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Originally Posted by cw1865
In terms of overall presentation, Obama was right on target. He's every bit as good as Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton. From what I saw last night, if you can believe it, I would say that McCain is is even worse than Bush.
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Agree, but he will be judged on the results. I don't envy him his job. May be hard, difficult and take tiome to restore the economy.
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Originally Posted by cw1865
But all of that aside, on the question of fiscal responsibility which was presented last night, which was presented along the lines of: 'Senators, a bipartisan budget agency has reviewed both of your plans and has indicated that both plans would make the deficit worse, what specific actions would you take to make cuts in the budget {in order to balance it}'
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Cut total spending and / or increase taxes. That does not rule out redistribution. Here some politicians say that the correct redistribution (e.g. from people with low to people with higher prepensity to consume) can contribute to growth in a difficult periode.
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McCain said that he would pull out the 'hatchet' and have an across the board spending freeze and then go through the budget line item by line item, with a 'scapel' (pushing for a line item veto of course), but again when pressured to mention something specific he said he would cut ethanol subsidies and also noted that he would eliminate tariffs on Brazilian sugar ethanol!
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I reacted to the same.
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Originally Posted by cw1865
Poor 'Joe the Plumber' - can we leave them out of this.
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Fully agree. Disappointed me a little that Obama got involved in the same form of argumentation.