Economy

• John McCain voted against the minimum wage increase 19 times.
• Alan Greenspan, the former Fed Chairman and one of the foremost economic minds, said that upon review of John McCain’s US economic plan, that it COULD NOT WORK?
  Under Obama’s economic plan, 95% of households would receive a tax cut.
• Phil Gramm, the man blamed in part for de-regulation of Wall Street that lead to ENRON debacle and others, is likely to be Treasury Secretary in a McCain Administration. Remember…. Mr. “Americans are a bunch of whiners, suffering from a mental recession…”





• While John McCain was on Senate Commerce Committee for 7 years and voted NO on increasing of efficiency standards in cars.
• Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac have all buckled or collapsed under economic pressure and more to come. Lack of oversight and regulation, of which John McCain has always been an admitted champion of de-regulation, has caused much of the problem..
• John McCain has said many times that the economy is not his area of expertise. (Opinion: We should all take him at his word.) - We miss you Tim Russert

• Carly Fiorina said neither Sarah Palin nor John McCain could run Hewlett-Packard, the company she herself was fired from only after receiving a $42 million dollar golden-parachute, and leaving 20,000 former HP employees unemployed.
• Keating 5: This isn’t the first time McCain has been at the center of a financial crisis.
• John McCains's healthcare policies may destroy employer based healthcare. John McCain’s healthcare system policy will tax healthcare benefits from your employer, and in turn, cause employers to increase the cost to average Americans. Likely this will cause many companies to eliminate company healthcare programs.