused on fixing it or the guy who is focused on smearing the other guy. As President Clinton noted the other day, evidence is that most of the time Presidents try to fulfill their campaign promises.
"Even after Congress passed a $700 billion bailout signed by President Bush, the next president will face daunting housing and credit problems, the Associated Press reported.
"Yet instead of addressing these crises, Senator McCain’s campaign has announced that they plan to 'turn the page' on the discussion about our economy and spend the final weeks of this campaign launching Swiftboat-style attacks on me," Obama said.
"...We're not going to let John McCain distract us, we're not going to let him hoodwink you," Obama said.
The McCain campaign shifted gears recently, with a campaign strategist saying it will spend the last month of the election focused on criticisms of Obama's experience instead of the faltering U.S. economy, Reuters reported."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_McCain_trying_to_hoodwink_public_1005.html
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