October 16th 2008
Quote Of The Day: Joe The Plumb-Crazy Edition
“It is astounding that Joe Biden, the self-adulated ‘everyman,’ can’t believe that an American making less than $250,000 a year might still be opposed to socialism.” - McCain campaign spokesperson Ben Porritt
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orritt was responding to Joe “Foot in Mouth” Biden’s attempt today to trash Joe the Plumber. Here’s what Biden told a national TV audience this morning:
“We’re worried about Joe the guy who owns the gas station, the barber, the grocer. Ninety-eight percent of the small business people in America make less than $250,000 a year, and they’re going to get a real break under our plan. Joe the plumber, whose making over $250,000, is not going to get any more additional tax cuts with us.” (ABC)
Yeah! That’ll teach that SOB plumber to be successful! That’ll teach him to employ people!
Despite the rantings from the left (read the comments with the link above for a hefty dose), Joe the Plumber (and Joe the Plumb-Crazy) have been a big net loss for Obama and his Robin Hood tax plan.
The bottom line - and McCain/Palin should be saying this at every whistle stop - Obama thinks he’ll be better at spending your money than you’ll ever be, so he wants you to fork it over. Even in these times of economic uncertainty that are screaming for slashed spending, Obama’s credo is, “Because big spending on government programs hasn’t worked out too well, we’re going to try spending even more and see if that works out better.”
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October 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Laer,
Great Post!
This election is yet very simple. The poor and lower middle class believe that NoBamma is going to help them by reducing their taxes. Yet the harsh truth is he will raise taxes on everyone.1. He will not renew the Bush tax cuts in 2010. This will ultimately raise taxes for everybody across the board.2. He will increase taxes to anyone making over $100k. Sure, he says $250k now and has slipped $200k in interviews but when the dust settles he clearly wants to raise taxes on everyone so more money will be leftover for welfare, his American poverty fund, and his global poverty fund.People need to realize that penalizing business owners that provide jobs is not only ethically immoral but economically immoral as well. Statistically, for every business owner that grosses $1MM per year, he is employing 10+ people…$10MM employs 100+ people and so on. Job creation and business owners taking a risk are the keys to restructuring our economy.The only ray of hope in this election for the working poor and working middle class is John McCain not Obama. If these classes want to be held down and stuck in their classes without a fighting chance then they should just vote for Obama and be poor and helpless for the rest of their lives.Hopefully it is sooner than later that the majority will see the truth and it will set them free.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Joe the Plumber said in followup interviews that he’s not (yet) making “anywhere near” 250K a year (Sister Toldjah has a link, I think). Guess Joe the Senator missed that. ‘Course, the plumber would like to make that kind of money, and that’s what Biden has a problem with.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Here’s some facts about Joe the Plumber… lol.
Joe is not a plumber. Just another person that McCain never vetted.
He has no plumbers license, in fact a county official in charge of licenses says neither Joe or his boss has a plumbing license in that county. Joe now says he is applying for a license. He is not a member of the local plumbers union, and has never been to a school or training facility to learn plumbing.
He is registered as a republican, and voted in Ohio’s 2008 republican primary.
In January, 2007, the Ohio Department of Taxation placed a lien against him because $1,183 in personal property taxes had not been paid on his home, there has been no action in the case since it was filed.
Easy to spot another “Hail Mary” attempt by McCain to do anything he can to get a vote. Even if he uses false pretenses, and never checks the true facts before shooting from the hip, that’s been his history.
On Thursday night John McCain, in his tux and white tie, at the Alfred Smith Memorial Foundation dinner… USED Joe once again. He was the butt of McCain’s jokes and was laughed at by all the elitist politician. Truth is McCain couldn’t care less about Joe. He only wanted to use him. It’s called pandering and it’s getting easy to recognize now.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Joe the Plumber, as so many who watched the final presidential debate of the 2008 election know, is Joe Wurzelbacher, from Holland, Ohio, who wants to buy a small business but knows it’s going to hurt under an Obama administration’s tax plan.—————williamgeorge
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