[lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks

[John S Costello]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:29 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Joanna (or anyone)--
>
> 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.)

I'm against means-testing for disability payments.  I have disabled
vet friends whom the government has fucked over on their disability
because they "didn't need it" or had to jump through hoops they
couldn't jump through to get it.


> From:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story
>
> [...]
>
> 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.

What I *am* against is the McCain campaign saying that he was
"tortured" for his country. Nothing that happened to McCain was
"torture", by the standards of the Bush government -- standards which
McCain upheld with his voting record in the Senate.

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