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Monday, September 15, 2008
McCain this Morning: Fundamentals of Economy are 'Strong'
I would like some of the crazy juice that McCain is drinking these days.
On a day of serious economic news, where investment bank Lehman Brothers is heading into bankruptcy and insurance giant AIG is teetering on the brink, Know-Nothing / Admit-Nothing John McCain came out on stage today and repeated the ludicrous notion that our economy is just fine and that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong". Seriously?
Here's the Obama campaign's response:
Today of all days, John McCain’s stubborn insistence that the ‘fundamentals of the economy are strong’ shows that he is disturbingly out of touch with what’s going in the lives of ordinary Americans. Even as his own ads try to convince him that the economy is in crisis, apparently his 26 years in Washington have left him incapable of understanding that the policies he supports have created an historic economic crisis.
Posted by Metavirus at 9/15/2008 04:12:00 PM
Tags: Distortions , Economy , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Lies , Video
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For those who want to make a buck on the market, read and pass thsi on.
The collapse of the financial markets is the result of one thing and one thing only, American job losses. You can listen to politicians and the media spin this all you want but the collapse of our markets began the minute the Presidential candidates in 2004 mentioned the losing of jobs that they said Americans would not do. They used this catch phrase as the green-light for companies to job American workers and outsource their jobs. Today two of the nation's largest and well-known financial firms - Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch – closed shop- no more. Lehman has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and speculation is that they are expected to be liquidated. Merrill Lynch is being bought by Bank of America. One of the reasons is that these companies service Americans who could no longer pay their mortgages because their companies have outsourced and jobsourced their manufacturing jobs overseas. If you think this is the end then you are an idiot because it is not and the reason is that idiotic economic professors taught that outsourcing and globalization were good, not because they believed this but because outsourcing and globalization were the new fad and these professors did not want to be the typewriter repairmen of the new decade, these professors were protecting their own asses. Add the scared to death idiotic professors to the uneducated statements about jobs Americans won’t do and you have the equation for disaster. The credit markets and the housing industry are just the results of job losses and they are not the root of the problem, they are merely the symptoms. If we do not level the playing field with China and India immediately and slow the trade deficit then it will only get worse and will never get better. Investors have been urged not to panic and to stay the course but for what reason? If things stay as they are then it will only get worse until we all live like poor peasants in China and penny a day farmers in India. Individual bank accounts are insured for up to $100,000 each and stocks purchased through Lehman or Merrill Lynch are secured as well, but you must remember that the insured amounts may vary. The real shame in all this is that Lehman workers have already have already lost their jobs and many more are likely to so its not just the manufacturing jobs but the support jobs as well and this is why the manufacturing jobs are so important, they provide the base for all other jobs. You must also remember that financial companies are tied to insurance companies and the insurance companies are the next dominoes up to fall. There is already vast speculation on Wall Street that AIG may also falter. This is well past $600 checks, the government needs to slow down the trade deficit and encourage domestic job growth and production or this will all only get worse. All Americans need to realize that it’s not just manufacturing jobs anymore it’s all jobs. A lot of people are going to be losing their jobs on Wall Street alongside their manufacturing brothers in areas like Flint Michigan and Detroit Michigan. It’s time we not only have change but we have action.
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