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

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 12 10:21:25 PDT 2008


Yes, that is exactly what McCain is under, the military disability/retirement system. (As my original, thread-starting post mentioned, with the quote from the LA Times, which featured a military guy defensively, well, defending McCain's payments $50k+ per year payments, which is in addition to the other money he makes. E.g. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story )

I dunno, it all still just hits me the wrong way. Maybe I am some sort of right winger at heart for this striking me, at a gut-level, as sort of screwy.

-B.

sawicky at verizon.net wrote:

"McCain may be under a separate military program, since vets in the U.S. have their own little welfare state, in some ways better than the one everyone else lives under."



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