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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (25285)	1/24/2008 3:26:14 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71588

"...you've still not answered my question about the Clintons/Obama's economic plans..." Heck, that's easy! Their plans are simple. Raise taxes and spend the revenue as they choose, mostly by giving it to people who don't earn it. The overall strategy is simple, too. Make everyone dependent on the government for everything, and reduce all people to automatons. Viola!! Utopia in four short years.

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (25285)	1/24/2008 3:30:48 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I agree the SEC needs to be strengthened, and it more likely to happen under Dems than Reps. I dont think we should wait until thousands of our fellow Americans are blown up in Pintos before the market catches up enough to correct it, if it ever does. Indeed, Ford used a free market approach in dealing with the problem, determining on a strictly financial analysis that it was cheaper to keep blowing people up and paying for the litigation than to fix the problem. Personally, I would have preferred in the regulators imposed some minimum standards on every carmaker, so that some floor is set from which they all can compete without threatening public safety. Again, the GOP has largely decimated the agency that would do that. In the end, we agree that it is a matter of balance, and disagree about where that balance should be struck. As for candidate's economic plans, what aspects of the dems plans are you troubled by, and how would the GOP ones be better?