McCain on Obama: 'Math doesn't add up'

I don't seem to recall Mr. McCain having trouble with the math for George Bush's spending and stimulus packages. This is a new year though. Maybe the old man should go back and take a Math 101 course at a community college in Arizona to refresh his memory.

Loved the republican response......was that Mr. Rodgers?

McCain still sounds like a sour loser. Obama's speech was full of optimism and hope to get us out the crisis we are in now. Republicans have yet to offer anything concrete to the aministration except non-cooperation. It will hurt them.

McCain should be in a home.

"Republicans have yet to offer anything concrete to the aministration except non-cooperation. It will hurt them."

LOL non-cooperation seems to have worked pretty darn well for the Democrats. The Democrats worked as hard as they could for 8 years to tear down and undermine Bush. Its a playbook that works. You tear down the other parties guy until his presidency is a disaster and then you get your guy in office.

THAT is the Democrat playbook.

Doug,
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President Bush's stimulus packages were based on tax cuts and, if you remember, Senator McCain had lots of issues with the tax cuts "being paid for". It turns out even after the tax cuts, gov't revenues grew and the top 1% in the country still paid almost 40% of the income taxes

I recall Mr. McCain saying he was not an expert on the economy.

For eight years the republican president wastwe the american money in his wars and in vps chaneys war games and not a single republican said anything about our kids future . But now that mr. Obama is trying to get out of the mess that they created now is all about our kids future. BS is all about how to get the white house back to keep giving to the rich. It is all a republican party game to see who wins the 2012 spot.

I watched the speech last night and I don't recall President Obama saying that he intended to have a 3 trillion dollar deficit every year. McCain needs to remember President Obama inherited that deficit from his buddy Bush he didn't create it. Between McCain and Jindal it sounds like the Republicans are still doing "business as usual". You would think they would come up with a different strategy since the name calling and character assassination hasn't worked for them for years.

The Republicans are trying to make President Obama fail at all costs, at the expense of the American people. President Obama gave a great outline of what he trying to accomplish; his speech was real, hopeful and uplifting. Shortly after the president finished, Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) shot down the president's speech. Jindal, McCain, Palin and most of the Republicans are working on a plan of failure at all costs.

Over 40% of the earmarks/pork in the stimulus bill were inserted by Republicans.

source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/62742.html

Hope and change = Making your only defintitive budget cut be to the military budget.+ Raising taxes.

Wow- all that talk and we ended up with Jimmy Carter II?

Anything that Pelosi writes is going to be filled with leftwing liberal pork and earmarks. What happened to Obamas promise of going through the budget "line by line" to make sure there were no earmarks or pet projects? Looks like another tossed promise.

While the speech was ecidedly positive, but cautious, it still lacked a lot of detial. I understand that Obama is trying to do a lot early on, but I am cuatious when someone just mentions $2 trillion almost like it was a throwaway stat.
I didn't vote for McCain, but that doesn't mean that I don't agree with him that there needs to be some major trimming in the budget of obsolete programs, unnecessary subsidies and most of all pet project pork. I thought that I detected a tinge grimace on Pelosi's face when Obama mentioned cutting pet projects.

Joe Stiglitz is right. Whether Obama bailed out the banks because of political contributions or not, it certainly looks that way. People, these guys cannot control themselves. They will not bite the hand that feeds them; whether that hand is on Wall Street or the autocratic union bosses trying to seize power over workers without secret ballot elections. And today, a tax cheat who lobbied and handled the money of the union front created to pass the Employee-Free Choice Act - which gives union supporters the choice of whether or not to have an election (fat chance) if they can force enough workers to sign cards - will be confirmed as Secretary of Labor. Follow the money, people.

Over 40% of the earmarks/pork in the stimulus bill were inserted by Republicans.

source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/62742.html

Posted by: BC | February 25, 2009 10:02 AM

40% by Reps
60% by Dems

And 100% of them can be vetoed by the President?
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Will he veto or will he give a good speech, make many grand statements, appear to be bipartisan and then go ahead and spend the money anyway?

I support President Obama and think he is doing a great job. However, I too am curious as to how he will halve the deficit in four years. You can either increase revenue (taxes) or cut spending. We as Americans can do one thing to help. BUY AMERICAN!

Obviously, what McCain says is true. And nobody can say the man isn't bipartisan to a fault... but he's got his principles, and it didn't take long for Obama's dictatorial tendencies to push him away.
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This speech was typical Obama, present a show with some statements to impress the plebes, sew the seeds for blaming his own deficits on the Bush Administration, and completely ignore the fact that he's just signed the largest spending bill in US history. This is like Stalin giving a speech deploring conditions in his Siberian gulag.
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It's about time Obama got called-out on his incredulous statements and disingenous "goals". He's been writing his own story while the MSM just parrots it for far too long, and very little of it squares-up with reality. Maybe the press could do their job already, we've had enough articles on Obama's puppy-vetting process and how he likes to play basketball.
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When all this pork and welfare fails to generate real economic gains, the Democrats could face a bloodbath in next year's midterm elections.
Obama now owns this clunker... and it's the GOP who seems to have made the far wiser bet.
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http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

At least he stayed awake through this one.

And Trickle-Down-Terry keeps promoting the Pug fiction regarding tax cuts:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/2/13/81426/9950

And Trickle-Down-Terry keeps promoting the Pug fiction regarding tax cuts:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/2/13/81426/9950

Posted by: dt☢ | February 25, 2009 1:09 PM

dt- what could be more "trickle down" than the Obamonomics spending?

Why would you think spending on government expansion with hopes that this will somehow trickle down to all of us "chattering classes" will work better than the traditional, successful, (btw constituionally supported) philosophy of letting we the people keep more of our money?

Good lord Heartburn.
Trickle down economics is Reaganomics. You give tax cuts to the wealthy, they will invest it with no apparent demand, and the resulting wealth will trickle down on us.
Direct stimulus,on the other hand, is what Dems./liberals have always pushed; Put money either directly in the hands of consumers or projects that spur demand from the bottom up.

Put money either directly in the hands of consumers or projects that spur demand from the bottom up.

Posted by: C.Morris✈ | February 25, 2009 3:21 PM

Nice spin--as if putting consumers money in their hands is some sort of "benefit"...?

What is bottom up about massively expanding entitlement programs, federal building upgrades, hybrid car buying...?

Taking my money in order to give it back is not bottom up--

Not taking my money is bottom up---

Of course McCain can't do the math. He can't even manage to count his houses.

News flash for the Reaganites, the game is up:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0224/p09s02-coop.html

heartburn,
It's all of our money.
You are starting to sound like you never really knew what the term trickle down referred to in the first place. Reaganomics.
The failure of capitalism has been monumental. The fix will have to be huge.

Entitlement programs will free up household money for spending on something besides medical bills.

Federal building programs helped built our modern nation in the 20th century. They buy massive amounts of material, hire hundreds of thousands of tradesmen and contractors large and small. Hybrid car buying is just what we need.

Why do the cons. hate America and want it to become a third world authoritarian republic??

dt,
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Hand I know youer using the great economic source of "Bonddad", I never would have made the stmt I made.
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http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6
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http://www.answers.com/topic/laffer-curve

heartburn,
It's all of our money.
You are starting to sound like you never really knew what the term trickle down referred to in the first place. Reaganomics.
The failure of capitalism has been monumental. The fix will have to be huge.

Entitlement programs will free up household money for spending on something besides medical bills.

Federal building programs helped built our modern nation in the 20th century. They buy massive amounts of material, hire hundreds of thousands of tradesmen and contractors large and small. Hybrid car buying is just what we need.

Why do the cons. hate America and want it to become a third world authoritarian republic??

Posted by: C.Morris✈ | February 25, 2009 6:26 PM

I understand trickle down- you can't actually believe that the Obama stimulus/spending is expecting the trickle down to come form govt vs the Reagan model of trickling down thru consumers?? What is not "trickle" down about this?

The only difference is that he, and apparently you, have belief that government can be trusted more with our money than we can- why do liberals think US citizens are immature, dumb teenagers with our money?

It amazes me how many of you Obama supporters and liberals actually believe by increasing the number of SHORT TERM government construction contracts that the government will have a long term effect on the economy. Last time I checked, the owner of the contracting company is the one that makes big bank, not the man holding the STOP sign.

Next, Reagonomics works, always has worked and continues to work, notice how during this economic fallout Louisiana Governer has managed to DECREASE the number of unemployed and INCREASE state growth? THROUGH TAX cuts which encourages the upper class to invest MORE money into businesses, which have a LONG TERM employment result.

Maybe you obama freaks will learn when America falls into California's liberal BS status and are begging other states for money.

Maybe you all should do some constitutional research? 10th amendment specifically addresses, federal government enforces and follows the constitution, all actions not specifically addressed by the constitution will be delegated to the States. Which means currently all lawmakers are BREAKING the constitution by enforcing FEDERAL medical assistance, FEDERAL social security... but hey, who cares what the forefathers meant right? its all about the messiah obama...

Freaking democrats, biggest freeloaders in the free world...