John McCain, predictably following in his mentor Bush’s sorry tradition, has announced his plan for national health care. McCain wants to five families a $5,000 tax credit to buy health insurance, and $2,500 for individuals. The cost estimate for this is estimated at $3.6 trillion.

To cover the cost of that, he proposes elimination of the tax breaks employers now get for offering insurance. 

While his plan sounds no worse at first thought than those proposed by Clinton and Obama, it completely fails to take into account the plight of the increasing number of Americans who are losing their jobs to outsourcing, and joining the ranks of the unemployed.

Former middle class workers by the tens of thousands who have been out of work by government condoned outsourcing long enough to run out of unemployment compensation will not have any benefit from McCain’s plan because they are in a downward spiral towards a poverty level that is too low to pay enough taxes for any type of tax break.

But Republicans of McCain’s ilk don’t seem to worry about that though, any more than they worry about the elderly who have been getting Social Security increases of 2.3 %, which is more than eaten by their increased Medicare  costs, insane gas prices, and now soaring food prices.

It’s a damn shame that we don’t have any better choices for the office of president than the three pitiful examples now foisted on us by both political parties, neither of which are truly concerned about the average American, no matter what the phonies say in their mad grab for power.