Dean: McCain's economic plan 'more of the same'

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WASHINGTON — John McCain doesn't have an effective plan to turn around the faltering U.S. economy, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.

"As I listened to Senator John McCain's remarks about the economy this week, I heard more of the same Republican policies that George Bush has brought us for the last eight years," Dean said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

Among those policies, Dean said, are "privatizing Social Security, denying our children health care, adding $8 trillion in new deficits, no plan to turn our economy around or help people keep their homes."

Despite the nation's current economic woes, including rising unemployment, lower wages and record gas prices, "Senator McCain believes we are better off," Dean said.

Republican Party Chairman Mike Duncan, in turn, accused Democrats of trying to "smear" McCain and argued that Dean was resorting to distorted and laughable attacks on the GOP nominee in waiting.

On Friday, Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized McCain for comments he made in a television interview saying there had been "great progress economically" in the period since Bush became president. McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said the Arizona senator's remarks had been taken out of context, noting McCain went on to say the economic improvements were "no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges."

In the radio address, Dean said: "If you want to see more of this Bush economy, if you want to see our troops in Iraq for a long period of time, we can stay the course with Senator McCain. But the Democrats have a different vision for America's future. Both of our candidates for president have a plan to get us out of Iraq responsibly so that we can invest in the American people and American jobs."

Either Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton "will turn our economy around with fair and honest tax policies, will help people keep their homes, and finally have a health care system that makes sense for all of us," Dean said.

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{"commentId":1710873,"authorDomain":"keggerlord"}

All I'm gonna say on this one: Consider the source.

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Reply#1 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:18 PM EDT
{"commentId":1710891,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

Exactly what did we expect? Did we expect Dean to say "McCain is definitely going to turn around the economy?"

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Reply#2 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:24 PM EDT
{"commentId":1713005,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}

Or, "he's a great man - I stand by his political ideals" haha

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#2.1 - Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:28 AM EDT
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{"commentId":1711171,"authorDomain":"mimacarol"}

AS opposed to the Democratic plan of raising taxes and leaving us with less money?

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Reply#3 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:17 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711290,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}

Shallow, superficial counter arguments. Tax policies that serve the rich are pale failures compared to incomes policies, the enslavement, unpaid labor, of social surplus, whose total wealth now exceeds for a handful of billionaires, more than 80 percent of the people on the world.

Counterposing tax policies to incomes policies are false choices as counterposing democratic class hacks to republican hacks who follow the same class policies, and imperial foreign disasters that produced Amerikan class empire.

You would not need heavy taxation by the class liberals, to make up for the heavy enslavement, impoverishment, of its middle and working classes, one in which both class parties participate in the same corporate fascism, global class enslavement, if social wealth was based on a social mechanism, social agency, and not the class mechanism, and deformed class agency of its middle layers, the shock troops for the oligarchy. These phony arguments between class liberals and class neocons never ever solve fundamental problems of class regimes, oligarchies and their imperial class empires.

We need a unified middle class, that has joined ranks with the working classes to dismantle the class hierarchies, class ideologies, class policies, that nourishes the oligarchy and class dictatorship. Dismantle these class institutions, and their deformed link to plutocracy, throughout the world, and finally Patriarchy, class exploitation, and the class mechanism will have been broken, for the often, yet falsely claimed principle of social wealth, and moral leadership.

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#3.1 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:03 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711366,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

They don't serve the rich. A true conservative tax policy doesn't serve anyone.

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#3.2 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:33 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711562,"authorDomain":"antoniojvr"}

Eric - I could almost hear the USSR anthem playing behind your comments.

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#3.3 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:09 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711600,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}

Funny antoniojvr:

I thought it was your Deutschland uber alles, Corporate fascism over all, class imperialism for the world.

The Soviet Union was a Stalinist country, not a "communist" country. I suggest you read my interview with Redruby, then go to my State of the Union article to get a better grip on ideology.

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#3.4 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:23 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711727,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

I do agree about the USSR not being communist. Isn't communism the one where there's no government and the people deal it out by themselves?

I always found it ironic that the two most popular forms of anarchy are communism and ultra libertarianism.

However, the point was not about communism. The USSR was a totalitarian country that FORCED everyone to become middle class. Here's why capitalism is better: it wants those who work hard to become rich and those who are lazy to become poor. Communism wants those who work hard to get the same as those who don't work at all. That's the fundamental flaw.

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#3.5 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:17 PM EDT
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{"commentId":1711323,"authorDomain":"CurtisLow"}
McCain has no effective plan to turn economy around

This guy Dr. Ron Paul has a plan.. He's the only one what will keep the US intact and safe from the elitist and corporations that are on a one way path of destruction.

< click my name to learn more >

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Reply#4 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:15 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711382,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}

If one assumes as this title by the corporate media, its AP writers, that the goal of class policies for its shriveled, mangled, partially developed middle class, not to mention its worse off enslaved working classes, below them, is "effective plans" for social classes, then this is completely false. It is not the goal of class societies to have "effective plans", for social development, when in facti it is its opposite, ineffective plans, that promote class policies the real goal of Late capitalism, global corporate policies.

If "effective plans" were instiutitionalized, to promote social wealth policies, along with fair tax policies, then we have to assume that class ideologists, class economists, and their class institutions have been dismantled. Thus the specious, false argument, whether by class liberals, like Bill Clinton or Hillary, or even Obama, or whether by neocons neanderthals whose whole goal is to enrich its top 1 percent, presumes that it is the goal of class apologists to come up with "effective plans" for its middle and working classes.

Puhleeze....let us end these charades, if "effective plans" were really the goal here, then the deliberate "ineffective" class anointed class hacks paraded here as options for the social middle class, cannot produce "effective" social solutions, but rather the "ineffective" class problems, imperial policies that both class parties are part of, especially by BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMBA, McCain, mislabled by the corporate media hacks as (false) "centrists, (superficial) "maverick", who in fact whole goal is to promote the class and imperial policies of Amerikan class empire.

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Reply#5 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:36 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711426,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

OK Eric. What is an effective plan?

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#5.1 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:54 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711446,"authorDomain":"mimacarol"}

I am assuming that it is socialism, though it's rather hard to tell in the ramblings. Ever notice? The people who love socialism are those who want to share IN the wealth of others, not those who want to share THEIR wealth with others.

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#5.2 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:03 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711627,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}

C Anderson:

Your ideological dogmas are showing through. Social wealth is an inherent principle in all economies already. It is their deformed social principle, the definition of class principle, that is instiutionalized, where social property, social wealth si not created to bring about middle classes as a unifed whole, without its deformed class hierarchies, class ideolgoies, and class empire that put property rights, over other peoples property rights, where human rights are trampled, where slavery for profit, for commercial capitalism is justiefied, where corporate fascism justifies the enslavement of Jewish, socialist labor, and today enslaves its workers world wide through unpaid labor, cheap labor markets by this global class mechanism that destroys the middle class, enslaves its working class and finally risks the world with Class empire.

You of course are so ingrained with false dogmas about social wealth, social theories, that your class ideologies cannot come up with analytical, or parallel, analogies to show that this "socialism" already exists in all economies, and the only thing missing is the social mechanism to displace the class mechanism in place since Patriarchy, hence the often repeated phrase: SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH Did you get this clue yet???

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#5.3 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:31 PM EDT
{"commentId":1711743,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}
where corporate fascism justifies the enslavement of Jewish

Actually, that was under a socialist regime. Hitler was no capitalist.

where human rights are trampled, where slavery for profit, for commercial capitalism is justiefied

I don't think too many Americans have to complain about human rights being trampled. There's no slavery in America. What's wrong with commercial capitalism?

Either way, you didn't answer my question.

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#5.4 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:20 PM EDT
{"commentId":1712038,"authorDomain":"mimacarol"}

Gosh, Eric, I am thrilled with your insults. I wouldn't want you to agree with me on anything.

So, tell us, do you copy this drivel out of a textbook?

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#5.5 - Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:02 PM EDT
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