* McCain must think we’re a nation of village idiots
Posted by Lew Weinstein on September 25, 2008
James Moore writes in the Huffington Post (thanks to LIZ for the link) …
- Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy.
- Conservative Republicans always want the government to stay out of business and avoid regulation as long as they are making lots of money.
- When their greed, however, gets them into a fix, they are the first to cry out for rules and laws and taxpayer money to bail out their businesses.
- John McCain rides the lobbyists’ jets. He takes their campaign donations. He makes them his campaign advisors.
- And he tells us to trust him.
- He must think we are a nation of village idiots.
LMW COMMENT:
This lengthy article traces the roots of our current financial problems through John McCain’s history …
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the S&L scandal of McCain’s friend Charles Keating (for which McCain was widely criticized but not arrested; Keating spent 5 years in prison),
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Phil Gramm’s deregulation measures (Gramm is McCain’s likely choice as Treasury Secretary if he gets the chance to pick one)
Read the entire article at … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/a-nation-of-village-idiot_b_127340.html
