AFSCME: McCain Backed Bush’s Economic Policies, Will Continue Them (mailers to 12 swing states)

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/10/14/afscme-mccain-backed-bushs-economic-policies-will-continue-them/

by Seth Michaels, Oct 14, 2008

With the economy topping the list of the public’s concerns this fall, AFSCME is reaching out to union members with information on Sen. John McCain’s support for the Bush administration policies that led to this debacle.

The union’s new mailer, going out to 12 key states as the election approaches, highlights McCain’s support for outsourcing jobs, taxing health benefits and privatizing Social Security as examples of how the Bush-McCain agenda just doesn’t work.



Even as the financial market began a steep downturn in September, McCain repeated the Bush mantra that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” In fact, he’s been calling the economy “fundamentally strong” all year—proving how out-of-touch he really is.

For ordinary working families, the economy has been failing for a long time, as wages stagnate, jobs disappear, foreclosures rise and health care costs skyrocket. The middle class has been falling behind for far longer than the latest Wall Street crash. As the AFSCME mailer states:

Trillion-dollar corporate bailouts, the largest budget deficit in history, 760,000 jobs lost and 2 million foreclosures—how can John McCain possibly believe the economy is strong?

Don’t make excuses for him. John McCain voted with George Bush over 90 percent of the time, supporting his corporate greed, profit-at-all-costs agenda that got us into this mess. The economy George Bush and John McCain created is crushing the middle class, and it’s time we held them accountable

FULL story at link.