McCain & Gramm: It's all in your head

Does John McCain actually agree with Phil Gramm's statement on a "nation of whiners"?

McCain's top economic adviser Phil Gramm: "...this is a mental recession... We have sort of become a nation of whiners."

John McCain, West Palm Beach Town Hall, 1/24/08: "As far as putting additional money in American taxpayer's pocket, that's fine because a lot of this is psychological. A lot of it's psychological.

"Because I believe the fundamentals of our economy is still strong. And it's not absolutely necessary that we are gonna be in a recession."

John McCain on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" show 4/16/08: "I'm very concerned about it Neil, and obviously, the way that it's been going up is just terrible but I think psychologically, and a lot of our problems today as you know are psychological, confidence, trust, uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home, this might give them a little psychological boost. Let's have some straight talk. ... and a little psychological boost."

John McCain from Jan. 30 Reagan Library debate. "... part of this is pscyhological. Part of the problem we have in any recession is psychological, and I'm still optimistic..."

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• mccain
• phil
• gramm
• psychological
• economy
• recession

[navarro56]

Four or eight years from now, our country will be unrecognizable if this man in the white house. God help us

[TheCZMan]

Sounds like a great financial tip. Time to invest into pharmaceutical industry. Piles of pills are going to be delivered to cure that mental recession and all those psychological problems.

[republic2001]

Out of the great depression came the most motivated work force the globe had ever seen and why? You have to do more than just want it bad. You have to cease, earn, keep, and with a little patience wait your turn for a place in society. If you lack at any of these then just get in line and take a "nickel and dimed" number. those spots are always in high demand. Dont complain or whine afterwords though.

[republic2001]

These edited clips are biased at the least for the purpose of enraging the younger or underpaid classes like myself. What he is saying is that we, the "People" have become a nation of narcissistic whiners that believe happiness is a right and not a privelage.

[DoubleOhFresh]

ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL!!!

[libertadmental3210]

Mc Cain is a good example of someone with PSYCHOLOGICAL problems. Its easy to said that problems are psycological when you had a lot of money on the bank.

[winonatechie]

Basically the McCain campaign thought they could deceive Americans into thinking Republicans didn't turn our economy into a recession - the recession is just psychological they said. Well it wasn't and 8 years of Bush's tax cuts and sky high pork barrel spending didn't help our economy get out of a recession.

[jeffsst]

damn this guy is stupid or pure evil. one thing is for shure... THIS GUY ALMOST WAS YOUR PRESIDENT! obama is shit better but this guy would have been a nightmare.

[BLH1509]

McCain should live in the shoes of people who have real struggles economically, who have no home or only one home to worry about ~ psychologically he wouldn't be voting for himself.

[nihilionsaro]

Most definitely not, my friend. That's why I, John McCain, am going to offer your boss a tax break, allowing him to reinvest his earnings in his company. And let me tell you, my friend, some of that may trickle down to you.

[BrainChile]

I dont understand why we have to retire at 65 yet McCain can work forever! Shouldnt he be collecting social security or on a pension somewhere?

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

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