I wouldn't know.
Granting that he is for the sake of argument, disability benefits are
social insurance and not therefore good candidates for means-testing.
Go there, and you have no argument for not doing the same with Social
Security etc.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: B.
> Sent: 06/11/08 07:29 pm
> To: LBO Talk
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Who knew? John McCain on disability, gets checks
>
> 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.)
>
> -B.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> [...]
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