It’s All in the Details
Via Andrew Sullivan’s site, here are the two candidates’ messages on how to fix the economy:
Quite a difference. Obama’s plan:
1. Reform tax system with $1000 tax break to middle-class families, not the rich;
2. Real regulation that protects your investments and pensions;
3. Fast track “energy made in America plan” to end dependence on Middle East oil;
4. Crack down on lobbyists;
5. Bring a responsible end to war in Iraq so money can be spent on America.
McCain’s Plan:
1. Reform Wall Street
2. Fix Washington
This is better than Obama’s plan because:
1. His “opponent’s” solutions are only “talk and taxes.”
How stark can it get? One lays out a 5-point plan (with a link to a web site with a great many details on how this will be accomplished), and the other says he’ll “fix things” without saying how, while bragging that he’s “taken on tougher guys” than Obama.
I’m sorry, but if you’re voting for John McCain to reform the economy better than Barack Obama, then you’re a complete idiot.
Me, I’ve seen my stock price fall a lot chiefly because of market pressures due to Bush/McCain deregulation. No more, thanks. The economy has gone far better under Democrats than under Republicans for a very long time. Let’s stop the BS and turn the economy around, something possible under Obama but not under McCain.
I have been supporting Senator Obama all along. Senator McCain puts me to sleep.
Your last link, about the economy doing better under Democrats, isn’t working.
Good post, though. How are you doing with the time change? My body has adjusted from Thailand time to somewhere in the mid-Pacific by about now… hopefully I’ll be “in Seattle” by the weekend.
Paul: Thanks, it’s fixed now.
The time change is not so bad after the first day. We might have more trouble going back–what is it, east to west is worse? I forget.
Just wondering what your thoughts on Senator Ron Paul on the economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73KlhUq1W8
No, as a general rule going west is easier… but either way they say that to truly reset your body’s clock, you should figure it being one day for every hour you changed time zones.
Of course, the most you can change is 12 hours; if you go “further” (meaning across the dateline) then you wind up getting back closer on the other side. Your body doesn’t know what day it is. 😉
Ginger is better at it than I am; she’s mastered the trick of being able to sleep once she’s at a destination if it’s dark, whether her body thinks it should be daytime or not. I’m better, though, at sleeping on the plane than her, which makes sense- usually when she’s on the plane she’s working!
We might make a trip to Tokyo in the near future. Probably a quick one, but if we get a chance to do it I’ll shoot you a note. It’d be nice to meet you in person after all these years. (GG’s birth mom is in the Koreatown in Tokyo.)