jeezus h. christ. McCain senior econ advisor on C-Span pushing corporate tax cuts

[cali]

unfucking believable steaming pile of shit. Saying that de-regulation had nothing to do with the collapse of financial sector. This is a clear picture of McCain's disastrous economic policies.

[grannie4peace]

1. they are crazy, mother f*cking, idiots who are bent on stealing money!!!!!

[cali]

3. i just looked him up on Wiki

here's a snippet: "Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. It was published in 1999 before the dot-com bubble burst. The book predicted that the Dow Jones industrials index would rise to 36000 within three to five years--i.e., 2002 or 2004."

Says it all, doesn't it? He's a fucking idiot.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Of course

They're 4-12 years from an irreversible destruction of the country. They have to go all out.

[ErinBerin84]

4. heh.

Well, that honestly pisses me off less than McCain pretending like he is all for regulation now. I turned on Fox for a second just for giggles yesterday, and they were "talking" about the economy with the caption "McCain wants re-regulation". Of course, they did no caption for Obama, bc they want us to think that Obama does not have a plan. They are trying to confuse people by conflating "deregulation" and "re-regulation".

[Honeycombe8]

5. I saw part of that. Obama camp had better respond. They're saying Obama signed on to the

problems that caused this horrific debacle.

It's the typical, slimey ROVIAN tactic of taking your OWN mistakes & problems, and turning it around and blaming the opponent for those things.

Obama had better respond. This tactic is having an effect. I'm hearing it over and over....and I'm not hearing any counter-argument, to speak of. This is complicated stuff. People are apt to believe whatever they are told is the cause.

[DailyGrind51]

6. Two-thirds of American compnaies pay NO corporate tax anyway!

" Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes - despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue."

http://www.mytwodollars.com/2008/08/13/66-of-american-corporations-pay-zero-federal-income-tax/

This is another phony Conservative issue that requires continued debunking with facts. The problem could be stemmed by eliminating tax benefits for companies to locate overseas and taxing foreign companies doing business in the United States. Cutting a tax paid by only one-third of all taxes is not the answer to sustaining tax revenue while facilitating American competitiveness vis-a-vis foreign companies.

[Curtland1015]

7. Jesus is John McCain's senior economic advisor!?!?

:P

Really though, "corporate tax cuts" is the only game those assholes have. It's like listening to a parrot who only knows how to say one thing.

[ErinBerin84]

8. kind of off topic

but Chuck Todd was just on the Today show talking about this...the host asked if it would be the better economist or the better politician who wins in November, and Chuck Todd said that it won't be who people think is the best economist, because neither candidate really knows what is going on (!). I'm so sick of this media meme, that both candidates are equally clueless. And then Todd said that McCain had a really bad week, and it was a bad time to have a bad week. And then he said "I don't think Obama had a GREAT week, but he didn't have a bad week..." Then he went on to say that McCain probably ended off the week on better footing that he had started, and tried to "present" a plan, and the host said "Yeah, but isn't Obama at risk for being too cautious and lacking specifics on this, since he is the candidate of hope and change???" Chuck Todd said that it didn't matter, because Congress isn't going to consider McCain's plan anway. I'm so sick of the media telling us that both candidates pretty much suck and lack specifics on the economy, and that any success that Obama is having this week is just by default.

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. Who is it this week?

{Of course we know it's really behind-the-scenes Gramm.}

Whoever it is oughtta be bitch-slapped for that! Unbelievable nerve! (While acting so piously honest too!)

[Zynx]

10. Can you get that clip? This is actually very important.

We need to nail McCain for not seeing the problems of deregulation.

[baldguy]

11. "You say your house is burning down? Well, then we simply MUST cut more taxes on billionaires!"

"Then houses will be able to put THEMSELVES out! No need to burden the taxpayer with firefighting costs!"