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Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Albert Hidel - 10-21-2008
'Joe the Plumber' strikes back at media
Quote:"Joe the Plumber" is lashing out at the media for analyzing his personal life since he suddenly became a focal point of the presidential race last week....
Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Holland, Ohio, told Mike Huckabee on his Fox News talk show Saturday that he is upset by the attention and has been unable to work with reporters crowded on his front lawn.
"The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America," Wurzelbacher told the former Republican presidential hopeful on his show, "Huckabee."
Quote:"You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary," he said.Joe the Plumber, welcome to the world of the "RA or the highway crowd." Do as they say, not as they do, and don't ask questions if you don't want trouble. The officious defenders of the higher education power structure and its multiple billion dollar endowments will stalk you, harass you, contact your employer, publish your home address and phone number, and try to get you convicted of trumped up charges.
Express support of non-traditional education in a public forum? Prepare to be set upon by cyberstalkers, including bored physics profs, bankrupt medical equipment salesmen, preachers with 60 member congregations and variety of unemployed derelicts.
Start up an education business that competes with a judge's favorite college and you can go to jail for three years.
Poor Joe, he thought he lived in the land of the free.
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Duggle - 10-21-2008
He does. But freedom of speech goes both ways. He lied about:
-- being a plumber. (He's not.)
-- buying the business for whom he works. (He's not.)
-- the amount of money the business earns. ($260-280K; it doesn't)
Also, his taxes would go down in greater amounts under Obama's plan vs. McCain's. And speaking of taxes, he has a tax lien against him.
Another typical Republican fairy tale, deconstructed by the truth. Damn that internet anyway!
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - ham - 10-21-2008
Quote:Another typical Republican fairy tale,
Show me a 110% honest politician & I'll show you a virgin wh-re.
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Albert Hidel - 10-21-2008
Duggle Wrote:Another typical Republican fairy tale, deconstructed by the truth.
Socialist bullshit. The only issue is that Obama said he wanted to "spread the wealth around."
Joe got Obama to reveal Obama's true socialist agenda, and now Joe is paying the price. Idiots like you are trying to make Joe the issue, but he's not. Nobody gives two shits if Joe is really a plumber, it's about Obama's socialist sewage and his plan to send the country down the dumper.
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Little Arminius - 10-21-2008
Duggle Wrote:He does. But freedom of speech goes both ways. He lied about:
-- being a plumber. (He's not.)
-- buying the business for whom he works. (He's not.)
-- the amount of money the business earns. ($260-280K; it doesn't)
Also, his taxes would go down in greater amounts under Obama's plan vs. McCain's. And speaking of taxes, he has a tax lien against him.
Another typical Republican fairy tale, deconstructed by the truth. Damn that internet anyway!
C'mon Rich, let's get our facts accurate:
He is a plumber - he works for someone who is licensed.
He hopes to buy a plumbing business in the future but a) his employer's company isn't for sale and b) he doesn't have enough money to buy it anytime soon even if it were for sale. The guy has a goal he hopes to achieve and I find that commendable.
The 250-280K figure for the plumbing company may be accurate; you know how those hypocritical Republican small business owners like to underreport their profits.
Both McCain's plan and Obama's plan are fairy tales. No matter what the overall tax burden (not just the Federal income tax) is going to go up for all but those making less than 50K or so because of historic Federal debt obligations.
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Duggle - 10-22-2008
Albert Hidel Wrote:Duggle Wrote:Another typical Republican fairy tale, deconstructed by the truth.
Socialist bullshit. The only issue is that Obama said he wanted to "spread the wealth around."
Joe got Obama to reveal Obama's true socialist agenda, and now Joe is paying the price. Idiots like you are trying to make Joe the issue, but he's not. Nobody gives two shits if Joe is really a plumber, it's about Obama's socialist sewage and his plan to send the country down the dumper.
Oops. You confused Obama with the current incumbent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/10/17/BL2008101701408.html
RE: Plumber Joe Gets DI/DD Treatment - Duggle - 10-22-2008
Little Arminius Wrote:Both McCain's plan and Obama's plan are fairy tales. No matter what the overall tax burden (not just the Federal income tax) is going to go up for all but those making less than 50K or so because of historic Federal debt obligations.
National debt increases by 4.6 trillion under Bush:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBJALq9iduFQT3PKqA4qqJvTaPhAD93U6I100
At least the previous administration delivered a balanced budget.