Why is the government and the media acting like socialized healthcare is such a priority? Can we worry about the economy before having the government spend money on something that people are refusing to pay for themselves? What's next? If everyone doesn't have a TV, we're going to buy one for them with our tax dollars?!
Bajesus. If you want government sponsored healthcare so badly, move to Canada.
Now I am preparing to pay more in taxes because my husband and I work harder. I am preparing to watch as the world around us builds its nuclear arms and defenses while we cut back on our own military protection. I am preparing to see my business regulated to the point that the goverment should just run it on its own. I am preparing to watch my husband buy a gun before his constitutional rights are restricted.
If you watch any CNBC at all you know about the Money Honeys, the first and most awesome of all, Maria Bartiromo. Here is a recent interview by Bartiromo, for Businessweek my favorite business publication, with McCain alongside Palin.
McCain and Palin Take Their Last, Best Shots
"I'm disappointed that Paulson has not put first emphasis on buying these mortgages and keeping people in their homes"
Candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin in Hershey, PA in October Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
With just days to go before the end of the most historic and
electrifying Presidential election in generations, I caught up with
Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin in
Pennsylvania, a fiercely contested battleground state. McCain was in
good spirits as we met in Hershey for an interview for CNBC and BusinessWeek. He was early, and while we waited for Palin, he quipped: "Do we have a GPS on Sarah?"
MARIA BARTIROMO
Why should the American people believe the two of you can get us out of this crisis?
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN
Frankly, the Administration is not doing what I think they should do,
and that's buy up these bad mortgages, give people mortgages they can
afford, stabilize home values. They did that during the Depression. It
was called the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.
With oil around $60 a barrel, is it still as important to become energy independent?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN
Now is our opportunity to seize this [moment] and invest in domestic
solutions. We cannot lull ourselves into a false sense of security just
because oil today is 64 bucks.
SENATOR McCAIN
Look who we're dependent on. It's a matter of national security. And
by the way, nuclear power, which I'm a big proponent of, reduces
greenhouse gas emissions dramatically. It's not the only answer, but
building 45 nuclear power plants would create 700,000 jobs.
You want to keep taxes low, but we're spending $10 billion a month on the war in Iraq. Why not raise taxes to pay for it?
SENATOR McCAIN
Because we study history. If you practice protectionism and
isolationism at the same time you raise taxes, you send an economy from
a recession into a depression. That's history. The guy's name was
Herbert Hoover. This is the worst time to raise anyone's taxes. [But
Senator Obama] wants to, quote, "spread the wealth around."
What is wrong with the redistribution of wealth, which Obama talked about as far back as a 2001 interview?
SENATOR McCAIN
That is a bold, left-wing view of how you help people that's been
tried in other countries. In America, you don't take money from one
group and give it to another. You create jobs, create opportunities,
and give people the ability to accumulate wealth. We have Social
Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance. But to somehow say that
when "Joe the Plumber" reaches a certain income level, we're going to
take money from him and give it to somebody else, that's a fundamental
contradiction of what made this country the strongest and greatest
nation in the world.
GOVERNOR PALIN
We can be compassionate and generous with others without government mandating where our dollars go.
What about a minimum wage increase?
SENATOR McCAIN
As long as we take care of small business, too. Small business
owners say: You increase the minimum wage, I lay off workers. Is that
what we want to do right now? Of course not.
Why isn't labor's drive to abolish the secret ballot in union elections a major issue on your agenda?
SENATOR McCAIN
Unfortunately, there are [only] three or four issues you can get out
strongly. But this is a threat to the fundamentals of labor-management
relations…and democracy. The union organizer goes to your house and
says: "Hey, Joe, can I sign you up for the union?" We all know what
that opens the door to. It's dangerous for America…and small business.
Would you veto such a bill?
SENATOR McCAIN
In a New York minute.
Would you ask Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to stay on, at least temporarily?
SENATOR McCAIN
I'm disappointed that Secretary Paulson has not put first emphasis
on buying these home mortgages and keeping people in their homes. I
certainly would have somebody who'd give that our highest priority.
The Treasury is investing in banks and now owns 80% of AIG. How worried are you about this path toward nationalization?
SENATOR McCAIN
I'm very worried about it. I know these are extraordinary times, but
I want us out of the banking business as quickly as possible.
Don't the American people have the right to know who will be in
your Cabinet? Who's going to be Treasury Secretary? Commerce Secretary?
Secretary of Defense?
SENATOR McCAIN
Well, [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates has done a fabulous job. [Former eBay (EBAY)
CEO] Meg Whitman is one of my most trusted advisers. Jack Welch is a
great guy. I have the utmost trust and confidence in [Senator] Joe
Lieberman. There are a lot of really smart people I'm proud to have
around me—the kind of people you appoint who inspire trust and
confidence. That's our first priority.
Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell.
Something about an economically sound outlaid plan really gets my VOTE.
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