Over the past several months I have noticed a trend with McCain. He seems to move more and more towards Bush's polices. Much of what he has said seems to parallel Bush's own words. In the past McCain has been a harsh radical republican. But nows seems to be drifting toward the middle of the road. Much like Bush in 2000 to win against Al gore. This brings up some questions is McCain putting on a act? If elected will he go back to the radical republican he has been in the past? Bush certainly did when he was elected and I for one do not want another Bush like candidate in office. Which is what McCain is looking like more and more each day.
McCain is promising to change this and fix that. But we all know that republicans never change anything and if by some miracle they do. It always turns out bad. (ex.Stock Market crash, etc) McCain's health care plan is most likely one of the biggest jokes ever conceived. It would eliminate the tax breaks afforded to workers with employer-provided health benefits.In exchange, he would provide refundable tax credits of $2,500 to single people and of $5,000 to families, with the goal of stoking competition in the individual insurance market. The elimination of the exclusion would generate $3.6 trillion over 10 years. The problems with this plan is that if you have a severe injury and rack up a hospital bill over the 2,500 or 5,000 you get stuck paying the remaining balance. In the words of a great man "You would be better off if he came to your doorstep and pissed on you feet."(Lewis Black)
Let's take a look at McCain's Iraq war plans shall we. Over all they are not much different then Bush's. McCain wants us to send over 100,000 more troops. The total amount of troops we have in the Military is 1,426,705. With much of them stationed on bases overseas and a good portion serving as National Guard and Coast Guard. Having 280,000 in Iraq will put a serve strain on our Military. Which leads to the question will McCain start the draft. The answer is looking more and more like yes.
McCain, two months ago said he would raise taxes on the upper classes to aid the middle and lower classes. But now he says he will not. In fact he wants to eliminate much of the taxes put on the upper classes. which surprise! Is what Bush has been doing since elected. Yet another act that seems very Bush like.
Can McCain be an effective President? Well if you have seen the last six speeches your answer to that question is most defiantly no. He had to be corrected by a aid not once but three times in one of those speeches when he said that Iran had been funding certain Terrorist groups. Which is a completely false statement. That his aid tired on several occasions to correct him on but he seemed unable to grasp this concept. In another speech he stood in front of a closed factory and then tired to tell us that our economy is fine and we are not in a depression. Oooooh that's right I said it. The bad word among politicians. But if you look at our economy that's what we are in. In fact the Fed said they will no longer cut rates anymore because we can no longer afford to do so.How bad is our economy when we can no longer afford to cut rates. The republicans seem to be in denial.
Overall as a candidate McCain is simply a carbon copy of Bush himself. This is not what our country needs. We need a forward thinker which the republican party seems to lack. It's not their fault their republicans. That's nothing new. In fact there hasn't been a new idea in that party since Taft was in office. A democrat is what we need and a democrat is what it will be.
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