Reply #52: Okay, I read that, after work, but it's the same old same old [View All]

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there's nothing trickle up there.

I appreciate her talking about LIHEAP and unemployment extension, but that really should not be part of her campaign. We don't need those a year from now (hopefully), when she or Obama take office. We need them now. She should be in the Senate fighting for them (and so should Obama. Neither of them did much of a darn thing on this issue, and I have not heard from Edwards either.) However, she weakens the case for them by puffing up the current Republican stimulus package, claiming here, and in a speech in South Carolina, that that plan already provides help to those who need it most.

"She has consistently pushed for tax rebates for working families and seniors who need help the most, and was heartened that the Democratic leadership in Congress worked so quickly to deliver such rebates to American families."

That's just a load of crap. Seniors and working poor people get $300 whereas a single person making $70,000 a year gets $600.

The education tax-credit and the "American Retirement Accounts" were the things I was thinking of. Those will help families making from $50,000 - $100,000 and do nothing for middle class families making less than $40,000 a year. Looks like trickle down to me, except that, unlike Reagan, she will not be challenged by a Democrat who asks "what about the poor?"