McCain is in favor of taxing the rich, NOT the poor.

[TahitiNut]

n the interview, McCain did not offer an alternate number, but had a new answer ready.
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are poor if they’re billionaires.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080821/pl_politico/12685;_ylt=AqNbpagxTivb2AwXfTxEvCxh24cA

It all makes sense, now. That's why McCain and the GOP give taxpayer dollars to those poor billionaires. That's why only the "rich" have to give a child to die in wars to make the 'poor' safer.

He's such an enlightened saint! Poor Saint John of the Seven Houses. Ave. Poor Cindy, the Martyr of Bud. Ave.

:puke:

[DesertFlower]

1. yep.

unfortunately that's how republicans are. take care of the rich and screw the little guy.

[Delphinus]

2. I am rich!

I am rich in good friends, good family, a pretty-decent job, my perspective on life, my intelligence.

In the things that matter in this world, though, I'm seem to be lacking. I'm not quite as poor as a church mouse, but certainly poor enough to be wondering how I'm going to get by for very long.

[TahitiNut]

4. I hear you, cousin.

:hug:

I've already outlived my father by more than 3 years ... and have about the same 'wealth' he had. He served in WW2 in the Pacific. I served in Viet Nam. At least I've been able to live long enough to collect Social Security. He didn't. Neither did his father.

Yet I regard myself as a "success" ... never selling out my human values and ethical principles and having learned to become a better human being with each year.

[curious one]

3. He is an unhappy man who envies the regular guy. He might have been happier

with his first wife than with Cindy.

[TahitiNut]

5. He sought pleasure, not happiness.

Happiness is not something one finds. It's something one chooses.

[WoodyM]

6. Try to pay the grocery

bill with that “rich in other ways” and see how far you get.

[TahitiNut]

7. Obviously, McCain thinks we 'wealthy' folks can eat our educated children.

And drink the milk of human kindness.

It should be noted that "Third World Social Security" is having enough children and hoping the at least one survives and is able to care for the aged parents.

McCain seems to think that's a great idea.

The public must've been smarter in the 30s than we are now. They UNDERSTOOD that, as a nation, we'd be far better off if we ALL did the best we could to make it possible for our children to become even better at earning a living than we were ... and if we left them with a world where labor was valued and working conditions were better that EVERYONE would win.

Today, even on DU, I see folks that just don't fucking understand that children and grandchidren have ALWAYS taken care of the elders. It's a parent's job to INVEST in their children, NOT their own old age!!! That's called a win-win.

Thus, Social Security is built upon the Social Responsibility of investing in ALL our children, education, health care, safe work environments, a larger 'middle class' ... and that it's a "Pay It Forward" deal. People who have the delusion that feeding the Greater Fools of the secondary market for corporate equities is somehow a wise choice are total imbeciles ... or greed-obsessed freaks.