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<blockquote data-quote="Braveheart" data-source="post: 404370" data-attributes="member: 5831">I have republican and democratic views. I supported McCain in 2000 while the Bush campaign smeared him and blackballed him. All of the Republican reporters from Limbaugh to Coulter to Hannity to Beck hammered him. Now they are all for him. I do not know who to listen to any more with everybody flip flopping. John McCain is anti-union though which bothers me. &nbsp;He also was and has always been in favor of deregulation. Now all of the sudden he is for it. The Glass-Steagal Act of 1933 was put in place to protect us from another Great Depression. In 1999 his recently let go advisor, Phil Gramm, added on a deregulation bill to a needed spending bill. This very bill gutted the Glass-Steagal Act and McCain voted for it. The Republicans have controlled the Congress and Senate for 6 of the past 8 years and the Whitehouse for all 8 years. The Republican President appointed the head of the SEC as well as the heads of many other offices.&nbsp;So I find it hard to stomach when people blame Democrats for the whole economic mess. This is a problem that has been building for way more than 2 years.&nbsp;The conservative approach is to stop bailing out those who would leach off the tax payers, like welfare, unemployment, etc etc&nbsp;I support welfare reform, immigration reform, bankruptcy reform,earmark reform and so forth.&nbsp;I have a BIG PROBLEM with the government bailing out all these wall street idiots with my tax dollars. If we are not to bail out individuals who make poor life choices and go broke or into debt.&nbsp; Then why are we helping the people on wall street that make multi-million dollar salaries and multi-million dollar bonuses?&nbsp;Am I the only one who thinks something stinks about this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Braveheart, post: 404370, member: 5831"] I have republican and democratic views. I supported McCain in 2000 while the Bush campaign smeared him and blackballed him. All of the Republican reporters from Limbaugh to Coulter to Hannity to Beck hammered him. Now they are all for him. I do not know who to listen to any more with everybody flip flopping. John McCain is anti-union though which bothers me. He also was and has always been in favor of deregulation. Now all of the sudden he is for it. The Glass-Steagal Act of 1933 was put in place to protect us from another Great Depression. In 1999 his recently let go advisor, Phil Gramm, added on a deregulation bill to a needed spending bill. This very bill gutted the Glass-Steagal Act and McCain voted for it. The Republicans have controlled the Congress and Senate for 6 of the past 8 years and the Whitehouse for all 8 years. The Republican President appointed the head of the SEC as well as the heads of many other offices. So I find it hard to stomach when people blame Democrats for the whole economic mess. This is a problem that has been building for way more than 2 years. The conservative approach is to stop bailing out those who would leach off the tax payers, like welfare, unemployment, etc etc I support welfare reform, immigration reform, bankruptcy reform,earmark reform and so forth. I have a BIG PROBLEM with the government bailing out all these wall street idiots with my tax dollars. If we are not to bail out individuals who make poor life choices and go broke or into debt. Then why are we helping the people on wall street that make multi-million dollar salaries and multi-million dollar bonuses? Am I the only one who thinks something stinks about this. [/QUOTE]

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