Well we've all heard of him by now.... the guy who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes when he asked Obama why he wanted to raise his taxes.
Obama replied that he wasn't trying to punish him... he just wanted to "spread the wealth around" - thus displaying the candidate's abysmal ignorance of the fact that we already have a system that does that! It's the capitalistic free-market economy. You know, the one our current president and congress are busy trying to dismantle even as we speak.
Our present system says - if you want to earn what Joe, the plumber is earning ... you have to be willing to pay the price that Joe, the plumber paid. This likely includes getting phone calls in the middle of cold nights when someone's kitchen suddenly got flooded; or scrounging around in the dark under some stranger's toilet. For anyone that is willing to work hard and pay the price - this system will reward you!
On the other hand, Mr. Barak's "robin hood" approach is more of creating and rewarding victims who have been told all their life that they don't have a chance in this society. When they buy into this destructive and wicked untruth, they began to feel that they deserve to take some of Joe, the plumber's income.
Yesterday, Joe, the plumber, held a press conference in which he discussed current issues facing our nation including a very sound and reasonable defense of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It made more sense than anything I have heard from either candidate (excluding Sarah Palin - who also makes sense).
That's why I have not been able to watch the debates - it's just circular conversations. I tuned in to about 45 seconds of the debate earlier this week. It was just long enough to hear Obama talk about how he had "crossed the aisle" and voted for school choice (?) and how he had NOT voted to raise taxes on people earning $42,000.00 a year. McCain's rebuttal was to recount (for the umpteenth time) how he had "crossed the aisle" and stabbed his party in the back (well I sorta' paraphrased that part) numerous times.
The fact is, these guys load up every bill with so many goofy things that for every bill that does one good thing, there are maybe a hundred goofy things attached to it. So I at any time, they can claim to have voted for something or they can be accused of voting against something.
They are so busy running back and forth across the aisles in the Senate that they have forgotten that there is a world outside of the capitol. A world of folks just going to work everyday, doing their jobs - trying to jump through all the hoops those Senators keep throwing at us!
They should be ashamed.
And somebody better start talking some common sense about what we care about.
Joe, the plumber articulated fairly accurately what is important to me.
Maybe it's time for a write-in campaign.
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