What's your take on someone of John McCain's means (and, well, abilities) receiving disability checks to the tune of $58,358 per year? Especially when his wife, the Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser heiress, makes hundreds of millions, they have 8 houses, etc.?
So, technically, John McCain is disabled and gets govt. benefits for that. Any thoughts? Is McCain like Kerry -- some effete guy who'd unmanfully found a sugar mama to coddle him into power? (Or so the GOP said.)
-B.
From: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story
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On Monday, McCain's staff identified the retirement benefit as a "disability pension" and said that McCain "was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW."
McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. "Tortured for his country -- that is how he acquired his disability," Salter said.
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