Another GOP point attacking the Democrats, at all levels at all times in history, is to talk about "taking on do-nothing bureaucrats" and tout their own legendary efforts to "reduce bureacracy" or "cut red tape". In fact, it is often the other way around. It is often the case that Republican approaches to "bureaucracy" tend to set up roadblocks to effective social services —reference: No Child Left Behind— designing in phoney "standards" that together with micromanagement dictates are aimed at undermining standards and cutting funding to vital programs, while bureaucracy multiplies, as do funds directed to related "consulting" projects.
John McCain seems to have difficulty separating efforts to "reduce bureaucracy" from pro-corporate efforts to strip away vital regulations that keep accounting ethics standards and fraud protections in place. The result can be seen in the banking sector, where predatory lending has cost consumers and the government hundreds of billions of dollars, due to irresponsible, unethical or unsustainable practices. Sen. Obama was working to curb predatory lending in the home-mortgage sector back in Illinois in 2001. He is tuned in to what works and to what scams can undermine the system; he fought to do the same in Washington, while senators like McCain wanted fewer "regulations".
This makes McCain not a principled "maverick", but a rogue free-marketeer, who pushes Bush-like policies that give big breaks to big banks but force the average American into smaller and smaller cages with respect to their fiscal freedom and spending ability. McCain's tax cut proposals WILL NOT FIX THIS, because they are just an extension of Bush's, which have been one of the worst contributing factors to this anti-middle-class economic dynamic we have seen emerge and lead to this financial chaos.
Obama's working-class tax credits and targeted small-business tax cuts plan will fix this; responsible regulation, coupled with higher consumer-spending capacity relative to overall economic output, will restore order to financial infrastructure and keep the big cheats honest. McCain will not.
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