McCain’s Lost House Problem

For middle America (and I’m not talking about a place in the middle bread basket of America) but the real prairie of existence - the flatland life that consists of barely making house payments, of nevering know if your job will find itself exported to China.

This is the middle America where most Americans take up residence.

This is the one house if your lucky America. Otherwise you rent.

This is the America where it’s a good wage to make $50K per year and support your three kids because at least you have health insurance paid. In this middle America, you send your kid to public school with new clothes every other year. You might have enough for one sport - it just depending on how much you have left on that third credit card.

When John McCain claims to not know how many houses he owns…that’s pretty shocking. “I’ll have the campaign check on that and get back to you.” Yeah right.

Well it turns out the McCain’s own 7 properties, but John McCain actually doesn’t own any. Doesn’t this seem weird. Every thing’s in his wife’s name. You get the feeling that they were allowed to get married (he 42, she 25) only with a strong prenuptial that made sure McCain wasn’t diddling with the heiress just for her money…no I’m sure it was for love of country but that’s another story.

The big story is “how can McCain not know?” Is he getting that old…so really old. The kind of old that he doesn’t recall simple facts of his own life. Perhaps we should have his campaign check on that too.

Perhaps John McCain is just one rich-ass elitist who’s totally clueless about middle America. We all know how he defined rich as making $5 million a year. Hey I’d be happy with just 1 mill. However, did you know that back in 2006, while talking to the AFL-CIO, he asked the audience who would be willing to work for $50 per hour to pick lettuce. He was defending why illegal immigrants had to come into this country…Americans were too lazy to work for $50/hour…fuck! I think every American that’s currently struggling today would drop their $10 or $15 hour job and jump at the chance to piss on the lettuce and contaminate our food supply…but it’s only in some fantasy land that lettuce pickers make $50/hour.

Try $5.25/hour.

So I hope my Republican and independent friends wake up when they’re thinking about voting this guy into office. He might look like your grandfather (our grandads always had our best interests at heart) but his economic stimulus is likely to be similar to the one my grandad delivered when he gave me 5 cents and said go buy yourself a soda. His good old heart hadn’t kept up with inflation.

(Ok, the story about my granddad…I made that up, but you get the point.)

Enjoy.

ISM