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Old 07-31-2008, 06:58 PM
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A lesson in basic economics would turn most liberals into conservatives.
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They don't make enough already?

McCain's response, Obama said, is to propose a corporate tax plan that would give "$4 billion each year to the oil companies, including $1.2 billion for Exxon Mobil alone" and a gas tax holiday that Obama said would only "pad oil company profits and save you — at best — half a tank of gas" over an entire summer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/...r/obama_energy
What part of McCain's tax plan gives money to the oil companies? I didn't see anything details of that other Obama's statement.
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A lesson in basic economics would turn most liberals into conservatives.
There was never spoken a truer word.....
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A lesson in basic economics would turn most liberals into conservatives.
our nation cannot AFFORD any more republican "conservatives"

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our nation cannot AFFORD any more republican "conservatives"
Big difference....companies don't pad their books with pork projects, and money for bridges to nowhere.
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I'd better buy more shares in the Oil companies then....
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I'd better buy more shares in the Oil companies then....
That might be a way to make a buck.
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Quip #435:

At least he is giving to SOMEBODY!
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A lesson in basic economics would turn most liberals into conservatives.
Unless it was taught at a liberal university.
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our nation cannot AFFORD any more republican "conservatives"

You know, you put quotation marks around "conservative" for a specific reason involving the idea that the current Republican party is no longer a "conservative" option for the masses.
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