Straight Talk About the Real John McCain: John McCain and George Bush - Is There Really a Difference?

 AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS AFL-CIO

Straight Talk About the Real John McCain: John McCain & George Bush - Is There Really a Difference?

The Same as Bush In His Own Words: After President Bush said, "To keep our economy growing, we need to ensure that you keep more of what you earn, and Congress needs to make the tax cuts permanent," [Presidential Weekly Radio Address, 1/7/06] Senator McCain said, "I think it's very important that we make the Bush tax cuts permanent. I voted to make them permanent twice already, and if we don't make the tax cuts permanent, then they will experience what amounts to a tax increase." [Republican Presidential Debate, MSNBC, 1/24/08].

Sound like someone who understands and values working families?

Senator McCain has long promoted the idea that he is a maverick who challenges his party and stands up to his president. However, the reality is John McCain has not strayed far from President Bush's line. Senator McCain is running to extend the agenda laid out by Bush in his first two terms: tax cuts for the rich, privatizing social security, and outsourcing jobs.

Senator McCain Voted for Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest Americans at the Expense of Working Families. He voted for President Bush's $60 billion tax cut bill benefitting families with incomes of $100,000 or higher. The tax cuts would follow equally drastic cuts in spending on programs vital to working families. And he now supports not only making the Bush tax cuts permanent, but increasing the tax cuts as well, and would do so if President. [S. 2020, Vote #26, 11/18/05].  

Senator McCain Voted for Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan. In 2006, John McCain voted for the Social Security Reserve Fund. The GOP proposal would shift Social Security's annual surpluses into a reserve account that will be converted into risky private accounts. [SCR 83, Vote #68, 3/16/06]. He has since made privatizing Social Security a campaign promise. With this week's devastating stock market crash, can you imagine what would have happened to already unstable retirement security in this country if the Bush/McCain plan to privatize Social Security had taken effect?

Senator McCain Supported the Bush Administration's Plan to Privatize and Outsource Federal Jobs. John McCain voted to support Bush's efforts to privatize federal jobs. The Bush administration has led a major effort to outsource and privatize hundreds of thousands of federal jobs, including those of 350 workers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. [H.R. 5631, Vote #234, 9/6/06].

With a record like this, ask yourself:
DOES SENATOR McCAIN SHARE
WORKERS' PRIORITIES?

Vote on November 4, 2008 for a U.S. President Who Shares Workers' Priorities.

For more information, visit www.massaflcio.org/mcsame-bush-bad-working-families or visit www.mccainrevealed.org.