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21 Aug 2008 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigou(Normally I would be more diplomatic and less partisan, but this is one issue that really steams me.)
This ad nails the one reason I just can't believe McCain has any comprehension of what it's like for those of us with mortgages, with incomes that pay for that mortgage with only just enough left over, let alone what it's like to know that your 401K is only barely going to be enough and that social security may not be much but at least it's something you can count on, eventually. Or what it's like to know that your choices are between paying off bills and having groceries or not doing that and being able to see a doctor. Or what it's like to buy disposable contact lenses in sets of six because that way you can wear one pair for six months and make the sets last for three years and save the cost of annual eye appointments -- you can see well enough out of glasses that are six years old, so it's not perfect, so sometimes you get headaches or your eyes hurt, the cash just isn't there so you deal and you know you're dealing but you deal.
I just cannot believe, deep down, that someone who says to be rich you're making "five million or so" is someone who has any comprehension of what the rest of us are facing, day-to-day, trying to make ends meet.
Okay, so maybe someone of the so-called "rich" (and I'd say, myself, that "rich" is a household income over 300K or so) might be able to sympathize with we of the lesser incomes, but I can't believe that someone could empathize. And frankly, I don't want anyone's goddamn sympathy. I'd just like some freaking health insurance that I can freaking afford.
This ad nails the one reason I just can't believe McCain has any comprehension of what it's like for those of us with mortgages, with incomes that pay for that mortgage with only just enough left over, let alone what it's like to know that your 401K is only barely going to be enough and that social security may not be much but at least it's something you can count on, eventually. Or what it's like to know that your choices are between paying off bills and having groceries or not doing that and being able to see a doctor. Or what it's like to buy disposable contact lenses in sets of six because that way you can wear one pair for six months and make the sets last for three years and save the cost of annual eye appointments -- you can see well enough out of glasses that are six years old, so it's not perfect, so sometimes you get headaches or your eyes hurt, the cash just isn't there so you deal and you know you're dealing but you deal.
I just cannot believe, deep down, that someone who says to be rich you're making "five million or so" is someone who has any comprehension of what the rest of us are facing, day-to-day, trying to make ends meet.
Okay, so maybe someone of the so-called "rich" (and I'd say, myself, that "rich" is a household income over 300K or so) might be able to sympathize with we of the lesser incomes, but I can't believe that someone could empathize. And frankly, I don't want anyone's goddamn sympathy. I'd just like some freaking health insurance that I can freaking afford.