Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
The Loose Cannon and the Empty Shell
Some voters are scared of the prospect of a black president. Can Obama convince them that they really should be petrified of a Palin vice presidency?” /> James Ridgeway” /> September 30” /> , 2008” /> In times of economic crisis, voters become risk averse. This doesn’t mean that they won’t vote for political change, especially if it means a change in the policies that caused the financial mess in the first place. But when the future seems uncertain and frightening, above all voters want a candidate who makes them feel safe. Such a theory would seem to favor the avuncular John McCain over the inspirational Barack Obama—the old, white, conservative man with the military bearing, over the brash young newcomer who, as Obama himself has said, “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
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McCain and Palin at Odds Over Health Care and Unions
Washington D.C. – Fresh on the heels of an embarrassing contradiction between Senator John McCain and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin over the issue of making public statements about attacking terrorist targets in Pakistan, the running mates are at odds again after Palin credited her “good union job” for delivering health care for her family, despite McCain’s solid, unapologetic record of opposition to unions and giving America’s workers a chance to get ahead and bargain for better pay, retirement security, and – yes — quality and affordable healthcare.
McCain Pushes for Deregulation of Health Care
In the latest edition of Contingencies, a journal of the American Academy of Actuaries, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) makes his case for deregulating the health insurance industry by extolling the benefits of the last decade of deregulation in the banking sector. “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation,” McCain writes. Since the banking industry’s collapse this week, the McCain campaign has tried to distance itself from the senator’s remarks, claiming that McCain was referring to “policies which allowed Americans to use an ATM anywhere in this country.” But McCain’s proposal to allow health insurance companies to sell policies across state lines is evidence that the senator supports the same kind of deregulatory polices that created the economic crisis. The latest financial meltdown highlights the dangers of deregulating the health insurance industry and only underscores the sheer impracticality of McCain’s proposal.