An interview with the plumber who confronted Obama
Pam Meister has a great interview at Family Security Matters with the plumber whose wealth Barack Obama wants to redistribute. His name is Joe Wurzelbacher.
Wurzelbacher for President!
Read the whole thing here. An excerpt:
JW: No, there was nothing new. You know, I didn’t appreciate that, actually.
PM: There’s a clip of you that’s been shown on television, and it’s all over the Internet on YouTube as well. It’s a very short clip. Do you think it accurately portrays the exchange that you had with Sen. Obama? Obviously there was more to it.
JW: I haven’t seen too much of it to be honest with you – I’ve been working yesterday and today, and the evenings spent with my boy or with my family. So I haven’t spent too much time looking at it. I did notice – I wish the newspaper people, talk shows, I wish they would start off with the very beginning: “Do you believe the American dream?” That was essentially what it came down to for me – was do you believe in the American Dream, you’re not going to punish people for going for it?
PM: To you, what exactly is the American Dream? Can you explain that?
JW: Me personally?
PM: Yeah, you personally.
JW: Me personally, my American Dream was to have a house, a dog, a couple rifles, a bass boat. I believe in living life easy and simple. I don’t have grand designs. I don’t want much. I just wanna be able to take care of my family and do things with them outdoors and that’s about it, really. I don’t have a “grand scheme” thing. My American Dream is just more personal to me as far as working, making a good living and being able to provide for my family, college for my son. Things like that – simple things in life, that’s really what it comes down to for me. That’s my dream.
PM: Do you think your question surprised Obama, caught him off guard at all?
JW: Well that was actually my intent. Most people, you ask them “do you believe in the American Dream?” Nine times out of ten they’ll sit there and go, “Yeah, of course!” That’s where he messed up, because as soon as I asked him that, his answer shows that he doesn’t believe in the American Dream. You know, like the question you asked before – he pretty much contradicted himself. “I don’t want to punish you but – “ Well, you’re going to anyways.
PM: Has there been a lot of media interest in your story? Have you been getting a lot of calls from the media asking you to talk about this?
JW: Neil Cavuto, I was on his show earlier today, just a phone interview for about five minutes. He asked a couple of questions. Then a talk show – Trey Ware – he has a conservative talk show down in San Antonio, Texas – he picked up on it. I’ve had friends call me from all over the nation, saying they heard Rush Limbaugh quote something from me or they’ve heard Hannity quote something. I guess it’s getting quite a bit of play.
PM: What kind of feedback are you getting from friends and family, other than the fact they have heard you being quoted on some very popular talk shows?
JW: Well, my son thinks it’s absolutely the most incredible thing in the world. He loves – I always teach him to speak his mind and to know what he’s talking about before he speaks his mind because usually there’s always someone in the room who will know what you’re talking about. So he just thinks it’s really neat. My friends – well, a lot of them will come to me and ask me political questions just because I think it’s important to know about it – and so they know they’ll get a straight answer from me, even if I don’t like they guy or I do like the guy, you know, I’ll give them the pros and cons of it and let them make their own decisions on it. But some, they know it’s pretty important to me. I was kind of actually nervous about doing any of this, you know, answering calls and going on that show. But they all, you know, said that I always answer them good and so they just said go for it, so they’ve been very supportive.
PM: Do you hope Sen. McCain will talk more about this issue during Wednesday’s debate, you know, taxes for small businesses?
JW: There’s a lot of things I wish McCain would say. As far as this, yes, I would like him to speak. Not so much about small businesses, but just people in general that make this money. It’s not up to them to help America, I mean – let me rephrase that. It’s not – they shouldn’t be taxed more because they’ve succeeded. That’s envy and jealousy. Get off your butt and go work. Don’t sit there and expect the government to give it to you. So I wouldn’t mind him speaking on it like that. I know he couldn’t say it probably like that because that’d turn a lot of people off. But it just – yeah, I guess I would like him to speak about that and a bunch of other things. I’d like to hear him talk about immigration and what he plans on doing about that and with our borders. I mean, there’s a lot of things that haven’t even been addressed in the last two debates.
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Flashback: Spread the wealth, swallow the crap sandwiches.
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I like to see this guy as Vice President in a President Palin administration.
Yup, this country was built by people working their butts off and improving their standard of living; not by people sitting on their butts. Not one penny for income redistribution!
Send_Me, What is a “Civilian National Security Force” and will it make me disappear if I speak out against it?
Clinton balanced the budget by almost eradicating the military. Many of the companies that are now located overseas did so under Clinton. Bush had to deal with 9-11 and the after effects of that. And now has to deal with the financial disaster brought on by Carter, Clinton, Schumer and Franks.
We need to change the tag line and have it read a angry plumber attacks Obama.
The problem, Rus, is that “lgm” is using “left-wing Congress-speak.” There, a reduction in the increase in spending is considered a “cut” even if more money is spent.
As usual, lgm is either stoned or stupid.
ECS
Mr. Wurzelbacher thanks for getting the anointed one to slip up and tell us what his real plans are for the producers of this country! My best wishes toward your success in obtaining your modest piece of the American Dream.
The Obamination seems to see himself as this generation’s Robin Hood only he will rob from the providers of the economy to those that want only the hand out. After all in modern thug society you are a sellout if you take the hand up to improve your life instead on staying on the Democrat plantation.
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America! We’re boned!
Mr. Wurzelbacher is just a good decent common sense man. But he is white so he is obviously racist. Aside from the sarcasm, this man is what the American dream is all about. If bo gets elected this good American is finished along with 1000’s of others like him. Gosh I hope America comes to her senses before Nov 4th.
I do not understand why MM simply does not ban lgm. It’s her site, and she’s under no obligation to let a mindless troll come in and hijack every thread with completely inane comments.
Please: no Free Speech arguments. lgm is using MM’s property to heckle, inflame and divert discussion away from substance. Can anyone remember when he EVER has made a coherent argument?
I’ve said before: he’s like the “festive” twit who flits in and out of scenes in the first “Airplane” movie, making egregiously dumb and off-point statements.
If he has an intellectual hero, it’s got to be the Greek philosopher Stupidides.
A website is not a suicide pact. lgm takes every thread he posts in and seeks to “Andrea Yates” it to death; why let him do it? Has she not seen how Hugh Hewitt’s site was trashed by letting four or five trolls run it into the ground?
Ban him, for being the turd in the punchbowl he is.
And which one is actually allowed for by the Constitution?
Because people like lgm using their own words are the perfect reminder of what we have to lose should nutjobs like him/her ever get into power.
Allowing them to post means no one has to take MM’s word for what they believe, they can simply read the nutjob’s own words.
So if Mr. Wurzelbacher’s revenue grows from $250,000 to $300,000 he’ll pay $50000*0.03 = $1500 more in taxes under Obama’s plan than McCain’s, because the marginal tax rate would go up from 36% to 39%?
lgm, are you retarted?
Let’s start with something simple. I know that even “simple” is way to complicated for you, but I’ll go slow.
In the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall said, “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Are you saying that is not true?
In 1985, Ireland was dying in the throes of a typical socialist quagmire. GDP growth was at 0.4%. Unemployment was 17%, tax rates were very high (a 5-tier system with the top rate at 65% and the lowest at 35%) but revenues were low. Supply-siders came to power and started cutting the tax rates. Not a lot at first because, though while socialism can destroy a country in short order, it takes decades to recover from socialism.
They cut the rates a bit, then dropped a tier, then cut the rates, and repeated that until the economy started to recover. By 1992 the top rate was cut to 52 percent and Ireland averaged 4.5% growth for six years running. Between 1980 and 1997, personal income tax revenues increased from $1.2 billion to $5.1 billion.
In 1994 the capital gains tax rate on share sales was cut from 40% to 27%. In 1998 the overall cap gains rate was cut from 40% to 20%. Growth averaged 10% for the next six years and tripled the EU average every single year. Capital gains tax revenues increased 600% between 1993 and 1998.
Oh, and the unemployment rate? It went from a high of 17% to under 5%. And all they did was CUT taxes.
You mean that data?
Once again, lgm, are you retarted?
On 2 Jul 08 in Colorado Springs, Obama said in a speech that, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” (For more info, Joseph Farah and WND have written about this a few times in the past few months.)
Coherent? Nope. But he is the poster child of the liberal/progressive/socialist/communist movement and thus his words are used to remind us all what the village idiot looks like. And he is a constant reminder to stock up on ammo and stay in current practice at your local gun range.
Is that a shadow on his head? a misplaced yamulka? a bizarre new hairstyle? or has the entire front of his cranium been removed, and his brain excavated leaving a gaping hole?
STOP CALLING lgm A RETARD! Can she help it if she’s ignorant of how things work in this universe? Even the most ignorant economics student knows that the “Economy Took Off” under Reagan, the 80’s were a time of incredible growth were the rich got richer and the poor got richer at a much faster rate. It took Bill Clinton to choke the life out of the economy until it came to a near standstill in 2001.
As for the budget being balanced, I’m sure Ms lgm fails to realize that it was Newt Gingrich calling the shots when it came time to deal with the economy – that’s the congress’s job. Bill Clinton was too busy ordering fighter pilots to bomb civilians in his illegal war in Kosovo and getting his willy waxed by his pet intern.
I hope I can say this on here, but “God Bless Joe The Plumber!” We need more true patriot Americans like him who aren’t afraid to work for his dream.
Palin/Wurzelbacher 2012
lgm should be given a gun, canteen and sent to Iraq. Period.