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Oct 17th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

John McCain Facts

In 2007, the median household income in the United States was about $50,000. John McCain earned more than that in pensions alone that year and he hasn’t even started collecting the Senate pension to which he’ll be entitled when and if he retires. No wonder he doesn’t see the need for Social Security. The $23,157 he pulled in in benefits is like small change to him. But not everyone has two pension to draw on, our annual household servant expenditures that run over $200,000.

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Retarded Love Child of Sarah Pailin and Joe the Plumber Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Hey John, guess what, you’re rich!
Mixner Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Fun Facts:

Five Richest U.S. Senators:

1. Herb Kohl, Democrat, $219-234 million
2. John Kerry, Democrat, $165-235 million
3. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, $78-101 million
4. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat, $43-98 million
5. Lincoln Chafee, Republican, $41-64 million

Truly, the Democrats are the party of the common man.
stm177 Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I read pensions as penguins, and suddenly I wanted to vote for McCain.

Any man who earns that many penguins deserves to be president.
Zach Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Also, McCain’s ad today featuring Joe the Plumber claims Obama will give $100 billion in tax cuts to people who don’t pay any taxes at all. This is only true if you include the tax cuts given to more than the bottom two quintiles. I wager there are a few voters making around $40,000/yr that would be surprised to hear that John McCain thinks that they don’t pay any tax.
Gherald Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Matt, you seem to be forgetting that John McCain is a former prisoner of war. That’s a fact. When John McCain was a prisoner of war, he didn’t have an income. So he obviously understands poor people. And he’s now married to a rich heiress, so he understands rich people too. You can’t argue against John McCain’s biography, man. He always wins.
Jayhawk Max Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Five Richest U.S. Senators:

1. Herb Kohl, Democrat, $219-234 million
2. John Kerry, Democrat, $165-235 million
3. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, $78-101 million
4. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat, $43-98 million
5. Lincoln Chafee, Republican, $41-64 million

Truly, the Democrats are the party of the common man.

Uh, I’m pretty sure you could list the five “poorest” Republican Senators and they’d still make at least five times more than the average American.
Chris Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I always cringe when election season draws close and you innevitably start relying more and more on ad-hominem attacks. John McCain is rich. So what? His Social Security policies aren’t more or less correct because of how wealthy he is.
Mixner Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I always cringe when election season draws close and you innevitably start relying more and more on ad-hominem attacks.

Some time ago, Matthew apparently made a conscious decision to eschew responsible political journalism for partisan political hackery. Or maybe he was just instructed to do so by his employers (it’s become worse since he moved from the Atlantic to this site). Hence the endless parade of nonsense posts like this one.
P Snowden Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
“our annual household servant expenditures that run over $200,000″

I knew you were posh, Yglesias, but that’s quite impressive.
Hartley Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
“, our annual household” s/b “, our annual household”.
Hartley Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
“, our annual household” s/b “, our annual household”.

s/b

“, our annual household” s/b “, or annual household”.
Steve Sailer Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 2:29 am
You mean, McCain collects a nice pension for his five years in the Hanoi Hilton, plus all his years flying combat jets?

That’s the biggest scandal yet!
Matt Weiner Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Lincoln Chaffee is a Senator? And a Republican? Who knew?

I mean, your silly ad hominems would actually be more effective if you used an up-to-date list. But the relevance of McCain’s great wealth (mostly held by Cindy, who has laundered McCain’s corrupt dealings in the past) is that his policies would benefit people like him.
duBois Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Mixner includes Kerry who has almost nothing in his own name and who is separated from the Heinz money by a pre-nup, and yet doesn’t list McCain.

Mixner, are you always this selective in picking your evidence?
gregor Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Coming back to the point of the post, that fact that the richest senators, who are Democrats, do see the need for Social Security is a testament to their ability to empathize with the low wage earners despite their extraordinary wealth. So what is the problem here?
Not as stupid as Mixner Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am
gregor, the problem is that Mixner is a partisan hack and a total moron. He neither understands the attacks he blindly copies from his RNC handouts, nor why they are even dumber than his posts suggest he is.

But you, and everyone else with an IQ above room temperature (Celsius please; sorry Mixner, that leaves you out) already know that.
Vadranor Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
According to an examination of 2007 Financial Disclosure Forms by Open Secrets

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/overview.php?type=W&filter=S&sort=A&ptysort=A&year=2007

the five poorest Members of the Senate are all Democrats: Pryor, Biden, Stabenow, Inouye and Whitehouse.
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