Ya know, most people on welfare do not want to be on welfare. Oh, I know there are a few 'welfare queens', but the average person on welfare would love not to be on welfare. My dad screwed my mom over, divorced her, didn't pay alimony, never paid a dime of my child support. Had he been a real father, we wouldn't have needed welfare and food stamps. (I learned just this year that he died in the year 2000. Well, good riddance.) But as things were, often those were the only things standing between us and homelessness and/or starvation. And even so, there were days when we ate nothing, and weeks when we lived in a car. A Pinto, at that.
That upbringing is why I remain concerned for our poorest citizens, and why I am totally and utterly aghast that McCain's economic plan provides a massive $21 in annual tax relief to our poorest families, compared to Obama's $567. I mean, $21 is simply a flat-out fucking joke. Woohoo, an extra 6 cents a day, that's some serious relief. Save all that McCain tax relief up for two months and you could *almost* buy a gallon of gas.
But McCain also plans to give tax relief in the amount of $50,000+ per year to those making more than $600,000 per year. Yeah, those poor people can get by with 6 cents a day in relief, but the rich? They'd be getting $150 a *day* in tax relief. That seems a little...ridiculous. Is he just trying to kill off the poor? I mean, yeah, I understand, no poor person with an IQ over 85 would vote for a Republican anyway, unless they're hung up on a wedge issue, so killing them off would actually help his party.
But jeez, McCain's plan is just *so* cold-bloodedly slanted toward the wealthy that you just have to wonder, did they torture compassion out of him in Vietnam or what?