...when he's all over the networks claiming people should figure things out for themselves, he clearly doesn't do that. He spews literally verbatim the wingnut talking points from guys like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Word for word. He can't explain why he personally is in favor of them, he can't explain how he would benefit from them because the fact is he won't. He rails against taxes but ignores the fact that he will pay more taxes under McCain than under Obama. He makes $40,000 per year and will likely never make over $250,000 per year yet he "thinks for himself" by ignoring his own reality and instead worrying about what is best for people who couldn't give two shits about him. He'll claim to be "pro-business" but wants to put up a wall around the country which business people are rabidly against (one of many fissures in the GOP), when asked what he wants for his son his first response was he doesn't want him to be responsible for a $10 TRILLION debt, 50% of which was created by Bush. The Bush tax cuts which I'm sure Joe is a big supporter of even though he barely benefits are largely responsible for that $10 TRILLION debt, the huge increases in spending on things like the Iraq War which Joe the Dipshit is a big supporter of are largely responsible for that debt. The deregulation of my own industry, which I'm sure Joe the Dipshit would be in favor of even though he doesn't understand any of it, has led to the financial crisis for which we just needed to add another TRILLION dollars to the debt (so we're actually at around $11 trillion now Joe). But Joe the Dipshit is really pissed off about the national debt, a debt that was largely caused by his own type of thinking, and what makes Joe the bigger dipshit is that like all the uninformed morons who listen to Limbaugh/Hannity, he saw almost no benefit from any of it.
Oh, Joe the Dipshit also railed against Social Security. He said it was his money and he should be able to keep it. Sounds good right. I wonder if Joe the Dipshit even has any retirement savings, I'll make any of you a bet that he has little to none. Joe the Dipshit makes $40k per year so pays about $2,400 per year into Social Security. He's 34 now and if he retires when he is 67 he will get about $4,700 per month as per the online SSA calculator. In order to do that on his own and lets say he expects to live for another 30 years at that point, he would have to put that full $2,400 into the market (managed by my fellow wall st. cronies who have just cratered your 401ks) and earn the long-term market average of about 10% per year. You see, Joe is in that income bracket just below the median American income which actually gets the greatest benefit from Social Security based on what they put it. But Joe the Dipshit doesn't want to pay into Social Security, he wants to keep the money and if you ignore reality for a second and assume Joe the Dipshit doesn't blow the $2,400 on things like beer and plasma TVs and instead does invest it in the market for his own retirement, his hopeful case is that it works out to be just about as good as Social Security for him. And if recent events should have taught Joe anything, the market tends to rape guys like Joe the Dipshit, or more specifically the people who actually influence the market tend to rape guys like Joe the Dipshit.
On the flip side you have a real "Joe the Plumber" and his name is Al, and unlike Joe the Dipshit he isn't lying about who he is and he actually does think for himself. He's voting his pocketbook, he's looking out for his own life not some hypothetical life that he will never have.
Video of Al the Plumber, a real independent thinking plumber:
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/31112804.html?video=pop&t=a&brand=mkevideo
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