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Presidential Candidates To Focus On Economy

Published 07/10/08 Jeff Bennett - Print Article
E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org

As the presidential election grows closer, the two politicians are focusing almost entirely on the economy and their proposed solutions to fix it. Americans have made it clear, the economy is the number one issue in the upcoming election.

On the to-do checklist for our next president: alleviate our oil dependency, slow inflation, increase consumer spending, amend or withdraw from organizations like NAFTA and the WTO and promote American manufacturing.


Source International Herald Tribune:

Not since at least 1980, when the United States was reeling from the oil shocks, inflation and slow growth of the previous decade, has the economy been in worse shape heading into the heart of a presidential campaign.

The crush of bad economic news - six consecutive months of job losses, rising rates of home foreclosure, gasoline prices seemingly headed toward $5 a gallon, or $1.30 a liter - is increasingly setting the contours of the race between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

Both candidates plan to spend this week focusing almost entirely on the economy. But both face political problems with the issue.

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