New President Won't Have an Easy Time Paying for New Initiatives, Fiscal Experts Say

[That Guy]

i think obama's deal was more of a promise between the candidates than a position change, but there's no doubt that mccain has changed a lot of his positions on issues over the last 8 years.

[70Chip]

I would point out that here is a huge difference between "I promise to..." and "I believe that...".

Furthermore, I think the Democrats will ultimately rue this decision. When the Soviets launched Sputnik, Eisenhower's advisors were all in a tizzy about what a public relations disaster it was and how it made us look weak. Eisenhower pointed out that the Soviets had established an overflight precedent that would work to our advantage over time. He knew that our technology was superior and that there was now nothing the Soviets could say as our intelligence satellites passed over their territory orbit after orbit. I think the Republican Party will soon regain its fundraising edge and the Democrats won't be able to say boo when the full power of that money machine is brought to bear on the election process. The cat is out of the bag thanks to Obama.

[firstdown]

On SS he wants to make a % available for people to set up private accounts if they choose to. He also thinks that we may have to increase the salery cap for SS. Right now we pay SS tax on income of $102,000 (that may be off by a little) and any income over that is not subject to the SS tax.