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McCain calls for tax cuts, job training to lift the faltering economy
Minneapolis Star & Sickle ^ | March 7, 2008 | LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press

Posted on 03/07/2008 11:08:33 AM PST by daler

ATLANTA - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has said economics isn't his strong suit, said Friday tax cuts and job training are needed to lift an economy that is either in recession or is headed toward one.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: jobtraining; mccain; taxcuts
You gotta hand it to the MSM...they don't even bother trying to hide their bias anymore.
1 posted on 03/07/2008 11:08:34 AM PST by daler
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To: daler

“McCain calls for tax cuts, job training to lift the faltering economy”

Job training? What would he have us train for? Service jobs he gives to illegal aliens or tech jobs he outsources?


2 posted on 03/07/2008 11:12:33 AM PST by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: daler
Surprised me I thought he would want to increase spending on illegals.
3 posted on 03/07/2008 11:18:01 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: daler

There has been two major layoffs at work this year. Gas is going up and up. We need to drill more oil, build refineries, extend the tax cuts, graduate more doctors, reduce government regulations, etc. Is there any one in Washington with ideas that work. NOOOOOOOOOOO!


4 posted on 03/07/2008 11:21:35 AM PST by bmwcyle (I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
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To: AuntB
"Job training? What would he have us train for? Service jobs he gives to illegal aliens or tech jobs he outsources?"

I think McCain has in mind auto mechanics, computer programming and TV repair. Maybe this is his opportunity to increase the armed forces for his coming wars with AQ, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Islamo-fascism.

5 posted on 03/07/2008 11:34:15 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: org.whodat
My post was more directed at the MSM handling of the story than at McCain's proposals.

Imagine, if you will, an AP story that reads something like this:

"Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose famous husband has been implicated in numerous allegations of sexual abuse and harassment, proposed increasing the penalties for such behavior today..."

Not in this lifetime.

6 posted on 03/07/2008 11:50:35 AM PST by daler
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To: AuntB

Exactly !

I would like to know what he intends to “train” non college kids to do?

We only need so many cooks or nurses aides or hairdressers.. and as you mention the bed making jobs go to the illegals he wants to legalize

They whine that US HS students are by passing the “hard sciences” These kids want real jobs in the US, not China or India.

Bush has single handedly killed what was one the model economy of the world. We have moved to a 2nd world nation heading for 3rd. Our real “free trade” candidate Mc Cain will finish off the job, He is obviously as out of touch as Bush 1 and 2.


7 posted on 03/07/2008 1:04:23 PM PST by ears_to_hear
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To: daler

The content is more important than the slant.

McCain is an ass


8 posted on 03/07/2008 1:05:36 PM PST by ears_to_hear
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To: ex-snook

Auto repair is now a HIGH SKILL job that requires a lot of computer knowledge. maybe we can turn out a million or so of them so we can drive the wages down to minimum wage.

Computer programing along with computer production is now done in China and India .


9 posted on 03/07/2008 1:09:05 PM PST by ears_to_hear
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To: daler

Another elected handout recipient with no creativity, originality or, even, the common sense to see how futile it is to keep giving money away.


10 posted on 03/07/2008 2:00:31 PM PST by papasmurf (I'm not worried anymore. I read Obama's "Blueprint for Change".)
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To: AuntB
What would he have us train for?

For them $50 hr lettuce picking positions in Arizona.

Regards

11 posted on 03/07/2008 3:16:23 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: daler
"It's harder and harder trying to do the Lord's work in the city of Satan," McCain said of Washington.

That's what McCain thinks he's been doing in Washington the last two decades? Go figure.

12 posted on 03/07/2008 3:23:42 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: daler

he did say it


13 posted on 03/07/2008 3:26:53 PM PST by Grunthor (None of the Above 2008!)
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