Joes Plumbing - 2017 Barack Obama discovers a leak under his sink, so he calls Joe the Plumber to come and fix it. Joe drives to Obamas house, which is located in a very exclusive neighborhood where all the residents make more than $250,000 per year. Joe arrives and takes his tools into the house. Joe is led to the room that contains the leaky pipe under a sink. Joe assesses the problem and tells Obama, who is standing near the door, that its an easy repair that will take less than 10 minutes. Obama asks Joe how much it will cost. Joe immediately says, $9,500. $9,500? Obama asks, stunned, But you said its an easy repair! Yes, but what I do is charge those who make $250,000 per year a much higher amount so I can fix the plumbing of poorer people for free, explains Joe. Its always been my philosophy. As a matter of fact, I lobbied government who passed this philosophy into law. Now all plumbers do business this way. Its known as Joes Fair Plumbing Act of 2014. Surprised you havent heard of it. In spite of that, Obama tells Joe theres no way hes paying that much for a small plumbing repair, so Joe leaves. Obama spends the next hour flipping through the phone book looking for another plumber, but he finds that all other plumbing businesses listed have gone out of business. Not wanting to pay Joes price, Obama does nothing and the leak goes unrepaired for several days. A week later the leak is so bad that Obama has had to put a bucket under the sink. The bucket fills up quickly and has to be emptied every hour, and theres a risk that the room will flood, so Obama calls Joe and pleads with him to return. Joe tells Obama that he can set up an appointment in about 6 months from now because he has so many people getting their plumbing work done for FREE. The demand for plumbing work for those who get it for free is skyrocketing!!! Theres a long waiting list of those who need repairs. Lets see - this repair will cost you about $21,000 now. What!!! A few days ago you told me it would cost $9,500! Obama quickly fires back. Joe explains, Well, because of the Joes Fair Plumbing Act, a lot of rich people have hired their own personal plumbers to fix their plumbing, so there are fewer payers. As a result, the rate I have to charge my wealthy paying customers keeps rising. This has put a lot of my fellow plumbers out of business, and theyre not being replaced - nobody is going into the plumbing business because they know they wont make any money. Im hurting too - all thanks to greedy rich people like you who wont pay their fair share. Joe! This could be bad. If all the rich people have their own plumbers and you cant charge the poorer people, youll go broke. What will you do then? Joe immediately replies, Run for president! Dale Manning dale0647@gmail 5:41 AM (1 minute ago) to bcc: at, bcc: Brad, bcc: bruce, bcc: duane, bcc: em, bcc: gdemetrak, bcc: jim, bcc: jim, bcc: jjd9231, bcc: joey, bcc: john, bcc: larrymfurr, bcc: Manning, bcc: Marti, bcc: maryann, bcc: mike, bcc: mike, bcc: Pamela, bcc: pattee, bcc: paula, bcc: RANDY, bcc: robert, bcc: russ, bcc: Thomas, bcc: Thomas
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:43:37 +0000