Oct
21
On economics, should I trust an unlicensed plumber or Warren Buffet, The Economist, and 80 Nobel laureates?
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Huh? asked:
I forgot, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also endorses Obama’s economic plan.
I forgot, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke also endorses Obama’s economic plan.
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But should I go ahead and trust the economic expertise of Joe the Plumber, who can’t even manage to sort out his own back taxes?
MATT
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22 Responses to “On economics, should I trust an unlicensed plumber or Warren Buffet, The Economist, and 80 Nobel laureates?”
RODOLFO
Democrats are the party of the rich out of touch liberal, as well as the people on foodstamps.
DARYL
I’ll go with the smart people who don’t lie about starting a business
EMILE
keep speaking the truth brother
HEATH
tough choice (sarcasm).
OBAMA.
LEONEL
Joe the plumber. Warren Buffet is a left wing radical.
TRUMAN
Go with the plumber, he knows what he’s talking about. Bernanke and Buffet are frauds.
MONROE
Hobos of the country endorse Barack Obama as well
BRAIN
Who knows?? Alan Greenspan, the czar everyone thought was the best ecomonic guy for the last 15 years, just admitted last week he screwed up the whole damn thing!!!
STANLEY
Yep i’d follow Joe over obama any day
WILFORD
lol
GILBERT
Buffett is just trying to get on Obama’s good side, just in case Hussein wins Hussein won’t take all his wealth away. He knows McCain is the safe choice but he’s trying to hedge his bets for himself.
NORMAND
Joe the Plumber is a joke. On his middle class salary, he’d get a bigger tax cut from Obama! Why would McCain point that out? McCain really shows lack of judgment here.
DUANE
Are you ignorant? Warren Buffet, The Economist and 80 Nobel prize laureates are the ones who got us into this mess.
MOISES
You’re beating your head against the wall my friend. Their hate, desperation and rage rules out any facts or reason. They threw Powell under the bus so fast I think it set a new record.
CHARLIE
Warren Buffet is not an economist. He is a brilliant, if not shady, investor who made billions in the stock market. That is IT!
Look at the people backing McCain and you will see MANY brilliant economists who say the same for his plan.
LAMAR
Well, Faux news trusts the unlicensed plumber more…oh, wait, that is the Faux news that is the propaganda arm of the Republican party.
Guess you should trust Warren Buffet et. al.
KENNY
I totally agree with you, lol.
KENT
There’s one thing Joe the Plumber has, that those other guys don’t.
Common sense.
MARIANO
Did all these big economic geniuses prevent the government from needing to bail out Wall Street with $700+ billion of taxpayer money? You’re kind of comparing the Three Stooges with the Marx brothers here. My point is we’re all screwed with either major party candidate.
ELIAS
You have a right to trust who you want to trust, but Joe the plumber is closer to the problem then those that you mentioned. They all have a **** load of money and don’t have to worry where their next meal is coming from. So I trust the average Joe more then them. And you trust the government or obama to sort out your taxes, good luck.
ANGELO
Your Answer:
Military:
Senator McCain has been endorsed by over 100 generals and admirals from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps[44], among them:
Lieutenant General John B. Conaway, USAF (Ret.) - former Chief of the National Guard Bureau
General James B. Davis, USAF (Ret.) - former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (NATO)
Colonel George “Bud” Day, USAF (Ret.) - Medal of Honor recipient
Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, USN (Ret.) - Navy Cross recipient
Admiral S. Robert Foley, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
Admiral Ronald J. Hays, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command
Admiral James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.) - former Chief of Naval Operations
Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.) - former Director of the NSA
Admiral Jerome L. Johnson, USN (Ret.) - former Vice Chief of Naval Operations
General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.) - former Commandant of the Marine Corps
General P.X. Kelley, USMC (Ret.) - former Commandant of the Marine Corps
Admiral Robert J. “Barney” Kelly, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
Admiral Frank Kelso, USN (Ret.) - former Chief of Naval Operations
Admiral George “Gus” Kinnear, USN (Ret.) - former Commander of Air Force, Atlantic Fleet
Admiral Charles R. “Chuck” Larson, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command
Admiral Joseph Lopez, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe
Captain Jim Lovell, USN (Ret.) - former NASA astronaut, commander of Apollo 13
Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
Admiral Paul David Miller, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet
Rear Admiral Benjamin F. Montoya, USN (Ret.) - former Chief of Naval Civil Engineer Corps
General Carl E. Mundy, Jr., USMC (Ret.) - former Commandant of the Marine Corps
Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, USN (Ret.) - former Superintendent of the Naval Academy
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Central Command
Admiral Leighton W. Smith, Jr., USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe
Colonel Leo K. Thorsness, USAF (Ret.) - Medal of Honor recipient
Lieutenant General James A. Williams, USA (Ret.) - former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
Admiral Ronald J. Zlatoper, USN (Ret.) - former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
State, local, and territorial officials:
Jeffrey L. Barnhart, Member of the North Carolina General Assembly.[46]
Peter Bragdon, State Senator in New Hampshire.[47]
Michael Downing, State Senator in New Hampshire.[48]
John Gallus, State Senator in New Hampshire.[49]
Ted Gatsas, State Senator in New Hampshire.[50]
Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr., State Senator in North Carolina.[51]
Leonard Lance, former member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Congressional candidate.[52]
Steven Lukan, State Representative in Iowa.[53]
Mike May, State Representative in Iowa.[54]
Bob McDonnell, Virginia Attorney General [55]
Larry McKibben, State Senator in Iowa.[56]
Michelle McManus, State Senator in Michigan.
John Pappageorge, State Senator in Michigan.[57]
John Putney, State Senator in Iowa.[58]
Randy Richardville, State Senator in Michigan.[59]
Fred Smith, State Senator in North Carolina.
Pat Ward, State Senator in Iowa.
Other political figures:
George Argyros, former United States Ambassador to Spain, billionaire, and former Major League Baseball owner[60]
Debra Bartoshevich (D), Fmr. Hillary Clinton Delegate [61]
John Rusling Block, former Secretary of Agriculture[1]
John R. Bolton, former Ambassador to the UN under President George W. Bush[62]
Otis R. Bowen, former Secretary of Health and Human Services[1] and former Indiana Governor
James H. Burnley IV, former Secretary of Transportation[1]
Fmr. Ambassador Chuck Cobb[citation needed]
Fmr. Ambassador Sue Cobb[citation needed]
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., former Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford[1]
Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush[1]
Barbara Hackman Franklin, former Secretary of Commerce under President George H.W. Bush[citation needed]
Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan[1]
Henry Kissinger,[10] former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford.
Ann McLaughlin Korologos former Secretary of Labor, DC [63]
Fmr. Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady[64]
Fmr. Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher[65]
Fmr. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson [66]
Fmr. FCC chairman Michael Powell[67]
Anthony Principi, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs[citation needed]
Nancy Reagan, wife of the late President Ronald Reagan and former First Lady of the United States[68][69]
Karl Rove, former political advisor to President Bush[70]
George Shultz,former Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan[1]
James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford[citation needed]
R. James Woolsey, Jr., former CIA Director under President Bill Clinton.[71]
National figures:
Francis J. Beckwith, director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and an associate professor of Church-State studies at Baylor University[72]
Robert Gleason,[73] Chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania
John C. Hagee, founder and senior pastor of the evangelical mega-church Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas[74]
Fmr. Treasurer of the United States Rosario Marin (CA)[75]
Rod Parsley, televangelist and senior pastor of World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio[citation needed]
Academics:
Anne O. Krueger, Economist and former World Bank Chief Economist.[86]
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.[87][88]
Bernie Machen, President of the University of Florida.[89]
Business People:
Bradbury Anderson, Best Buy[90] CEO
August A. Busch III, former Anheuser-Busch[91] Chairman
Pete Coors, Coors Brewing Company[92] Chairman
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard[93]
Steve Forbes,[94] magazine publisher, former GOP presidential candidate (1996, 2000)
Rick Hilton, Hilton Hotels Heir
William Barron Hilton, Hilton Hotels Co-Chair
Charles Holliday, DuPont Chairman and CEO
Deal W. Hudson, Conservative publisher.[95]
Jeffrey Immeit, General Electric Chairman and CEO
William P. Lauder, Estee Lauder Companies CEO
Andrew Leveris, Dow Chemical CEO
Tom Monaghan, Founder of Domino’s Pizza.[96]
Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation Chairman and CEO
Paul Otellini, Intel CEO
James Owens, Caterpillar Chairman and CEO
Richard Parsons, Time-Warner Chairman
Jeff Rein, Walgreens Chairman and CEO
Kevin Rollins, former Dell CEO
Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp. Chairman and CEO
Terry Semel, former Yahoo Chairman and CEO
Harry Sloan, MGM Chairman and CEO
Frederick W. Smith, Founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx.[97]
Donald Trump, Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization [98]
John Tyson, Tyson Foods Chairman and CEO
Robert Ulrich, Target[99] Chairman and CEO
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay [100]
Robert Wright, former NBC Universal[101] Chairman and CEO
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That was just a few of Mc Cains Endorsements
DWIGHT
Warren Buffet. I think that one is a no-brainer