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McCain Calls for 'Economic Surge' to Produce Jobs

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Jobs are a cost, not a benefit.

You need to increase the efficiency of the economy, and the best way to do that is to let comparative advantage work, and stop punishing people for working through consumption and income taxes.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-08-07 06:46|| 2008-08-07 06:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Christ. I hate it when politicians militarize economics. Working for a living isn't a war, Senator. You can't outflank marketplace efficiencies, or sneak up on a 'market failure' with some clever rent-seeking strategy.

This is why there's a Get Drunk and Vote 4 McCain. It's 8:20 in the morning, and I already need a drink.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-08-07 08:17|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-07 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama "said McCain has traded in his maverick stripes to embrace the policies of President Bush"

Oh really? I call bullshit.

Jeebus these people are trying to run against Bush again. BDS writ large. Obama is a fugging moron if he thinks that works with anyone other than those in his leftist elitist Hyde Park cocoon, and the leftard fellators at DailyKos, Moveon and other Soros funded swamps.

thats whats costing him now - slagging on Bush does nothing for the middle class except invite people to wonder why -- andf then realize that Obamessiah is trying to get people to ignore his own paper thin and inconsistent record, especially compared to McCain.

I don't like McCain (wrong on amnesty for illegals & border security, wrong on global hoax warming, etc), and I'll probably have to slam a few shots of cheap whisky to pull the lever for him, but he is most certainly NOT Bush.

As for McCain's "job surge"?

SImple - Drill HERE drill NOW. Lay the pipelines we will need, build nuclear power plants, set up wind and geothermal and thermal solar (with tax credits), start drilling in the OCS and ANWR, and start developing the oil shales.

That will boom the hell out of the job market form blue collar roughnecks in the fields and derricks, to engineeers to design and run all of this energy infrastructure.

There's your "surge".

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-07 10:34|| 2008-08-07 10:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama"It's taken him 26 years to figure it out."

Well no you sniveling little shit - he's been saying it since you were a wet behind the ears little punk Illiois community organizer.

What an incredibly arrogant asshole that guy is!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-07 10:35|| 2008-08-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama has already convinced me to vote for McCain. I don't like him, but then again, I did like Bush. Things change.

Posted by wxjames 2008-08-07 12:06|| 2008-08-07 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Please stop him before "surge" becomes the new buzzword replacing "Czar" for every government program.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-07 13:50|| 2008-08-07 13:50|| Front Page Top

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