Joe Wurzelbacher Quotes
There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe for America means. I want more jobs. I want veterans to have better benefits and not have them taken away. I want people to succeed in this country and have the tools to do so.
Wurzelbacher, Samuel Joseph. Joe For America, 2013.
It has been true for most of American history with exceptions in depressions and some of the bad recessions. However after the 2008 economic meltdown of the George W. Bush Administration and the Great Recession that followed up to the time of this interview, it had not been true and one of Brooks' political objectives was to make it so again.
Many of the very rich agreed with Lind on this point. So did many Americans with good jobs. However there were very few Americans who did not have good jobs who agreed with this point of view. In most industrialized countries ,most workers spend one-hired of their entire adult lives working. If we do not count sleeping time, it is more like half. It is hard to believe for most people that a person could have a good life when half of his/her waking hours are spend in a not very good situation. Many of Lind’s critics observed that this was the Classic Christian theological view until recent times that every person should accept his station and be happy in at as that is what God ordained.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, known as Joe the Plumber, is an American conservative activist and commentator. He gained national attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when, during a videotaped campaign stop in Ohio by then Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama, Wurzelbacher raised concerns that Obama's tax policy would increase taxes on small business owners. Wurzelbacher is a member of the Republican Party.
