McCain and Keating Economics
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| Mon, 10-06-2008 - 1:56pm |
It would do well for everyone to remember that this scandal did not happen too long ago. Watch and learn.
http://www.keatingeconomics.com/?source=sem-pm-google&gclid=CKTO8reVk5YCFQRfagodgWLRFA
The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.
John McCain was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee launched investigations and formally reprimanded Senator McCain for his role in the scandal -- the first such Senator to receive a major party nomination for president.
At the heart of the scandal was Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors' money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry -- actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating's failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion.
The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.
Edited 10/6/2008 1:57 pm ET by sistah_w

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He has ties to a known domestic terrorist.
<<I really think a big deal is being made about his so-called association with Ayres, especially the FACT he was 8 years old when Ayres did these acts. I think it is still trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. sorry, I know you hate Obama, that's your prerogative. Me, I don't HATe McCain, I just don't want another Republican as President. At least not in my lifetime! After I'm gone they can nominate Mickey Mouse for all I care.>>
It isn't a so called relationship.
Sopal
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You continually bring up Keating.
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