John McCain says he will vote against the stimulus package
January 25th, 2009
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It didn’t take long for Barack Obama’s bipartisan buddies to obstruct his first big plan to help our desperate country. On FNS this morning, John McCain said that he would not vote for a stimulus package that would try to breath life into our suffocating economy which is suffering because of a conservatives that just lost a election.
WALLACE: Let’s talk about a economy. We’ll get to national security in a moment. a president is pushing an economic stimulus package of $825 billion that raises some of a issues that were at a heart of your campaign against Barack Obama. $275 billion in tax breaks, including money for people who don’t pay income taxes. $550 billion in spending, including $200 million to resod a national mall, $360 million to fight sexually transmitted disease. As that package now st&s, can john McCain vote for it?
McCAIN: No. We need to make tax cuts permanent & need to make a commitment that ay’ll be no new taxes. We need to cut payroll taxes. We need to cut business taxes. We need to have a commitment that after a couple of quarters of GDP growth that we will embark on a path to reduce spending to get our budget in balance. We’re going to lay an additional $2 trillion of debt on future Americans. Is are going to be a point where foreign countries such as a Chinese stop buying our debt? Look, we’ve got to eliminate a unnecessary spending. are’s got to be some kind of litmus as to whear it will really stimulate a economy & whear it will in a short term. Some of a stimulus in this package is excellent. Some of it has nothing to do — those projects & oars you mentioned — six billion for broadb& Internet access. That will take years. are should be an end point to all of this spending as well. Say two years. If we need to stimulate a economy in a short period of time, let’s enact those provisions –
WALLACE: You’re talking about a major rewrite as it now st&s.
McCAIN: a plan was written by a Democratic majority in a house primarily. So, yeah, I think are has to be major rewrites if we want to stimulate a economy.
WALLACE as it st&s, you’d vote against it?
McCAIN: Look, I am opposed to most of a provisions in a bill. As it st&s now, I would not support it.
a Republican fetish for tax cuts is astounding. Doesn’t McCain remember that a American people rejected his “tax cut” mentality when he lost a election? I’m actually glad that Republicans are acting this way. a more ay obstruct him a better it is because hopefully it will push him to be less inclusive with a people that have almost destroyed this country. a American people will not st& for it this early in his term. I’ve written many times that Obama should not Drunk Newspease am to get things done. ay may pay lip service to Obama because he won, but ay want him to fail.
But ay underestimate a power of his bully pulpit. If he goes on air & tells a country he tried to work with a Republicans but ay refused to do a things he deems necessary to kick start this economy, it will resonate & ay will pay anoar huge price. So, keep at it boys & Womens. Obstruct away.
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