Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Thanks, I wondered what that Joe the plumber stuff was about.Without deraling the thread, this all came out of the fuss of "redistribution" in Obama's remarks to that "Joe the Plumber". I finally got around to watching that clip, and Joe The Plumber is just a total c*nt! He's moaning about the fact that he pulls in $260,000 a year, and Obama wants to up his tax from 36% to 39% to help pay for greater coverage.
Nice guy! Not.
(I'd assumed he was some down-trodden guy on about $30,000k a year about to get really clobbered, from the media coverage).
These comments about the Sixties Supreme Court, made in 2001, are probably of more interest. The President-elect is pretty explicit about his desire to effect "redistributive change".
Whether he'll be able to within the US system is another matter.