According to the Wall Street Journal, Senator John Sydney McCain III, age 72, will pay for his administration's healthcare plan with “major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid” .
Currently, 3.4 million seniors age 65 and older live below the poverty line. (The poverty line is defined for one individual as $10,400.) Millions more are barely making ends meet just above the poverty line.
That won’t be a problem for John McCain. Not including his wife Cindy’s very substantial income of her own, in 2007 John McCain received the following income:
Senate Salary..........$161,708
Book Royalty...........$176,508
Social Security...........$23,157
U.S. Navy Pension.......$58,358
Total....................$419,731
“Them that's got are them that gets...”
- Ray Charles (listen here)
Monday, October 6, 2008
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