McCain to seniors, vets: tough luck

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12490/1/410/

One more unemployment check to a worker without a job might keep him or her in an apartment or a house. A $400 rebate check to a senior citizen or a disabled veteran might mean a meal tonight instead of nothing to eat.

But to Sen. John McCain, Republican candidate for president, they are “legislative pork barrels” that he cannot be bothered with.

McCain’s fellow Republicans in the Senate have blocked a bill that would have added these measures to the president’s widely criticized economic stimulus package. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama left their campaign trails Feb. 7 and went to the Senate to try to end the Republican filibuster. But McCain stayed put, choosing not to back eight other Republican senators who joined Democrats in voting against the Republican stonewall.

The Senate’s 59-40 vote fell one short of the 60 needed to end the Republican filibuster. If McCain had joined his eight Republican colleagues, millions of unemployed and low-income workers, seniors and veterans would be better off.

The bill would have extended unemployment benefits and provided tax rebates for 20 million poor people including seniors and disabled veterans.

McCain aides said the Arizona senator opposed these measures, and also objected to several other provisions in the bill including increased home heating assistance for low-income families.

FULL story at link.

[Olney Blue]

1. Helping people survive is pork. Invading Iran isn't.

[Deja Q]

2. Is McCain a vet?

Funny. Most people who are wouldn't be so disconsiderate toward their own... what did other vets do to him?

[Omaha Steve]

3. I believe he spent 3 years as a POW in Nam

Off the top of my head. Or was it 5 maybe?

[Oldtimeralso]

4. Navy Pilot

Son of an Admiral, shot down over N.nam, tortured and gave more info then name rank and #, but if you work for a living you know how boss's kids are.

[kentuck]

9. 5 1/2 but who's counting?

:shrug:

[Hobarticus]

6. I had two neighbors, both vets...

One was a Korean War Army vet, and I suspected he was a die-hard Dem. I wrote a scathing LTTE one time about veteran's benefits being cut by Bush. I was out mowing later in the week and he called me over. I thought, "oh boy, here it comes" but he just smiled and said, "I liked your letter". He's gone now, but I'll never forget that.

The other was Korean-era, stateside USAF. He's still proudly flying his VETS FOR BUSH bumper sticker. Long after the VA hospital scandal, long after story after story of men and women going back for tour after tour, with half-assed gear on their backs....this asshat is still a true believer. Maybe he loves that Bush seems intent on making as many combat vets as possible.

Being a vet obviously doesn't automatically translate into even caring for one's brothers-in-arms.

[EndElectoral]

5. How can anyone be against home heating assistance for poor people? Scrooge?

[Quantess]

7. What a jerk.

[dothan29]

8. ha!

McCrazy is a TOAD!

[blondeatlast]

10. Those old folks might come in handy 100 years from now when we are still in Iraq

and all our younger folk have gone to Mexico to find jobs since they aren't coming back and the illegals are here to stay.

I despised McCain WAY before it was fashionable--soon I shall wear it as a badge of honor.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. We all know that poor people shouldn't be given help heating their homes!!

:sarcasm: