OK Vick, I promised you , so now I produce

[Vick]

Joe - thanks but that's a lot of campaign rhetoric and doublespeak (that's not to say there isn't anything positive in this statement)

My mind isn't up to going through the whole thing right now but here's a couple things that stick out

middle class families who are working hard to cover the mortgage .....

Like no one else works hard, in fact on the face of it I'd think upper class families work HARDER (many parters in law firms work 80+ hours a week)
This is an obvious cry to the larger middle class to get their support (that's politics)

roll back Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans

The so called wealthiest American still pay more taxes than anyone else - this is a(n almost) socialist statement - a redistribution of wealth - no good

Foreign taxes are one-third lower than U.S. taxes.

Um is this in reference to corporate taxes? Don't think it's about personal taxes which claim a higher % of income in many nations (ask our UK or Canadian friends)

Increase investment to jumpstart the economy

What jumpstart? the overall #'s look pretty good for the past year

I think we also need to consider what type of jobs have gone overseas, are they manufacturing? - Things that union scale wages (and cheap labor) might have forced companies to outsource to remain competitive?
Are they tech jobs? Are they jobs that don't require skills that no American really wants to do?


Politics are a lot of snake oil, double speak and promises
It's not good to follow anything or anyone blindly

Working class people aren't lazy and big business isn't inherently bad