McCain Campaign Announces New Economic Czar

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In a suprise move the McCain campaign announced today that once elected President McCain would appoint

well known mentalist George Kresge also known as The Amazing Kreskin as Economic Czar to cure nation

George Joseph Kresge, Jr. (born January 12, 1935), better known as The Amazing Kreskin, is a mentalist who became popular on North American television in the 1970s. He was inspired by Lee Falk's famous comic strip Mandrake the Magician, which features a crime-fighting stage magician, to become a mentalist himself.




The campaign said that Kreskin's first act will be a "dissassociative national trance" in which people going to the gas station will see transposed numbers. All "4s" will become "2s". Americans will immediatly think that instead of paying $ 4.27 for a gallon of gas they will only be paying $ 2.27 per gallon.

All unemployed people will receive a hypnotic suggestion that they are on 'vacation' and that people who were facing forclosure were actually leaving their homes because of 'asbestos'.

The announcement by the McCain campaign follows up Senator Phil Gramm's interview with the Washington Times (actual quotes)

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/09/mccain-adviser-addresses-mental-recession/

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. " We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."

"We have sort of become a nation of whiners," he said. "You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

"We have benefited greatly" from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

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Mr. Gramm said the constant drubbing of the media on the economy's problems is one reason people have lost confidence. Various surveys show that consumer confidence has fallen precipitously this year to the lowest levels in two to three decades, with most analysts attributing that to record high gasoline prices over $4 a gallon and big drops in the value of homes, which are consumers' biggest assets.

"Misery sells newspapers," Mr. Gramm said. "Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day."

[kevinmc]

1. Phil Gramm's interview with the Washington Post ..... Washington Times . n/t

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3. see thats just in your mind lol

I forget that rag even exists


will edit thanks

[JaneQPublic]

2. Gramm: Does that guy look like a turtle, or what!?!? (nt)

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4. no he looks like a movie star - its all in your mind lol

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5. kick