There is no recession...we just all need therapy

First, McCain doesn't show up for work on the day of a major medicare bill that would have directly impacted millions of senion citizens and military families by slashing the amount of money medicare pays for doctor services by almost 11%.  It took Senator Kennedy flying to Washington after getting treatment for his tumor to push the bill forward (before Kennedy arrived, the bill was stuck at 59/39, one vote short of getting pass the Republican blockage.  After Kennedy arrived, several Republicans changed their vote and the bill passed with a solid 69/30, ensuring enough votes to override Bush's threatened veto.) 

Now, McCain's top economic advisor, Phil Gramm, has declared that the current recession is all in our heads.  Apparently we don't need economic help, we just all need therapy.

The Times said Gramm said he expects a McCain administration would inherit an economy "weighed down above all by the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades and that America is in decline."

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession. ... We have sort of become a nation of whiners. ...

I am NOT hallucinating when I see my utilities bill has more than doubled over the last four years.  I'm not imagining that it takes three times as much money to fill my car.  It's not an optical illusion that my grocery bill has gone from $70 a week to $120, even after coupons.  This is not a case of economic hypocondria.  The economy IS SICK. 

This is the man advising McCain on economic policy, ladies and gentlemen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080710/pl_politico/11658;_ylt=ApdeffrIMu8bK7sFz62oDv8b.3QA

McCain travels the country talking a good game about how he cares about hard-working Americans suffering.  But then he ignores the Medicare situation without even making a statement, and his chief economic advisor is claiming the current economy is all our own, depressed faults.