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Old 09-15-2008, 10:59 AM
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Default How does Obama = more jobs and McCain the converse?

What in Obama's plans makes jobs for Americans and what in McCain's destroys them?

From what I understand of Obama he wants employers to foot more of the bill for health insurance for employees, raise taxes on corporations and raise the capital gains tax which will push some investment away. So less money, less money, and less money for employers the jobs come from where?

I don't really understand McCain or his policies, but what examples does he have that close jobs?
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What in Obama's plans makes jobs for Americans and what in McCain's destroys them?

From what I understand of Obama he wants employers to foot more of the bill for health insurance for employees, raise taxes on corporations and raise the capital gains tax which will push some investment away. So less money, less money, and less money for employers the jobs come from where?

I don't really understand McCain or his policies, but what examples does he have that close jobs?
5 million gov't jobs in energy= Obama

McCain = Bush and by the transitive property fewer jobs.
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5 million gov't jobs in energy= Obama

McCain = Bush and by the transitive property fewer jobs.
So Obama wants to expand government and raise taxes and just rob us a little more.

So no one knows why a McCain election = fewer jobs?
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So Obama wants to expand government and raise taxes and just rob us a little more.

So no one knows why a McCain election = fewer jobs?
Well there will be more infantry jobs with McCain.
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So Obama wants to expand government and raise taxes and just rob us a little more.

So no one knows why a McCain election = fewer jobs?
Actually, Obama's plan cuts taxes for 95% of the population but you knew that right?

McCain = fewer jobs because McCain = continued sucky economy.
McCain's super awesome plan is to finance tax cuts with continued borrowing as Bush has done.

I guess that's why that economic bozo Warren Buffett backs Obama over McCain.
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FRANKFURT (AFP) — Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies

Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, "I will be very happy if he is elected president.

"He is my choice," Buffett said.

Commenting on the US economy, the 77-year-old investor who is known as the "Sage of Omaha," stressed that fiscal, monetary and trade policies were of great importance.

"I think that the US has followed and is following policies which will cause the US dollar to weaken over a long period of time," he said.

After voicing support for Obama, Buffett nonetheless noted the US economy had managed to do "awfully well" despite a depression, two world wars and many financial crises.

"They say in the stock market ... buy stock in a business that's so good that an idiot can run it because sooner or later one will," he added.

"Well, the United States is a little like that. We can take a little mis-management from time to time," Buffett said.

The chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company with 76 businesses, also said he was ready to add one or two more, on condition they were well-run and had annual pre-tax earnings on the order of 50 million euros (78 million dollars), he added.

"The bigger the better," Buffett said.

Almost all of his companies are in the United States but after investing in the Israeli industrial group Iscar, he was visiting Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy to spread the word that European groups were also welcome to give him a call.

"I kind of go the the office everyday and wait for the phone to ring and hope it isn't a wrong number," he quipped to describe his strategy of letting companies come to him rather than searching them out.
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Has Greenspan announced his choice?
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"They say in the stock market ... buy stock in a business that's so good that an idiot can run it because sooner or later one will," he added.
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Under both we'll all be working for the gov't...they get 40% income tax and then take 60% what's left for our housing payment. Next will be food and water.

Eventually we will all be government serfs. And the best part is they have a great control grid they put in under the guise of 'protecting us from terrorists'.

Amerika is done.
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Actually, Obama's plan cuts taxes for 95% of the population but you knew that right?

McCain = fewer jobs because McCain = continued sucky economy.
McCain's super awesome plan is to finance tax cuts with continued borrowing as Bush has done.

I guess that's why that economic bozo Warren Buffett backs Obama over McCain.
Wow, I can have lower taxes but no job because my job was eliminated because my employer has to pay more taxes and benefits. I guess that's the take-away, you'd have lower taxes but no job.

So your theory about McCain is the same as mine, pure speculation.
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