| So far, so good: the title of the piece reads, "McCain promises to balance budget." That's just as it should be, right?
But then...read on...and find out how he plans to balance the budget (also gleaned from his economic plan):
-- Curb "wasteful spending"
-- Overhaul "entitlement" programs, "including Social Security," Medicare, and Medicaid
-- Make the Bush tax cuts permanent
-- Lower the corporate tax rate
-- Eliminate the AMT
-- Give $5K to each family for health care
-- Reserving "all savings from victory in...Iraq and Afghanistan" to deficit reduction
I see a lot of tax cuts for business and the wealthy and spending increases - and not much in the way of spending cuts or increasing revenue. Trickle-down economics, still!
Er, isn't this how we got into this mess in the first place?
Never mind that these budget proposals are fundamentally flawed, that they favor corporations over tax payers. We want government...but government that works and for us. Gutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and all the other programs that actually give back in order to fund an unjust, ill-advised war we can't "win," and to put cash in the pockets of the people who've driven down our wages, poisoned our air and water, and who have us hooked on our oil infrastructure...well..it's ugly, and it's not what I want.
This is a far cry from the McCain of 2000, eh?
And read this again:
The McCain administration would reserve all savings from victory in the Iraq and Afghanistan operations in the fight against Islamic extremists for reducing the deficit. Since all their costs were financed with deficit spending, all their savings must go to deficit reduction.
Talk about delusional. Wasn't it McCain himself who said we should stay in Iraq for 100 more years? And to stake American's economic future on a war that never was necessary in the first place? If there's ever a more damning indictment against McCain's fitness to be president, I've yet to see it. |
