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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 10:50:28am
Author: John T Cella
Subject: BO's leaky plumbing



Obama's leaky plumbing


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Posted: October 27, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

Barack Obama discovers a leak under his sink, so he calls Joe the Plumber to come and fix it.

Joe drives to Obama's house, which is located in a very nice neighborhood and where it's clear that all the residents make more than $250,000 per year.

Joe arrives and takes his tools into the house. Joe is led to the room that contains the leaky pipe under a sink. Joe assesses the problem and tells Obama, who is standing near the door, that it's an easy repair that will take less than 10 minutes



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Obama asks Joe how much it will cost. Joe immediately says, "$9,500."

"$9,500?" Obama asks, stunned. "But you said it's an easy repair!"

"Yes, but what I do is charge a lot more to my clients who make more than $250,000 per year so I can fix the plumbing of everybody who makes less than that for free," explains Joe. "It's always been my philosophy. As a matter of fact, I lobbied government to pass this philosophy as law, and it did pass earlier this year, so now all plumbers have to do business this way. It's known as 'Joe's Fair Plumbing Act of 2008.' Surprised you haven't heard of it, senator." In spite of that, Obama tells Joe there's no way he's paying that much for a small plumbing repair, so Joe leaves.



Obama spends the next hour flipping through the phone book looking for another plumber, but he finds that all other plumbing businesses listed have gone out of business. Not wanting to pay Joe's price, Obama does nothing. The leak under Obama's sink goes unrepaired for the next several days.



A week later the leak is so bad that Obama has had to put a bucket under the sink. The bucket fills up quickly and has to be emptied every hour, and there's a risk that the room will flood, so Obama calls Joe and pleads with him to return.



Joe goes back to Obama's house, looks at the leaky pipe, and says "Let's see – this will cost you about $21,000." “A few days ago you told me it would cost $9,500!" Obama quickly fires back.

Joe explains the reason for the dramatic increase. "Well, because of the 'Joe's Fair Plumbing Act,' a lot of rich people are learning how to fix their own plumbing, so there are fewer of you paying for all the free plumbing I'm doing for the people who make less than $250,000. As a result, the rate I have to charge my wealthy paying customers rises every day.



"Not only that, but for some reason the demand for plumbing work from the group of people who get it for free has skyrocketed, and there's a long waiting list of those who need repairs. This has put a lot of my fellow plumbers out of business, and they're not being replaced – nobody is going into the plumbing business because they know they won't make any money. I'm hurting now too – all thanks to greedy rich people like you who won't pay their fair share."



Obama tries to straighten out the plumber: "Of course you're hurting, Joe! Don't you get it? If all the rich people learn how to fix their own plumbing and you refuse to charge the poorer people for your services, you'll be broke, and then what will you do?"



Joe immediately replies, "Run for president, apparently."

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[> Re: BO's leaky plumbing -- loyal, Wednesday, October 29, 04:14:27pm [1]

Hey John......I assume your remote must be stuck on Fox News? :>)

For starters, 'ol Joe had better attend to that little detail of getting a plumbing license; he currently does not have one. (true).

Also true.....based on his current financial status (recent tax returns), poor Joe is as capable of buying a business generating 250K net profit (which would cost him about $750K) as I am of buying Trump Tower.

Yesterday, 'ol Joe offered commentary on our foreign policy re: Israel.

To give Joe credit, he has now held one more press conference than the Republican VP candidate.

You couldn't make this up. :>)

Hey, we were picked 8th!!

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[> [> Re: BO's leaky plumbing -- Cindy Crawford, Wednesday, October 29, 06:57:16pm [1]

And just exactly when was BO's last press conference?
Not more recently than the most popular Gov in the USA.
It would appear that BO is trying to run out the clock---a strategy that has not worked well recently for the Peacocks.
Fox news, despite what the "vast left wing" media conspiracy would have you believe ,does present many times more liberal spokespersons than does MSNBC,CNN,NBC,CBS, and ABC present conservatives ,put together. -This is fact.

Finally re Joe the Plumber,BO sought him out,not vice versa. Since he had the audacity to ask a probing question,he has been attacked by the Obama campaign,who have gone through every facet of his personal and business life.Is this the kind of vindictive administration we want ,running wild and unchecked by congress?
I thought we were picked 9th--As far as I can remember -there has NEVER been a season where we finished lower than our preseason MAAC polling.

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