Joe the Boater

Four Suns said:
Now that Joe-the-Plumber is so famous, they need to go find a Joe the Boater... Have Obama man tell him he is going to take his boat away and give it to some inner city high school drop out drug user to spread the wealth.

Have you see the crap this poor guy is going through now? The news people have pulled his divorce filing and are now questioning him on that... un-freekin' believable. The guys on MSNBC should be shot.
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gary,
get your facts straight! the drug user you are talking about never makes it to high school!
 
Gary,

I agree. It makes me sick that the left wants to protect terrorists with privacy rights, but then discredit someone by exposing their personal life on the national news. Looks just like Nazi Germany 1939. Joe the Plumber is not running for President, but his point is correct. Why should successful hard working Americans be subject to higher taxes to support the non-productive.
 
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I heard his company motto is... "Your p?ss and sh?t is our bread and butter!" :grin:
 
SNL should pull Joe the Plumber into this weeks show.. I'm sure they could had some fun with it.. But I guess they are too busy beating up the republicans..
 
All you have to do is look at history to see how raising taxes on business impacts the economy. The great depression comes to mind. Remember the luxury tax? That just about killed the boating industry. Increasing taxes isn't a free ride to income.
 
If someone really wants to help small business out, get rid of the corporate income tax... even if it's only to $20M in annual gross receipts or something. That makes it cheaper to reinvest in your company with excess cash and doesn't promote risky behavior like borrowing....
 
Did you hear what they said about him yesterday on TV .. some media did some background search on him ... he apparently has no plummers license and owes quite a bit of back taxes ... hahhahahaha ... that's what you get when you talk to the press !!
 
Amen!!!

That small business will spend that money more efficiently and wisely than bob flipping burgers at Wendy's.
 
No matter who gets into office they will be looking at a budget that will include paying for the war in Iraq, bailing out wall street/sub prime loans, a US economy in recession, with a big questions about the global economy, coupled with the need to continue or increase government spending to keep the economy moving. How do you pay for that without generating more taxes? Do we just float more T-Bills? How much more can the US borrow from other countries? What if we they wont lend us money?

I heard a statistic that 70% of the US economy is driven by consumer spending. How the hell do you keep that going? The US recovered from the great depression because of the Industrial revolution. We were a young country with incredible natural resources and manufacturing capacity. We led the world in auto production, steel production, oil and food. We built products and exported them around the world. Where are we now? What do we export? We have turned into a country that has exported many of our manufacturing jobs over seas and more recently our high paying technology jobs. We import the majority of our cars with GM, Ford and Chrysler on the brink of bankruptcy. We consume 25% of the worlds energy, yet I’m not sure what we have to show for it. I guess we are using all this energy heating and cooling 3000 square foot homes that many people cant afford while we watch Sponge Bob on HDTV and look out the window to see South American landscapers mow our lawns.

Oh and lets not forget about Iran, Israel, Putin, North Korea, Pakistan, Global warming, Darfur, etc etc..

I really don’t understand the motive to become president. It seems like a punishment. I wouldn’t want that job if it was handed to me.
 
Vince ... I think you may have misread that or it was mirepresented. the economy is usually the GDP and this is 70% made up by consumption, but that is all consumption, businesses and private EXCLUDING the government which is a seperate factor in the GPD. Noteworthy is that govenment spending reached its highest percentage in the GDP during WW2

Fomula:
GDP = consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports), or,
GDP = C + I + G + (X-M).

Top 20 global GDPs
Rank Country GDP (millions of USD) — World54,311,608— European Union16,830,1001 United States13,843,8252 Japan4,383,7623 Germany3,322,1474 China (PRC)3,250,8275 United Kingdom2,772,5706 France2,560,2557 Italy2,104,6668 Spain1,438,9599 Canada1,432,14010 Brazil1,313,59011 Russia1,289,58212 India1,098,94513 South Korea957,05314 Australia908,82615 Mexico893,36516 Netherlands768,70417 Turkey663,41918 Sweden455,31919 Belgium453,63620 Indonesia432,944
 
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