I think we haven't heard anything yet. if anyone is able to break the glass wall that protects him then we will surely know more about the New Party and ACORN.
And now a word from Mike Walker...
All,
The debate nicely summed up the failed socialist "income redistribution" policy in a nutshell.
Joe the Plumber works his whole life to be able to own his own plumbing business.
He runs head on into the income redistribution policy that ensures that the average person cannot step out of his or her economic class as predetermined by Big Government.
Joe is a working class fellow and his dream of owning his own business is crushed by the "income redistribution" policy.
What is truly fascinating is that the defense of the policy turns the whole argument on its head. It is a neat example of both political newspeak and a "Catch-22."
Middle-aged Joe is told that he must give up his life's dream through taxation to give money to others so they may have the same opportunity save up in the pursuit of their life's dream. Sounds good and fair on the surface.
But of course, in the near future, the recipient dreamers will become their own version of "Middle-aged Joe the Plumber. " When they too hope to realize their dream they will, in turn, have it crushed by "income redistribution" taxation.
That is the failure of socialism in a nutshell. It does do much to provide for those at the bottom but it also savagely crushes the dreams and aspirations of anyone trying to breakout.
Yet it is those selfsame citizens who do breakout that are the driving force in advancing standards of living, creating national wealth, and moving progressive societies forward.
Socialism, when all is said in done, is an economic model where a very few and very powerful number of bureaucrats rigidly and mindlessly enforce a mundane orthodoxy of institutional and societal mediocrity.
One other peculiarity, since when is the dream of a plumber to own his own business a crippling threat to the economic dreams of nurses and teachers?
This is odd indeed. In the school district where I work the top-end salary of a teacher is over $80,000 for ten months of work plus a generous health and retirement plan. The nurses make slightly more than the teachers.
Just how much income do plumbers need to redistribute to these folks?
Semper Fi,
Mike
