Do you think John McCain knows what its like to sit at the kitchen?

Question

table and try to balance the checkbook?

Answer 1

Cindy Sugarmommy McCain has all the money, and keeps John's hands out of her cookie jar. McCain has never paid a bill in his long, long life.

To Jonathon Sydney McCain III, a kitchen is where he's served quiche, not a place to pay bills.

Answer 2

No but he's an expert on crashing airplanes and getting shot down.

About balancing the check book he wouldn't have a clue his mother always did that for him.

Answer 3

LOL, balance a checkbook?  No, that would mean that he would have to know something about economics and he's already admitted he doesn't.  Which of his 7 to 10 kitchens would he be sitting at?

Answer 4

Biden got this one right. McCain can't remember how many kitchen tables he has - do you honestly believe his campaign ad in which he says he sits down at the table and worries about his family's budget?!? His family is worth about a hundred bazillion dollars. Cindy bought a second super-duper expensive condo because there wasn't enough room in the one they already owned in the same building. How many of you buy the house next door when you run out of room in the house you already can't pay the mortgage on?

Answer 5

Most likely, yes.

Answer 6

i wouldnt think so ,hes so wealthy right now.but unlike most people he does know what its like to be attacked by a mob,stabbed,have his shoulder crushed,imprisoned for years,locked up in solitary for 2 years,brutalised,beaten,tortured,savaged... agonising pain, while bound,  at the cruel hands of his captors.he flew dozens of missions before he was shot down,all that to serve his country.me personally,i say i would have gone mad and not survived what he did.i reckon sitting in one of his many kitchens today feels sweet to a man who was tortured and buried alive in vietnam for so long.i do not begrudge the man the success he has attained.i say to him ,bravo zulu!  

Answer 7

Does it matter?

Answer 8

Do you think ANY of these rich b******s bother with a check book?

Answer 9

No, he's a rich eletist.  Neither does Obama though or anyone in congress at this time. They're millionaires all of them. McCain isn't on touch with ordinairy Americans but Obama is no better.

Obama has reciprocated Wall Street’s support for his campaign by putting forward a tax policy that is far more favorable towards multi-millionaire and billionaire investors than had been anticipated.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal on August 14, Obama’s principal economic advisors presented a plan that would hike capital gains and dividend taxes for those making more than $200,000 a year to only 20 percent, from the current 15 percent. The Democratic candidate had been expected to nearly double the capital gains tax—returning it to the rate that existed under Reagan and Bush as well as during the first term of the Clinton administration—and increase the tax on dividends to 40 percent.

By ruling out any materially significant increase in taxes on finance capital, Obama and the Democrats have effectively precluded any measures to improve living standards, increase public spending or boost employment. A Democratic administration in 2009 will spell a continuation and deepening of the attacks on living standards as American capitalism continues to confront its deepest crisis since the great depression of the 1930s.

Obama has repeatedly made it clear that the real thrust of his domestic policy will be the demand for fiscal responsibility. Under conditions in which the budget deficit will be approaching $500 billion by next year and with continued massive military spending, this can only mean stepped up attacks on working people.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug200...

McCain is even worse, good luck, you're going to need it

In the United States, far-Right Republicans and Democratic liberals alike have sold many people on the notion that the market should be the main force to drive the economy and define social relationships. They maintain that government should stay off people's backs and out of our wallets. They promote rugged individualism and consumerism couched in terms like "personal responsibility," "freedom" and "independence." "Greed is good!" was the mantra of Michael Douglas' character, Gordon Gecko, in the 1980s movie "Wall Street," and those became the words to live by in the '80s and '90s. The philosophy and value of greed was taken to heart by many a corporate CEO, and, over the past three decades, this twisted logic -- underlined by the values of individualism and the culture of consumerism -- has turned back the clock on human development with devastating consequences.

http://www.alternet.org/story/92426/the_...

In terms of the human development index, the United States has fallen from second place in 1990 (behind Canada) to 12th place. This decline continued through both the Clinton and Bush administrations, with the US falling to sixth in 1995, ninth in 2000, and 12th in 2005.

In certain respects, the decline is even worse. The US is 34th in infant mortality—with a level comparable to Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Cuba. US school children perform significantly below their counterparts in countries like Canada, France, Germany and Japan, and 14 percent of the population, some 40 million people, lack basic literacy and number skills.

Of the world’s 30 richest nations, which comprise the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States has the highest proportion of children living in poverty, 15 percent, and the most people in prison, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the whole population. With five percent of the world’s population, the US has 24 percent of the world’s prisoners.

The report notes: “Social mobility is now less fluid in the United States than in other affluent nations. Indeed, a poor child born in Germany, France, Canada or one of the Nordic countries has a better chance to join the middle class in adulthood than an American child born into similar circumstances.”

In overall life expectancy, the United States ranks an astonishing 42nd, behind not only Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all the countries of Western Europe, but also Israel, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica and South Korea.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul200...