Tuesday
Jul082008
McCain revs the "job engine"
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 2:37PM
Presumptive presidential nominee John McCain spoke at the 79th annual League of United Latin American Citizens. He said that over 400,000 jobs have been lost since September and gas has climbed to over $4.00 a gallon almost everywhere in America. He said that small businesses are the “job engine” of America and that there are over 2 million Latino owned small businesses. He said that this year small businesses have already created over 233,000 jobs.
He said, “If you believe you should pay more taxes, I’m the wrong candidate for you” McCain said that if elected he would reduce the estate tax to 15 percent and the business tax rate from 35 to 25 percent. He said that these tax cuts will help companies grow, which will be good for the job market and the country.
McCain said that if he were elected he would build 45 more nuclear power plants, which would create almost 1 million jobs by the year 2030. He said that America must end its dependence on foreign oil, and move towards more self-sustaining types of energy. He said that America has more coal that Saudi Arabia has oil and that if he were elected he would begin a clean coal energy project.
He said, “If you believe you should pay more taxes, I’m the wrong candidate for you” McCain said that if elected he would reduce the estate tax to 15 percent and the business tax rate from 35 to 25 percent. He said that these tax cuts will help companies grow, which will be good for the job market and the country.
McCain said that if he were elected he would build 45 more nuclear power plants, which would create almost 1 million jobs by the year 2030. He said that America must end its dependence on foreign oil, and move towards more self-sustaining types of energy. He said that America has more coal that Saudi Arabia has oil and that if he were elected he would begin a clean coal energy project.
Immigration Advocates To Obama: Stop Deportations Now!
University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service
As President Barack Obama meets tonight with U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over comprehensive Immigration reform, advocates for the issue called on the President and Congress to stop the deportation of Illegal immigrants until a bill is passed.
Representatives of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement are disappointed with the Obama administration over the number of deportations from the U.S. since he took office.
There have been 387,790 deportations of illegal immigrants under Obama averaging out to 1,000 per day, this number is significantly larger to President Bush's average of 650 deportations per day during his second term.
“Many of us celebrated the historic election of Barack Obama, and believed that this election would bring justice to immigrants and their families,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. “We believed when he promised to fix our broken immigration system. He said he would do this in his first year in office, yet in his first year the Obama Administration has deported 387,000 people.”
The administration is in danger of losing the Latino vote, said Nitza Segui Albino with the National Alliance of Latin Americans and Caribbean Communities. “The Democrats think they have us... they don’t, if you do the right thing you have us, if you don’t do the right thing you don’t have us,” she said.
Pramila Jatapal is the executive director of One America. “We are out of time and out of patience and we are ready to push forward all of the power we have collected in the states across our country to make sure that we really are going to get this change we were promised,” she said.