Joe the Plumber

Yesterday, a man asked Obama about his tax plans for people and businesses making more than a specified number of bills per year. Obama's answer was that he would be taxed extra to spread the wealth around.

The media and the Obama-lemmings went after him full force, attempting to tear him apart - because he asked a question.

On the forum I frequent, there was a discussion started about the event which started out with this -

"ROFL @ joe the plumber
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...p/?cl=10234011
HE DON'T EVEN MAKE ANYTHING NEAR 250K A YEAR
HA HA HA HA AND LOTS OF THE DEBATE WAS ABOUT THIS GUY MAKING 250K A YEAR" - poster's name withheld.

What followed was a ridiculous assault on Joe for asking the question and for not making 250,000. Insane.

My response was as follows -

"It's a dangerous state of affairs in this country when a citizen asks a question of someone who is not only a politician, but a politician running for President of the United States - and he is summarily blasted by the media and all the other lemmings who have swallowed the pro-Obama pill just because they've been told it's the cool thing to do.

He asked a question. That's it.

Perhaps there should be some attention paid to the answer he received - that of taking money from him if he should be so successful and spreading the wealth around.

To me, that's a thought just as scary.

What "Joe" makes is irrelevant.

"Joe" is you and me.

"Joe" wants to make something of himself, right here in America, the land of opportunity and is being told that if he is successful in his endeavor, he will have his money taken from him to hand out to others.

That's ok with all of you who are blasting him for asking a question?

Where did the number 250,000 come from that Obama quoted? What if it starts there and then, suddenly, it's decided to be 150,000? Or 75,000? Maybe 50,000?

Are you going to tell me that it could never happen?

We just had our politicians meet and implement a financial bail-out plan for 700,000,000,000 dollars of our tax payments - our money, for those of us who work and pay taxes. That just happened what - 1 week ago? Two? Already there's talk about rearranging the plan, that the bail-out will amount to more than a trillion, etc., etc.

Think about what's going on here."

The state we're in here, in America right here and now, with the fanatical and blind fan-dom surrounding Obama seriously threatens to tear this country apart.

Taxed extra to spread the wealth around? Just because he happens to make a successful business? What's going on here?