DEBATE Ob must stress that China & others are buying our country due to huge deficit and two wars. Economic competition is the real war!1. Obama must be assertive because MCCain will try to bully him and look tough. MCCain will give short answers and try to put Obama down.
2. Obama has got to swing foreign relations to our ecomony. The high deficit and two wars with high deficit and financial chaos are causing a buyout of USA. China and other countries are loaning us money and getting huge shares of government bills and bonds with high interest rates.
3. Main economic competition is with the Europe Block and Asia Block (China, Korea, Japan, and India) and they are not spending huge amounts of money on wars and therefore are developing stronger economies and a larger base of high tech workers. We are losing ground.
4. China and India are two countries for huge economic growth because of their populations and high tech worker growth. We need to compete for companies in USA to create new jobs by rebuilding a new high tech infrastrure and energy base separate from oil.
Government must be the catalyst.
5. Russia is starting to assert its influence with its oil and military. She is giving Iran and Venezuela military aid and soon Asia will start getting Russia Oil. The USA needs allies and cannot fight the whole world.
6. Our military needs to be rested and strengthen and wounded need healtcare and all will need to be retrained for the private sector.
7.The Surge--Don't try to prove it worked or not but switch to cost of war and that no end is in sight. The real war is in Afghanastan like OB suggested. The Iraq war should have never started and must end or else our country will suffer SEVERE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS--LOSS OF jobs, SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, AND HEALTHCARE FOR ELDERLY FIXED INCOME PEOPLE etc.
8. Judgment not extensive experience in the past. Anyone with anykind of vision can see the world is getting more high tech and smaller. Global competition and partnership is theme of today and our future depends upon vision. You were against war and John McCain was a one of the KETTING FIVE who gave us the last financial disaster with the savings and loan companies and his voting and vision didn't change. The disaster now is very simliar game but larger. No oversight or regulations and let the chips fall as they may.
The country cannot afford such a big gamble. That is the Maverick's vision. The wealthy can afford to lose some of its 13 cars and 8 houses like MCC but the main populace cannot afford to lose its one and only chance.
Anonymous Sep 22 2008 
