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Lost U.S. Jobs should not be our primary concern, said McCain
McCain wants France to build our military aircraft that will cost you and I billions and create thousands of jobs for France!
Obama seems to be bringing in the Bush agenda which he is suppose to be against! This is like a slap in the face to the people who worked to get Obama elected.
John McCain said Social Security was a disgrace,
Obama is going to use him and another Bush man to destroy Social Security. Why would any one use McCain and Grahm that supported everything that put this nation in this condition, they will continue to push the Bush agenda thanks to Obama!
Obama's meeting Monday with McCain also will be attended by Emanuel and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of McCain's closest friends and allies.
In an interview Friday, Graham said Emanuel asked for the meeting about a week ago.
"We were talking about some things that we could work together on," Graham said. Graham mentioned immigration policy and a long-term strategy for Social Security solvency as areas where bipartisan solutions are needed.
McCain also has supported lifting restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research and has championed campaign-finance and anti-corruption efforts, stances that appeal to Obama.
President Elect Obama, is an America, his blood line is half white, part Arab and the rest black, why is the news media refusing to report the facts. Obama is not an African American!
THE FAR LEFT BLACKS NEED TO WAKE UP AND BE AMERICANS OR GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AMERICA IS A NOT A RACIAL NATION, ONLY THE RACIST BLACKS THAT HAVE BEEN RIDING A GRAVEY TRAIN MAKING MILLION KEEPING THE NATION DIVIDED ALONG WITH THE HELP OF SOME POLITICIANS. YOUR FREE RIDE IS OVER, NO MORE EXTORTING MONEY FROM FANNIE MAY MR. JACKSON AND SHARPTON.
WAKE UP AMERICA, OBAMA AN AMERICAN
Fed refuses to identify recipients of $2 trillion in U.S. taxpayer loans --Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose 10 Nov 2008 The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.
'Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal.'
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks --With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy 10 Nov 2008 The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry.
In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.
But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion.
The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill.
When they found out, some legislators were furious. Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal.
But they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by the change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin.
AIG May Get Expanded Bailout to $150 billion 10 Nov 2008 American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., may get an expanded government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion that includes lower interest rates and more time to repay the debt.
[See: AIG execs at posh Phoenix resort after $85 billion bailout 08 Nov 2008 The 2008 Asset Management Conference held this week at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix included many senior managers at American International Group, or AIG--recipients in September of more than $85 150 billion from the federal government.
The ABC15 Investigators went undercover at the resort and found AIG executives having poolside meetings while drinking coffee and working out at the spa while other attendees were in conference rooms for seminars.
We also watched as half a dozen of the executives went to dinner at McCormick & Schmick's at the Camelback Esplanade, racking up a bill of more than $400 for drinks, appetizers, and meals.]
Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? --Will an Obama Administration Reverse the Tide? by Michel Chossudovsky 09 Nov 2008 The October 2008 financial meltdown is not the result of a cyclical economic phenomenon.
It is the deliberate result of US government policy instrumented through the Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Board.
This is the most serious economic crisis in World history.
The "bailout" proposed by the US Treasury does not constitute a "solution" to the crisis.
In fact quite the opposite: it is the cause of further collapse.
It triggers an unprecedented concentration of wealth,
which in turn contributes to widening economic and social inequalities both within and between nations.
OMG. Just when I'd thought I've seen *it all:* New envoy urges US to bail out Pakistan 10 Nov 2008 With Pakistan teetering on the brink of bankruptcy,
Husain Haqqani made his pitch for a quick infusion of US cash... "All Pakistan is asking for is a bailout of $10 billion to fight [foment] terrorism" and get back on its feet,
he told a packed audience recently at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank... After Sept. 11, 2001, the United States had given about $125 million per month to Pakistan.
This summer, a House subcommittee uncovered evidence of graft in the more than $6 billion worth of US military aid that went to Musharraf's government.
Haqqani is also seeking an additional $10 billion loan from the United States at a "Friends of Pakistan" summit in the United Arab Emirates on Nov. 17.
President-elect Barack Obama supports a plan to give Pakistan a $1.5 billion "bonus" if it remains a democratic state.
[*REMAINS* Barack? Pakistan never WAS a democratic state, Barack. See: Billions in U.S. Aid to Pakistan Wasted,
Officials Assert 24 Dec 2007 After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against 'Al Qaeda' and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money.
See: US Senate approves Pakistan aid worth $785m 20 Dec 2007 The US Senate has approved a $785 million assistance package for Pakistan for the fiscal year 2008 as lawmakers passed with a bipartisan 76-17 vote a massive appropriations bill for federal spending on Tuesday night.]
Creating Jobs in Europe, Not America
The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe. French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is leading the battle in Congress to overturn this decision. He thinks it is outrageous that U.S. Taxpayers should be paying to create jobs in foreign countries.
It is bad enough that the United States has been hemorrhaging millions of manufacturing jobs that are critical to sustaining our middle class. It's even worse that government policies are deliberately outsourcing jobs that are critical to our national security.
BREAKING NEWS
All during the Clinton and Bush Administrations, U.S. Negotiators signed trade agreements that allow foreign competitors to create and maintain unfair border-tax schemes that massively discriminate against U.S. Manufacturers and service providers, and give foreign competitors a dramatic advantage in the U.S. Market. The principal border-tax scheme used against us is the Value Added Tax (VAT).
When foreign manufacturers export their products to the United States, the Value Added Taxes they paid are generously rebated by their governments. Isn't that cool! General Motors, Chrysler and Ford would surely be in better shape if the U.S. Government rebated the heavy U.S. Taxes they have paid.
But that's only half the story. When U.S. Manufacturers try to sell their products in foreign countries, they are required to pay border taxes not only on the value of the product itself, but also on the value of all transportation, insurance and other costs.
The bottom line is that these border-tax schemes heavily subsidize the products other countries sell to us, while erecting a high tax barrier against our goods when we try to sell overseas. The combination of foreign governments' export subsidies and import taxes amounted to a $428 billion disadvantage to U.S. Manufacturers and service providers in 2006.
My late good friend, the well-known Senator Everett Dirksen, used to quip about government policies by saying, "A billion here, a billion there, and soon we'll be talking about real money."
The border-tax problem does, indeed, involve real money. In 2006, it was four times as costly as the Iraq war (VAT: $428 billion; Iraq war: $101 billion, according to Congressional Research Service figures), and two times greater than the U.S.-China trade deficit ($232 billion). The United States has no mechanism to stop or offset this foreign border-tax racket, which creates a severely unlevel playing field. Our complaints and petitions to the World Trade Organization have fallen on deaf ears.
But how could we expect any better treatment? We are only one vote out of 152, and most of the other countries don't like us anyway. This border-tax subsidy started shortly after World War II. U.S. Officials, steeped in a Marshall Plan foreign-handout mentality, agreed to allow France to protect its domestic market, going and coming, by border-tax subsidies and taxes. What followed was monkey-see-monkey-do. Other countries found they could play the same anti-American game. Today, 149 countries use the border-subsidy-and-tax scheme to discriminate against U.S. Products. In addition, the foreign border-tax rates have grown and grown. France's border tax rate of 2 percent in the late 1940s has risen to 19.6 percent today, and the average for all 149 countries is 15.5 percent.
These figures show that the push for the United States to lower or eliminate our tariffs is one of the costliest con jobs ever perpetrated on Americans. We cut our tariffs in the name of "free trade," but 149 foreign countries simply replaced their tariffs with approximately equivalent border taxes benignly called "Value Added," and then doubled the indignity by handing out subsidies to make their products more saleable in U.S. Markets.
The American people rose up with a mighty roar a couple of years ago to kill the Bush Administration deal to outsource control of 22 East and Gulf Coast port operations to Dubai Ports World, which is controlled by a Middle East government. We are looking for a similar grassroots uprising to kill the deal to outsource the building of aircraft essential to our national defense.
America's industrial base is a vital part of our national security. We can't afford to put it under the control of foreign governments. The French tanker-aircraft deal should be a Red Alert about the unfair treatment of Americans by various trade agreements and contracts. Then, perhaps we can build momentum to protect what's left of our manufacturing base and middle-class jobs by establishing a level playing field for foreign trade.
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VETERANS FIGHTING TO KEEP AMERICA FREE! WHILE MCCAIN IS TRYING TO GIVE IT AWAY, VETERANS CHECK OUT THE FACTS AND DON'T LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DOWN
The American people want to know if Obama supports the jobs give away to France?
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Creating Jobs in Europe, Not America
The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe. French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing.
WE NEED A MAN LIKE HUNTER AS PRESIDENT
Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is leading the battle in Congress to overturn this decision. He thinks it is outrageous that U.S. Taxpayers should be paying to create jobs in foreign countries.
It is bad enough that the United States has been hemorrhaging millions of manufacturing jobs that are critical to sustaining our middle class. It's even worse that government policies are deliberately outsourcing jobs that are critical to our national security.
Veterans we fought and are fighting a war based on lies and deception while the people responsible has betrayed us here in America, we are forced to fight VA and now we are forced to fight for the freedom of the constitution and the american people. Stop Bush and McCain!
Veterans remember theses people and vote for them, true Americans that did not betray us by trying to cut benefits. Keep your eye on Rep. Steve Buyer! He seems to have improved, his warrior bill might be bad for the veterans. It puts them under VA control, they should be free regardless of how disabled they are with the freedom of choice, not be expose to abuse by a VA doctor!
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Hearings » Legislative Hearing on H.R. 2721, H.R. 3786, H.R. 6070, H.R. 4255, H.R. 6221, H.R. 6224, H.R. 6225, and H.R. 6272
Opening Statement By Hon. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Chairwoman, and a Representative in Congress from the State of South Dakota
Today we have eight bills before us that seek to: authorize the VA to make a grant to the United States Olympic Committee to provide and develop activities for service members and veterans with physical disabilities; allow military service members to terminate certain contracts when called to active duty service or ordered to change permanent duty assignment; require the VA to develop and DoD to distribute a compact disk of benefits information to service members preparing to depart from the military; amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow a military spouse to claim the same state as the service member in regards to state and property taxes, and voter registration; and reauthorize the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992.
Some of you might recall that on February 13, of this year, we conducted a hearing on expiring programs. In this hearing, we received recommendations on ways to improve on the programs and expand on veterans rights. One such recommendation came from Mr. Matthew Tully of Tully and Rinckey LLC who specializes in law under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, also known as USERRA.
Mr. Tully brought up an example of how a service member who had sought injunctive relief from his employer but the court denied his request. Mr. Tully recommended that the Subcommittee consider amending USERRA to allow service members, such as the one that was cited, to ensure equitable relief is available to USERRA victims when the courts decide it’s appropriate.
I share the concerns expressed by Mr. Tully and recently introduced H.R. 6225, Injunctive Relief for Veterans Act of 2008. This bill will amend Title 38 by changing “may” to “shall” and it is our expectation that more courts will use this remedy when deemed appropriate that equitable relief is warranted. This legislation is a step in the right direction to providing greater protections and safeguards to those that have answered the call to duty.
A second bill that I recently introduced is H.R. 6224, the Pilot College Work Study Programs for Veterans Act of 2008. This bill contains similar language that I proposed in H.R. 5684, the Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2008, which would improve on existing educational entitlements for our veterans.
H.R. 6224 would direct the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot project to expand on existing work-study activities for veterans. Currently, veterans that qualify for work-study would be limited to working on VA related work. My bill would allow those veterans the option of working in academic departments and student services. This change would put them at par with students that qualify for a work-study position under programs not administered by the VA.
Furthermore, this bill would conform to existing paygo rules by funding this pilot program from discretionary appropriations.
I look forward to working with Ranking Member Boozman and other Members of the Committee to discussing my two legislative proposals and those being considered in today’s legislative hearing.
It is very important that Congress continue to reevaluate existing laws and review legislative proposals so that we may provide our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their dependents the benefits and safeguards they need to reintegrate back to civilian life. This hearing has provided us with good feedback and I look forward to continuing this important
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE BUSH ATTITUTIDE TOWARD VETERANS!
Injured vets tell pull Dick Cheney invitation over security demands 27 Jul 2008 Vice President [sic] Cheney's invitation to address wounded combat veterans next month has been yanked because the group felt his security demands were Draconian and unreasonable. Cheney had planned to speak to the Disabled American Veterans at 8:30 a.m. at its August convention in Las Vegas. His staff insisted the sick vets be sequestered for two hours before Cheney's arrival and couldn't leave until he'd finished talking, officials confirmed.
Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans 28 Jul 2008 More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year,
and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says. According to a recent RAND Corp. study, roughly one in five soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan displays symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, putting them at a higher risk for suicide.
STOP THE BOB DOLE BILL THAT IS PART OF THE BUSH AGENDA TO CUT YOUR BENEFITS!
With the provisions of Senator Burr's America's Wounded Warrior Act (S
2674) and Representative Buyer's Nobel Warrior Act (HR 5509), which would
Drastically change the disability compensation system for America's
Veterans. These bills are loosely based on the recommendations of the
President's Commission on Care for America's Wounded Warriors
(Dole/Shalala Commission), but the specifics of these bills would do great
Harm to these veterans in the following ways:
President Bush and Donald Rumdfelt tried to cut veterans benefits and require 72 thousand veterand to go a re=exame after fighting for years to get their claims approved.
The president formed a commission on disability benefits, the commission did a study for over a year which included profession and medial findings. The president formed this to push his agenda, it back fired so he ignored it. When the information came out about poor veterans care it gave Bush an excuse to form another committee to cut the veterans benefits and the "X" and the worse senator that has ever served as a republican Bob Dole, next to Rep. Buyer who is also a republican pushed a bill that over road the commission on disibilities and is in congress to be passed that would rob veterans.
How can a president who sent men and women to a war based on lies and deception, watching them die and come home wounded, fighting men and women who trusted him and members of congress, we did not question the war, he said fight and we fought. Never dreaming he was betraying us back in the states. Along with other republicans in congress who was suppose to protect us. Get them out of office.
McCain will continue to give jobs away to foreign countries, he will also continue the Bush agenda of cutting Social Security and veterans benefits and health care. Obama guarantees that he will not destroy Social Security for our elderly. Foreign nations like Russia and iran is joining to gether against America because Bush has forced them in a position to protect them selfs from Bush and his administration. McCain supports the Bush agenda and refuses to put America first. If you attack or push hard against another country they will push back. we may not have a choice about who we elect, if we are to save America! OBAMA!
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The American people want to know if
Creating Jobs in Europe, Not America The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe. French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing. Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is leading the battle in Congress to overturn this decision. He thinks it is outrageous that U.S. Taxpayers should be paying to create jobs in foreign countries. It is bad enough that the United States has been hemorrhaging millions of manufacturing jobs that are critical to sustaining our middle class. It's even worse that government policies are deliberately outsourcing jobs that are critical to our national security.
THE OBAMA AND FEINSTEIN BILL, DEMAND IT BE STOPPED!
First of all ask yourself if Obama be for America why he is trying to transfer the wealth of this nation to the UN and Africa with the bill he has in the senate, the bill would give 3/4 of a trillion dollars to the support of Africa, force us to pay income tax to the UN and put us under the UN gun ban. The above picture is of Obama when he was young in Africa.
Barrack Obama set in the pews for twenty years shouting AMEN, he had to agree unless he would have been offended and found another church.Yes, Barack agreed, Wright's statements were "controversial," and "divisive," and "racially charged," reflecting a "distorted view of America."
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The "white community," said Barack, must start "acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination -- and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past -- are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds ... ."
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
The "white community" must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with "ladders of opportunity" that were "unavailable" to Barack's and the Rev. Wright's generations.
What is wrong with Barack's prognosis and Barack's cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, "everybody but the rioters themselves."
Was "white racism" really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said -- that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new "ladders of opportunity" for blacks.
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for "deserving" white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Fannie May run by a black CEO, giving millions to Jesse Jackson to push his black agenda. This is waht we have to look forward to if obama is elected. Will the feds go after Jackson and take back the millions?
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While many faith-based charities do not discriminate, “Historically, evangelical groups have not taken any government money, because they want to hire on a religious basis. President Bush opened the doors, and some evangelical groups like rescue missions have walked through.”
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The commonest error in politics," said Lord Salisbury, "is sticking to the carcass of dead policies."
Lord Salisbury's rule comes to mind on reading of John McCain's delight at the $40 billion contract awarded the French-led parent of Airbus -- to build the next generation of U.S. Air Force tankers.
The contract could run to $100 billion and is a body blow to Boeing in its duel to the death with Airbus. Two-thirds of all air-to-air refueling tankers are used by the United States. The contract gives a 30-year lease on life to the expiring Airbus A330 and means early death for Boeing's 767, the U.S. Model for the tanker.
Congratulating himself for having exposed corruption in the Boeing bid, McCain purred, "I have always insisted that the Air Force buy major weapons through fair and open competition."
If McCain thinks Airbus has prospered through "fair and open competition," he is beyond recall. In its first 25 years, Airbus sold 770 planes but did not make a dime in profit. It was started as a socialist cartel, subsidized by the governments of Spain, France, Britain and Germany, to invade and capture a market owned by Americans who built the planes that won World War II.
Airbus drove Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas out of the business of commercial aircraft and almost took down Boeing. And like indolent buffalo munching grass as they are shot one by one, we let it happen.
Lost U.S. Jobs should not be our primary concern, said McCain, "I've always felt the best thing to do is to create the best weapons system we can at minimum cost to taxpayers."
Minium cost to Tax payer, a joke. We will be giving our hard earned money to France that will create thousands of Jobs, not for America, but for france.
Creating Jobs in Europe, Not America
The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe.
French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, is leading the battle in Congress to overturn this decision. He thinks it is outrageous that U.S. Taxpayers should be paying to create jobs in foreign countries.
It is bad enough that the United States has been hemorrhaging millions of manufacturing jobs that are critical to sustaining our middle class.
It's even worse that government policies are deliberately outsourcing jobs that are critical to our national security.
Senator John McCain, a man that wants to be President. With our national debt near 10 trillion dollars, the largest in History. McCain wants France to build our Air Force Tankers
that will cost you and I billions, will create thousands of jobs for France over the next 30 years.
Do you support the transporting of America wealth to foreign countries?
America is comming apart at the seams and members of congress does nothing, why?
Jesse Jackson and other so called black leaders along with Fidel Castro ( the Communist leader from Cuba), went to the UN and tried to get the UN to force America under the UN gun ban.
Now Obama is letting the far left blacks dictate to him to undermine our constitution and our bill of rights!
The AFL-CIO is mobilizing union members who are military veterans to work against Republican presidential candidate John McCain and other office seekers it opposes, officials said Thursday.
John Sweeney, the president of the labor federation, planned to announce the creation of a Union Veterans Council in a teleconference Thursday.
The union, which endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president last month, plans to form state councils of union veterans in key election battlegrounds, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Ohio and West Virginia.
Later, it plans to organize in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia.
"We're forming this Union Veterans Council to bring together union members who are veterans to speak out on the issues that matter the most to them – in this year's election and beyond," Sweeney said in a statement.
"With the formation of the Union Veterans Council, veterans will be front and center in the effort to put our country back on track."
Sweeney said key issues will include money for the Veterans Affairs Department, health and education benefits for veterans, and job growth.
The union also launched an ad that will air Thursday that features a Vietnam combat veteran criticizing McCain's stance on the war in Iraq and on veterans issues.
The ad will air for three weeks on national cable and in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, union officials said.
The outreach effort will include door-to-door canvassing and visits to worksites by veterans to talk to union members about issues in the election. The union also plans to identify and track union veterans.
The AFL-CIO estimates it has 2.1 million members who are either veterans or are serving in active duty in the military.
Sweeney was expected to make the announcement with Mark Ayers, the president of the Building & Construction Trades Council and a former Navy pilot.
"Not only has McCain voted the wrong way on veterans issues – such as opposing increased funding for veterans' health care the last four years in a row – but he also doesn't support middle-class people's issues," Ayers said in a statement.
"He wants to tax people's health care benefits and supports unfair trade deals, including NAFTA."
. Obama, McCain Like to Gamble
Is the White House in the cards for Barack Obama? Will John McCain roll the dice with an unorthodox choice for his running mate?
The two questions play off the rival presidential candidates’ penchant for gambling. Obama’s game of choice has been poker. For McCain, it’s craps.
McCain’s love of gambling can be traced back to his early days. He has written that by his mid-20s he “had begun to aspire to a reputation for more commendable achievements than long nights of drinking and gambling.”
McCain gave up drinking bouts over time, but he never got over his liking for dice, Time magazine reports in an article headlined “Candidates Vices: Craps and Poker.”
In the past decade McCain has played on Mississippi riverboats, at Native American casinos, and at casinos on the Las Vegas strip.
Aides say McCain usually plays craps for a few thousand dollars at a time and “avoids taking markers, or loans, from the casinos, which he has helped regulate in Congress,” according to Michael Scherer and Michael Weisskopf’s article in Time.
His goal is not financial; rather, “he loves the thrill of winning and the camaraderie at the table,” the authors write. But if McCain plays craps for thrills.
When Obama announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate, his poker-playing friends were some of his earliest supporters.
The authors conclude, “In practice, the political battle is both a crapshoot and a poker game, a study in managing risk and in manipulating people. And there is no bigger gamble than a presidential run.”
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