Yes, yes, we’re all tired of Joe the Plumber stories. But this one just so neatly illustrates the rank dishonesty and hypocrisy of his kind that I just couldn’t leave it to chance that you’d not see it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7x0YyLDono[/youtube]
As Jed @ dKos puts it:
turns out that when Plumber Joe was a child, he was on welfare, not once, but twice, and he credits it with helping his family ultimately lead a middle-class life style. He defends having received welfare by saying that he’s subsequently paid into the system.
In other words, well-designed taxpayer-funded social assistance programs are fine because ultimately they will pay for themselves.
Ding.
(And hopefully that will be the last time we ever see Joe the Plumber on these pages.)
Karen
Nice. Dismissed; next argument please.
Mark Brooks
Let’s not forget his public, taxpayer-funded, liberal education.
This was a circus stunt.
Scott Nolan
Circus stunt or sideshow freak?
Come and see the angry white skinhead living in his own private fantasy world where he imagines himself a wealthy entrepreneur and businessman, respected by the community he has fantasized exists.
Oh, perhaps he’s more mainstream than side-show…