Posted on 10/17/2008 11:49:38 AM PDT by Fred
RUSH: Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber has become the star of this election right now. Joe the plumber was on Katie Couric, he was on Good Morning America today. He had a press conference outside his home in Ohio today and the Drive-Bys are dumping all over Joe the plumber. They're calling him a racist. You know why they're calling him a racist? Because he said Obama talks as smoothly as Sammy Davis, Jr., could tap dance or something like that. Oh, racist comment from Joe the plumber! Biden is out there saying, "I don't know any plumbers that earn $250,000 in my neighborhood." Well, that's because Biden lives in a neighborhood where no plumbers live, details on that coming up in just a second. By the way, Joe the plumber, you better get ready because the Obama thugs are coming after you, pal, and they're going to try to destroy you. They're out there saying Joe the plumber doesn't even make $250,000 a year. There's that magic number again, by the way. Joe the plumber doesn't even make $250,000 a year, he's not going to get a tax. That's not what Joe the plumber said. Joe the plumber said he wants to buy a plumbing business that will put him in that tax bracket. We've got all kinds of Joe the plumber sound bites to share with you.
But there's nothing to spread around here. Obama wants to spread the wealth. There's nothing to spread. If he starts taxing wealth, what's left of wealth right now, as he's promising to do, there will be literally nothing to spread around. The Democrats have destroyed the markets. The economy needs to be rebuilt, not reorganized for socialism. The economy, quite simply, needs to be rebuilt. McCain has one challenge from now until the election, because, folks, this is about the economy. I've got a piece here. It's a very scholarly piece, it's one of these pieces filled with gobbledygook, but I, El Rushbo, am able to make the complex understandable and I'm able to synthesize six pages here into three sentences and I'm not going to bother reading you the three sentences. I went nuts reading it, I went nuts reading these pages but I stuck to it because I figured the last three sentences will tell me what I need to know with this whole thing anyway, it's usually the case. Basically it was a study of electorates in this country and other democracies, going back to the Great Depression, studying voting habits by the entire electorate and the economy. Whenever the economy was heading down, either into recession or when it was in depression at one time, and anywhere around the world when the economy was heading down, it didn't matter, nothing else mattered.
Whoever was in power got blamed for it and tossed out, pure and simple. As long as the economy stayed good under the new group, the new group was voted in, over and over again. When the economy goes south, bam, people get rid -- that's it. Especially when it happens prior to an election as this one mysteriously has, as this one just so coincidentally has. So McCain has one challenge, and that challenge is to tie this economy to the Democrat Party and Barack Obama, because you can do it, it can be done because that's the truth. This economy is faltering right now because of the subprime mortgage mess. It is faltering because all of the fallout that happened after giving people mortgages that had no business being given mortgages, never were able to pay 'em back, and the pressure brought to bear by the Democrats on making those loans, forcing banks to make them and when the banks had worthless paper, they forced the banks, the bank said we're going to have to package these and sell them as derivatives, securities, and this kind of thing. The depth that kept mounting up on no value, kept mounting up and mounting up, finally it just imploded and you can tag names, you can tag Pelosi to this, you can tag Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines, Barack Obama, ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers.
All of this that has happened in the housing market is exactly the result of plans put into place by liberal Democrats starting back with Jimmy Carter but really intensified in the Clinton years. This is a Democrat economic failure, and I keep saying this, but the evidence is clear in one way if not many. If there were a Republican to blame this on, he would be sitting before congressional committees six weeks ago. But the way it's working out, the Republicans are deemed to be responsible because the Republicans have the White House, George W. Bush. The task is going to be to convince the American people that their economy is gone south because the Democrat Party was able to run things unchecked and they were able to stonewall reform efforts, and the very people that brought us the disaster have designed the fix, which is gonna make it even worse, and they are still in power with the ability to do even more, and now they have nominated somebody who is of their way of thinking who's going to get into the White House if he's elected. He's already planning his big election night party in some big, big park in Chicago.
In Ireland, you know these online betting sites where you can wager who's going to win? We have online stock market for presidential candidates. In Ireland, one of these websites has already started paying off on Obama's victory with 20 days to go. Now, Joe the plumber is out there, and it's fascinating because Joe the plumber hasn't said who he's going to vote for but it seems pretty obvious to me, but the Democrat Party and the Obama thugs are setting out to destroy a middle American Ohio resident who simply wants to keep what he earns. He wants to grow his business and he wants to hire more people.
P O ‘d Plumbers against Obama!
One thing for which I must give props to Joe. He handled Katie better than Sarah - granted, there’s a degree of difficulty disparity, and Sarah had a bunch of stupid handlers in her ear, but credit where credit is due. JTP handled Sawyer and the Perkster like a seasoned pro.
I’m not joking, this guy could do a TV show or a talk show today. With just a tiny bit of refinement, he could run for Congress...
The only reason they’re going after Joe is to draw attention away from the real facts about the socialistic income-redistribution remarks Obama made to him.
He has become a huge celebrity in Japan. ROCK STAR STATUS!!!
Ich bin ein Wurzelbacher
The money quote:
“Whenever the economy was heading down..... it didn’t matter, nothing else mattered. Whoever was in power got blamed for it and tossed out, pure and simple.”
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So, tell me this current financial crash on the eve of the election is just a coincidence.
Bump for later reading!
This is a great illustration of the left’s utter contempt for working Americans. If Joe was some unemployed bum being evicted from a house he bought with a loan he shouldn’t have gotten in the first place, the MSM would be kissing his feet.
Anyone else having the “Day after Saddleback” feeling/
Why doesn't anyone explain our tax code and why small business owners must report much higher incomes than they themselves actually pay themselves. Business owners have to study the current tax laws and decide how to file. Often times this means including the company revenue as part of your personal income.
A small business owner may only pay themselves $74K/year on the payroll books. But if the company did $3 Million in business and realized only $200,000 in profits, they might actually decide to report the business profits depending on how they file.
Now, middle class Joe Plumber is RICH by Obama and Biden standards and should be contributing to their “spread the wealth” ideology.
Disclaimer: I only know as much about filing taxes as necessary to exploit the loopholes for myself and report all business income and deductions in my personal filings. My statements may not be applicable to all small businesses.
To “Joe The Plumber”
Don’t Let The B@$tards Grind You Down!!!
Illegitimi non carborundum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
“With just a tiny bit of refinement, he could run for Congress...”
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Personally, I think the overly nuanced, professional slicks that run for political office are excessively “refined” as it is. Refined to the point of absolute nausea in fact. I’ll take an honest person full of integrity with limited public speaking polish, such as President Bush, anytime over the Ivy League debating team.
And I’ll take Joe just the way he is.
Amen, brother.
the fect is as a self-employed plumber he will pay additional self-employment tax of 15% of 103,000 up to whatever his income is. so an added 147K X 15% is over #20K more & that doesn’t include any of obama’s added fed tax
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