Can McCain Balance The Budget In Four Years?

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It's not a joke. John McCain is now promising he can balance the budget in four years. What do you think? Here is an interesting clip addressing McCain's plans for the economy.. He doesn't seem to be convincing many people on this latest plan for the economy... From TPM... Now, the general routine is the face of this kind of candidate announcement is that journalists and economists look at the numbers to see if they add up. In most cases, the exercises generates fairly unsatisfying contradictory opinions, with some experts saying one thing and other experts another. But here's the thing. McCain doesn't have any numbers. None. Not vague numbers of fuzzy math. He just says he's going to do it. Any other candidate would get laughed off the stage with that kind of nonsense or more likely reporters just wouldn't agree to give them a write up. But this is all over the place. The simple truth is that given his foreign policy promises in Iraq and tax cut promises at home there's really no way McCain could come up with even a fuzzy plan to balance the budget in his first term. So he's decided instead just promise it. Included in his white paper is just the standard hocum about cutting waste, fraud and abuse in government and making sure we have "reasonable economic growth." Remember, this is the guy who's riding on his reputation for 'straight talk'. And he's just promised that he'll balance the budget in his first term. From Joshing Politics... That pink sugary stuff is flowing faster and faster out of the tap over at the McCain household these days. Sure, he's had his delusions for a long time now, but this one about the economy, the war and somehow balancing the budget in four years has got to be one of his loonier suggestions to date. From The Daily Kos SusanG at Kos said it best: "just because I stop charging on my credit card doesn't mean I'm suddenly making income to
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