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For Immediate Release
August 6, 2008
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Contact:
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703-650-5550
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ICYMI: John McCain On Creating Jobs In America
"What we need today is an economic surge. ... Now we
need an economic surge to keep jobs here at home and create new
ones. We need to reduce the tax burden on businesses that choose to
make their home in the United States of America. We need to open
new markets to U.S. products. And we need to reduce the cost of
healthcare, and we need to end the out of control spending in
Washington that's putting our debt on the backs of our children."
-- John McCain
John McCain
Media Availability
Jackson, OH
August 6, 2008
John McCain: "It's time to get America's economy moving again.
Companies like Merillat and families across Ohio face challenges in
their businesses and around the kitchen table, and obviously energy
prices are too high. We're losing jobs. Our housing market is on
the decline, and the cost of everything is going up, and in the
face of this, Washington is on vacation. In the face of a severe
energy crisis, the Congress decides to go on a five-week vacation.
"When I'm President of the United States, I will call the Congress
back into session and tell them to act and not to leave town, to
take their vacation or their pay raise until they address this
energy crisis. And now is the time for action.
"We need an all of the above plan to address our energy crisis with
alternative energy, drilling and nuclear power. That means drilling
here, drilling now in the United States of America and off the
United States of America's coast.
"Everybody knows that drilling is a very vital part of bridging our
gap between our dependence on foreign oil, which is transferring
$700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much, and
we have the resources to be explored and exploited and we could
obtain some of the benefits of that within months. My opponent,
Senator Obama, opposes both storage and reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel. He opposes offshore drilling immediately, and he's
out of touch.
"And we need to crack down on those who have abused our credit
market and caused this housing decline. We need to take action to
support American businesses so that we can stop jobs from going
overseas and create more jobs here at home. America has the second
highest business [tax]rate in the entire world. It's any wonder
that jobs are moving overseas. We're taxing them out of the
country.
"Unfortunately Senator Obama's plans would raise taxes on business
even more. He's promised tax increases on income, tax increases on
investment, tax increases on small businesses. That's exactly the
wrong strategy. Raising taxes in a bad economy is about the worst
thing you can do because it'll kill even more jobs, and what we
need are policies that create jobs.
"What we need today is an economic surge. Our surge has succeeded
in Iraq militarily. Now we need an economic surge to keep jobs here
at home and create new ones. We need to reduce the tax burden on
businesses that choose to make their home in the United States of
America. We need to open new markets to U.S. products. And we need
to reduce the cost of healthcare, and we need to end the out of
control spending in Washington that's putting our debt on the backs
of our children.
"Now's the time for action and when I'm President, we are going to
get it done."
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