@Foxfyre,
Debra Law wrote:
In his convention speech, McCain, the self-appointed agent of change, set forth a goal of REVERTING to the past. He said, "The party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan is going to get back to basics." McCain then recited the basics of Reaganomics. It's the old trickle-down economic plan that involves the wealthiest families and corporate America splashing around in a big pool of wealth with the hope that maybe a drop or two from their splashing prosperity will fall upon the working people. But, if people recall, Reagan's trickle-down economic plan was an utter failure and he had to RAISE taxes--more than once!
How can McCain make trickle-down economics work when it has never worked in the past? After all, the premise is fatally flawed. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the country sinks further into recession. An occasional tax rebate that makes it possible for working people to spend a couple hundred dollars at Wal Mart isn't going to create jobs or keep people from losing their homes.
In response, Foxfyre wrote:
Do you favor Obama's suggestion to limit drilling offshore and elsewhere but send everybody $1000 to offset high energy costs? If not, why? If so, why?
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Foxfyre: If Obama adopted the same old failed policy of trickle-down economics that McCain has adopted when this country is $9 trillion in debt and then sent every family a $1000 check, I would denouce him as fiscally irresponsible. But, that's not Obama's economic plan.
Personally, I own mineral rights and drilling would definitely serve MY financial interests. Drill Baby Drill! Oh wait. Our national reserves of oil, even using the most optimistic estimates, are not enough to satisfy our needs. Our only choice, as a nation, is to develop renewable sources of energy.
Before McCain flipflopped on the issue of offshore drilling, McCain said, "With those resources,
which would take years to develop, you would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels." McCain emphasized that we must devote our efforts to alternative energy sources because we need those alternatives
SOONER rather than later. By flipflopping on this issue, McCain isn't serving the interests of the people. Instead, McCain is serving the interests of big oil tycoons and their lobbyists who clearly have a vested interest in seeing those energy alternatives come much LATER rather than sooner.
