I don't really know if I belong here. As a Navy vet (71-75) I respect and appreciate John McCain, but as a small business owner, employer and resident of Michigan I don't know that Michigan can afford another four years of war, increasing debt or avoidance of needed social, environmental and medical system reforms. As a father I don't know that my children should be burdened with a national dept that's gone through the roof in the past 7 years, or with the greed the Republican Party has fostered and encouraged in the name of free enterprise. Yes, I'm an independent, but I'm one of those independents that's pretty sick of what we've gotten from the Bush administration, and I don't want more of it.
This economy’s a mess. I don't think either party stands to do much better than Jimmy Carter in the next four years, even if they do everything right - but I do believe that continuing to do things wrong can cripple so many of us. Trying to buy votes by promising to continue bad fiscal practices – I.e. making the Bush tax cuts permanent – is, in my view, simply pandering for votes. The John McCain of 2000 would have stood up and asked Americans to participate in a solution – not pander to them by pretending we don’t need to pay our debts!
What I’m hearing from any of the three likely candidates is universally frustrating. No one is talking about corporate greed, the seriously declining middle class, asking Americans to participate in this war via a draft or tax increases, investigating the profiteering that’s been going on in the oil, defense and energy industries under the present administration, or looking seriously at the real cost to American industry that a lack of a national health plan fosters. As a small business owner, I can tell you that health care is one of my greatest concerns. John McCain is speaking to none of these issues.
So tell me why I should vote for someone that’s not taking a stand on anything other than a belief in a war that’s ruining our economy. I’m open to hearing the arguments, but what I want to hear is that John McCain says something – not just his minions. I want John McCain to take a stand and address why we owe more than 2 years of gross taxes, and how we’re going to pay it off. I want to know how we’re going to stop borrowing $2 billion dollars a day from China, or why he thinks its okay to sell our selves to them. I just want him to show that he’s an awareness of the economic issues we face as a nation.
If Reagan is to be given credit for bankrupting the USSR in the 1980s, is Bush to be given credit for doing the same to the US in the early 2000s? What does John McCain intend to do to prevent the country from sliding into even worse economic woes – or will he be a continuation of the Bush team and pretend we aren’t already in a dire state?
I’m hoping for some answers from this candidate, and I’m hoping he can give me a reason to vote for him, but I’ll not squander my vote for 4 more years of Bush. There are alternatives.
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This economy’s a mess. I don't think either party stands to do much better than Jimmy Carter in the next four years, even if they do everything right - but I do believe that continuing to do things wrong can cripple so many of us. Trying to buy votes by promising to continue bad fiscal practices – I.e. making the Bush tax cuts permanent – is, in my view, simply pandering for votes. The John McCain of 2000 would have stood up and asked Americans to participate in a solution – not pander to them by pretending we don’t need to pay our debts!
What I’m hearing from any of the three likely candidates is universally frustrating. No one is talking about corporate greed, the seriously declining middle class, asking Americans to participate in this war via a draft or tax increases, investigating the profiteering that’s been going on in the oil, defense and energy industries under the present administration, or looking seriously at the real cost to American industry that a lack of a national health plan fosters. As a small business owner, I can tell you that health care is one of my greatest concerns. John McCain is speaking to none of these issues.
So tell me why I should vote for someone that’s not taking a stand on anything other than a belief in a war that’s ruining our economy. I’m open to hearing the arguments, but what I want to hear is that John McCain says something – not just his minions. I want John McCain to take a stand and address why we owe more than 2 years of gross taxes, and how we’re going to pay it off. I want to know how we’re going to stop borrowing $2 billion dollars a day from China, or why he thinks its okay to sell our selves to them. I just want him to show that he’s an awareness of the economic issues we face as a nation.
If Reagan is to be given credit for bankrupting the USSR in the 1980s, is Bush to be given credit for doing the same to the US in the early 2000s? What does John McCain intend to do to prevent the country from sliding into even worse economic woes – or will he be a continuation of the Bush team and pretend we aren’t already in a dire state?
I’m hoping for some answers from this candidate, and I’m hoping he can give me a reason to vote for him, but I’ll not squander my vote for 4 more years of Bush. There are alternatives.
Jim