Posted on 10/16/2008 5:47:29 AM PDT by Tolik
You start giving people stuff, and then they start expecting it and that scares me. A lot of people expect it now. They get upset when their checks late, they get upset when they dont get as many benefits as they used to, or when different government agencies are cut or spending is cut here and there for whatever reason people get upset at that. And thats because theyre used to getting it and they want more. I mean, everyones always gonna want more. People work the system left and right to get more out of welfare, to get more out of state assistance, federal assistance. And if governments there for them, theyre gonna keep on trying to manipulate it to get more out of it. You got people that come along and say, Hey, I wanna help you people, I mean, theyre all ears! Theyre like, Hey, you can help me more, I dont have to work as hard, I dont have to do as much, and youre gonna give me this? Man, thats great, youre a good guy.
He continued, So yeah, it goes down the socialist His health-care plan scares me. You know, I dont like people going without health care, but its not my job to pay for everyone elses health care. Its hard enough paying for my own. I like the idea of deregulation as far as nationally, you know, you only get insurance companies that can work in this state if you deregulate that then you have more people competing and then the prices would go lower. It seems pretty simple to me. It probably isnt that simple but you flood the market with more products, usually they go down cheaper.
Nailed It!
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How about Joe the Plumber and Sarahcuda for a ticket? Jeeze, this guy gets it and delivers it. Sure wish McCain would have done the same BEFORE last night...
This guy is amazing. If only we could vote for him for President. He gets it better than McCain does.
I wish he would have done it last night. He couldn’t articulate what Joe just did. He couldn’t even call it socialism.
Obama’s plans are a sitting duck, just waiting to be knocked down. They’re dumb, and they’re unAmerican.
Joe’s just a regular guy and so am I, but when both Joe and I could have done a better job against Obama, there’s something WAY wrong.
I think this is a gift, pure and simple.
John McCain used Joe the plumber effectively to make the pain we all might feel from Obama REAL.
Its going to be very effective for the next three weeks.
YES! Feed Basic American Values populism!
My Dad was a plumber with an 8th grade education, and he understood better than 95% of the population what makes our country tick. He would have loved Joe.
Two things:
“Plumber Joe for Budget Director”
&
Who’s Keith Olbermann?
My uncle Lloyd was a plumber in Toledo, Ohio. He started his day carrying a US mailbag on a route that he walked for five or six hours every day. In the afternoon and evenings, he kept appointments fixing his neighbor’s toilets and drains.
Joe and Sarah together on the campaign trail!!
tells you something when a “plumber” knows more about economics than a Harvard guy..
Unfortunately, that's true.......but there are a million Joe the Plumbers out there whose job it will now be to drag McCain the Human Sandbag into the breach to stanch the socialist tide.
We can do this.
Hey Joe as a U.S. citizen your share of the $10 trillion national debt is about $33,800, Are you the type of person who pays his debts or are you going to leave it to the kids?
Too many “independents” and “moderates” consider “socialism” to be name calling and waving the bloody shirt.
It could be softened with a simple question -
how is “spreading the wealth around” different from Socialism, Marxism, and Communism?
Because Communism is totalitarian?
Pray tell, how else will it be implemented?
some obama flunky bought up joetheplummer.com
Is “joetheplumber” still available?
America needs more Plumbers.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Conservatives believe what Joe the Plumber believes. We know that no society ever taxed and spent its way to prosperity. We know that middle class Americans just want to be able to keep more of what they earn through their own hard work. We know that they do not expect more government handouts and they understand that more handouts equals more dependency and laziness, which does not grow an economy.
Obama is running a brazen campaign to buy votes with more government handouts. I have a feeling he and his pals are going to find out the hard way that isn't what Middle Class America is all about.
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