Letter to the Editor: McCain Wrong on Working Families Issues

Working families across this country are facing all kinds of hardships: a staggering economy, stagnant wages, a broken health care system, a home foreclosure and housing crisis, a disastrously flawed U.S. trade policy and a hostile climate for workers seeking to form unions.

But someone must have forgotten to tell Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who has clinched the Republican presidential nomination. “I still believe our fundamental underpinnings of our economy are strong,” McCain has said.

It’s no wonder—McCain admitted economic issues are something he’s “never really understood.”

Please tell the editor of your local newspaper: When it comes to working family issues, John McCain offers more of the same inaction and failed policies we’ve seen from President George W. Bush.

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