important future country nation wars financial crisis Great-Depression Wall Street Main-Street struggling recognize impact economy job house retirement savings children college proposals protect taxpayers engage important rescue effort No-1 $700 billion money No-2 taxpayers money risk possibility money gains market market No-3 money CEO bank accounts promote golden-parachutes No-4 helping homeowners problem foreclosures country eight-years failed economic policies promoted George-Bush supported relations consumer protections prosperity fundementals economy measured middle class fair-shake president hope constructive work optimistic plan situation Two warned subprime-lending mess lax regulation potentially problem abuses mortgages secretary-of-the-Treasury magnitude problem stakeholders solve problem short-term intervene shredded regulations 21st-century regulatory framework problems economic philosophy regulation bad responsibility crisis economic ideology Wall-Street Main-Street struggling crisis important solve short-term problem issues wages incomes ordinary America health-care-system broken energy policies working fundementals economy fundementally disagree holding accountable crisis power influence lobbyists nurse teacher police-officer financial crisis debt mortgage payments paying attention tax-policies fix fundemental problems Main-Street paying penalty excesses greed Washingn-DC Wall-Street stricter interpretation consolidation regulatory agencies job fundemental belief goodness strength American-worker American-worker productive innovative America greatest producer exporter importer fundemental belief United-States-of-America believe leadership earmarks abused suspended requests state senior-centers cleaned lobbyists special-interests introducing requests Earmarks $18-billion last-year budget fundemental difference $300-billion tax-cuts wealthiest corporations individuals country $300-billion $18-billion important $300-billion important tax plan CEOs Fortune-500 companies $700000 taxes 100-million Americans attitude grow economy bottom-up tax-cut 95-percent working-families 95-percent ordinary American collecting paycheck extra money computer kid fill-up gas killing economic-growth policies President-Bush corporate-loopholes tax-cuts corporations shipping jobs overseas tax-breaks companies investing United-States health-care-system coverage important priorities denying $18-billion important earmark president spending money unwisely eliminating earmarks middle-class back-on-track tax-policies neglecting people struggling last-eight-years afford American-people 95-percent tax-cut $250000 quarter-million-dollars tax-increase business taxes country problem loopholes written tax-code businesses pay lowest tax-rates world people working tax-cut loopholes additional tax-cut loopholes problem $5000 health-credit tax health-benefits $5000 tax-credit problem employer pay taxes health-care employer losing health-care employer open-market buy American-people market solve everything less-regulation oil-companies $4 billion true true true oil-company profits under tax-plan undeniable oil-companies $4-billion tax-breaks love lower-taxes everybody problem oil-companies opposed tax-breaks emergency-bill Senate-floor stuff drilling-offshore opposed tax-breaks oil-companies delayed tax-revenues economy budget next-year energy independence plan 10 freed dependence Middle-Eastern oil increasing production importantly starting invest alternative-energy solar wind bio-diesel developing fuel-efficient-cars future United-States Ohio Michigan Japan South-Korea fix health-care-system burden families American families bankrupt health-care country businesses families education invest science technology China children math science college affordable America build infrastructure falling-behind roads bridges broadband-lines rural communities electricity-grid alternative-energy population centers global-economy shortchange eliminate programs programs efficient deferred delayed investing energy free dependence foreign-oil project multiyear project individual $15-billion subsidies private-insurers Medicare-system private insurers $15-billion lobbyists Medicare Medicaid prescription drug bill culture liberal George-Bush wrong-headed policies Congress conservative conservative republicans Google-for-government dollar federal-spending taxpayer spending projects problem spending freeze important increase education Medicare subsidy savings spending $10-billion Iraq $79-billion surplus war budgets $700-billion markets recover taxpayers Great-Depression Roosevelt government profit money economy tax revenue president decions values fighting priorities spending $300-billion tax-cuts people health-care crushing people country bad decision shortchanging long-term priorities president increase spending spending deficits voted budgets eight-years spending balancing tax-cuts middle-class families eight-years fundemental difference war six-years war politically exit-strategy relationships world intelligence Afghanistan bin-Laden al-Qaeda consequence President-Bush country $600-billion $1-trillion 4000-lives 30000-wounded importantly strategic national-security al-Qaeda pnsurgent stronger 2001 $10-billion $79-billion surplus us distress budget stretched borrowing money finance government military-force president American safe military military Iraq proud vice-presidential Joe-Biden chairman Senate Foreign-relations-Committee issues Afghanistan Iraq issues subcommittee committee Senate baseball issue violenc consequence extraordinary sacrifice troops military families job General-Petrae job tactic four-years management war war 2007 surge war 2003 war weapons-of-mass-destruction liberators violence Shiite Sunni judgment president decions military prepared conflict judgment true true troop funding issue opposed funding troops legislation timetable timetable opposed funding mission timetable blank-check George-Bush difference timetable difference funding-troops legitimate difference understand difference tactics strategy strategic president employing country decision Afghanistan worsen deteriorate troops resources Iraq successful Afghanistan bin-Laden Secretary-of-Defense Robert-Gates war terrorism Afghanistan Iraq country war responsibly 16-months combat troops military families troops Afghanistan kill bin-Laden crush al-Qaeda commanders Afghanistan Admiral-Mullen troops Afghanistan troops Iraq precipit withdrawal dangero true troops commanders fatalities US-troops 2002 offensive al-Qaeda Taliban attacking troops Afghanistan Iraq commanders troops Afghanistan Afghanistan troops Iraq 9/11 al-Qaeda Afghanistan strategic mistake intelligence agency al-Qaeda threat United-States Secretary-of-Defense-Gates Afghanistan Pakistan troops Afghan government people President Karzai No-2 growing No-3 Pakistan al-Qaeda Taliban Pakistan George-Bush $10-billion seven-years Americans safe attacking Pakistan 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