The Working Poor aren't poor enough for John McCain

[Joanne98]

by Lefty Coaster, Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 03:38:18 PM EST

Last year John McCain voted to repeal the Federal Minimum Wage Law. A law millions of Americans depend on to keep their sub-poverty wages from falling even further behind the cost of living. The hardship involved in lowering the already shamefully low standard of living that America's working poor now must endure may boggle your and my mind, but not John McMaverick's. He thinks its a good idea.


JOHN McCAIN'S FAILING RECORD ON GOOD JOBS

McCain voted with the Republicans in 2007 to stall a clean minimum wage increase for working families--before bowing to public pressure and voting to pass the final bill that included tax breaks for businesses. He even voted to completely repeal the minimum wage laws in 45 states and allow the other five states to opt out of any future minimum wage increases above $5.15 an hour.




For Republicans like John McCain the needs of elite corporate investors for ever higher profits ALWAYS come before the needs of working Americans. Republicans like McCain view the working poor (and working people in general) as a resource for corporations to exploit so that higher profits will flow to their cronies in the Corporate Aristocracy.

McCain can be counted on to help corporations to externalize their costs in other ways. Like how McCain's Health Care Proposal would shift health care costs away from employers, and on to individual Americans. Of course the working poor don't have any employer provided health care costs to shift on to the individual.

McCain would probably also like to cut the money he pays for servants from the $273,000 a year he now pays to staff his eight McMansions and luxury condos.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/8/23/153819/643

[MasonJar]

1. Put that fact in an ad and run it across the country and that should put the

skids to any working person anywhere in the country voting for McCain.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. This will turn up in Biden's speeches.

Bet on it. This is the kind of red meat Joe can really communicate to the working class.