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JOE "DER REHREN-SHLOSER" (THE PLUMBER) NEEDED THAT INTERVIEW
LIKE A
"LOCH IN KOP"*
*In Yiddish, a "lock in kop" means "a hole in the head
Plumbers are in the headlines:
We've heard so many plumber jokes:
A proud "tatteh" was showing a fellow worker a picture of his five grown sons. His friend asked what they did for a living. The father said the older two are doctors and the youngest two are lawyers. The friend asked about the middle son and the "tatteh" said, "Oh, he's a plumber. Someone has to pay for all the others education."
And then there's the story about Malka, who comes home from work to find her husband in the kitchen. She thinks he's attempting to do some minor plumbing job. He was shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
Joe Wurzelbacher got a chance to speak with Obama during a campaign appearance in Toledo. He told Obama that his tax plan would keep him from buying the business that currently employs him.
Joe the Plumber is now America's most famous "tradesman." ("A melokhe iz a melukhe."--To have a trade is to own a Kingdom.) Joe was flabbergasted by all the attention coming his way after the final presidential debate. The media were waiting outside of his suburban Toledo home and they wanted to do live interviews.
What was Joe's American dream? To have a house, a dog, a couple of rifles, a bass boat. He believes in living life easy and simple. He doesn't have any grand designs and just wants to be able to take care of his family and do things with them outdoors. He told an interviewer that "My American Dream is just more personal to me as far as working, making a good living and being able to provide for my family, college for my son. Things like that--simple things in life, that's really what it comes down to for me. That's my dream."
When Wurzelbacher was asked by reporters who he was voting for, he politely answered: "At this point I'm not telling anybody anything."
Sensing an opportunity during the debate, McCain said Obama's plan would stop entrepreneurs from investing in new small businesses and keep existing ones from growing.
McCain said, "Joe, I want to tell you, I'll not only help you buy that business that you worked your whole life for and I'll keep your taxes low and I'll provide available and affordable health care for you and your employees. And I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income."
Obama denied that was true.
"Not only do 98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000, but I always want to give them additional tax breaks, because they are the drivers of the economy," Obama said. "They produce the most jobs."
Perhaps Obama and McCain should have interviewed Melvin Duai ("The Humor of Melvin Durai"). Durai wrote, "Joe the Plumber said that he would push for legislation that would make it illegal for plumbing work to be outsourced to India. If you have a problem with your toilet, "Joe the Plumber said, "You won't be able to go on the Internet and get advice from Jagdeep the Plumber."
Now we find out that Joe the Plumber is a "ligner"--a liar.
He doesn't have a plumbing license. He owes back taxes, He
has no plans to buy the "geshefts" (business). The business grosses
half of what he claimed it did. AND, HIS REAL NAME IS SAMUEL!
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Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe wonders: Who is
Larry the Cable Guy voting for?
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