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Get Real! Talk to People's Intelligence! Don't Underestimate!

What matters right now to the American people is that this inflationary cycle has hit them right at home, right at the grocery store and right at the gas tank. What matters to people is that the health care system is failing us because even if you have insurance, the premiums are rising while wages are not and if you're like me, you are penalized for not going to the doctor.

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11 weeks 3 days ago – Made popular 11 weeks 3 days ago
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Stress the Economic Dangers of McCain

McCain's Plans Would Add Trillions In New Spending. A DNC Analysis of McCain's new spending proposals show they would total between $7.2 trillion and $8.7 trillion, while the savings he's proposed would total $183 billion, leaving a short-fall of $7 trillion to $8.5 trillion over ten years.

Just to give an idea, gas at 28.1 percent less would take gas down from 3.74 to 2.69 dollars

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Bubble Up Economics (or Obamanomics, if you prefer)

Modern markets make it easy and lucrative for the wealthy to send their money overseas. International commodities, currency, and stock markets disperse much of the economic benefit of upper-class tax cuts away from domestic markets, especially in an inflationary environment. The solution?

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How should Obama respond to McCain's negative campaign?
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