Don’t ever strive for greatness. Don’t ever try to get ahead or make your own American Dream. If you do, you will end up like Joe Wurzelbacher, and some Marxist will come take your money away.
Read this interview with Joe the Plumber, a good American who just wants to work his way up, earn a living, and keep what he earns. Joe asked Barack Obama a simple question… one of the many simple questions the Mainstream Media refuses to ask… and Joe accomplished what the media refuses to do. He exposed Barack Obama for the Marxist that many of us have been screaming about for over a year.
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I owned a small mortgage company. A few years ago we would have fallen into Mr. Obama’s higher tax bracket. Of course once you took out payroll, benefits, rent, utilities and office expenses, etc… there was no where near $250,000.00 left. My take home was substantially less, but we still made it, and I was proud to have employees, offer benefits, and help people in their quest for the American Dream.
And what I understand that Barack Obama and all of his Lemmings who have never made a payroll don’t understand is that there is a fine line between making it and breaking. Most small businesses run efficiently because every dollar lost is a dollar out of the owner’s pocket. Every lost sale is tangible. It might mean less for Christmas, it might mean someone gets laid off. It might mean borrowing money just to keep the lights on. The tax payments and regulatory responsibilities of any small business are a nightmare and a huge expense… caused by bureacrats who have no clue what its like to run a business, but want to tell you how anyway. Add an additional tax or administrative nightmare and thousands of small businesses will break.
Eventually we broke anyway, even without Obama’s tax scheme.
The housing market got too sour for too long and we couldn’t afford the continue putting good money after bad. Even though the office is now closed, I’m paying back personal loans that I took out to keep it afloat. I don’t believe in handouts and won’t file bankruptcy. It was my business and my debts, so I’m paying them off best I can.
And I don’t want a handout. I don’t want a bailout. I don’t want to take money from someone else’s labor. When my business was successful, I enjoyed the fruits of my labor. And while I am not responsible for the housing or credit crisis… I’m not crying foul that my fortunes have changed. That’s how it goes. You take the good with the bad, try to make good decisions, work hard, and hope you are a little better off at the end than when you began the race.
I was Joe The Plumber, now I am the guy behind him. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. How dare Barack Obama want to steal Joe’s wealth and redistribute it to people like me? Joe’s fortunes are presently better than mine, but that is not his fault. Why should he be penalized for success? And what incentive would I have to get back to Joe’s status if I could stay where I’m at and collect the spoils of his hard work?
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The Commissar Cometh. And he’s going to take your wealth away. The way to pick people up is not to give them a handout, its to encourage their hard work. America’s greatness can be directly attributed to its reluctance to follow socialist ideals. When Commissar Obama takes your wealth away, the American Dream will also be lost.
What a sad day for America. We also own a small business and employ 30 Americans. According to Obama, we are the evil employer. With his policies, increased taxes and regulations, we very likely stand to be put out of business which means that 30 people will be out of a job. Way to spread the wealth, huh? My husband had a brilliant idea: require anyone who wants to run for president to run a small business for five years, without running it into the ground. I doubt ANY politician could pass the test.