[Tolik]

In an Internet interview this week, after his now-infamous run-in with Barack Obama, Plumber Joe worried about just that:

“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 check’s late, they get upset when they don’t 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 that’s because they’re used to getting it and they want more. I mean, everyone’s 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 government’s there for them, they’re 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, they’re all ears! They’re like, ‘Hey, you can help me more, I don’t have to work as hard, I don’t have to do as much, and you’re gonna give me this? Man, that’s great, you’re a good guy.’”

He continued, “So yeah, it goes down the socialist — His health-care plan scares me. You know, I don’t like people going without health care, but it’s not my job to pay for everyone else’s health care. It’s 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 isn’t that simple — but you flood the market with more products, usually they go down cheaper.”

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[JenB987]

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...

[uptoolate]

Two things:

“Plumber Joe for Budget Director”

&

Who’s Keith Olbermann?

[Fresh Wind]

Joe and Sarah together on the campaign trail!!

[BerniesFriend]

tells you something when a “plumber” knows more about economics than a Harvard guy..

[Realism]

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?

[dubie]

some obama flunky bought up joetheplummer.com

[bray]

America needs more Plumbers.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops

[devolve]

[cookcounty]

It's important now to make people realize that

a) Obama is a man of poor judgement

b) He's just another lying politician

He gave us great ammo last night on the later count, with his very direct, articulate and incontrovertiable LIE about his only connection with ACORN being his one lawsuit in 1995.

[TexasNative2000]

God bless Joe Wurzelbacher, but he's about to get the Palin treatment.

He's going to get a media rectal exam that makes the Clarence Thomas hearings look like a walk in the park.

He's a legitimate threat to Obama because he puts a face on Obama's tax plan. He's about to get unloaded upon.

[Lou L]

Does anyone know...is Joe the Plumber getting local airtime in Ohio? If he’s become a bit of a celebrity now, and is getting some attention for his conversation with Obama, couldn’t that help McCain’s cause? We could really use Ohio in the “red” column...

[autumnraine]

Palin/Joe The Plumber ‘16!!

[anniegetyourgun]

Keith Obamaman is the invisible one. Most Americans wouldn’t be able to identify him in a photo. He and his butch buddy, Madcow, might as well be drawing a paycheck from the Obama campaign.

[Cathy]

Is Joe the Plumber married? I think I am in love.

[albie]

“Reviewing the polls printed in The New York Times and The Washington Post in the last month of every presidential election since 1976, I found the polls were never wrong in a friendly way to Republicans. When the polls were wrong, which was often, they overestimated support for the Democrat, usually by about 6 to 10 points”. Ann Coulter

...We need to keep away from the double digit leads. “Joe the plumber” will help a great deal. Just as Sarah Palin resonates with the the avaerage American, so will Joe. He needs to go on tour with McCain. Palin does fine on her own. McCain needs the “juice” of “Joe”.

[tubebender]

I started a very small business 47 years ago and grew it and for the last 15 years my son and daughter have turned it into a thriving enterprise with as many as 16 additional employees.

No one ever talks about the additional “Tax” costs to small business in the form of accountants to reduce the burden of the socialists picking our pockets. The reason there are not more entrepreneurs reporting taxable incomes above $250,000 is the practice of tax reduction via several legal “loop holes” to minimize those year end taxes. ...

[Fishrrman]

Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher lives in Ohio, a contested state.

Why hasn’t he been invited out for lunch with either McCain or - better yet - with Sarah and Todd Palin?

Gee, maybe they could ask him to do a campaign appearance or two with them....

- John

[ml/nj]

this election is all about freedom

Well, it should be anyway.

I wish, last night when they were talking about abortion and Obama start talking about a right to privacy being in the Consitution and including it with the the supposed right to freedom of speech, that McCain would have asked whether we also had a right to the fruits of our labor.

ML/NJ

[Christian4Bush]

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