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McCain Makes a Year’s Salary Without Showing Up
After I graduate college, I’m going to run for the US Senate. The pay is great, even if you don’t bother coming in to work:
- $51,345.08 - Senate salary John McCain has ‘earned’ since he last showed up in the Senate to perform his job on April 9, 2008.
- $48,201.00 - The median household income in the US in 2006.
John McCain has missed 399 votes–that’s 63.3% of all votes in the current Congress–yet he’s made more money in the time that he hasn’t voted than the average family makes in a year. He’s the only member of the Senate to miss more than half of the votes. Hell, he skipped the vote on the Medicare bill that even Ted Kennedy came back to vote on while he’s suffering from a brain tumor!
John McCain wants to run on his record, but right now his record is one of an absentee legislator. The last thing we need to follow the disaster of the Bush/Cheney presidency is a president who won’t even work half the time.
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