A friend of mind has two younger brothers. One just graduated from high school the other still in high school. He was telling me one brother works at Walmart the other McDonalds. The McDonalds health benefits to far better then what Walmart offers. The Walmart brother has to purchase his health insurance 26 dollars a week. The McDonalds brother does'nt. The best part of story is the McDonalds brother, has a higher annual medical benefit limit then Walmart brother.
A few years ago I remember seeing Walmart commericals "good jobs and benefits for your community." Those commericals were an incredible lies.
However in today's economy a job is a job.
This morning October 24, 2008, 2.a.m. The Dow Futures have reached it's limit down -585 points. Trading has been frozen until the market opens. Well Presidental canidates here is your first crisis. How are you going to deal with reassuring the American people everything is going to be ok?
There is so much crazy political ads going on right now. Where are the subjective ads. Every ad is about fear. Where is the hope. Right now people are distressed and they need a becon of hope. The politician's need to change there ads, becuase some of these ads are so depressing.
HOLLAND, Ohio -- Joe the Plumber said today he doesn't have a license and doesn't need one.
Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during yesterday's presidential debate, said he works for a small plumbing company that does residential work. Because he works for someone else, he doesn't need a license, he said.
But the county Wurzelbacher and his employer live in, Lucas County, requires plumbers to have licenses. Neither Wurzelbacher nor his employer are licensed there, said Cheryl Schimming of Lucas County Building Regulations, which handles plumber licenses in parts of the county outside Toledo.
Wurzelbacher, who voted in the Republican primary and indicated he backed McCain, was cited by the GOP presidential candidate as an example of someone who wants to buy a plumbing business but would be hurt by Democrat Barack Obama's tax plans. Wurzelbacher said he was surprised that his name was mentioned so many other times.
"That bothered me. I wished that they had talked more about issues that are important to Americans," he told reporters gathered outside his home.
Wurzelbacher, 34, said he doesn't have a good plan put together on how he would buy Newell Plumbing and Heating in nearby Toledo.
He said the business consists of owner Al Newell and him. Wurzelbacher said he's worked there for six years and that the two have talked about his taking it over at some point.
"There's a lot I've got to learn," he said.
Wurzelbacher said he started his day with an early morning workout and came back to his suburban Toledo home to do live interviews with TV networks.
Reporters camped out by his house overnight and by midmorning there were 21 people on his driveway surrounding him, holding cameras and notebooks.
Wurzelbacher said he's feeling overwhelmed.
"I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it," he joked.
In Toledo on Sunday, Wurzelbacher told Obama that he was preparing to buy the plumbing company, which earns more than $250,000 a year, and said: "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?"
Obama said that under his proposal taxes on any revenue from $250,000 on down would stay the same, but that amounts above that level would be subject to a 39 percent tax, instead of the current 36 percent rate.
Wurzelbacher said Obama's tax plan wouldn't affect him right now, because he doesn't make $250,000. "But I hope someday I'll make that," he said.
"If you believed (Obama), I'd be receiving his tax cuts," Wurzelbacher said. "But I don't look at it that way. He'd still be hurting others."
As he leaned against the Dodge Durango SUV parked in his driveway this morning, Wurzelbacher indicated to reporters who crowded around that he was a conservative, a fan of the military and McCain. He said meeting McCain would be an honor but said he hadn't been contacted by the Republican campaign.
Still, the plumber wouldn't say who he was voting for and brushed off a question about whether he could influence the election or other voters.
"I don't have a lot of pull. It's not like I'm Matt Damon," Wurzelbacher said.
"I just hope I'm not making too much of a fool of myself," he added.
By John Seewer
Associated Press
First the President nationalized the mortage compaines and AIG. Now Presidents wants to nationalize some US banks. What other businesses is the U.S. government planning on Nationalizing? Is America turning into Venezuela? A few years ago the US government critized Hugo Chavez for the Nationalization of their businesses. " The White House on Tuesday criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's planned nationalization of utilities and telecommunications companies and said any U.S. firms affected by it must be compensated.
"We've seen the results of nationalization in other places, and in general these types of actions do not produce economic benefits as expected," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security Council"
Now, it's October 2008. The U.S. Government is following Chavez's social policy. Who are the Socialist's in America the Democrats or the Republicans? The Answer is both.
Independents it's time for your party to get on to the national stage.
The House GOP says Nancy's speech was partisan that why they voted no. What is going on. The GOP party created the image that they are a strong party. We won't let partisan politics affect our decesions. Now the GOP claimed partisan politics, I'm hurt by Nancy's speech.
Typical American politics.
A friend of mind has two younger brothers. One just graduated from high school the other still in high school. He was telling me one brother works at Walmart the other McDonalds. The McDonalds health benefits to far better then what Walmart offers. The Walmart brother has to purchase his health insurance 26 dollars a week. The McDonalds brother does'nt. The best part of story is the McDonalds brother, has a higher annual medical benefit limit then Walmart brother.
A few years ago I remember seeing Walmart commericals "good jobs and benefits for your community." Those commericals were an incredible lies.
However in today's economy a job is a job.