McCain's Bus Now Doubletalk Standard, Fueled by Lies: Will America Still Take Bus to Nowhere?

Our economy is in a huge mess. Wages are Stagnant as Prices Rise: While wages remain flat, the costs of basic necessities are increasing. The cost of in-state college tuition has grown 35 percent over the past five years. Health care costs have risen four times faster than wages over the past six years.

And the personal savings rate is now the lowest it's been since the Great Depression. And it was exacerbated bv a "spread it to the wealthy scheme" also known as the Bush tax cuts which gave those who earn over $1 million dollars a tax cut nearly 160 times greater than that received by middle-income Americans. At the same time, this Republican administration has refused to tackle health care, education and housing in a manner that benefits the middle class. And the McCainanite Republicans promise more of the same. Ideological prattle, but no share of the cattle for middle class and poor Americans.

Obama-Biden promise to enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families:Barack Obama and Joe Biden will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on the Obama-Biden long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief. this is not spread the wealth, it is share the health, helping our entire country become healthy economically.

They also plan to provide $50 billion to jumpstart the Economy and Prevent 1 Million Americans from Losing Their Jobs: This relief would include a $25 billion State Growth Fund to prevent state and local cuts in health, education, housing, and heating assistance or counterproductive increases in property taxes, tolls or fees. The Obama-Biden relief plan will also include $25 billion in a Jobs and Growth Fund to prevent cutbacks in road and bridge maintenance and fund school re¬pair - all to save more than 1 million jobs in danger of being cut.

Do not expect John McCain and the Republicans to bring the needed changes. Their policies got us here in the first place.

“The failed economic policies and the same corrupt culture that led us into this mess will not help get us out of it. We need to get to work immediately on reforming the broken government -- and the broken politics -- that allowed this crisis to happen in the first place.” Senator Barack Obama wrote me and other supporters recently, standing up for principles he has been calling for over the last eighteen months, and decrying the Republican presidential administration economic policies that drove this nation into the very deep financial and economic ditch.

Obama has repeatedly said for months that what was happening in the subprime lending market was inappropriate, that nobody was looking at whether or not these loans made sense, that in many cases they were pushed into communities in which workers and homebuyers couldn't support the underlying mortgages, and the fact that we just did not do anything is reminiscent of what happened during the savings and loans crisis. (Which John McCain, of Keating Five and “poor judgment” fame, should know something about). Obama was spot on right in his warnings – while McCain was missing in action, as has been the case for much of the last eight years of his embrace of Bush and Bush’s brainless policies.

In his letter to supporters, Senator Obama stated the core truth of the financial mess Bush and his merry men and women cooked up for us: “The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has created a financial crisis as profound as any we have faced since the Great Depression. “

And, make no doubt about, John McCain and his Republican Party are guilty of being co-conspirators in cooking up this financial mess with a purposeful lack of regulation and safeguards. In response, Obama and Joe Biden promise that they will be “guided by core principles of fairness, balance, and responsibility to one another,” in their economic policies.

Obama stated:“Joe Biden and I have a plan that will guarantee our long-term prosperity -- including tax cuts for 95 percent of families, an economic stimulus package that creates millions of new jobs and leads us towards energy independence, and health care that is affordable to every American. It won't be easy. The kind of change we're looking for never is., but if we work together and stand by these principles, we can get through this crisis and emerge a stronger nation.”

This is the kind of real Straight Talk America needs. McCain’s straight talk ended in South Carolina n 2000, the victim of the same Rove-Bush gutter politics he now embraces. His campaign bus no longer is the Straight Talk Express -- it is now the Doubletalk Standard, powered by lies not gas, on a perpetual route from Spinville to Propaganda City. And yet almost half of America is still on board this bus to nowhere.

It is a sad commentary on where our nation is, educationally, morally, and in the important areas of clarity of thinking and careful discernment.