Think, the current fiscal policy will assure more people will not be able to
afford boats

Anyone notice that once the bill failed the cost of a barrel of oil went
down? When it looked like it was going to pass it went up?

The investment community knows you can't print your way out of debt, you
just devalue the US dollar even more. And devaluation means you pay more
for stuff.

Let the banks fail, then pick up the pieces. Bailing out banks to a point
where they continue business is stupid as it does not solve anything.
Trouble is, will the in debt public like 16% interest rates? Which is about
where it aught to be to attract investors back to fund the system.

As the liquidity issue is cause by investors running for an inverted
interest yield that is a BAD investment idea.

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Polls: Obama leads in critical trio of states

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

Recently trailing or tied, Democrat Barack Obama now leads Republican John
McCain in a trio of the most critical, vote-rich states five weeks before
the election, according to presidential poll results released Wednesday.

The Democrat's support jumped to 50 percent or above in Ohio, Florida and
Pennsylvania in Quinnipiac University surveys taken during the weekend —
after the opening presidential debate and during Monday's dramatic stock
market plunge as the House rejected a $700 billion financial bailout plan.

Combined, these states offer 68 of the 270 electoral votes needed for
victory on Election Day, Nov. 4.

Pollsters attributed Obama's improved standing to the public's general
approval of his debate performance, antipathy toward GOP vice presidential
nominee Sarah Palin and heightened confidence in the Illinois senator's
ability to handle the economic crisis.

The fresh polling is the latest troublesome turn for McCain, the Arizona
senator who is trying to regain control of the campaign conversation amid
increasingly difficult circumstances for Republicans. It comes on the eve
of a debate between Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, and
as the financial crisis shapes the presidential race in unpredictable
ways.

For now and probably for the next month, the race will be entirely about
who can best handle an economy in peril.

The war in Iraq, national security and foreign policy issues — McCain's
strengths — have largely fallen by the wayside as each campaign tries to
chart a course to the presidency in extraordinarily choppy economic
waters.

The new surveys show Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43
percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent
to 39 percent.

Since 1960, no president has been elected without winning two of those
three states.

The results are notable because they show Obama in a strong position in
the pair of states that put Bush in the White House in 2000 and kept him
there four years later — Florida and Ohio, with 27 and 20 electoral votes,
respectively.

Obama has been struggling to break into a comfortable lead in both states;
for weeks he had been mostly about even with McCain in Ohio while lagging
for months in Florida, even after being the only candidate on the air and
spending some $8 million on advertising.

Pennsylvania, with 21 electoral votes, is a different story.

Obama is trying to hang onto the state Democrat John Kerry won four years
ago, though McCain has mounted a stiff challenge as he seeks to benefit
from his rival's trouble with working-class voters who question his
liberal voting record and, perhaps, his race.

The telephone polls, which were taken before and after last week's
McCain-Obama debate, have margins of error ranging from plus or minus 2.8
percentage points to plus or minus 3.4 points.

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