Nothing But More Of The Same From McCain's Economic Proposals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

CONTACT: Greg Denier
Noreen Nielsen
202-721-0660

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following is a statement from Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian regarding presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's economic proposals laid out yesterday in his speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"For American voters, the American Dream is not about great wealth, it's about a good job with wages that support a family, access to affordable health care, a secure retirement, and the opportunity for a better future for our children. The economic proposals laid out by presidential candidate John McCain yesterday will do nothing to restore the American Dream for workers and their families.

"Instead McCain has embraced the same failed economic policies perpetrated on the American people by the Bush Administration from "free" trade policies that encourage corporations to move jobs overseas to continuing -- and even expanding -- the Bush tax cuts for big business and the wealthiest citizens, while at the same time running up huge deficits and cutting funds to invest in the nation's infrastructure and its people.

"The McCain 'plan' is a prescription for more of the same Bush policies that have produced record foreclosure rates, escalating gas prices, stagnant wages, and disappearing health insurance and pensions. No amount of 3-month gas tax 'holidays' will fool the American people into thinking otherwise."

** Note: Media representatives interested in scheduling an interview to discuss Change to Win's position on Sen. McCain's economic proposals should contact Noreen Nielsen at Noreen.nielsen@changetowin.org. **

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