Roberts on McCain: ABC 07/02/08

Robin Roberts on John McCain
"Good Morning America" 7:04am
Interview

TRANSCRIPT:
ROBERTS: You mention free trade and it is part of the reason why you are making the trip to Colombia and to Mexico. Again, here at home, many are very fearful of when it comes to foreign free trade and, in fact, there was a new poll, or half the country feeling it's a threat to the country. 41% do see it as an opportunity for growth. Senator, you recently spent time in Indiana and in Pennsylvania spending a lot of time in communities there that have been hit really hard with job losses so what do you say to those people who are fearful more jobs may be, indeed, headed beyond our borders and abroad?

MCCAIN: That our economy is in terrible shape, that we've got to take specific actions, keep their taxes low, less regulation, start exploring and exploiting offshore oil deposits so we can at least ease this burden, give them a little bit of a break from their gas taxes, get to work on nuclear, solar, wind, tide, invest in pure research and development and coal, clean coal technology. We must also, I believe, stop distorting the market by subsidizing ethanol and preventing sugar based ethanol from coming in the United States. I know Americans are hurting very badly. I have town hall meetings almost every single day and I have a plan of action to bring our economy out of the situation it's in today and I don't believe increasing their taxes is the answer. I believe leaving their taxes low, get off this dependence on foreign oil and doing it quickly and we can. I call it the Lexington project. We can, as we sent people to the moon, we can also get off this dependence on foreign oil and keep people in their homes and stop this job loss. We can do it.

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News & Politics

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• McCain
• Columbia
• Free
• Trade
• taxes
• offshore
• drilling