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Authors, sign in!After the debate the other night. The exaltation of Joe the Plumber (or non-Plumber, as we eventually found out), cultural close cousin of Joe Sixpack. And the polls that now 90% of the country feel that we are on the wrong track (WHO are the 10% who think things are just fine and dandy?!). I'm left to wonder: how is it people still vote against their own interest?
Without all the hypocrisy and inconsistencies that show themselves on both sides - I really understand those who buy into a Republican ideology. Those who really believe, state why they believe pretty cogently - in a way that you can agree or disagree. Their self interest, at some level is involved. But, the Joe the Plumber metaphor, is my point...
Joe the Plumber is:
- Nowhere near making $250,000 a year
- Nowhere near buying his bosses business (is it even for sale?)
- Supporting a platform that would tax his health care benefits (it was admitted in the debates)
- Would be helped by the tax cuts proposed by the opposition's tax plan
And, yet, Joe is still mouthing the platitudes associated with extreme policies that have kept his wages flat, if not declining, and standing up for policies that promise that the opportunity to make $250,000 a year and own his bosses business would, some day, 'trickle down' to him!
The problem is, it hardly ever happens!
What happens to Joe the Plumber and most of those like him, is that they tend to get poorer over time. And the 'class warfare' that happens is that they blame those who are poorer and immigrants, and those who are on Social Security, Medicare, for their plight.
I don't get it.
Published October 17, 2008 by Gerald Britt |
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Economy
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