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After a final debate performance in which only 10% of viewers responding to an NBC poll found that McCain had advanced his campaign, the Republican Presidential candidate came out this past weekend with the tried and true GOP weapon: he called Barack Obama a socialist for his economic policy. Invoking the image of his buddy from Holland, Ohio, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the unlicensed plumber, as reported by CNN, McCain warned voters that Obama would "spread the wealth."
Well, is Barack a socialist? As Obama remarked "When you spread the wealth around, isn’t it good for everybody”? What does it mean to spread the wealth – is it as McCain told Fox News “one of the tenets of socialism”? Or is it something else? Common sense?
Today on GRITtv we discuss Barack Obama's economic policies with JARED BERNSTEIN of the Economic Policy Institute and an Obama campaign adviser, BHAIRAVI DESAI, Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, JAMES PARROTT of the Fiscal Policy Institute, and MARK LEVINSON, Chief Economist of Unite Here.
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Thanks Laura!
By egregious on October 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Jared over the last month we have heard the response to the economic crisis described as a “bailout, a rescue, an investment and most recently it is being described as a “recovery” plan. They backed off of it being described as an “investment” plan soon after the “experts” said it. I call it the biggest inside Treasury heist in our history. What do you call it?
By Leen on October 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exiyBYnJ00
anyone can be vp!!! check it out!
By KyleSeymour on October 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm