John McCain: Town Hall 09/15/08

John McCain
Town Hall
Orlando, FL 09/15/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: The American worker, and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business, those are the fundamentals of America and I think they're strong. But they are being threatened today, those fundamentals are being threatened today because of the greed and corruption that some engaged in in Wall Street and we have got to fix it. And that- we have got to reform the way that they do business and, and frankly my friends, our workers have been the strength of our economy and they remain the strength of our economy today. And those fundamentals are threatened, they are threatened and at risk because some on Wall Street have treated Wall Street like a casino. So, we're going to fix it. But their efforts are not being matched at the top, from Washington to Wall Street, the top of our economy is broken. We've seen self-interest green, irresponsibility, and corruption undermine these hardworking American peoples, the fundamental of America. We're going to put an end to the abuses in Washington and on Wall Street that have resulted in the crisis that we are seeing unfold today. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. We're going to reform the way Wall Street does business and put an end to the greed that has driven our markets into chaos. We'll stop multimillion dollar payouts to CEOs who have broken the public trust. And we'll put an end as I said to running Wall Street like a casino. We'll make businesses work for the benefit of their shareholders and their employees, and we'll make sure your savings, IRAs, 401k, and pensions are protected. So, and my friends, one of the things we have to do is we have a regulatory system in Washington today that was designed in the 1930's and there's an alphabet soup of different agencies and they have to be streamlined, they have to be consolidated, and they have to be effective. And those regulators have been asleep at the switch and we've got to fix it. There's a lot of other things we've got to do, as well. But have no doubt, that we have still have the most productive, the most innovative, the most entrepreneurial, the best workers in the world who reside in the United States of America today. And we've got to give them a chance. And honor those fundamentals.

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[Tinils]

what a TOTAL PIECE OF SHIT!

[Toallpointswest]

Umm, how do I rate McCain's outright plagiarism of Obama's entire campaign? It's like watching him admit that 7 years of Republican policies have failed Americans and he's asking us to allow him to abuse us some more....it's the very definition of insanity.

[dklyde]

Why doesn't he learn to use a teleprompter? Listen to the non-response of his crowd. Even they know he's lying.

[GoRed2008]

Wow Enough is Enough?!!! that sounds familiar.

Now McCain has resulted to STEALING Obama's campain slogans and words.

What a joke.

[ekfhd001]

Now does he blame "Wall st. like Casino"? Mccain loves Casino. He himself used to be a big gambler. And he's now gambling with the fate of the country by picking unqualified risky Palin.

[shanseuse]

Whoa. The man was not lying when he said he didn't know about economics.

Would you trust your savings, 401k, IRAs and pensions to one of the Keating Five?

[torinhill]

"Some on Wall Street"

wait... you mean Jeb Bush, GWB's brother and co-conspirator in Florida's vote fraud?

Lehman hires Jeb Bush as private equity advisor 30 Aug 2007

Lehman Brothers has hired Jeb Bush, brother of the President of the United States, as an advisor to its private equity business, a source familiar with the situation said. Lehman hired another relative of U.S. President George W. Bush last year--George Walker, a second cousin, who heads up the bank's asset management business.

[ejatz]

this is incomprehensible.