Real plumbers rip Joe the Plumber for shilling against the Employee Free Choice Act.
Real plumbers rip Joe the Plumber for shilling against the Employee Free Choice Act.
Greg Sargent reports that Joe the Plumber has been tapped by the anti-labor Americans for Prosperity to do “a series of events throughout Pennsylvania rallying opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act.” Here’s why Americans for Prosperity spokesperson Mary Ellen Burke said Joe was chosen:
“The public loves Joe the Plumber,” the spokesperson, Mary Ellen Burke, claimed to me. “They see him as a role model.”
Asked whether Joe the Plumber had any particular knowledge or expertise about EFCA that might explain the decision to enlist him, Burke said that he was being enlisted to provide a “grassroots perspective” and “the working perspective” on the measure.
Pressed on whether Joe the Plumber has any particular claim to being a spokesperson on the issue, Burke replied that “he represents the American worker.”
Joe the Plumber may not represent the average worker — or at least not the average plumber. Remember that Joe never had a plumbing license, and many of the people in that profession are members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA). UA political and legislative director Rick Terven responded to the latest news, saying, “Real plumbers want and need the Employee Free Choice Act as a way to empower themselves to join a union, without fear of intimidation or losing their jobs. Joe the Plumber doesn’t speak for real plumbers.”
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Joe the Non-Plumber, meet karma…
March 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pmHis 15 minutes are over.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:49 pmSomeone please tell me why anyone pays attention to this brain dead idiot.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:50 pm“Joe the Plumber doesn’t speak for real plumbers.”
That’s because Joe isn’t a real Joe any more than he’s a real plumber… Remember — his name’s actually “Sam the non-plumber-former-internet-war-correspondent-wannabe-journalist”…
March 26th, 2009 at 5:54 pm“The public loves Joe the Plumber,” the spokesperson, Mary Ellen Burke, claimed to me. “They see him as a role model.”
And
“he represents the American worker.”
This can only be said, read and believed by anyone who has never really worked an honest day in their lives.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pmThe public loves to laugh at Samuel J. Wurtzelbacher and thinks he should get back to Ohio and raise his son.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pmHoly hell, role model for what?
Opportunism? Dishonesty? Sockpuppetry? Supercranialism?
How bad off do you have to be to look up to this guy?
March 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pmTechnically Joe the Idiot is right, he does not need the employee free choice act because HE DOES NOT HAVE A JOB!
March 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pmRumor has it he will be appearing with Cramer who will be doing a critter throwing demonstration on investing.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThis guy is being used and is too afraid to even admit it this to himself. Pity.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pmSorry to be OT, but this should be national headlines:
March 26th, 2009 at 6:02 pmSenate Republican Leaders Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Jon Kyl (Ariz.) declined the president’s invitation to be briefed Thursday on Afghanistan war policy going forward.
Does anyone have any doubt any more about repugs?
Cantor plays hooky for Britney the other day.
Now these two leaders have more important things to do.
(Bet they don’t stop criticizing Obama on Afghanistan)
Pressed on whether Joe the Plumber has any particular claim to being a spokesperson on the issue, Burke replied that “he represents the American worker.”
Anyone want to bet that “Joe the Plumber” (who isn’t really a plumber) hasn’t worked a day since he became the right wing’s superstar?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:03 pmJoe the Plumber is wierd, but not in a good way.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pmDoes anyone have any idea if this guy has paid his back taxes yet?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pmI’ll bet Ohio State alumni aren’t too thrilled with him parading around in that Buckeye sweatshirt, either.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pmJoe’s a plumber like I’m a philosopher.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:07 pmkellykinsel, the jig is up.
You’re not a genuine right-winger. Not even wingnuts are as whacked-out as you pretend to be. If you’re gonna try to be a parody troll, you have to be a little more believable.
Now go sign in with another screen name and try it again.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:07 pmkellykinsel Says:
Does this site post anythingother than left bulsh$T?
I mean who the hell cares about Joe the Plumber?
Oh yeah the leftwing loons who try to make themselves feel better by bashing anyone or anything does not fall into their nazi political views.
Hey Obama’s brother has gone ill. You think he may thro him a bone? Yeah probably not. He talks about caring for the down trodden but when it comes to his own family they can live in a shack on $100 a year while he buys a few thousand dollar swingset for his kids
Don’t you just love the hypocrisy of liberals?
That’s why I like you guys so much. It is so d#amn easy to make you look like the hypocritical fools you are.
http://www.google.com/ hostednews/ ap/ article/ ALeqM5gNGd3FUZNv381Vzh8APzbBf5fOhAD975MC7O0
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do you ever read you own $hit?
:)
March 26th, 2009 at 6:08 pmYawn. Spare us.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pmkkk,
There are other blogs out there. I’m sure you’d feel right at home on RedState or Little Green Footballs.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pmObama must fulfill at least one campaign promise and pass the universally acclaimed Employee Free Choice Act! Acclaimed, of course, by real, hard-working people, not the conservative/Big Business traitors who have run this country into the ground.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
March 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm*
you = your
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March 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pmcould it be? Ann Coulter is now working for nickles as kellykinsel?
Nah, just a wannabe.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pmThis guy’s a total whackjob. Why waste time creating a post about someone who’s such a total zero? Next!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:12 pmNext what?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:13 pmI agree with ralph. kk’s just phoning it in.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:13 pmJoe the Non-Plumber is just another in a long line of empty suits who have schilled, lied, cried and destroyed the U.S. in the name of republicanism.
Well, I suppose in Joe’s case you’d have to call him an empty hoodie. After all, a suit would damage his “everyman” persona.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:14 pmJoe, the On Welfare Plumber.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pmblistex11,
I think the real point is the real plumbers not appreciating the fact that JTP is shilling against EFCA. People think he’s a real plumber, and that he speaks for all plumbers.
Just sayin’…
March 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pmHard to believe joe could be a role model for any thing but rogaine.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm>I mean who the hell cares
> about Joe the Plumber
Joe the wifebeating tax evading septic tank diving non-liscensed plumber (with 300,000 dollars of imaginary monopoly money obama is going to take 500 extra dollars of), was invited to speak in front of a large group of prominent conversatives recently. While there he felt the need to tell everyone in the room he was horny, classy guy that he is. Wonderful guest speaker for the party that claims to have a monopoly on decency and morality. Then again, when a drug addict is your parties leader and your supposed to be holier than thou, i suppose a walking social herpe like Joe is apropos. He was also a guest at a meeting of republican congressman recently. So apparently, alot of people on your teams cares about Joe the Dumber. One wonders why joe worries about how big his tax bill is going to be anyway, since he apparently doesnt even bother paying his taxes..
March 26th, 2009 at 6:19 pmWhere do they get off saying this guy is loved and a role model?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pmWhy would you want your kids looking up to a liar and a cheat?
geez…con artist will say anything these days.
how many election cyles will it take
before they realize this branding
scheme isn’t working?
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at least two i hope.
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March 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pmJoe’s ex wife filed court documents claiming he repeatedly assaulted her during thier marriage, maybe he can tag team with O’Reilly at the next rape awareness fundraiser Alexa throws, I’m sure all the guests would love to hear about how horny he is..
March 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pmkkk,
Hey, did you look up “liberal nazis” yet?
HA HA HA HA troll stupidity — don’t you just love it!?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pmkellykinsel Says:
Joe the Plumber the tax evader? THIS IS FROM A LIB DEMOCRAT WHO HAS A PRESIDENT WHO NOMINATES 3 TAX INVADERS and has a democrat Charles Rangel writing the tax lw and evading millions in taxes!!
Oh you lib idiots. Can’t you come up with better arguments? It is just too easy to make you look dumb
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cap lock = lie.
:)
March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pmWhy are Republicans and their shills always so creepy looking?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pmPlease, please, please keep this rethug moron front & center.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pmWait, is he doing something or not?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:22 pmPressed on whether Joe the Plumber has any particular claim to being a spokesperson on the issue, Burke replied that “he represents the American worker.”
Based on the number of times this non-plumber is able to appear on weekdays, he really does represent the American worker in that he must be out of work. That he completely misrepresents himself and his qualifications makes him the perfect GOOP shill.
PEACE
March 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pmAnd what’s a tax invader?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pmKK Spouted: Oh yeah the leftwing loons who try to make themselves feel better by bashing anyone or anything does not fall into their nazi political views.
Just hold on one tick their KayKay. O’Reilly said we were Stalinists. Nazis were not Stalinists okay? Sheesh. Besides O’Reilly is fair and balanced, see, and look, if he says we are insects, and he makes millions a year, and we all know if a crowing cranium makes millions a year its the trooof!! Look, see, I am a insect. I have a thorax, a tagmata consisting of the prothorax, metathorax and a mesathorax, see? And as a insect I have no use of Stalin, Hitler, Lenin or Mao, Jim Jong Ill, Mangalangadingdongism, blue blooded imperialism, Zionism or any of that rot.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pmTax Invaders? Wasn’t that a video game in the 80’s?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pmwhy didn’t i realize this before? the more the conservatives embrace joe the plumber, the more obvious it has to be that he doesn’t represent the average american worker.
and once again, those who consider themselves conservatives despite having more brain cells than teeth say “what the heck is my party thinking?!”
March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pmKellyKinsel, are you a paid broiler room blogger, one of those peepull who gets paid a dollar a post on a liberal site so they can earn a scholarship to go to a Christian college?
You are, aren’t you…I knew it.
Everyone, quit replying to this person so that we can “Bleed the Beast” and one more wing-nut fails get that scholarship! Amen.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pm>Oh you lib idiots. Can’t you come
> up with better arguments?
Uhm, you inbred hillybilly, get your fingers out of whatever female relative is most intoxicated tonight and pick up a dictionary and look up the word “hipocracy”…none of Obamas people were whining about paying taxes like Joe the wifebeating plumber was. Its like the difference between larry craig trolling for gay sex while writing bills to oppress homosexuals, and barney frank trolling for gay sex while NOT trying to write bills to opress homosexuals. CApice?
Its like some fat idiot claiming drug adicts should be jailed and severely punished all the while illegally purchasing and being addicted to narcots himself.
Do you understand the concept of hipocracy?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:28 pmIt is becoming increasing obvious that Joe/Sam is a perfect poster child for the Republicans. He is an unemployed, under-educated opportunist who is willing to say or do anything for a buck. Just what the Republicans see the average American as.
Don’t believe it, just ask them. Joe/Sam is their hero.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:28 pmKayKay Shrieked: THIS IS FROM A LIB DEMOCRAT WHO HAS A PRESIDENT WHO NOMINATES 3 TAX INVADERS
Well, see Foley quit, Ney got busted, Delay was delayed by an indictment, Cunningham was off on some boat with a hooker, Rove wont even answer his phone or a subpeona, Lurita Doan was off looking for cookies, Safavian arrested by the FBI, Frist was charged with insider trading, Bremer lost eight billion in Iraq…we couldnt find any Repubs to take the job!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:31 pm….”look dumb” to whom?!? Joe-the-Nail-in-McMavericks’-campaign-coffin?? Blubbering Glen? The Drugster?
tee hee, kk.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:31 pmklatuu seems confused about the definition of “troll”.
It also seems confused about who invited Joe the Plumber’s helper to CPAC. Hint: it wasn’t liberals.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:32 pmFine, lets move away from tax evasion and call him Joe the unliscensed liar. The business the guy was “hypothetically” thinking about buying had never made even close to the 250,000$+ of profit that would get a little extra tax under obamas plan. Joe just deludedly made the number up in his head to try and make obama look stupid. Also, hes not liscensed to be a plumber in a state that requires plumbers to have liscenses..so hes basically a lying fraud, whose entire premise of being famous is a total falsehood..
March 26th, 2009 at 6:32 pmBet the Union Plumbers will be protesting his appearances in Pennsylvania.
Oh, any by the way… Americans for Prosperity… are these the same people that brought us the off shoring of American jobs, and tent cities and broken banks and a tanking stock market??? Just asking.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:37 pmJobless Joe the Plummer has been a Republican Journalist, Economic Adviser and now spokeman for Workers. Joe express at a Republican Event he’s thoughts and concerns in this Recession he said ” I’m Horney”. That’s about it folks the thoughts and direction of the Republcian spokeman.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:37 pmI knew the real plumbers would show up eventually. you don’t mess with plumbers… Maybe Joe can get a gig as Duff-Man now.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:38 pmAh, the perfect cap to a day of lying ass republicans. Sam I am not what I say I am Wurzelbacher. Do you trolls realize how f^^ked your party is?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pmHa! When was the last time this fool had a job, a real job? He can’t keep a job. First, he did infomercials, then he was a Middle East reporter and wtf does he do now, besides show up at conservative events and make a fool of himself.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pmGod…what amazes me is that someone…someone…hasnt gotten some audio of this guy doing a drunken, mel gibson style rant about “the commie n1gger obama and his porch monkey welfare liberal spooks” or something similar…you KNOW he says these things to people in private…just look at the guy..just look at the things he says when cameras are rolling and he KNOWS millions of people are watching..will some conservative looking liberal PLEASE go track this guy down, get him drunk while wearing a hidden microphone, and record him talking in private so the whole world can know what he REALLY thinks about people who arent white fascists like him?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:40 pmTHis guy needs to be turned into the parriah that he is, because the republican party is now MARRIED to this guy..he’s literally become their mascot (mostly because rush cant fit into the costume)
You really shouldn’t wack off while you’re typing.
All the oxygen won’t get to your brain…oh, wait, you don’t actually have a brain, just an endless loop of talking points in your head.
No one loves you huh?
:[
March 26th, 2009 at 6:40 pmAh, but, JoeSamBillyJoRayBob is exactly what the Republicans are trying to make the average American. Too dense to know they are getting screwed, arrogant enough to think they are getting away with things, callous enough to blame all their failures on someone else and willing to accept the dribbly handouts of the elite and feel privileged to do so.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pmOh yeh, I forgot to mention Foggo And Wilkes laundering and wire fraud, Alberto I dont recall where Alberto I dont recall is, Claude Allen was caught shoplifting, Armstrong Williams paying propaganda folks off, Harriett Myers, aint neo-con enough, Aragoncillo taking Cheneys secret papers,,
WHos left KayKay? Hep an insect out would ya?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pmJoe said he was horny.
Joe gets a shilling job.
Joe is no longer horny, for now.
Joe the Horny.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pmHere’s what Joe the Plumber will say as the EFCA spokesperson:
“Uhhh, yeah, dudes…we plumb for the good of the country. I’m horny. Bring back the secret ballot elections!”
Seriously, Joe the Plumber is an a**.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pmyou forgot the ones in jail.
:}
March 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pmkellykinselyoursistertothemethdealertwotrailersdown, did you know that your hero joe was also a former welfare queen? did you know that? how do you feel about that? do you think the fact he’s publicly disparaged government assistance and “wealth distribution” while having accepted it himself makes him some sort of hipocrit? dont you think if he’s so derisive of “wealth distribution” that he should at least pay the government back for the wealth of others that they once distributed to him?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pmTax Invaders?
:|
Wasn’t that a popular video game in the 80’s?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm“Anti-Labor Americans for Prosperity”- That has a nice ring to it, no?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pm68 =PC=- Said: you forgot the ones in jail.
Yes, too many to remember. I also forgot Kenny Boy Lay of Enron who is deceased.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pmReal plumbers have brains. That’s why “Joe” isn’t one of them.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pmWHY AREN’T YOU LIBS REPORTING THE GOOD NEWS?
March 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pmGots to love the Onion.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:50 pmphew,
March 26th, 2009 at 6:52 pmi was starting to worry since it’s been a month since the parasite better known as “joe the welfare queen” has been in the news. i was starting to wonder if he was involved in some horrible accident…other than shilling for mc cain/palin
>i was starting to wonder if he was
>involved in some horrible accident
he IS a horrible accident. his existence is the best argument for abstinence that the right wingers could ever come up with..
March 26th, 2009 at 6:56 pmMcWars Says: WHY AREN’T YOU LIBS REPORTING THE GOOD NEWS?
Oooo, Oooo, I know, Cassano of AIGFP, London office, got 32 million in bonuses!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:56 pmXisithrus Insectoid Says:
Oooo, Oooo, I know, Cassano of AIGFP, London office, got 32 million in bonuses!
Yes!
Will they get the bonuses with a tax-cut cherry on top?
March 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pmJoe the Plumber and Sarah Palin are trying to stay out of the spotlight in the hopes Americans will forget how stupid they are.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:02 pmIf I was a plumber, I would cringe every time I heard this dolts name in the news. He is hopelessly clueless on every topic of the day.
I bet even if he was asked a plumbing question, he would be dumbfounded.
They seriously think this fool represents the grass roots ? !!!
March 26th, 2009 at 7:02 pmChocolate Jesus (love the name) – stop by The Keystone Progressive and make this suggestion. Morrill, the blog owner, usually attends events in PA and films and interviews the people that attend these events. He is the person that filmed “monkey man” that was all over the news during the campaign.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:21 pmSamJoe the unplumber is a serious lunk head. You know damn well that someone will throw him a bunch of cash to make an idiot of himself on FAUX or ReichRadio. Maybe they’ll team him up with Gordy Liddy? Who knows, they might get bored some day and lobotomize each other trying see who can fit the most pencils up each others noses.
But even then, you can leave it to the stupid trolls to say stuff that makes SamJoe look like a genius. How much of an idiot must one be to have missed the whole plan for Afghanistan? Here you go SamJoe, Jr.
The extra troops are going to Afghanistan to root out Bin Laden, Al Queda, and the Taliban. Just like President Obama has said he would do since before he announced his candidacy. It’s just another huge mess his predecessor left for him to clean up.
My guess is that the 17,000 are more a stabilizing force and may well, eventually, need reinforcements. On the other hand, If President Obama can negotiate genuine cooperation from Pakistan? It may not take an involvement on the scale of Iraq because it is a rather small group we’re after.
If our government can get the Pakistanis on our side, and we pare down our Wanted list, we could still get out without the horrors of full scale war. I’m pretty sure that we are no longer going to try and neutralize every member of every tribe who might have given a “bad guy” a meal.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pmgive him a hood and a white robe, he’d fit right in.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pmSuch a generalization saying that joe the plumber doesn’t speak for real plumbers….uh….not all plumbers want to join a union…including my husband who is a Master Plumber. No one he works with/for is part of a union.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:42 pmSo Joe (not his real name) the Plumber (not his real profession, as he has no license) is coming to Pennsylvania to shill against the Employee Free Choice Act. Back in the days of Ray-Gun, there were so many disgruntled union steelworkers who came to protest his speech in Pittsburgh, Ray-Gun had to run out the hotel’s side door. Brave man. Joe (not his real name) had better be prepared for a similar reception before union plumbers.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pmtoo bad for them.
and their customers.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:48 pmWere you talking to me, tombaker? if so, you think that because a plumber isn’t a part of a union, somehow he’s less of a plumber? Not only is that absurd but it’s idiotic, if, of course,that is what you are implying.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:50 pm#82, I am curious, why not join the union?
March 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pmnothing personal, but there is a difference. a comprehensive, qualitative difference.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:54 pmUnions aren’t impressive, plus if you want to start your own company, there’s no point. He’s done just fine without a union, in fact, done great, why join one if we don’t have to?
March 26th, 2009 at 7:55 pm“how will we ever get to the bottom if we don’t keep racing toward it?”
– A. Free Marketeer
March 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pmThere’s not a difference between a union plumber and a nonunion plumber. No difference at all. In fact, most nonunion plumbers get great benefits and pay and do a fantastic job. Why would you think there is a difference? That doesn’t make any sense.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pmAsk your hubby how he feels about unlicensed, unbonded, amateurs undercutting him on a bid. Ask him what he would do if he arrived at a job site and found this bald moron installing a water heater.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:06 pmaksarben60 Says: “He’s done just fine without a union, in fact, done great,”
You are talking about Joe the Used To Be Sort of a Plumber, yes?
He did nothing but dung as a plumber. He bullsh!!ted Obama that Saturday morning about buying a plumbing business there was no way he would ever pull off, he dropped out of plumbing school, and the only thing he’s doing now is hanging by the phone waiting for someone to call who wants to exploit him for a few bucks and another sweatshirt.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:07 pm“Ask him what he would do if he arrived at a job site and found this bald moron installing a water heater.”
Call the Army Corps of Engineers
March 26th, 2009 at 8:10 pmBeing an insect is cool. We will survive even a nuclear holocaust.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:11 pmWhopps, that was for the “how to get your own insect name” conversation, next thread down…
March 26th, 2009 at 8:12 pmJoe has found a horse he can ride. He rides for himself not for any group etc. He is paid for speaking for what is left of the GOP. And like Palin, he has no credentials, no education and no expertise to speak on any subject.
If he can draw a crowd he will speak. And if what is left of the Republican base thinks he is worth listening to, then it says much about where they are. An intellectual wasteland of ideas. He is a self serving, media creation. And if the media would ignore him, he would fade away. But they continue to invite comments by Bush,Cheney, Jindal, Palin, Huckabee, Rove, and the rest. All the has been’s.
Some day this GOP will writhe in humiliation in a backward glance at who they anointed. Joe is not an everyman. He is neither fish nor fowl. He was created by a shallow, media that trivializes even the most important news. This is why newspapers are failing. Because they have reduced themselves to trash news.
Joe mumbles and scratches his way though it all. Like the Tennessee Williams creation Stanley Kowalski.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:15 pmWhat if your husband got sued by a customer? Wouldn’t the union have better lawyers?
What about retiring? Don’t the unions also offer pensions? Of course you can save for your own retirement, but wouldn’t a little extra help?
And of course, there is that old-fashioned concept of solidarity…
I am still waiting to hear why you would choose not to, so far you are just saying you don’t choose to. What is the downside, in your view, of joining the union? I am curious.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:16 pmMaybe the simple and direct route will work?
aksarben60,
SamJoe doesn’t speak for plumbers because he’s not a plumber. His thoughts on, and status in, a union has nothing to do with it.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:22 pmSkde – It’s vey Ayn Rand-ish and stuff, so yo uprolly wouldn’t understand.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:23 pmThe thing that gets me is that the GOPers are supposed to be so conservative and religious yet they would choose this ignorant fool to speak. Would they let Joe say he’s horny in front of their kids?! Just disgusting!
March 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pmeverbody likes funny people.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:57 pmHow many times does this guy have to prove to the GOP that he is retarded before they stop trotting him out? Once again, the GOP “base” and its love for all things stupid (Joe the Plumber, abstinence-only “education,” W, etc.) is looking like the only face of the party. It’s good for the Dems, but bad for America, because we need enlightened dissent to keep everyone honest…
March 26th, 2009 at 8:57 pmhate facts attacks again, loser junk.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:58 pmThe downside of joining a union is that they have standards which must be met to join – of course that’s only a downside if your work is substandard…
March 26th, 2009 at 9:05 pmJoe isn’t a plumber, he only plays one on TV.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:34 pmWell, if he’s not a real plumbr, but wants to pretend he is, mebbe we should just call him a plumber’s helper…
March 26th, 2009 at 9:45 pmPlease don’t use the Buckeye hoodie photos. It hurts every time. Oh, the pain… the horror.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:50 pmaksarben60 Says:
There’s not a difference between a union plumber and a nonunion plumber.
_________
Some meaningful proof of this contention?
_________
No difference at all. In fact, most nonunion plumbers get great benefits and pay and do a fantastic job.
_________
Again, some proof?
On the other hand, we DO KNOW that unions were instrumental in improving the lives of millions of workers in this country, including standardizing the 40 hr work week, better working conditions, stronger benefits and pensions.
Wherever there are unions, they raise the prevailing wages of non-union workers.
Funny how so many conservatives harken back to the Fifties as a better time in this country… a time when unions were far more powerful, and the top tax rates
March 26th, 2009 at 9:55 pmwere much higher… shucks ALL for that!!!
Joe should represent the hair stylist union.
March 26th, 2009 at 10:04 pmHere’s another example of how one extreme is as bad as the other. Any of us who have worked in non-union shops, especially in an era of endemic cutbacks, can testify to how negative that can be. But what about “company unions” such as PSSU, the one to which I’m required to “donate” part of each paycheck… with them being able to increase my “fair share” if they deem necessary to defend against efforts at decertification. True “free choice” would say that workers have a right to organize, both to organize a union or to push out an ineffective union that fails to represent worker rights.
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PoeBoy51 Says:
Here’s another example of how one extreme is as bad as the other. Any of us who have worked in non-union shops, especially in an era of endemic cutbacks, can testify to how negative that can be. But what about “company unions” such as PSSU, the one to which I’m required to “donate” part of each paycheck… with them being able to increase my “fair share” if they deem necessary to defend against efforts at decertification. True “free choice” would say that workers have a right to organize, both to organize a union or to push out an ineffective union that fails to represent worker rights. Don’t you concede that employers have MANY ways to discourage union activities and can easily usurp existing laws which seem impotent? I’m just asking
March 26th, 2009 at 11:00 pmAKSARBEN
Maybe all is well for him now, but what is his training? The UA provides all training to members, apprentices and journeymen.
Your husband’s pay and bennies are improved by the unions. Remember, the unions are the ones that brought you the weekend. Without us, you wouldn’t have any bennies.
What is the guarantee behind your husband’s bennies? Everything your family counts on is dependant on his boss. He goes out of business, you no longer have ANYTHING!
Other than that, I bet he is doing A O K! BTW, joe is not a plumber!
March 26th, 2009 at 11:01 pmOriginally Sammy told us he was going to buy a plumbing business….no wait that’s not true….no he’s a reporter…no wait he isn’t really….he’s an author..no that’s not working out……raising his son as his #1 priority……..then again maybe not, he’s never home.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:05 pmThis guy is a mentally deranged nutcase.
He has the attention span of a fruit fly.
What he isn’t, is the regular working stiff Joe that he pretends he is.
He can’t seem to hold a job.
aksarben60’s husband chews his nails. ;)
March 26th, 2009 at 11:05 pmFunkin’ idiot Joe. I’d love to see him work as a real union plumber.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:26 pma regular fame parasite this guy
March 27th, 2009 at 12:01 amWhen I think Union, I think Plumber. Even though I grew up in a non-union state, the way the Plumbers learned their trade was through the union journeyman route.
And Now “The Plumber” is coming out against unions.
Somehow I expect the unions will protest loudly.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:04 amJust when I had sort of forgotten about old SamJoe. If this meathead is average this country is so f ucked…
March 27th, 2009 at 12:06 amJoe needs to get a real job, such as plumber. His only qualification is his display of ugly crack, not from his pants riding low, but a big stinky crack in his logic.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:29 amand credibility.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:33 amJoe should just put on an SS uniform and tatoo a swatzstika on his head. And we should just reference him as “Joe the Dumber” from here on out.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:54 amWhy are you for the free choice act?
March 27th, 2009 at 2:09 amaksarben60 Says:
You dont HAVE to do anything. I have a union job make a VERY good wage. Five weeks vacation a year. Excellent benifits health and dental and a pension that will pay me above the median wage in the country. In more than 30 years I have never once had to kiss anyones ass and have very good job security. If you can get all those things without a union good for you. Personally I think unions are pretty impressive.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:03 amTHE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT IS JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR THE UNIONS TO RUIN THIS COUNTRY. There are many businesses that pay way over union wages and with the deception that I have had with union campaigns is unfair to the normal kid working his way though school. The people running the campaigns will say and do anything to get the kids to sign the cards. Secondly, promoting based off seniority, is horrible, you should be promoted based of merit…………AGAIN UNIONS RUINED THIS NATION JUST TAKE A LOOK AT the retail industry, how many unions stores are rated in the top 10 not a one…….
March 27th, 2009 at 6:06 amwals0809 Says:
No Unions didnt ruin this country greedy morons like YOU have caused this country great harm. WHAT MERIT. You mean promotions are given to the bosses nephew or whoever kisses ass the best. What a joke you are. The brainwashing has worked well on you but obviously the Alzheimers has taken its toll. UNIONS gave us the 40hr work week, the vacation, th end to child labor pensions vacations health benifits. The only reason wages are EVER higher than the lowest possible is because of the competition of UNIONS. Otherwise most corporations would pay minimum wage and make you buy whatever tools are necessary to do your job. You weasels that have chosen the path of asskissing just hate it that unions allow people to work WITHOUT having to kiss ass. Well have fun, pucker up, get way up there in the brown and I will keep my union job while laughing at morons like you.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:34 amsm0key1957 Says:
Why are you for the free choice act?
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Because those who CREATE the wealth, that is the workers, DESERVE a fair share of the fruits OF that labor. Since the 80’s that hasnt happened. At the same time wages have been flat corporate profits have skyrocketed. That is as the increased productivity and profits created BY labor has increased labor itself is getting a smaller portion of that pie while those at the top have been taking a larger piece. UNIONS are labors ability to demand their fair share and power concedes NOTHING without a demand. As a larger portion of the workforce is union other businesses will be forced to pay higher wages or LOSE their workers to the better wages and benifits OF having a union job.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:05 amWhy do you hate America?
March 27th, 2009 at 8:26 amIf unions are such a hot deal then why on earth would their numbers have been dropping for years?
March 27th, 2009 at 8:34 amBushvilles are springing around the country and we talk about Joe the shithead…
March 27th, 2009 at 8:34 amJust wonderful…
By the way Joe, the S.S. look went out of style on Jan.20th.
Oh I don’t know, maybe the massive corporate efforts to suppress and intimidate their formation and operations?
March 27th, 2009 at 8:39 amNobody in their right mind wants to see Sam the Sham on a jobsite. A) he is unlicensed B) he is unqualified C) He is not a plumber.
Today, when the economy is tanking, the corporations will continue to make golden parachutes for their execs out of the $$$ they save from cutting your pay and bennies. And the unions are the problem…
Remember, all these “exorbinant pay and benefit packages” that the union members have, the employers agreed to them! They liked the agreement enough to sign them.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:24 amlibertyforever Says:
If unions are such a hot deal then why on earth would their numbers have been dropping for years?
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For a couple of reasons. First a well financed propaganda effort look into the Mohawk Valley Formula. Second an attack on our manufacturing sector starting with Reagan. Notice we hardly make anything anymore. Remember that ’service economy’? Reagan gave tax breaks for companies to move overseas to get rid of their unions.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:34 amGet it in your heads right-wingers, this clown is not licensed, he is not a journeymen plumber which requires classroom studying and years of working with and learning from other journeymen.
HE is however, a fine representative of the republiscam party, a complete fraud. I would not trust this guy to flush my toilet, let alone enter my house and work on a plumbing problem.
I know what I’m talking about, I’m a Journeymen Lineman myself. My first year of classroom study, we started with 43 students. In the first two weeks, most of the potheads and illiterates voluntarily dropped out. At the semester break, our instructor (former journeymen himself) flunked out the remaining students who couldn’t cut it (guys like “joe the plumber”)
That year of studying and practical field work was as challenging, if not more, than any year in which I attended college and received my Bachelor’s Degree (3.33 GPA).
If you missed one day of class, you would find yourself in a deep hole because there was so much material to cover and study on the following day. If you missed 3 consecutive days of classroom study and field work…you were done and out of the program, there was just no way to catch up and graduate.
Our class graduated 9 future journeymen linemen. That’s 9 graduates out of 43. All 9 of us were employed within weeks of graduation, all of us have been hired by power companies, and each one of us are members of a union. We take pride in our work and are safe because there is no second chances when working with dangerous energized cables, underground and overhead. Union Journeymen linemen are the best in the business, best is proficiency, hardworking and above all safe. Independant contractors without unions have lower wages, crap for benefits and the most serious burns, injuries and fatalities in the electrical industry.
Do you understand this ditto heads? Joe couldn’t cut it, he failed, and that’s why he is not a licensed Journeymen.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pmBehind the scenes, plumbers are like any other persons. Lying about workers rights, has no obvious benefits for this unqualified imposter, and neither for our economy!!
March 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pmIt is unbeleivable that the Retardicans continue to persue the same tired campaign that worked so well with clueless John and Stupid Sarah! Droll Baby Droll! I can’t beleive this bunch is so clueless to think that they can get any traction from mud!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:47 pm“The public loves Joe the Plumber,” the spokesperson, Mary Ellen Burke, claimed to me. “They see him as a role model.”
Role Model you have got to be kidding, thats like saying that palen broad is intellegent.
He is only another shining example of what the republican part really is. A GREAT BIG NOTHING
March 28th, 2009 at 11:50 amMaybe it’s finally time to lay Joe the Plumber to rest. He’s had his fifteen seconds of fame and then some. He’s yesterday’s news. He’s obsolete. He’s passe. He’s, he’s, he’s….oh forget it. The End.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 am