Bang the Drum

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Entries Tagged ‘Economy’

John McCain: Gambling With Your Future

John McCain is once again rolling the dice for a high-stakes win. Having demonstrated his capacity for self-contradiction at any turn and suffering in the polls as a result of his past positions and current confusion with the state of our economy, he’s ditching the issues in favor of a risky and flawed attempt to [...]

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The New Bailout Plan

I’m reading it now. It certainly seems to have been fleshed out — you can read it here.
More after I’ve read through the whole thing. The devil is definitely in the details.

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Mitt Romney and the GOP not only exaggerate, they lie

Tonight, Mitt Romney added his name to the list of Republicans
working to distorting the record on John McCain’s promise of more of
the same.
RHETORIC: “We need change
all right - change from a liberal Washington to a conservative
Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants
change in Washington - throw out the big [...]

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How Many Houses Does McCain Have?

Obama answers the question quite effectively.

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John McCain Thinks I’m a Whiiiiiner

According to Senator John McCain and Phil Gramm, foreclosures, high gas prices, the jobless rate, high food prices and people picking through their sofa pillows for change (the kind McCain believes in), is symptomatic of our imaginary need to be negative.
Seriously, he is trying to tell us all that we’re just imagining a [...]

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Letters from the Middle Class - 1

How much more of a hit can people take? The future looks extremely bleak to me. Bernie, I am so frightened for next year, as I struggle daily this year. I drive past the gas stations and see the price go up! Those prices are going up even 10 cents a gallon in one day! [...]

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