At of the close of the markets today the Election Winning Time Bomb will be set. In mid to late October all of those 401k statements will go out, and right before the election millions of people will be seeing the results of an unregulated free market.
Here are some other issues to remind leaning and/or Republican voters about:
- George Bush's #1 priority for the Second Term was Privatizing Social Security, and the Manic Maverick, John McCain, was right behind him. This is what Barack Obama calls "The Ownership Society" as in, "you're on your own."
- Phil Gramm's 1999 Glass-Steagall act reversing bill, Gramm-Leach-Bliley made this speculative bubble possible, along with Enron--remember that? This administration and John McCain have been 100% behind the policies that made this mess inevitable. Remind people that Phil "America's a bunch a whiners" Gramm was and is a key John McCain advisor. "Kenny Boy" Lay, if he's actually dead, was a HUGE Bush contributor.
- Expecting Republicans to reform Corporate Mafeasance is like hiring Heidi Fleiss for the vice squad. The whole proposition that government should run like a corporation is absurd. Its time to destroy the legitimacy of the whole Milton Friedman free-market mentality. Keynes was one of the most brilliant of the 20th century economists and its about time we got back to him.
- Lastly, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander," Ask any of your Republican friends or those Reagan democrats that classic question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" It seems to me that Carter's position on energy alone redeems anything bad that occurred during his presidency. Where would we be now if we actually followed only half of Carter's energy prescriptions?