What can we truly expect from either candidate?

[eilen]

"None of the major candidates (at this writing, that would be McCain, Clinton, and Obama) have in any way addressed the real problems their administration would face. If the face of oil depletion we hear the same old discredited mumblings about ethanol and hybrid cars. In the face of a currency crisis brought on by the unimaginable debt and the default of it, we hear about 30 day delays in foreclosure on houses.

There is a great economic tidal wave heading our way and all the major candidates, especially the esteemed Mr. Obama, are touting their way of putting a patch on the inner tube as being better than that of the other candidates. "



I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in a different forum because the themes in this blog encompass agriculture, poverty, environment and peak oil. I thought the economy best summed up all these because the different themes all are interrelated and ultimately affect the economy.

[MNDemNY]

1. These two? Nada.

[Deep13]

2. Disappointment. Bush has wrecked this county to a point...

...where no president can fix it in a single administration.

[Common Sense Party]

6. Let's be honest. The economic wreckage began LONG before Bush.

He merely accelerated it.

We're facing a 52 TRILLION dollar shortfall in Medicare, as things stand right now. Social Security is child's play compared to the looming Medicare disaster.

The Comptroller General has been crying out like a prophet in the wilderness for years about how we're heading for bankruptcy, but spineless Washington powerseekers aren't willing to take unpopular steps to address the problem.

[jody]

3. Not very much. Congress has the real authority for fiscal policy and the fed does its thing for

monetary policy.

We are entangled in a global economy where subtle things in innocuous countries can create catastrophes around the world.

[napi21]

4. Unless one party has a super majority or at least close to it in

Congress, I doubt you'll see much in major changes. With McCain, you'll see a continuatuin of Shrub's policies, except I do think he'sa bit more reluctant to destroy the military than Shrub. With Hillary, I think you'd see another four year long bashing by the media, even though I believe she would do EVERYTHING possible to push health care through and pull back on corporate welfare. With Obama, I think he would probably be given a short honeymoon, but with disasters looming from every direction, he too would soon be slammed by the RW & the MEDIA blaming all the problems on HIM!

[havocmom]

5. Unless we get a left leaning, veto proof majority with cajones on the Hill?

Not much.

Need a STRONG DEM Congress with the courage to dismantle all the tools the PNACers put in place for the corporations. Such a Congress would have to have the courage to just say no to the lobbyists that need to be turned out of the halls of government and YES to the lobbyists of We The People.

We have to do our part and find, cultivate, promote and support candidates for Congress who will be part of such a legislative body.

We need to get over this magical thinking that the right person in the WH will be a panacea and restore our dream country single handedly.

[leftofthedial]

7. things not getting much worse

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. We'll go off the cliff at 30mph instead of at 60mph

That's what our two frontrunners will give us. That's all they'll give us unless one of them is a closet leftist.

[dude77]

9. I know what we should expect from McCain

Doom.