http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2010/02/22/20100222mccain-tarp0222-CP.htmlIn response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.
"Obviously, that didn't happen," McCain said in a meeting Thursday with The Republic's Editorial Board, recounting his decision-making during the critical initial days of the fiscal crisis. "They decided to stabilize the Wall Street institutions, bail out (insurance giant) AIG, bail out Chrysler, bail out General Motors. . . .
What they figured was that if they stabilized Wall Street - I guess it was trickle-down economics - that therefore Main Street would be fine."Nearly 15 months later, commercial lenders still are in shaky condition and the commercial real-estate industry is in trouble, he said. On Friday, President Barack Obama announced $1.5 billion in funding for new measures to help Arizona and four other states hit hard by the tanked housing market and by joblessness
So finally, in spite of 30 years of evidence that "trickle down" always hurts the little folks at the bottom rather than raising them up as well as those at the top - the 2008 GOP Presidential Candidate himself slips in an interview and says it doesn't work.
This is the ONLY justification they give on almost all of their policy proposals - tax cuts will create jobs, tax cuts will grow our economy, tax cuts will cure the blind and infirm... because it's going to 'trickle down' on everyone at the bottom (I prefer to think of 'trickle down' as 'piss upon'
Once again, on the wrong side of history - the party of no ideas can't even support the one they've been riding for decades