Mr. out-of-touch: "McCain visits poor Ky. town to slam big government"

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McCain visits poor Ky. town to slam big government
Matt Stearns | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: April 23, 2008 07:05:46 PM

INEZ, Ky. — In the heart of Appalachia, in the town where Lyndon Johnson declared the war on poverty but where poverty still reigns, John McCain told voters Wednesday that the government couldn't solve all their problems.

"Government has a role to play in helping people who through no fault of their own are having a hard time," McCain said. "But government can't create good and lasting jobs outside of government. It can't pay lost wages. It can't dig coal from the earth. It can't buy you a house."

McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who's on a weeklong tour of what he calls America's "forgotten places," faulted previous politicians for taking a top-down approach to fighting poverty. He said a better approach from Washington would be "to listen to and learn from you, about what you're doing to grow your economy and increase opportunities here, and to find out what government is doing and not doing to help your initiatives."

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Yeah, ain't he just SUPER?

:puke:

[EstimatedProphet]

7. I can't wait for him to show up here - like you did.

[alstephenson]

2. Huh?

America's "forgotten places"? America is a forgotten place.

[zbdent]

3. Gee ... I wonder if people who are negative towards "big government"

are bitter ...

[alarimer]

4. They have every right to be bitter. Nobody in either party ever does a damn thing.

They only make it worse. Most of those free trade agreements happened under Clinton.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Isn't poor kentucky town redundant?

I mean most "towns" in Kentucky are barely thriving.

And before I upset my Kentucky brethren please understand that 90% of my relatives in the world still live in a holler in SE Kentucky. I love them despite their sadly racist (not all of them)beliefs.