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Thread #115363   Message #2473836
Posted By: Riginslinger
23-Oct-08 - 12:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Joe the Plumber
Subject: RE: BS: Joe the Plumber
"It's kind of difficult to believe that someone who doesn't know the difference between gross and net, is working on buying a business that either grosses or nets more than $250,000."


             If Joe was looking at getting into the publishing business or opening a law office, if would be hard to believe he wouldn't know the difference between "gross" and "net" profit. But I work with blue collar construction people on a daily basis, and it wouldn't surprise me.
            Further, it wouldn't take a lot of business for a plumbing contractor to gross $250,000. Plumbing parts and fictures are really expensive, and if he wanted to do commercial buildings, he could gross that much on one job. Coming up with a profit at the end of it all is the hard part--almost immpossible in the current business climate.

            He was in his front yard tossing a football back and forth with his son when Obama's entourage came by his house. There's no way to make the case that he was a McCain plant.