Joe The Plumber Causes The Presidential Debate To Get Dumber.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/15/joe-the-plumber-speaks-it_n_135065.html I can tell you from personal experience that the idea that a single worker can start up a buisness, and make a profit, all by himself is a pipe dream. My father once tried to do this, and it brought about the most trying time in our family's life. You see my father's place of employment, a dairy equipment refrigeration repair servive, had closed down, because the small family farms were suffering financialy. And so he thought to himself that he would continue to work on his own, only he would service homes instead of farms, plus he would also do plumbing as well. Well the thing was that the homeowners were also going through tough economic times, and so they had a hard time paying him as well. The buisness expenses exceded the profits, and we fell into debt. In desparation, we had to go on food stamps. Later on, since at the end of the year you must show that you are at least trying to get a better source of income, as a result of welfare reform, he got a job working in a furniture company. As Karl Marx mentioned in "The Communist Manifesto"

"The lower strata of the middle class -- the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants -- all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by the new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population" http://marx.thefreelibrary.com/Communist-Manifesto/2-1#middle+class None of the skilled tradesmen, it seems, wants to work for somebody else. They want all of the profits for themselves. But when everyone tries to be self-employed, there is less money to be made for all of the plumbing trade. What I think the plumbers, and other skilled laborers, should do is form there own guild, and share the profits amongst themselves. Only in partnership with other tradesmen can they hope to better there lives. They should therefore work in co-operation, instead of competition, with each other. And also, as Sen. Obama said in the the final debate, when the other workers are having a hard time with there livelihood, they can not afford to pay anyone else. So therefore the fate of the small buisness class is symbioticly interlinked with that of the working class.