Posted by
Logical Party on Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Listening to McCain espouse the ludicrous premise that Americans never feared competition was the standard Republican Stump Speech canard that masks what Americans do fear - unfair competition in the new global environment. We are tired of competiting against workers from foreign countries who are being paid $3 an hour. We are tired of our wages stagnating while our costs quadruple (tuition, healthcare, oil and food).
McCain went on to say US Students test scores, particularly in math, are lower than those students in industrialized nations. We are losing jobs to Mexico, India and China where they engage in slave labor and low wages. Their test scores aren't higher than our students, and if on an individual basis they are, they leave that country for where the grass is greener.
This is standard diatribe from the Republican party to protect big business, as with McCains call for another tax cut for corporations under the guise they will go out and hire more people as opposed to keeping additional profit for themselves. Add to that a call for renewal of the Bush tax cuts, something McCain previoulsy was against, and we'll only add to the $10 trillion deficit that has helped cripple our economy and devalue our dollar.
McCain is offering "same old, same old" and telling us like a drug dealer to take more to help the economy as we slowly kill ourselves. He is out of touch with middle America and the working class, both Republican and Democarat, and his policies given another eight years will take us from recession to depression - sans his ilk.
David DiBello