Why Does Steve Perry Hate The Handicapped, Veterans?
By Mitch Berg
When last we discussed John McCain with the staff of the Minnesota Monitor – Minnesota’s wholly Soros-owned propaganda mill [*] – they were tittering about the state of the Senator’s teeth. After the gaucherie got national attention, they apologized – they didn’t know that McCain had lost his teeth to violence and malnutrition while held as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton.
Now, Steve Perry copies and pastes the lede from a LATimes editorial on McCain’s disability payment from the Navy, and adds:
Some interesting fallout from John McCain’s release of his tax return and other financial disclosures: Ralph Vartabedian of the LAT reports today that McCain receives a tax-free, 100-percent disability pension (nearly $60,000 last year) from the US Navy
Perry does realize that that’s the norm; when someone sacrifices his health in the line of duty, they’re entitled to disability – doesn’t he? And that Mac’s health was so shattered by the ordeal that his Navy career – for four generations, now, the family business – was impossible to carry on?
And that’s part of the bargain our society makes with its soldiers and sailors; in exchange for patrolling the world’s hostile reaches on our behalf, for lousy pay, with the additional risk of being killed, maimed, injured, or held hostage and beaten to the edge of endurance for years, we’ll take care of you if you’re disabled to the point that you can’t continue your career, whether that career is bricklayer or fighter pilot.
Especially if it, y’know, doesn’t interfere with his day job…
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
For what he went thru, that isnt enough.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Amazing how the left will talk about what we need to do for our veterans, but will then criticize the benefits they receive.
One can only hope they try this in the general election so they can see how quickly it backfires.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
The general public doesn’t remember or was too young to recall that the Hanoi Hilton was not a health club…McCain has injuries and disabilities that he doesn’t advertise, not being in it for pity.
I don’t agree with a lot of what he’s said, but even a lefty journoid ought to do his homework…when you’re looking at questioning the appropriateness of McCain’s disability income, wouldn’t that beg the question of, what is the nature of those disabilities? Research? Too hard for the LA Slimes.