Democ-Rats attack another War Hero!
What is wrong with America’s liberals? Don’t they have any decency? Once more they are attacking the troops by attacking one of the most decorated war heros America has to offer: John McCain.
He was a prisoner of war, he was tortured and still he continued to serve America. He dedicated his life to the service for America and he will be our next president!
A tough fighter for America! A true Hero!
Quote from the LATimes:
John McCain gets tax-free disability pension
The disclosure of the Navy benefit for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW may raise fitness questions.
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 22, 2008
Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed a “disability pension” from the Navy.When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.
On Monday, McCain’s staff identified the retirement benefit as a “disability pension” and said that McCain “was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW.”
McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. “Tortured for his country — that is how he acquired his disability,” Salter said.
Certain types of military and veterans pensions are either partially or completely tax-exempt, depending on the seriousness of the disability. In McCain’s case, the exemption is 100%.
If McCain had to pay taxes on the full amount of the pension, it would have increased his tax bill by about $18,000 based on the percentage of his income he paid to the federal government.
McCain spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. After he was released in 1973, he returned home on crutches and began a painful physical rehabilitation. He later regained flight status and commanded a Navy squadron before retiring from the service in 1981.
McCain would be the oldest man to enter the White House if he is elected president, and questions have been raised about his health.
McCain has twice developed melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer.
The fact that he is legally designated with a disability pension may raise further questions.
“It is a legitimate question to ask about the commander in chief: Is he fit to serve,” said Robert Schriebman, a senior Pentagon tax advisor and tax attorney who recently retired as a judge advocate for a unit of the California National Guard.
If McCain can hike across the Grand Canyon, then why should he be getting disability payments from the government that are tax-exempt, Schriebman asked.
McCain shattered his knee and broke both arms when he was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967.
In his autobiographies, McCain said that his knee still bothered him in cold weather and that he was unable to raise his hands above his shoulders.
Elmo Baker, a retired colonel and president of a Vietnam War POW group, said many former POWs were receiving some type of military pension that was partly or fully tax-free.
Baker said he was receiving payments that were 70% tax-free, but that he “didn’t have as many injuries as McCain did.”
Many of the Vietnam POWs are receiving payment under a program known as “combat-related special compensation,” which provides benefits and tax exemptions under a complex system, based on such factors as the type of injury and the years of service.
Paul Galanti, another former POW in the group, said that while McCain’s injuries were serious enough to qualify him for disability, it would not affect his performance as president.
“I don’t know of any physical requirements to be commander in chief,” Galanti said. “He would have a nice car to drive around in and a nice airplane to fly in.”
So what if he gets 58,000 Dollars a year! He deserves it!
But the more important point is that a disabled veteran gets this kind of money.
On the one hand liberals complain that the government is not taking care of veterans, on the other hand, if we do, they complain again that we are giving them too much money! What is it, democ-rats? YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!!!
In no other country on earth can veterans expect to get a life long pension of 58,000 Dollars! Only in America, because we honor our veterans! We honor their sacrifice. We are thankful!
Shame on Barack Hussein and his democrat party!
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i love america but i’m not voting for that son of a bitch John Cocain i don’t trust him and i feel he can’t be trusted his wife doe’snt have the balls to even release her tax returns Cindy McCain is hiding something cause a woman in her position would’nt go around saying that it’s a privacy matter unless she is hiding something and doe’snt want the american public to know i find this very suspicious she’s saying she’ll release her tax returns if she becomes first lady this is very suspicious to me she’s being dishonest she’s the main reason i am not voting for McCain i will not support John Cocain if he supports her decision on this and i damn sure will not support that bitchy little whore Cindy Cocain either i for one do not want a dishonest woman such as this bitch as first lady i don’t trust her and i don’t trust John Cocain. i always supported republicans i just cannot support a man who tolerates such dishonesty. and McCain will sending this nation to hell if gets in office. i’m sorry but i just cannot support him when he won’t do anything about his wife’s decision.
although McCain is a war hero and did serve his country but i feel in my heart that i just cannot trust and his wife has definately influenced my decision also.
although McCain is a war hero and did serve his country but i feel in my heart that i just cannot trust him and his wife has definately influenced my decision also.
“What is wrong with America’s liberals? Don’t they have any decency? Once more they are attacking the troops by attacking one of the most decorated war heros America has to offer: John McCain.”
Politics. the Republicans didn´t stop when it came to smearing Kerry either.
Oh, an he ain´t president just yet. The elections are coming.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
John McCain,”war hero”? Does dropping bombs and napalm on civilians make him a “war hero”? Does collaborating with the North Vietnamese make him a “war hero”? http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com
Hi - John McCain the second-term Republican senator from Arizona and former Navy pilot captured and held prisoner during the Vietnam War, is a fraud, collaborator, and danger to the security of the United States because he is being black-mailed by the communist Vietnamese. He is a phony hero. While a prisoner of war, McCain was treated as a “special prisoner,” with privileges including being given his own private and affectionate nurse.
McCain’s treatment as a “special prisoner” is a contradiction to his much publicized image of a great war hero who was severely tortured and kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time because he refused to break during interrogation.
Ted Guy, a former Air Force Colonel held over 5 years by the Vietnamese and McCain’s senior ranking officer in the POW camp, told the U.S. Veteran Dispatch he cannot remember the communists ever laying a hand on McCain.
Peter Vienna
I will vote Bob Barr instead of McCain the fraud. He’s too chumy with librals and I don’t trust him.
@Barnard Ruble i don’t trust him either and i won’t vote for him either.