John McCain is this right where you wanted us? A 700 billion dollar bailout? American's losing their homes? A country that is shedding jobs? Taxcuts for the wealthy? Record profits for big oil? Americans unable to pay their heating bills? John McCain this is not where any of us should want anyone to be and someone who wants to president should know that more than anyone else.
These are hard times and our financial markets are collapsing due to lack of regulatory oversight and years of deregulation championed by John McCain. Our retirements are at risk but at least, thanks to those who challenged the social security privatization championed by Bush/McCain, the damage was not worse.
As credit is drying up John McCain wants to deregulate healthcare. He wants to eliminate the healthcare deduction and businesses, already stressed to the maximum, will have to raise salaries to offset the cost. Worse still this will result in a backdoor tax increase on the already hurting middle class. Mr. McCain our nation is what matters most not the Phil Graham legacy of unregulated greed that you so readily defended. We need a leader who will recognize that our people are America’s greatest asset. We need a leader who will invest in that asset and help our people instead of handing billions in taxpayer dollars to the lending industry.
We need immediate action to the crises that are taking hold of our nation and yet John McCain is criticizing the planning of his opponent. Measuring the challenges of the first days in a new presidency is more important than drapes and only one candidate has started planning for what will happen if he is elected president. John McCain is not the candidate who is doing that planning. The tragedy of this is not that Obama is planning it is that John McCain is criticizing him for it.
We do not need a candidate who has taken a hands-off approach, trusting in Wall Street to handle the economy, nor do we need a lack of planning in the war on terror. We need a plan and a new direction under new leadership, not the policies that John McCain has backed.
We need a president who has actually voted for funding of new clean energies, not just paying them lip service. The people and children of America need active leadership to secure their future from the influence of petrol dictators rather than someone, who earlier this year, suggested that the market would solve these problems. Such lack of foresight, such lack of vision, has given our money to oppressive dictatorships for years.
Cutting taxes to the wealthy in the middle of a war was a bad idea. John McCain said that, he called it irresponsible, since that time John McCain has fallen in line with George Bush. Now he wants us to recognize that times are tough and we have to fight but when it comes to asking more from those who have the most, he wants to give even more to the biggest supporters of George Bush.
Since the Bush taxcuts were implemented Americans have sacrificed as no-bid contractors and other firms have gotten rich. Even as our country bled money and rich men grew wealthy off the blood of our sons and daughters John McCain voted against S Amdt 1670 to HR 2862, which would have investigated those contracts. He voted against S Amdt 784 to HR 6, to reduce our dependence on the foreign oil that funds terrorism. Then he voted against Amdt 1351 to S 1042, voted against penalizing corporations for giving money to terrorists.
John McCain has voted against healthcare, veterans care, social security and now he wants Americans to believe that he considers these programs important enough to protect. If John McCain gets his way state regulation of healthcare will be gutted and big insurance will make more money with no oversight. McCain wants to deregulate healthcare the same way he helped deregulate Wall Street. If this causes a collapse in the healthcare system, the way it did in Wall Street, and the government has to step in, we will have socialized medicine, brought to you by John McCain.
John McCain has refered to "them" in his most recent speech. This is the language of division in a time when we are crying out for unity. Mr. McCain WE are already fighting. You say you know what it is to fight because of your experience. So do we. We fight for America as we wake up every morning and wonder if the subsidies that you voted against repealing will keep making it easier to send our jobs overseas. We fight to know what to do with our children when McCain voted against cutting funding for the Department of Labor to pay for after-school programs. We fought to make ends meet as McCain fought to put shareholder value, wall street, ahead of our neighbor's jobs. You voted against funding for farms, against schools, against money for rape kits, against catastrophic insurance for seniors, and time-and-time again against money for veterans. John McCain you even voted against helping people at their wits end pay their heating bills.
I am them, we are them, for we are all in this together. There was a reason the great nation began with we the people. My family has been here since our country's earliest days. We don't have the McCain name but they would not join in the company of those who joked of or aspired to be dictators as Bush and McCain did. We are the people who teach in schools, have watched farms blow away, watched factories close, watched our neighbor's thrown out on the street and held our loved one's hands as they died from diseases that might have been caught earlier if they had had better healthcare. We have been fighting for America for years. We the people cannot afford John McCain.