With less than two weeks left before election day, I have quite a few questions for Senator McCain that he has so far left answered. There are so many to choose from, I'm not sure where to start so these questions will come in no particular order.
If giving greater tax breaks to the top 5% of income earners, while making 95% of Americans struggle, is a good, sound economic plan . . . then why do you equate Senator Obama's plan (simply reversing those numbers) to socialism? In other words, giving tax breaks to the wealthy is economically sound but giving tax breaks to the middle class is socialism. Please explain that.
With less than two weeks left before election day, I have quite a few questions for Senator McCain that he has so far left answered. There are so many to choose from, I'm not sure where to start so these questions will come in no particular order.
If giving greater tax breaks to the top 5% of income earners, while making 95% of Americans struggle, is a good, sound economic plan . . . then why do you equate Senator Obama's plan (simply reversing those numbers) to socialism? In other words, giving tax breaks to the wealthy is economically sound but giving tax breaks to the middle class is socialism. Please explain that.
As you stated in the second presidential debate: fixing social security "isn't that hard". Then why hasn't it been fixed? Have you been keeping some sort of secret for the last 10 years that you are now going to pull out of your hat? If so, please tell us what this secret is. After all, according to you, it isn't "that hard".
In the third presidential debate you emphatically stated that you repudiate all negative and slanderous comments made against Senator Obama. Can you please tell me when you repudiated the comments of Virginia GOP Chairman Jeffrey Frederick? I must have missed the moment when you admonished him for telling his workers to take every opportunity to compare Senator Obama to Osama bin Laden. Also, I must also have missed the segment when you repudiated the robo calls stating that Senator Obama works closely with terrorists. You see, those calls say "terrorists", plural. As is well documented, the only thing that Senator Obama did was sit on a committee with William Ayers. That would be one committee and one ex-terrorist 40 years removed from his radical behavior. So can you please either explain what you meant by the plural use of the word or please tell me when you repudiated those calls?
A comment you made during the last debate was overlooked simply because it came right before your infamous "I am not George Bush" line. I want to bring that comment out here and question it. You stated you can balance the budget in four years. Any economist will say that is impossible. Any lay person can see that it will take twice as long, if not longer. But you nodded and said that you can do it in four. Please explain your grand plan to pay off our largest deficit in American history, along with our mega-loans from China, within four years without raising taxes.
Which brings me to another subject. You have asked Senator Obama over and over "Why raise taxes on any American?" You state you will not raise taxes. But, Senator McCain, is it not true that the majority of Americans will end up paying more taxes if you should find yourself in the White House? How can you say we will not be paying more taxes if you intend to introduce us to a brand new tax? That would be the tax on healthcare benefits. The first time in history anything like that would be introduced.
Which again leads me to another subject. Healthcare. I've heard your plan but I have not heard how it is going to fix the system. I don't see how your plan puts the medical decisions back in the hands of the doctors and not the insurance companies. I have not heard how prescription drug costs will be lowered. I have not heard anything about pre-exisiting conditions, emergency care or medicaid. Your plan appears to only strengthen competition among the insurance companies but does not appear to fix the healthcare system at its core. Your plan still has the decision-making power in the hands of the insurance companies and not where it belongs, in the hands of medical professionals.
Last question, Senator McCain. How do you plan on bringing Democrats and Republicans together now that you have successfully polarized them on your compaign trail? Sir, I am a libral and I am proud to be an honest, God-fearing, patriotic liberal. I am digusted and offended by the comments made by you, your running mate and your supporters regarding not only Senator Obama's character but also his liberal supporters. How on earth do you plan to piece together the multi-cultural, religiously-diverse fabric of this nation now that you have begun to shred it with divisivness?