McCain says “Fundamentals of the economy are very strong”
We could try to give John McCain some credit - maybe when he said the "fundamentals of the economy are very strong," he just wasn't considering $4 a gallon gas, the surging unemployment rate, or the home foreclosure crisis. But the sad reality, as we've reported before on the CWA Votes Blog, is that McCain just doesn't get that there is a serious problem.
Here's McCain's pronouncement, made at the same time reports of record-breaking oil prices, rising unemployment rates, and huge stock market losses:
As Tula Connell writes, "it's long past time for such pat pronouncements."
John McCain shouldn't be given a pass for accepting the Bush premises of low taxes on the rich and utter abandonment of a fair playing field for all workers. Those policies haven't worked for the past seven-plus years, and they won't work for four more.
