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Joe's Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014

Doc

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The President discovers a leak under his sink, so he calls Joe the Plumber to come and fix it. Joe drives to White house, which is located in a very nice neighborhood, where it's clear that 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 The President, who is standing near the door, that it's an easy repair that will take less than 10 minutes.

The President asks Joe how much it will cost. Joe immediately says, "$9,500."

"$9,500?" The President asks, stunned, "But you said it's an easy repair!"

"Yes, but what I do is charge a lot more to my clients who make more than $250,000 per year so I can fix the plumbing of everybody who makes less than that for free," explains Joe. "It's always been my philosophy. As a matter of fact, I lobbied government to pass this philosophy as law, and it did pass earlier this year, so now all plumbers have to do business this way. It's known as 'Joe's Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014.' Surprised you haven't heard of it."

In spite of that, The President tells Joe there's no way he's paying that much for a small plumbing repair, so Joe leaves. The President 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 Joe's price, The President does nothing. The leak under White House sink goes unrepaired for the next several days.

A week later the leak is so bad that The President has had to put a bucket under the sink. The bucket fills up quickly and has to be emptied every hour, and there's a risk that the room will flood, so The President calls Joe and pleads with him to return.

Joe goes back to The White House, looks at the leaky pipe, and says, “Let's see - this will cost you about $21,000."

"A few days ago you told me it would cost $9,500!" The President quickly fires back.

Joe explains the reason for the dramatic increase. "Well, because of 'Joe's Affordable Plumbing Act,' a lot of rich people are learning how to fix their own plumbing, so there are fewer of you paying for all the free plumbing I'm doing for the people who make less than $250,000. As a result, the rate I have to charge my wealthy paying customers rises every day.

"Not only that, but for some reason the demand for plumbing work from the group of people who get it free has skyrocketed, and there's a long waiting list of those who need repairs. This has put a lot of my fellow plumbers out of business, and they're not being replaced - nobody is going into the plumbing business because they know they won't make any money. I'm hurting now too - all thanks to greedy rich people like you who won't pay their fair share."

The President tries to straighten out the plumber: "Of course you're hurting, Joe! Don't you get it? If all the rich people learn how to fix their own plumbing and you refuse to charge the poorer people for your services, you'll be broke, and then what will you do?"

Joe immediately replies, "Run for president."
 

Bamby

New member
This is exactly why the ACA will never work as advertised. Those who get it for free will use it non stop and those that are paying full price plus the premium to support the freeloaders will stop using the "product".

This is why our government is bankrupt and will eventually fail. No one has a lick of common sense and they don't understand economics....or they simply choose to ignore the facts and continue to buy votes.
 

luvs

'lil yinzer~
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oplumbers-&-co. sure know how to drain ya'. glad i made certain my plumbing was included when i rented here so as to avoid surcharges.
 

marchplumber

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I like being a plumber. I get to help people. Some rich, some poor, some educated, some dumber than a box of rocks. Will always be a need for a man who can make the "poo" go away.

God bless,
Tony
 

EastTexFrank

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I like being a plumber. I get to help people. Some rich, some poor, some educated, some dumber than a box of rocks. Will always be a need for a man who can make the "poo" go away.

God bless,
Tony

Yea there really is. Our civilization would start to fall apart if we didn't have water and sewer at the house. If we had to go back to throwing a bucket of waste out a window ...

Or if we all had to start using public water from fountains and carrying it home in a bucket.

Disease would run rampant.

Let's play homage to the plumber!!!!!
 
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