Patronizing for Professionals

Don’t you hate it when professional liars get smacked in their face with facts that prove what we all think of them? If you don’t live in America you’re in luck because you likely got to miss Obama vs. McCain presidential debate, the ongoing farce of pandering, where the two foamed at the mouth over trying to please the ordinary man: Joe the Plumber.

If you are a fan or follower of American politics you know that a politician running for office has more shoutouts than an award-winning rapper or an inbred Nascar driver combined. To help connect with the people they are serving screwing they like to talk about their touching stories of ordinary people that shape their thoughts and (pay no attention to special interest lobbying that effectively controls their every move) this year it was Joe the Plumber’s time to shine.

McCain brought up how his good friend, Joe the Plumber, looked at Obama’s tax plan and realized that paying higher taxes may make it impossible for Joe the Plumber to buy the plumbing business he has been working at for the past 10 years. Awe. Doesn’t your heart just die when you hear something that horrible? Mans hopes and dreams, crushed, by a marginal increase in taxes.. To which any small business owner was likely thinking:

New shirt available from tshirt hell. I am so wearing this.

What’s the problem with Joe? Why do actual business owners likely hate guys like Joe? I’ll tell you why:

Joe the Plumber is not exactly a plumber, he’s “not even close” to making the kind of money that would result in higher taxes from Democrat Barack Obama’s proposals and has such an aversion to taxes that a lien was filed against him by the state of Ohio.

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Hold on a minute. Not only is this guy a fraud, an unlicensed plumber but also has a tax lien against him? Filed almost two years ago? And he is hanging out at rallies and appearing on TV interviews?

This is the profile of a hard working American entrepreneur? One that is running around and not working while bitching about how others are bringing him down? I’m here working at 4:49 AM on a Sunday morning and THAT fraud is the depiction of the hard working people that politicians are concerned about? An unlicensed handyman that doesn’t pay taxes?

On behalf of the business owners and tax payers everywhere, fuck you Joe.