Obama wants to spread the wealth around. Now that we’ve seen several “Joe the Plumber” ads, we’ve seen these people comment on how they don’t want their hard earned money to be given to the government. So do these people actually make $250,000 a year? A study on the website Payscale.com http://www.payscale.com/index/US/State) has shown me that [...]
ECONOMIC ISSUES
The first thing I saw when I awoke early this morning to finish a paper, bleary-eyed and drowsy, was an article saying Wachovia (the bank I have been with since I established a savings plan at age 11, as well as credit and checking accounts later), had fallen and was bought by Citigroup.
After leaving to [...]
McCain has economic issues
Published by September 22nd, 2008 in CAMPAIGN COMMENTARIES and ECONOMIC ISSUES. 0 CommentsThe polls seem to be slowing down once again for McCain. He’s now down about 4-5 points on average. The big event last week was obviously the economic crisis so the question is whether or not the shift was due to this. If so, that doesn’t bode well for the McCain camp at all. He’s [...]
how to deal with the economic crisis
Published by September 17th, 2008 in ECONOMIC ISSUES. 2 CommentsThe great financial crisis that has affected Wall Streat is giving a big challenge to both presidential candidates, that in their latest speeches have dealt with such a topic. Trying to reassure Americans, they have carefully explained their economic plan and said how they intend to solve the situation.
But what I consider particularly interesting is the [...]
McCain cedes Michigan
Published by Ben Roth October 7th, 2008 in CAMPAIGN COMMENTARIES and ECONOMIC ISSUES. 1 CommentSo, it seems that McCain is abandoning his efforts in Michigan after new polling data suggests that Obama has a double digit lead over him, the result of Michigan being perhaps the hardest hit state of the latest economic crisis. Michigan was one of the swing states that McCain was hoping to obtain and with [...]