"Get away from me boy, you're bothering me."
Posted on 12/21/2007 4:20:02 PM PST by traviskicks
Washington – In his latest attack on the free market and what appears to be a calculated political move to appeal to Michigan voters, John McCain wants to create a new welfare program for manufacturing workers.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Senator McCain announced yesterday a plan to use federal dollars to make up the salary difference for workers who lose manufacturing jobs and are forced to accept lower-paying jobs until they find new careers.
“This is exactly the kind of plan you expect to hear from the Democratic candidates, not an alleged economic conservative,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “The government should not be in the business of guaranteeing wages. In a dynamic economy, wage and employment changes are inevitable and part of the normal process of economic growth and technological innovation.”
“In addition, McCain’s welfare program has the potential to unleash a series of perverse incentives, the worst of which is the disincentive to learn new skills and assume challenging new career paths. Why make an effort to learn new skills and take on a challenge when John McCain will make taxpayers pay your former wage for even a minimum wage job? The program also has the potential to be exorbitantly expensive as many workers opt to settle for low-paying jobs so long as McCain doles out taxpayer subsidies.”
“This is the latest evidence that John McCain doesn’t appreciate the normal dynamics of a healthy economy and lacks confidence in the ability of workers to forge a successful new career without government handouts.”
And then later came the flirt with John Kerry as his vice presidential running mate. McCain says he's pro-life and pro-guns. Democrats wouldn't stand for that. And who's he kidding? If the left thinks that McCain will make Kerry electable, they'd stand for anything, even cannibalism. If McCain announced he was a cannibal, they would still take him if they thought that McCain would make Kerry more electable. And of course McCain's going out there, [Doing McCain impression.] "Uh, yes, I'd consider it, but nonstarters, not going anywhere. Do you hear me sailor? Nothing, no. No scenario, no scenario whatsoever Never, never, never!" Chris Matthews later [Screaming Matthews impression], "Please, would you please do it! We wanted you in the White House in the first place, would you please do it? We'll find a way to get rid of Kerry, just do it! Why won't you do it?" [McCain impression:] "There's no scenario possible. I'm open to consideration, but there's no scenario possible. How many times do I have to say it? Who do you think you are, Donald Fehr?" Well, there was that, and then McCain lost it about these 527s. MoveOn.org, he said, "Look, my son – my stupid 15-year-old son – even he would say it's partisan politics and as such, it's illegal. What do we have to do here, huh? Huh?!" Now, that was in testimony before the Senate. I'm sitting there saying, "I wonder how many people are hearing this?" His law, his McCain-Feingold law says that these 527s are illegal because they're engaging in partisan politics.
My friends, what has happened to us? We have allowed this silly attack on the First Amendment, McCain-Feingold. President signed it, don't know why. Supreme Court found it constitutional, can't understand it, and now this? I mean, there's more money in politics than ever, and more of it by definition of law is illegal than ever! This McCain-Feingold law is an absolute joke. There is more money than ever and it's all under the table now and it's not under control of the parties. It's in control of these wackos like George Soros.
So everybody says, "How could this have happened?" [McCain impression:] "We put that loophole in there but we didn't think anybody would see it. You have to have loopholes so you can go back with new legislation to be a king again to close it!" Well, they saw the loophole, senator, and they're exploiting it with partisan politics. (Laughing) "That's right! That's right! Partisan politics, and it stinks. We said you can't do that and we're going to stop it, you hear me?" Okay, so it was a... (laughing) What McCain-Feingold wanted to do, it did just the opposite! It was designed to take money out of politics. Instead of taking the money out, McCain-Feingold is sucking in more money than at any time in history and by definition, most of it's illegal. Thank you, senator!
??? So now I have to pay the McDonald’s worker who came from detroit $58 an hour??
Psst. big secret: - there's no such thing as “government money.” - its all yours
"Get away from me boy, you're bothering me."
More pious effluent from the Club for Growth. Destroy our American industry through unfettered free trade and then retrain the laid off industrial workers to be semiconductor physicists, biomedical engineers, personal injury lawyers or protein chemists. Poppycock. They'll be lucky to get a job as a truck driver or an order picker.
McCain is a free trader not an economic nationalist. The ongoing destruction of American industry does not bother him one bit. He is just another of those warmongering "compassionate" conservatives.
McNut is getting nutter all the time.
Truck drivers can earn a good living.
McCain is not a conservative, despite what he’d like us to think. He has a record of appeasement to the libs, and to the media, which is why they like him.
The only reason he measures in the polls at all is that the other candidates are so pathetic. But so is he.
Of the pathetic candidates, the one I dislike the least at this point is Romney.
Philosophically, McCain isn't a Conservative.
He's an Opportunist.
When the Republicans have turned into a bunch of pinkos, where are we supposed to turn?
So, do you operate under the assumption that the American consumer has their arms twisted into buying goods made elsewhere? Is the choice then to fetter trade -- economic liberty -- through the use of government so as to ensure the consumer gets hosed, competition is limited, innovation decreases, and a dependence on future government intrusion is deepened?
I've written it before: it's tough to stop a Trane. Particularly the ones heading in the wrong direction with a hardheaded conductor at the helm.
McCain is just another socialist bent on restricting our freedoms and emptying our wallets.
If those people had the ability to learn that level of skills, they would have done it long ago. It is utter crap to believe that people working at low end jobs that are displaced by other unskilled workers will magically gain 80 IQ points and become high achievers. I'm sure there are a few diamonds in the rough who didn't go on to college for want of sufficient financial resources. The really good ones who desperately wanted the education found scholarships, odd jobs and other means to attain the objective.
Too bad he isn't as fiscally restrained as Slade.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for (alleged) GOPers.
As I've speculated many times here, McCain will end up running as Hillary's veep or as a spite-filled spoiler running for Prez as a third party guaranteer of a Clinton victory.
Also, I had every intention of playing the winning numbers in last night’s MegaMillions drawing, so I’d like my check please.
When Democrats act like Republicans, they win.
When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose.
I guess McCain hasn’t figured that out yet.
“When Democrats act like Republicans, they win.
When Republicans act like Democrats, they lose.”
Luckily, the former doesn’t happen that often, eh? Although if it did, we’d have more Liebermans in the Senate hailing from otherwise Dhimmi states.
One area where the Pubbies should act more like Democrats is standing together; when they had the majority, they didn’t necessarily act like it. Now at least they do.
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