McCain Calls for "Economic Surge"

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

(JACKSON, OHIO) – John McCain called for an "economic surge" today to make American businesses more competitive in a global marketplace.

"Companies are moving overseas. We're taxing them out of the country," he said after a tour at a cabinet manufacturer here. "The surge has succeeded in Iraq militarily – now we need an economic surge to keep jobs here at home and create new ones."

Calling Barack Obama "out of touch," McCain said Obama's economic plans would cause the loss of even more jobs.

"Sen. Obama's plans would raise taxes on businesses even more. He's promised tax increases on income, tax increases on investment, tax increases on small businesses. That's exactly the wrong strategy," McCain said. "Raising taxes in a bad economy is about the worst thing you can do, because it will kill even more jobs, what we need are policies that create jobs."

McCain repeated his calls for offshore drilling, the construction of more nuclear power plants, and a "crack down" on those who let the housing market spiral out of control.

[ragnar30066]

Obama has never worked in private industry. His entire career has been at the public trough. He doesn''t understand that there is anything else. And so to him, the only change he can envision is more government activism, more government spending, more government taxing, more government power.

Now go out and inflate you tires and get a tune-up before the government has to make you do it.

[standlee5]

I just heard on CSPAN last night that the Peterson Foundation says that Medicare is already insolvent. It''s plunging us into the abyss. How can we both pay for medicare AND universal health care. IT''ll bankrupt America.

[standlee5]

economic surge? Sounds good.

[voltaire333]

LOL! Typical republican. The surger is working, the surge is working!! Hey, if it''s working, let''s move it over here to our domestic policy! One size fits all for the GOP! It would be funny if it weren''t so true.

[antoniof123]

I''''ll take big business over big government any day. Businesses come and go with size and locale, but big government gets less efficient the bigger they get,.....just like the boat on the road gas guzzlers of the past. They tell us to save gas with one standard of judgment, then turn around and use a different, more favorable standard for their spendaholism against any form of common sense efficiency. We are the governments "gasoline" folks,.....think about it.

Posted by cfin5 at 08:59 AM : Aug 07, 2008

The biggest problem I see with this statement is every time a Republican gets into power the government grows. Now what is wrong with that statement nothing. I give you department of homeland defense. The biggest waste of tax payors dollars in US history and thank the fiscal family value party of god for that one.

[misha128-2009]

Senator Obama summed it up well when he indicated that Republicans see it as a badge of honor to appear to be ignorant (making them the stereotypical dumb-blondes of political parties in this country). Perhaps that explains why the McCain campaign found it necessary to respond to Paris Hilton''s response to Senator McCain''s advertising.

[jongood65]

Yes, I said:

Sen. Hairlyless Peelosely NObama

A creature developed from Sen. NObama morphing into Sen. Harry "Palms" Reid in black face, then donning a skirt and SanFranNan Peelosely''s eyes that make her appear to be perpetually constipated.

All you need to do is watch the three of them goose stepping in lock step along their path to destroy America from within. Just as Nikita ordered these Libtards to do so many years ago.

[jongood65]

Recently, liberal group MoveOn.org in an email to their supporters sounded dejected. They wrote "Here''s the truth: Right now, progressives are losing this argument."

In the energy debate, common sense is winning and it''s got the anti-energy elites rattled because they offer no solutions to lowering gas and diesel prices. AmericanSolutions
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I had thought MoveOn.org was just a bunch of long haired, dope smokin'', maggot infested hippie war protesters. But then I got to thinking about who organized and funded this group....Hungarian George Soros....An international billionaire who has openly admitted his intent to destroy America''s dollar.

This should prove for anyone other than the halfwits among us....it''s just as I have long declared....Today''s libtards (progressives)intend is to destroy America as built. And, from this we can all see who gives Sen. Hairlyless Peelosely NObama his marching orders.

[mattcat25]

Offshore Oil Leasing of US Oil and Mineral Rights will only GIVE away our domestic oil to a private multinational corporation that will sit on (again) production until another time (like in 10 years) when they would be able to sell our oil to the Communist Chinese.

The US Congress should negotiate restriction on all of our Oil and Mineral Rights. The Republicans want to use the energy situation (again) that they%u2019ve created to coerce the Congress into giving away our domestic oil.


This is not a change we can believe in my friendthzzzz.

[omega39-2009]

Let''''s see, McCain wants to fuel his economic surge by cutting taxes to big business even further on the basis that they will then create more jobs? Isn''''t that the same argument that Bush used to justify his tax cuts? Interesting that the unemployment rate not only was not reduced but went UP after that. So why does John McCain think that the "trickle down" theory would work this time? It NEVER has before.......

Posted by raflin1

You are correct, the idiot''s taxcut was billed as a jobs growth plan. It probably grew plenty of jobs in Asia, but did nothing for the working class in this country.