What you would do as president to lead this country out of the financial crisis?

McCain

• Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington.


• Examine every agency of government


• Eliminate ethanol subsidies


• Defense spending - do away with cost-plus contracts and have fixed-cost contracts


• Spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs


• Obama has $800 billion in new spending programs. I would suggest he start by canceling some of those new spending program that he has.
  

Obama

• We've got to grow the economy from the bottom up. What I've called for is a tax cut for 95 percent of working families, 95 percent.


• We have to have energy independence


• Invest in alternative energy, solar, wind, biodiesel


• Making sure that we're developing the fuel-efficient cars of the future right here in the United States


• Fix our health care system


• Make sure that we're competing in education


• Invest in science and technology


• College is affordable for every young person in America


• Rebuild our infrastructure


• Have a new electricity grid to get the alternative energy to population centers


• Investing in energy in order to free ourselves from the dependence on foreign oil


• Increase early childhood education


• We have to look at bringing that war to a close

What I don't get is how Obama is going to fund all of this amid a financial crisis - unless he is going to raise taxes or is making empty promises.