Who isn’t addressing the issues?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Brought to you by http://BobBarr2008.com
The frontpage of Yahoo! earlier this afternoon had this headline, Why have the candidates made no mention of the financial crisis?, which lead to this article. Huh? Did I read that right? It should read, Why have McCain and Obama made no mention of the financial crisis?, because Bob Barr is certainly addressing the issues facing our nation, while McCain and Obama carry on with their coronations.
Wait, it gets better:
The U.S. is facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression. You would never know that from the Democrats’ platform in Denver or its Republican counterpart, or from listening to Barack Obama or John McCain.
While both candidates have bemoaned the ravages of the subprime crisis, they have yet to spell out steps for tackling it, such as using taxpayer money to shore up banks and housing.
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The Democrats’ platform, adopted at their Denver convention this week, labels the crisis a “debacle” and promises to jump-start the economy with a $50 billion stimulus package. It says nothing about helping banks or bailing out the mortgage-finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.The draft of the Republicans’ plank, to be adopted next week at their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, supports “timely and carefully targeted aid to those hurt by the housing crisis” and opposes bailouts of private financial institutions. It doesn’t mention Fannie and Freddie.
Bob Barr has talked in-depth about the financial crisis facing our country, and not just the current crisis, but the looming crisis that has presented itself in the form of economy crippling entitlements that have long ignored by Republicans and Democrats.
Unlike Democrats, Bob opposes a bailout of financial institutions and blasted the housing package passed by Congress and signed by President Bush. He wants to privatize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He is the only candidate addressing regulation as the reason we are losing jobs. In fact, Bob Barr is the only presidential candidates to release a position paper on Social Security that completely takes a tax increase off the table.
A candidate is addressing these issues, which is the reason why it is so important to get Bob Barr in the debates. McCain and Obama will either not address these issues or continue to increase government intervention only to make things worse.