16 October, 2008

Joe the Plumber—What Happens When the Economy Falls out from under Him?


Senator McCain,

You performed better last night than you did in previous debates. Of course, our friend (the guy over here to the left), he can’t afford to provide his family healthcare, send his kids to college or to pay for his fleet of trucks’ gas. Why? How can he not? Let me give you the quick and dirty:

1) Your healthcare plan is horrible. No one in their right mind, when studying it, will give it the time of day. It’s poor. While you speak about competition and deregulation, in concert with a $5000 tax cut, which will nullify existing employer-based healthcare, you are forgetting one thing: healthcare needs regulation to protect the sick and poor huddled masses. If you weren’t in the Senate and didn’t have a job, because you’ve had skin cancer, you couldn’t go out to get your own private plan. Insurance companies are in a numbers game; therefore, they do not like folks who have reoccurring conditions—cancer-survivor? Living with lupus? Have multiple sclerosis? Sorry, tough luck. Your healthcare plan promotes exactly the opposite of health.

2) College under you, well you’re offering nothing different. Moreover, your economic policies show no substantive difference to that of the preceding President. If our buddy to the left can’t afford it now, he sure won’t tomorrow. Ergo, continuing on the downward spiral—strike two.

3) Gas? Drill baby drill? No – that won’t work either. As Senator Obama has stated on more than one occasion, we have 5% of the world’s resources and use 25%. Math and economics might not be your strong suit, but seriously, play that out over five-ten years. Yeah – that doesn’t work. Meanwhile, because of the continuation of Republican not “tax and spend” but “run-up-debt and spend,” our US Dollar is worth even less against the world currency market. In short, your planned continuation of this imbecile’s administration, well, it’s just not going to work.

In short, in case you haven’t figured it out, we’re stuck with a problem, and you’re not offering anything distinguishable. Watching you last night, you could have done something revolutionary. Right during your rant about not being George Bush, you could have laid out a point-by-point list of things that separate you from him. Oh yeah, that’s right, you didn’t.


Sincerely,

Matt

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