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<p>How would McCain’s hands off policies help anyway? More jobs are being outsourced to foreign countries, so even if Americans are buying more, the money isn’t going to Americans. It’s going to India. It’s going to China. And this is directly because of American corporations looking to cut costs because American labor is “too expensive”. Right. As if there’s a price on making the country work.</p>
<p>And I’d love to see the “it’s all up to you! don’t look at us!” policies of the Bush administration and more so the Republican Party explain the idiocy of letting banks even start subprime lending. I’m sure that poor people can get better jobs in a jiffy to pay back the higher interest rates near the end of the loan, because climbing up the job ladder in companies is so easy. All it did was give people a sense of hope and a taste of the American dream before crushing them. Essentially, banks knew fully well that whoever bought a subprime mortgage wouldn’t be able to pay them back. People were suckered into them. Oh, how American.</p>
<p>There is absolutely nothing wrong with being responsible for your own money. There is, however, something wrong with not wanting to help the less fortunate. You may have made your money, but as you get richer, it “hurts” less to pay more tax dollars. This is a country built upon unity. Everybody is proud to be an American, but it doesn’t seem like Americans like other Americans. It seems like claims of socialism are simply used to shield their own greed. Individualism can only go so far.</p>