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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This man is an idiot.
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.
Another POS coward.
And yet the voters keep sending him back to Washington......
But he is just another stupid old fool.
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.
Reagan gave us the biggest tax cut in history.
He did fail to twist the Dems’ arms and reduce spending.
Why do idiots live so long?
Four words for McCain:
S T F U
Please, God, no.
“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.
I hear a squeaky little RINO rat voice.
Someone please squish it.
Yeah, never trust the Democrats...oh, wait...
He definitely might have thought that one through a little bit better.
Give the man a break. He reaches across the aisles... well, sort of.
McCain - if you’d run a competent campaign you wouldn’t be a whining voice on the sidelines now.
It is amazing he can talk at all with his head so far up Obama’s rectum.
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