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The Democratic Party’s Drubbing of Joe the Plumber

October 19, 2008 - 12:05 am - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.
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2008-10-20 22:16:10

It’s also fun to see the one’s complaining about Joe’s goal of making over $250K/year saying “I’ll never make that much”. Well, sure, because you probably aren’t trying hard enough to begin with. I started working at 12 years old, cutting lawns with my father for a couple of bucks a lawn and now I am in a job that, when all is said and done, will pay me well over $250K/year before I’m 45. If you take yourself out of the game, of course you’re not going to win it. “Joe”, or anyone really, could come up with a good idea to improve his ability to serve customers (e.g., a new tool to extract items lost down pipes or something) and, using that one idea, make over $250K easily.

Liberals lack almost all creativity when it comes to business, which is why I think they treat business as if it were all some grand conspiracy to keep down “the little guy”, when it really, really isn’t, except in rare cases. Having been involved in board-level discussions at some of America’s biggest companies, I should know.