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McCain: Obama Must Avoid Reagan's Mistakes in Budget Strategy
Fox News ^ | 2011-04-13

Posted on 04/14/2011 5:37:57 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

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MCCAIN: I think there's a lot there. I don't think there's any doubt. I mean, there's some 32 different bureaucracies that do the same job, for example, in, quote, "job training." And there's -- in Defense, there's outrageous cost overruns. Our latest fighter aircraft, the F-35, is almost double in original costs. That's true.

But we also have programs that we should eliminate. Why are we subsidizing ethanol? Billions of dollars a year. There's no reason for it. Many of the agricultural subsidies -- why are we subsidizing sugar? So there's so many areas where we have programs that benefit a few at the expense of many.

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MCCAIN: Well, obviously, the thing that will draw the debt down the fastest is economic growth. And right now, there are signs that that growth may be stalling. So if we increase taxes -- and one of the reasons why it may be is because of the increased cost of gasoline, as you know. But if that is stalling, then do we want to increase anybody's taxes? Obviously, we do not want to do that, at least, in my view.

And so the president -- and I want us not to ever forget, 1986, Ronald Reagan sat down with the Democrats and they made agreement. He said it was the worst agreement he ever made. He said, We'll cut spending. For every $3 we cut spending, we'll raise taxes by $1. You see that same kind of approach here taken by the president. Well, we didn't cut spending and we raised taxes. And obviously, that's something that we want to avoid, that mistake that Reagan made.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 112th; bho44; bipartisan; budget; mccain; mccain4himself; mccain4mccain; mccain4obama; mccaintruthfile; mcrino; obama; rino
Why are we subsidizing ethanol? Billions of dollars a year. There's no reason for it.


1 posted on 04/14/2011 5:38:04 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

This man is an idiot.


2 posted on 04/14/2011 5:41:14 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Why would ANYONE listen to him???

I can’t believe he was re-elected. But I may have to eat my words if my state sends Debbie Stabenow back, so I guess I’ll shut up now.


3 posted on 04/14/2011 5:44:07 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: rabscuttle385

Another POS coward.


4 posted on 04/14/2011 5:44:55 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Emperor Palpatine
This man is an idiot.

And yet the voters keep sending him back to Washington......

5 posted on 04/14/2011 5:47:23 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: rabscuttle385
John McCain thinks he is so sophisticated...so erudite.

But he is just another stupid old fool.

6 posted on 04/14/2011 5:48:26 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: rabscuttle385
And there's -- in Defense, there's outrageous cost overruns. Our latest fighter aircraft, the F-35, is almost double in original costs.

A lot of people who hire a contractor to work on their house and up paying twice as much, because as the guy works, they keep changing their minds, asking for better, or different, or more expensive items, or to move things around after they are in place.

You have to actually look at what you are buying to have any idea if doubling the cost of a plane means there is fraud or not.

7 posted on 04/14/2011 6:02:26 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: rabscuttle385

Reagan gave us the biggest tax cut in history.

He did fail to twist the Dems’ arms and reduce spending.


8 posted on 04/14/2011 6:04:18 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: rabscuttle385

Why do idiots live so long?


9 posted on 04/14/2011 6:06:25 PM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Four words for McCain:

S T F U


10 posted on 04/14/2011 6:38:31 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: kevslisababy
But I may have to eat my words if my state sends Debbie Stabenow back

Please, God, no.

11 posted on 04/14/2011 6:39:55 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: Harley
Bush tax cuts would be permanent if John Mc Cain would have voted for them. A***h****
12 posted on 04/14/2011 6:40:03 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: rabscuttle385
You've summed up the whole problem with Juan McShame and the whole RINO wing of the party. It still sickens me the way he blew the '08 election. I suppose the odds were against him, but he didn't even seem to be trying.

Thank You McCain, for 4 miserable years under Hussein


13 posted on 04/14/2011 6:43:28 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: rabscuttle385

“Why are we subsidizing ethanol? Billions of dollars a year.”

It’s because of McCain and his fellow traverlers. Anybody that goes to Davos should be locked up.


14 posted on 04/14/2011 6:50:23 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Figures don't lie, liars figure!)
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To: rabscuttle385

I hear a squeaky little RINO rat voice.

Someone please squish it.


15 posted on 04/14/2011 6:51:54 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rabscuttle385

Yeah, never trust the Democrats...oh, wait...

He definitely might have thought that one through a little bit better.


16 posted on 04/14/2011 6:55:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Give the man a break. He reaches across the aisles... well, sort of.


17 posted on 04/14/2011 7:05:54 PM PDT by 3boysdad (Rights of Man)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain - if you’d run a competent campaign you wouldn’t be a whining voice on the sidelines now.


18 posted on 04/14/2011 7:34:52 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

It is amazing he can talk at all with his head so far up Obama’s rectum.


19 posted on 04/14/2011 7:42:13 PM PDT by jospehm20
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