標題:Candidates Push for Bailout Legislation 新聞來源:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122221356396969239.html (需有正確連結) By MATTHEW DOLAN and COREY DADE John McCain and Barack Obama both talked Tuesday about the urgency of Congress passing legislation bailing out the financial sector, but refrained from saying they'd back the bill if it failed to meet conditions they set for changing it. "America today faces an historic national crisis. The global economy is directly threatened by the potential collapse of our financial system," Sen. McCain said after a short tour of a solar power panel factory in rural, Freeland, Mich. During questions with reporters, Sen. McCain declined to say if he saw any deal-breakers that could force him to vote against the proposal. He said that Democrats in Congress waiting to see if he would support the legislation should instead focus on the nature of the financial crisis and not worry about his vote. Sen. Obama said in Clearwater, Fla., that he would support the bailout if it ensures independent bipartisan oversight, reimburses taxpayers, caps executive compensation and helps homeowners avoid foreclosure. He told reporters that the measures are safeguards that "any package needs to include for me to support it." However, he twice avoided answering whether he would actually vote against legislation that doesn't incorporate his recommendations. "If the plan that emerges that does not address the principles I've discussed, then I will strongly recommend to Secretary Paulson that we go back to the drawing board and find an approach that does address them," he said. Sen. McCain's comments came in a statement and in answers to questions from members of the traveling press corps -- a first for the candidate in almost six weeks. He described the current state of the economy battered by the sub-prime loan crisis as a "perfect economic storm." While expressing reservations about the current form of the legislation, the Arizona Republican said that Congress must pass some kind of measure because of the nature of the crisis is too critical. "Inaction," he said, "is simply not an option." He painted a calamitous picture if Congress did not approve a bailout, saying that credit would dry up, leaving people unable to buy homes and employers unable to operate. But Sen. McCain said he also worried that many Americans had questions about the nature of the crisis and the appropriateness of the government's response. "Let me be perfectly clear: A great burden is upon the American people," he said. To illustrate his point, he calculated that the average American household would spend $10,000 on the bailout as proposed. It was a total figure, he said, that could be used in the alternative to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure at every level. He called again on Congress to modify the current proposed legislation to follow five core principles similar to the ones mentioned by Sen. Obama, including the installation of a bipartisan oversight board to monitor the payout to distressed lenders, a provision he described as "absolutely essential." "We have to trust but verify," Sen. McCain said. The other principles, he said, were an ability to track who received any part of the funding; public access to those transactions, including on the Internet; a cap on executive compensation for rescued companies to no more than what the top government official receives and a ban on unrelated measures, or earmarks, attached to the legislation. The senator brushed aside calls by some Democrats to add an economic stimulus package to the bill. Sen. Obama repeated his support for stimulus, but said that his $115 billion proposal, featuring tax breaks for the middle-class, should not be inserted in the bailout legislation. His aides previously said he would press for the plan to be included but that it wouldn't be a deal-breaker. Sen. Obama, in Florida this week to prepare for the candidates' first debate on Friday, said he probably wouldn't return to Washington to vote if "if we get a consensus" in favor of the bill. But, he said, "if this ends up being a close vote, or the outcome is in question, then obvious this is a top priority." Earlier Tuesday, at a campaign stop in a local pub, the senator discussed told two men dining in a booth said of Mr. Paulson's plan that "everybody knows the price tag, but nobody knows the details." He also seemed to suggest that he is optimistic that Congress and the administration would reach an effective compromise: "So some of these positions I've laid out the administration is a little resistant on right now, but my sense is we'll get something done." -- 「就像其他各類集體主義一樣，種族主義也尋求不勞而獲。它尋求自動獲得知識﹔它尋求 自動評價人們的品質而忽略運用理性或道德判斷的責任﹔而更重要的是，它尋求自動的自 尊（或偽自尊）」 Ayn Rand<The Virtue of Selfishness> 致台灣之光的影迷跟球迷 --

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