Philippine economy?

I need to find information about the economy in the Philippines. Such as imports/exports, trading countries, natural resources, unemployment rate, an any other important facts. PLEASE help!

Philippine economy?

The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1998 than its neighbors, aided in part by its high level of annual remittances from overseas workers, and no sustained runup in asset prices or foreign borrowing prior to the crisis. From a 0.6% decline in 1998, GDP expanded by 2.4% in 1999, and 4.4% in 2000, but slowed to 3.2% in 2001 in the context of a global economic slowdown, an export slump, and political and security concerns. GDP growth accelerated to about 5% between 2002 and 2006 reflecting the continued resilience of the service sector, and improved exports and agricultural output. Nonetheless, it will take a higher, sustained growth path to make appreciable progress in the alleviation of poverty given the Philippines%26#039; high annual population growth rate and unequal distribution of income. The Philippines also faces higher oil prices, higher interest rates on its dollar borrowings, and higher inflation. Fiscal constraints limit Manila%26#039;s ability to finance infrastructure and social spending. The Philippines%26#039; consistently large budget deficit has produced a high debt level, and this situation has forced Manila to spend a large portion of the national government budget on debt service. Large unprofitable public enterprises, especially in the energy sector, contribute to the government%26#039;s debt because of slow progress on privatization. Credit rating agencies have at times expressed concern about the Philippines%26#039; ability to service the debt, though central bank reserves appear adequate and large remittance inflows appear stable. The implementation of the expanded Value Added Tax (VAT) in November 2005 boosted confidence in the government%26#039;s fiscal capacity and helped to strengthen the peso, making it East Asia%26#039;s best performing currency in 2005-06. Investors and credit rating institutions will continue to look for effective implementation of the new VAT and continued improvement in the government%26#039;s overall fiscal capacity in the coming year.

Philippine economy? loan

did you try the internet? i hear it%26#039;s full of information|||Check out CIA web-site! You%26#039;ll find everything you need there. Good luck!

An_____is an uninteded side effect of an action that affects someone not involved in the action?

a)externality

b)unemployment rate

c)expasion

d)exlusion

An_____is an uninteded side effect of an action that affects someone not involved in the action?

b...the answer is B

How is our economy 'bad' right now?

Everyone is saying our economy is bad right now. But how is that/

The Dow is over 12,000 points (which is very good), gas prices are falling (also very good), and the unemployment rate is lower than what is was during Clinton%26#039;s terms (which, again, is good). So tell me, how is all of this bad?

How is our economy %26#039;bad%26#039; right now?

I wish our economy was this bad all the time!

Wages - up!

Unemployment - low!

Inflation - Low

Stock Market - up!

Home ownership - up!

Taxes - down!

Tax Revenue - up!

Budget Deficit - down!

PS....To g: I%26#039;m comparing today%26#039;s economy to that of a few years ago. By the way, the stock market started tanking in March 2000, long before Bush become president. Unemployment also started rising as he entered office, that very month. Both due to the dot.com bubble bursting. Are you going to blame that on Bush? Then of course we had the economic hit of 9/11. Also, historically 4.6% unemployment is very low, and beats much of Clinton%26#039;s term. Just go to www.bls.gov and look up historical figures.

To CORiverRat - please look at census data that shows ALL income levels going up in 2005, and the poor going up in 2004, while the rich got poorer.

PPS....To g: I guess you didn%26#039;t understand the concept of a %26quot;bubble%26quot; economy. The economy grew far faster than reasonable during Clinton, and then the bubble burst in late 2000. I%26#039;m not blaming Clinton for the bubble and the burst, merely setting the stage. Yes Clinton inherited a poor economy from Bush 41, and he left a tanking economy for Bush 43.

You want to give Clinton credit for the great economy of the late 90%26#039;s. Fine. Tell me what policies he enacted to cause it? Fact is he was the beneficiary of a new industry starting (dot.com) that created lots of wealth and jobs. He did nothing to encourage it, or cause the bubble burst.

Bush instead gets hit with 9/11 instead of a brand new industry that creates new wealth and jobs. Thems the breaks. Just look at things honestly.

How is our economy %26#039;bad%26#039; right now?

loan

i don%26#039;t think people have been saying that is bad nationally. i heard them say something about it being good on the evening news.

but locally in Ohio the economy is weak.|||The cost of medicine, food, shelter, etc are at or near all time highs. This makes it very difficult on a lot of people who are on fixed incomes.

The Dow being above 12,000 is great but it doesn%26#039;t mean that all is well - only for investors.|||What is generally meant is, although things aren%26#039;t as bad as they were during the depression days, everything could be better. I don%26#039;t think you%26#039;ll ever see a time when someone thinks everything is perfect---there%26#039;s no such world...sorry Candid (from world literature).|||Depends on where you sit. If you sit on the top (remember Bush%26#039;s great line about the haves and the have mores being his base) it is great. CEO%26#039;s salaries are at record levels. CEO stock bonuses are at record levels. But if you are a working man or woman you know that as a percentage of the GNP workers salaries are at the lowest level they have been since world war two. More and more people are losing benefits, health care, pensions. More and more people are having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Here in Colorado we are seeing record rates of foreclosures. Even bankrupcy is no longer there for many people who will never get out from under their health care debt, or the debt caused when their pensions were raided by the Nachios, Lays and Skillings. Is our economy bad, only if you have a job, or don%26#039;t have a job.|||ah... the unemployment lie... unemployment was at 4 percent when Bush entered the office.. .it%26#039;s at 4.6 percent now... is that lower?

dow is only slightly higher now than when Bush entered office (it%26#039;s previous high before about 3 weeks ago was about a week before Bush took office), so it%26#039;s only a very small improvement over six years... that%26#039;s a very slow rate of improvement...

and gas prices are still higher than when he started...

poor to no improvement on all three over 6 years...

and now the housing bubble seems to be busting... and did you see today%26#039;s report:

%26quot;WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥?Manufacturing expanded at the slowest pace in more than three years in September, and construction spending declined as housing continued to suffer through its longest stretch of weakness since 1995.%26quot; according to the AP?

Kevin M: did you look at the unemployment figures... you blame them on clinton when the elder bush handed him a 7 percent rate?

who would you rather have? a man that went from 7 to 4 percent unemployment... or one that went from 4 to 4.6?...

let%26#039;s look at the stocks... Bush went in in Jan. 2001... right... the high that month was 11,224.41... that doesn%26#039;t sound like much of a downturn to me... it was 12,031 today ... that%26#039;s about a 800 point change...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI%26amp;a...

now when Clinton came into office the dow%26#039;s high for Jan. 1993 was 3338.12...and it went to 11,224, as I previously stated right at the end of his term...that%26#039;s about an 8,000 point chance

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI%26amp;a...

800 point change... 8,000 point change?|||Our economy isnt, despite what the Democrat%26#039;s would have you believe, unemployment and inflation is down.|||It%26#039;s amazing how repubs spin. Income is flat, prices are up, home sales and values are dropping, the poor are getting poorer, personal debt is setting records, etc...

The dow is the most meaningless measure of the market. The S%26amp;P 500 is far better. Looked at it lately?|||It is a weird time right now - the Dow is doing well, gas prices are falling, and unemployment is down, which is all good. However, people feel they have very little disposable income, there is significant fear of losing jobs, and the average raise can barely keep up with inflation. The gap between the top 1% earners and the rest is at an all time high and just keeps going - people feel their only purpose in life it to make the super-rich even richer. The thought of owning a first house, or moving to a better house, is non-existent for most people. There%26#039;s not even a game plan, not even the possibility of raising enough cash. For the first time in US history the standard of living for this generation will be lower than that of our parents. Plus Americans feel billions of dollars are being pumped into Iraq for no purpose, that the world is increasingly unsafe (Iraq gets nowhere, Osama%26#039;s still out there, NKorea has the bomb).

Bad is subjective - we%26#039;re not in a depression, we don%26#039;t have runaway inflation, we%26#039;re not in a real war economy. Still, under previous administrations we should feel very optimistic, yet for the lower-upper class on down (including the middle and lower classes), there is a malaise, a feeling that regardless of how hard they work or try, things will never improve.|||Regardless if the economy is wonderful, it is always %26quot;bad%26quot; while we have a Republican President,

If it is terrible, uninformed people claim that it is %26quot;good%26quot; while we have Democrat President.

Regardless of the facts,

And all of this one sided crap is brought to you be the most bias name in news, MSNBC, CBS, and others.|||It isn%26#039;t bad but you can bet the libs and the press would like it to be so, if they continue to promote the negative, someone, somewhere will believe it.|||Home foreclosures are up. Gas prices are rising again where I live. My homeowners insurance took a forty percent jump this year. My electric bill more than doubled from last year. The unemployment rate doesn%26#039;t take into account the people whose unemployment has run out. People with adjustable rate mortgages are paying more. My auto insurance has gone up. And the Dow going over 12,000 does me no good whatsoever. Our trade deficit is sky high, and the national debt is at record levels, and your personal share is almost $29,000.00 That%26#039;s why people are saying our economy is in trouble. The Dow is not a stock market and further it does not consist of the 30 best companies.

How many people in America do their own house work?

I live in South Africa and about 90% of the middle class people have Domestic Workers (Maids) - who do all our cleaning work etc. Now many may say this is a subtle form of slavery, but if you look at our 40% unemployment rate, they are quite happy to take any work they can and would probably starve if we took the moral high-ground and said %26quot;cleaning houses is too good for them%26quot;

Interested to know how the US compares...?

How many people in America do their own house work?

In the U.S. very few people have maids now. It used to be more common.

In fact what you said reminded me of how it used to be in the South (meaning the southeastern part of USA), up until a few decades ago I think the great majority of middle class Southern people - -especially white people- - had black maids. My aunt was a maid. There is nothing inherently wrong with people having maids or being maids - -it%26#039;s a job. But there can be other issues involved - -for example what I am talking about was at the time when there was a lot of discrimination against black people being able to get %26quot;good%26quot; jobs, so they were in the position of not being able to refuse or protest the extremely low wages they got as domestic workers. Therefore it was easy for average middle class families to afford a maid since it cost so little. ( I%26#039;m not making any inferences from that about your country, since I don%26#039;t know about how things are in South Africa today as far as discrimination. I%26#039;m just sharing what I know of our own history.)

How many people in America do their own house work?

loan

I do my own housework like most people here in Canada.|||I wish I could have someone come in once or twice a month to help with the housework. But what with the cost of rising a family,gas prices, insurance premiums, etc. etc., there is just no way I could pay for it.

I don%26#039;t think there is anything wrong with cleaning things for a living, It is just a job like everything else, it pays the rent.|||just about every one does there own house work, unless you are very well off and can afford it.(maid)...i do my own|||I AM ONE WHO DOES MY OWN HOUSEWORK

I WOULDN%26#039;T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO DO MINE

I ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW WHERE EVERYTHING IS AND

WHEN I GO THROUGH MY DRAWERS. I BAG CLOTHES FOR THE POOR,

I GIVE AWAY WHAT I DONT WANT BUT WHAT OTHERS MAY WANT ( DONT GIVE AWAY WHAT EVEN THE POOR

DONT WANT?

YES .. I THINK HOUSEWORK IS GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL

IT MAKE YOU HUMBLE AND TAKES AWAY YOU PRIDE OF SELF.

I BELIEVE THAT CLEANING AND HOUSEWORK ARE GREAT

IN BIBLE

%26quot;CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS%26quot;

Cleanliness Next to Godliness? (Acts 9:32鈥?0:23)

HOWEVER , I COMMEND YOU TOO, FOR YOUR DESIRE TO GIVE JOBS TO THOSE IN NEED,, WE NEED PEOPLE WHO GIVE JOBS TO OTHERS .

RE COMPARISON WITH USA/ CHECK OUT STATS

I AM CANADIAN/ OUR STATS WOULD HELP YOU AS YOU WANT USA STATS

Who is standing up for us, the hard working, tax paying U.S. citizens?

Here we are faced with a dilemma with three presidental candidates who are promoting %26#039;amnesty%26#039; for illegal alliens. They are avoiding this issue which we vehemently oppose and we are being ignored, and we are ignoring the issue in this current frenzy and it will end up costing us in our morale, our taxes, our jobs, our superior Nation and in every other way.

We allow illegals to take our jobs, we send our jobs to Mexico, China, Peru and wherever else there is %26#039;cheap labor%26#039; for politicians, lobbyists and the million/billionaires w while our construction jobs are going to illegals, our unemployment rate is accelerating, our taxes will be tripled, etc.

Big deal - health care for all - that includes illegals and we will end up with third world health care.

We already have people on medicare/medicaid taking out of nursing homes and left in the street. I%26#039;m afraid this will happen to a lot more who end up costing the system too much. What will we become a %26#039;nation of the fittest??

Who is standing up for us, the hard working, tax paying U.S. citizens?

A few years ago a millionaire developer was buying senators for $15K each. How much influence do you suppose billionaires and international big business have??????????

Lots of cheap labor is great for big business.

Unions have been busted so no collective bargaining for the average working person. Without collective bargaining we have nothing to bargain with.

Divide and conquer. All this race baiting, gay and abortion, global warming, these issues are about dividing the working class so we don%26#039;t all get together and ask for a better deal. The media is all about telling the masses what to argue about and what to ignore.

No use worrying about a candidate that will stand up for us, the powerful will not let that happen. Just know which way the tide is flowing and plan for it.

Who is standing up for us, the hard working, tax paying U.S. citizens?

loan

You think it%26#039;s bad now, wait until next year!|||Presidential candidate RON PAUL

Check out his website, www.ronpaul2008.com|||Very true. That%26#039;s why when all the other Politicians come up for re election, elect very wisely is all I can say. There will not be any checks and balances in our Government if we do not elect wisely.|||McCain is the only one remotely able to reduce taking money from Americans and giving to illegals. Clinton and Obama are all about welfare for slime.|||Ron Paul and the Libertarian party.|||The illegal alien issue in only the tip of the iceberg...|||RON PAUL of course|||Welcome to the real world.|||None of the 3 main choices will stand up for us. :-( It%26#039;s going to be a rough 4 years no matter who is elected.|||I hate to say it but, Ron Paul. The guy is for the average American. If it weren%26#039;t for some of his radical stances i would vote for him.|||A voice crying out in the wilderness. Do you not hear the cheers for Hill? Do you not hear the cheers for Obama? The people doing the cheering want to take what you and I have earned. They want ever more government intervention in their lives. They want the US to cease to exist the way it was born. McCain is little better. Huckabee might have been good but he has no chance of getting the nomination. I am thinking I have to decide who to vote for, who can the conservative support in any way. I am guessing I will end up with McCain. Perhaps he can be influenced by letters and e-mails from the people, the people who do not want the government into every aspect of their life.|||The %26quot;who is standing up for you%26quot; is, whoever you voted for. call them, write to them, explain to them how you feel. Make your displeasure know, whatever it is. And vote for what the past performance is on your candidate, not on what they say they will do in the future, that%26#039;s just political garbage.|||Mike Huckabee is not for illegals and his plans for securing the border he says it would be done in 18 months, he%26#039;s for Fair Tax which would help make us more competitive in the world trade market. Give us more money in our pockets. He%26#039;s also for making health care industry more competitive hence cheaper for us. He is for less government he supports following the Constitution and is against anything that would infringe on our individualistic rights as Americans. He has the best record and has more experience as a commander in chief than anyone running. Gov. for 10 and half years. Yes he is for the working class of America bc he came from that class, everything he%26#039;s got he%26#039;s worked for. Check out his record at Mike Huckabee.com. The people that are backing him are the working class, they make up his grassroots campaign, not the Washington insiders, he doesn%26#039;t owe them anything which is why they hate him. Go Mike!!|||no ones standing up for us. thanx to all the stupid ppl in this country who dont vote wisely, we%26#039;ll probably end up with another moron in the office for the next 4 years and then for another 4 after they get reelected. hey, bush is a moron, and HE got reelected. i really dont think it matters who wins cause ppl here who are causing all the corruption have their heads so far up their @$$%26#039;s are always gonna vote for the wrong person. this whole election is like a road with a fork in it, but both ways lead to destruction.|||Unfortunately I can%26#039;t really disagree with you and it%26#039;s very sad that there is NO major candidate offering a true alternative to the official DC line--one who listens to %26quot;flyover country%26quot; where most of America lives and the ones whose money has to support the nonsense out of Congress.

However, that is our one saving grace--Congress--if we will pay attention to our local Congressional elections we can put in enough folks in Congress who will ONCE AGAIN (why do we keep having to do this?) say NO! to amnesty and some of the other dumb ideas presidents tend to come up with.

Unbelievers- My last question was how Believers faith is increased by studying?

Biblical Prophecy and seeing the downward spiral of this planet..

What increases your faith in mankind with all the terrible events that are plauging so many people on the planet and nuclear war looming?

The Israeli ambassador said Hamas has strengthened its arsenal with more powerful rockets, some of them delivered to Gaza from Egypt.

Feb 26, 2008 17:38 | Updated Feb 26, 2008 19:59

%26#039;Hamas could take over W. Bank in days%26#039;

North Korea and Iran are working together on the development of long-range missiles, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in Tokyo Tuesday, warning that the countries are threatening the stability of Asian and Middle Eastern countries

Youth Violence On the Rise | Family Matters

February 03, 2008: Youth Violence On the Rise ... Violent Youth Crime up a Third,” asserts in January....

January showed a loss of 17,000 jobs with the unemployment rate dipping to 4.9 percent. Predictions show that Spring and Summer will soar in continuing job loss an Foreclosures

Unbelievers- My last question was how Believers faith is increased by studying?

You%26#039;re just a great big Ball-O-Fun, aren%26#039;t you?

The more I studied, the further away my religious faith went and the closer my faith in humans became. But then, unlike you, I%26#039;m more of an optimist.

Unbelievers- My last question was how Believers faith is increased by studying?

loan

My faith in man cannot be found in the West Bank, North Korea or Iran....thats for sure. at least not in the stories portrayed from those lands by western media.

I do find my faith in man on R%26amp;S believe it or not.|||I have more faith in mankind than I do in gods and religion.

I don%26#039;t believe any deity can or will save the plant. Mankind *could* - it%26#039;s whether or not we achieve that,|||I dont see how studying the bible alongside current events can increase your faith. Especially when the message of Christianity is just a little late. It is my understanding Jesus should have returned in the lifetime of the Apostles, he never came. Therefore I dont believe anything else in the New Testament. This is one of the reasons Im not Christian.|||If you%26#039;re such a believer in god, why would it matter to you what mankind thinks? Won%26#039;t your god fix everything for you?|||In order to be an unbeliever, there has to be something that is credibly believable. There is plenty of evidence that makes the theory of evolution credible and believable. There is none for any of the gods.

Now, are you a believer, or an unbeliever?

Edit: Please forgive me for not responding to your question in the way that it was asked. It makes no sense, so I just ignored it.|||Remember Saddam Hussien? 1999? Viet Nam? WWII? The inquisition?

All were thought to be the signs of the end of times. They just keep passing, so people find more signs.

Don%26#039;t hold you%26#039;re breath.|||I believe you have pretty much earned the rank of the nuttiest fruitcake on YA.|||The state of the world has always been in flux. The plague wiped out a huge chunk of the population, they claimed it was the end of days. We%26#039;re still here. The 1st and 2nd World Wars were a sign of the end of times. We%26#039;re still here. World leader after world leader was deemed to be the Anti-Christ, including Ronald Regan because of the 6 letters in each of his names. We are still here, he is not.

World affairs are created and lived through by mankind. Divine intervention has nothing to do with it. More often than not, plain old human intolerance and greed is the culprit.|||Biblical Throwup!|||I%26#039;ve never known a Christian, yet, who studied anything but the bible and Christian propaganda.

The only thing you have shown is that some Christians read the newspaper!!!! So what?

You sound like one of those apocolyptic Christians who would LOVE to see a nuclear holacaust that would precipitate Armageddon, so you could chuckle over all those Jews who will be destroyed for not accepting a phoney Messiah!!

GET A LIFE!!|||What increases my faith in humanity is the perception that even the most credulous people eventually see through the lies and distortions that leaders foist on them. The schemes and misdirections of the %26quot;Christian%26quot; George W. Bush are no longer taken seriously, and the tensions in the world are clearly seen as evidence that no one else is fooled either. When an intelligent president, one not blinded by ideology, is elected, we expect practicality and engagement to improve the world situation dramatically.

We also expect that the new president and congress will actually start to address the entrenched dysfuntionalism of the government brought about by corporate lobyists, and turn it around to level the playing field and stop the looting by the super-rich. Underemployment, wage suppression, bankruptcy and youth crime are side-effects of the twisted regulations that reward fiscal mismanagement and giveaways to those who need them least. Granted, reform will not be automatic, but with continuing pressure from the real grassroots, we can turn the country, and the world around. (It%26#039;s been done before, about 70 years ago.)|||I have a different point of view regarding these things - business as usual. In fact, if you make a study of history, the world is a lot less violent today than in the past. You just have to look further back that the last few decades.

I maintain a faith in humanity the same way I maintain faith in my loved ones. The uncertainty is what makes it faith. You should try it sometime.|||Ok you seem to have a small picture.

We have the abilty to feed everyone on earth.

We have a longer lifspan then at any time in human history we have advanced medicine the literacy rate is increasing every year. VIOLENCE compared to the past is DROPPING

WE HAVE ANTIBIOTICS we never had them before.

THE WHOLE PROBLEM ,THE THING THAT WILL PREVENT US FROM REACHING THE STARS IS

THIS

SIT DOWN

CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIMS WHO KILL BABIES AND EACH OTHER OVER WHAT THE NAME OF GOD IS%26gt;

YOUR THE PROBLEM! EVERY PROBLEM YOU LISTED CAN BE DIRECTLY linked to your evangelism.

IF the world is destroyed it will be people with your mindset that pushes the buttons.|||I have very little faith in the side of humankind that lives without love for others. Those that do not love others have hearts of cold steel, and are able to kill others for money, which is their only great love.

Indeed, in a society that idolises money before God, we find a growing number of people infatuated by power, and driven by greed. Their love is with money, therefore their love does not exist.

Love goes beyond religion and scripture. It runs deep into the hearts of people. When you give your love to money, your religion is worthless talk. Your desire to crush others takes hold. Loved ones become mere family and friends. There is no love left for them, and the steely cold heart within longs for the day they leave this mortal world, because the money stays.

Indeed, weapon gathering warmongers are capable of love. But their love is in the wrong place completely. Those who should be receiving their love receive only hate.

((((hugs))))|||My lack of belief in invisible, all-powerful magic sky fairies (ie gods) doesn%26#039;t automatically mean I have faith in mankind. I don%26#039;t. With very few exceptions human beings are selfish, weak-minded creatures, ruled by self-interest and fear. That%26#039;s why we invented religion, and it%26#039;s why so many people continue to use it as a crutch.

It would be really nice if humanity as a whole could pull it%26#039;s head out of the sand and work together to build a better society, but it just ain%26#039;t gonna happen. At this rate, sooner or later we%26#039;re going to go extinct.

As far as I can see, the only thing which could save us as a species (apart from regressing to a less advanced state) would be if a new non-religious, non-theistic, universal moral philosophy were created, based on reason and intellectual advancement, and it was taken up by significant numbers of people of all races, nationalities and cultures. I really can%26#039;t see this happening though, there%26#039;s just too many assholes in the world.

Why do you support McCain?

is it because you agreed with the policies of president Bush and are sad to see him leave office..and want the next closest thing to him and his policies in the white house? I know quite a few people who for years felt that president Bush was dead on correct on all the policies he pushed for, and all the great prosperity and world respect that they brought us. We have even been able to spread some democracy and peace to the previously chaoctic country of iraq. The unemployment rate is low, trade is booming and american companies are exporting goods all over the world and creating great jobs here from free trading. anyway, all my friends want more of the same to continues after Bush unfortunately has to leave office.

Why do you support McCain?

I agree with you 100%.

Why do you support McCain? loan

i only support him because hes a republican...i would never spit on my country by voting for socialist barack or hillary|||Because, as the British learned all too painfully in the 1940%26#039;s, just being friendly to ambitious, authoritarian rulers doesn%26#039;t prevent bloodshed. The world is full of potential conflicts that could disrupt the balance of power and throw the world into a nuclear crisis, and a president needs to have a plan better than %26quot;brining nations together to the table.%26quot;

What good is bringing %26quot;nations together to the table,%26quot; when those good-hearted nations can%26#039;t even stop a genocide in Darfur? Why re-invest our time and effort in supporting a UN that has blindly watched two genocides occur in our lifetime!

Economically, McCain is more like Obama than Bush, I think you%26#039;ll find. Anti-Corporation, pro big government. Just, he prefers to spend more on guns, while Obama prefers to spend money on wasteful social programs.|||I like a guy who speaks his mind unless he is speaking someone Else%26#039;s mind. Who can forget the fact that Bush swift-boated him in 2004 and now plans to adopt all of his policies like a good soldier. Who can balance being a maverick with the stodginess of becoming a stuffed suit when it serves the purpose.

Most of all I like knowing what I%26#039;m voting for, and with McCain I know I%26#039;ll get something or other.|||He will fight Earmarks.

If you do not know what that i, find out.|||McCain has experienced a great deal and this is valuable. Also, there appears to be substance behind the rhetoric. With a McCain presidency the world will continue moving towards a peaceful destination, because threats will be challenged and not yapped about. Domestically, he appears to have genuine empathy and this should translate into helping Americans. I hope he is strong enough to discard Bush%26#039;s mistakes and keep the good things happening.