JOBS - INVESTMENTS

CHANGE -- THE AMERICAN WAY:
IT MEANS -- GET BACK TO
AMERICA AS # 1
(John McCain speaks)

Friends, straight up -
the Change you'll get with me and my team
- is putting America back on top.

- # 1 in jobs
- # 1 in wealth
- #1 health
- # 1 in respect.

And the way we get back to that ?
the old - fashioned way:
- hard work
- hard love.

Here’s Mama McCain’s

Prescription for our Health.

Jump-start

The financial engine.

Right now we’ve got a stalled financial engine.

First thing – we jump start that engine.

That’s what we do with the emergency plan.

But, that’s just the start – up.

The real change is getting back to the America we know & love.
- THE AMERICA OF INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH AND PRE-EMINENCE !

by WORK
- it's time to put America back to work.
-and the time is now.

-And how do we do it?
- IT'S PRODUCTION, stupid !
- making things.
- And it's business that puts people back to work.
Small business, big business, any kind of business, but the business of producing things.
-and the time is now !

Our change is to get to the business of producing things again,
here in America.
To get America back to being the engine of the world.

Well, yeah you say.

But how do you do it?

Let me tell you, my friends, what we all know:

First – Washington sure don’t know.

Second - And John McCain?

I’m only smart enough to know that I don’t know !

But, my friends, what I know from that - is what we all know:

That, We – the people – know.

It’s all the people and all the businesses that know how to get things done.

So we are going to unleash the energy and genius of

Americans and American business.

We will encourage American business
to hire Americans to produce things here in America.
We will encourage Americans to work.

Unemployment is Climbing.

People are afraid of Losing their Jobs.

It’s time to change that.

WE WILL ENABLE AMERICAN BUSINESS TO HIRE

THOSE WHO ARE CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED:

We will enable business to

GROW the WORKFORCE.

- by waiving the employer contribution’s to social security / fica programs

for nine months
for all new hires of unemployed persons collecting unemployment insurance;
- so long as they are kept employed for at least 18 months;

- so long as their workforce has grown.

It beats unemployment.

It beats collecting unemployment insurance.

And, everyone so working gets benefited:
- by allowing any person so employed to take a tax offset
for the waived portion of the employer's contribution
when he invests that amount in his own retirement savings plan.

Funny Money – and - Funny Investments.

People are afraid of losing their investments & retirement.

It’s time to change that.

WE WILL CREATE PROTECTED

RETIREMENT INVESTMENT STOCK.

We will insulate real worker’s real investments.

WE WILL ENABLE AMERICAN BUSINESS TO CREATE

A SPECIAL CLASS OF STOCK THAT MAY BE USED

FOR RETIREMENT INVESTMENT.

- by having such stock be the most senior security & backed by assets.

- by having such stock pay a dividend.

- by having it freely saleable and convertible when needed.

- by providing an incentive for business to create this.

So, it’s time to send in the specialty team – the maverick:
I know where the skeletons are !
(remember, I'm old as dirt, so I gotta know)
- to get rid of gridlock;
- to get rid of the pigs slopping at the trough;
- to get rid of buying votes through modern-day bread & circuses - "entitlements";
- to get rid of partisanship
- to get rid of special interests.

Let's get back to the REAL SPECIAL INTERESTS.
- America.
- Americans working;
- Americans’ well-being.

- American industrial strength;
- American economic strength;


Remember it's work -- Early to bed, early to rise;
makes America - healthy & wealthy.

MY GOLD CARD TURNED TO LEAD - at the PUMP

I'M GOING TO STOP THE HIGHWAY ROBBERY
AT THE GAS PUMP
and
GET RESTITUTION FOR YOU
(John McCain speaks to us:)

Every American has been robbed at the pump. You put in your gold card and it came out leaded ! Some even had their platinum turned to lead.

And then we had to go the market for bread 'n milk. Well, trying to pay for bread 'n milk with lead - gets you nowhere fast.

Goodbye Saturday night out. Goodbye saying goodbye to the workweek on Friday (- if you're lucky enough to find a second/third job). Goodbye new stuff for the kids for the new school year.
And that's on top of having already said goodbye to saving for our future and the future for the kids.

And to cap it off - the "spoils" of this highway robbery went abroad! And the dollar is being destroyed and America is being weakened and our security is threatened. Yes , all that from depending on foreign oil and foreign oil monopoly and cartels.

I will change it. I will end it. And I need your help. This is a campaign. Every campaign is a slog. Soldier on with me.

I will drill for oil and gas in America. I will replace foreign oil with American oil.
I will have American industry develop to market alternate energy sources . We will financially reward those who are winners in this development to market.

We will not rest until foreign oil becomes again and remains - foreign oil.

And the added benefit is that foreign oil regions will no longer be areas of concern for us. America will be of renewed concern for us. And we'll keep the peace - our own peace - at home !

But it'll take time and money. So, how do you get time and money?

We get time: by starting now; by being patient; by stickin' to it.
And we don't walk off the field, because we've been pushed to our own 5 yard line. I'm your coach - I'm sending in a new play. Huddle, huzza, here goes.

And, yeah, money. You bet it takes money. How in the world do we get the money?
I told you that I wouldn't tax you. I mean it.
But, I didn't tell you that you wouldn't have to 'take your medicine.'
So, I'm going to do something that no other politician has done with you.

'Mother McCain' is gonna make you a saver, an investor, someone who has invested wisely for the future - yours , your kids and America's.

Any and all government investments in creating renewable and domestic energy and it's infrastructure will only be done with your money - borrowed from you !! Not taxed from you !!

The American public will have a direct stake in the economic benefits of freedom from foreign oil. All money raised from you, the American public will be your saving and earn interest on that savings; and/or that money will be an investment and be entitled to a share of its profits !!

TURN YOUR LEAD CREDIT CARD BACK INTO GOLD.
Sign on. Join me. Let's free America.

A NEW BIRTH OF FAITH - IN AMERICA !

A NEW BIRTH OF FAITH -- IN AMERICA !

(John McCain speech on what he stands for & says:)

Let me introduce myself...
Look at yor family; your neighbor
let's all look at ourselves in the mirror.
What do we see?
We see what we are - ALL Americans.

My friend speaks of CHANGE.
He wants us to remember the proverb politicians love - "a new broom sweeps clean".
And, he thinks that's enough.

But he forgets to tell you that that's only half the proverb.
It goes on - "but an old one gets in the corners."

Well, let me tell you about this "old broom".
I speak of both:
CHANGE - and - RETURN
We - you and me
Modern America
Are yearning for a change...
which is to return - to re-learn
for ourselves - for our well-being - and for our success.

And we all know what it is -
it's the old truths !
IT IS A NEW BIRTH OF FAITH - IN AMERICA - IN OURSELVES AS AMERICANS.

What is America to me? to us?
Well, it's not liberal; and it's not conservative.
It's both conservative and liberal.
America is OUR unique experiment in living.
We are peoples from all over the world; from all nations of the world.
And we have mutually chosen - to live together.
We have mutually chosen -
TO BE AMERICANS.

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A PEOPLE OF FAITH

FAITH - WE KNOW IT.
WE WERE A PEOPLE OF FAITH - ONCE; AND MANY TIMES.

We believed powerfully - "we hold these truths...."

FAITH - that "all men are created equial".

FAITH - in freedom to believe:
that great Protest that each individual human being can stand
in direct personal relationship to (his) God.
- in a new world - "give me your masses yearnig to breathe free."
- in a City on a Hill - we are the light unto the nations.

FAITH - faith in ourselves as Americans.

- we put it all on the line - once; and many times.
- "we mutually pledge to each other -
our lives,
our fortunes,
and our sacred honor."
- "live free or die."

Yes, faith: our fortunes, our lives; our sacred honor.

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AUDACITY TO BE PROUD OF AMERICA !

IT IS IN RETURN TO OUR AMERICAN ETERNAL TRUTHS
THAT WE HAVE CHANGE !

Change - to correct my friend, CHANGE is the
AUDACITY TO BE PROUD OF AMERICA !

Change - My friend assumes the cloak of MLK.
But it's like he forgot - AMERICANS' DEEDS.
Americans' deeds of Change - the love of our Constitution that gave us
the Commandment to create civil equality.
Americans' deeds of Change - the love of our Declaration that gave us
the courage and strength to admit a wrong.
Americans' deeds of Change - the belief in the essential goodness of America
that gave us the courage and strength to CHANGE IT.

BE PROUD . HAVE FAITH IN OURSELVES AS AMERICANS.
We have done what no other peoples in history have done.

CHANGE BY RETURNING

We mutually pledge to each other -
"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed";
- AND NOT THE OTHER WAY 'ROUND.

We mutually pledge to each other - our fortunes.
WORK
- it's time to put America back to work.
-and the time is now.

-And how do we do it? (to paraphrase)
- IT'S PRODUCTION, stupid !
- making things.
- it's not just services, services.
- And it's business that puts people back to work.
Small business, big business, any kind of business, but the business of producing things.
-and the time is now, now, now !

We mutually pledge to each other –
- it’s time to free America from foreign domination by oil
- we will harness nature’s renewable gifts
- and the time is now.

We mutually pledge to each other – our lives
- do no harm to each other
- the right of the people to be secure in their homes.
- we will save our homes
- and the time is now.

-the right of the people to be secure in their homes.
- we will save our kids from drugs.
- and the time is now.

We mutually pledge to each other – our sacred honor
- TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO RIGHTS WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITIES
- IT IS ONLY WHEN WE TAKE UP RESPONSIBILITIES FOR OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE UPHOLD RIGHTS
- IT IS ONLY IN THE EXERCISE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RIGHTS THAT WE UPHOLD OUR FREEDOM
- and that time is always.
- and that time is now.


We mutually pledge to each other –
- our right to live in peace and security
- and banish Islamic imperialism
- and the time is now.

We mutually pledge to each other -
- to honor
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated America.”

We – you and I
We - America
We – Americans
Know that Change comes by a return to our eternal truths
- To our faith in ourselves as Americans

So We together, let us resolve – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of FAITH .
– and that government of the people, by the people, for the people; and our life, liberty and happiness shall not perish from the earth.

I'm John McCain
These "old words" tell it best. Every generation must re-live them.
what you see is me
I am you
What we are - is Americans.

(This is what John McCain is saying to all Americans.)

(This is offered in humility & pleasure to John McCain to add to his Address to the Convention & all America.
Please use , edit and adapt.)