I plucked this from another professional website I am frequently on. This man deserves some kind of medal.

"Mr. Obama,
Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the
plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he
dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to
you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already
have started not one, but 4 businesses.

But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me "Cory the well
driller". I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn't go to
college like you, I was too ready to go "conquer the world" when I
finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water
well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas
was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80's oil boom. I didn't
get any help from the government, nor did I look for any.

I borrowed what I could from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn
shop and managed to scrape together a homemade drill rig and a few
tools to do my first job. My businesses did not start as a result of
privilege. They are the result of my personal drive, personal ambition,
self discipline, self reliance, and a determination to treat my
customers fairly. From the very start my business provided one other
(than myself) East Texan a full time job. I couldn't afford a backhoe
the first few years (something every well drilling business had), so I
and my helper had to dig the mud pits that are necessary for each and
every job with hand shovels. I had to use my 10 year old, 1/2 ton
pickup truck for my water tank truck (normally a job for at least a 2
ton truck).

A year and a half after I started the business, I scraped together a
20% down payment to get a modest bank loan and bought a (28 year) old,
worn out, slightly bigger drilling rig to allow me to drill the deeper
water wells in my area. I spent the next few years drilling wells with
the rig while simultaneously rebuilding it between jobs. Through these
years I never knew from one month to the next if I would have any work
or be able to pay the bills. I got behind on my income taxes one year,
and spent the next two years paying that back (with penalty and
interest) while keeping up with ongoing taxes. I got behind on my water
well supply bill 2 different years (way behind the second time...
$80,000.00), and spent over a year paying it back (each time) while
continuing to pay for ongoing supplies C.O.D.. Of course, the personal
stress endured through these experiences and years is hard to measure.
I do have a stent in my heart now to memorialize it all.

I spent the next 10 years developing the reputation for being the most
competent and most honest water well driller in East Texas ... 2 years
along the way, I hired another full time employee for the drilling
business so that we could provide full time water well pump service as
well as the well drilling. Also, 3 years along the path, I bought a
water well screen service machine from a friend, starting business # 2.
5 years later I made a business loan for $100,000.00 to build a new,
higher production, computer controlled screen service machine. I had
designed the machine myself, and it didn't work out for 3 years so I
had to make the loan payments without the benefit of any added income
from the new machine. No government program was there to help me with
the payments, or to help me sleep at night as I lay awake wondering how
I would solve my machine problems or pay my bills. Finally, after 3
years, I got the screen machine working properly, and that provided
another full time job for an East Texan in the screen service business.

2 years after that, I made another business loan, this time for
$250,000.00, to buy another used drilling rig and all the support
equipment needed to run another,larger, drill rig. This provided
another 2 full time jobs for East Texans. Again, I spent a couple of
years not knowing if I had made a smart move, or a move that would
bankrupt me. For the third time in 13 years, I had placed everything I
owned on the line, risking everything, in order to build a business.

A couple of years into this, I came up with a bright idea for a new
kind of mud pump, a fundamentally necessary pump used on water well
drill rigs. I spent my entire life savings to date (just 30,000.00),
building a prototype of the pump and took it to the national water well
convention to show it off. Customers immediately started coming out of
the woodworks to buy the pumps, but there was a problem. I had depleted
my assets making the prototype, and nobody would make me a business
loan to start production of the new pumps. With several deposits for
pump orders in hand, and nowhere to go, I finally started applying for
as many credit card as I could find and took cash withdrawals on these
cards to the tune of over $150,000.00 (including modest loans from my
dear sister and brother), to get this 3rd business going.

Yes, once again, I had everything hanging over the line in an effort to
start another business. I had never manufactured anything, and I had to
design and bring into production a complex hydraulic machine from an
untested prototype to a reliable production model (in six months). How
many nights I lay awake wondering if I had just made the paramount
mistake of my life I cannot tell you, but there were plenty. I managed
to get the pumps into production, which immediately created another 2
full time jobs in East Texas . Some of the models in the first year
suffered from quality issues due to the poor workmanship of one of my
key suppliers, so I and an employee (another East Texan employed) had
to drive across the country to repair customers' pumps, practically
from coast to coast. I stood behind the product, and made payments to
all the credit cards that had financed me (and my brother and sister).
I spent the next 5 years improving and refining the product, building a
reputation for the pump and the company, working to get the pump into
drill rig manufacturers' product lines, and paying back credit cards.
During all this time I continued to manage a growing water well
business that was now operating 3 drill rig crews, and 2 well service
crews. Also,the screen service business continued to grow. No
government programs were there to help me, Mr. Obama, but that's ok, I
didn't expect any, nor did I want any. I was too busy fighting to make
success happen to sit around waiting for the government to help me.

Now, we have been manufacturing the mud pumps for 7 years, my combined
businesses employ 32 full time employees, and distribute $5,000,000.00
annually through the local economy. Now, just 4 months ago I borrowed
$1,254,000.00, purchasing computer controlled machining equipment to
start my 4th business, a production machine shop. The machine shop will
serve the mud pump company so that we can better manufacture our pumps
that are being shipped worldwide. Of course, the machine shop will also
do work for outside companies as well. This has already produced 2 more
full time jobs, and 2 more should develop out of it in the next few
months. This should work out, but if it doesn't it will be because you,
and the other professional politicians like yourself, will have
destroyed our country’s (and the world) economy with your meddling with
mortgage loan programs through your liberal manipulation and
intimidation of loaning institutions to make sure that unqualified
borrowers could get mortgages. You see, at the very time when I
couldn't get a business loan to get my mud pumps into production, you
were working with Acorn and the Community Reinvestment Act programs to
make sure that unqualified borrowers could buy homes with no down
payment, and even no credit or worse yet, bad credit. Even the
infamous, liberal, Ninja loans (No Income, No Job or Assets). While
these unqualified borrowers were enjoying unrealistically low interest
rates, I was paying 22% to 24% interest on the credit cards that I had
used to provide me the funds for the mud pump business that has created
jobs for more East Texans. It's funny, because after 25 years of
turning almost every dime of extra money back into my businesses to
grow them, it has been only in the last two years that I have finally
made enough money to be able to put a little away for retirement, and
now the value of that has dropped 40% because of the policies you and
your ilk have perpetrated on our country.
You see, Mr. Obama, I'm the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I'm the
guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting,
stressing and risking,to build a business and get ahead. I'm the guy
who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times
over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs
for East Texans who didn't want to take a risk, and would not demand
from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I'm the guy you
characterize as "the Americans who can afford it the most" that you
believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution "to
spread the wealth" to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted,
fought, stressed, or risked anything. You want to characterize me as
someone who has enjoyed a life of privilege and who needs to pay a
higher percentage of my income than those who have bought into your
entitlement culture. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want
to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career.
What's worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal
entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a
better life instead of themselves. Liberals are succeeding through more
than 40 years of collaborative effort between the predominant liberal
media, and liberal indoctrination programs in the public school systems
across our land.
What is so terribly sad about this is this. America was made great by
people who embraced the one-time American culture of self reliance,
self motivation, self determination, self discipline, personal
betterment, hard work, risk taking. A culture built around the concept
that success was in reach of every able bodied American who would
strive for it. Each year that less Americans embrace that culture, we
all descend together. We descend down the socialist path that has
brought country after country ultimately to bitter and unremarkable
states. If you and your liberal comrades in the media and school
systems would spend half as much effort cultivating a culture of can-do
across America as you do cultivating your entitlement culture, we could
see Americans at large embracing the conviction that they can elevate
themselves through personal betterment, personal achievement, and self
reliance. You see, when people embrace such ideals, they act on them.
When people act on such ideals, they succeed. All of America could find
herself elevating instead of deteriorating. But that would eliminate
the need for liberal politicians, wouldn't it, Mr. Obama? The country
would not need you if the country was convinced that problem solving
was best left with individuals instead of the government. You and all
your liberal comrades have got a vested interested in creating a
dependent class in our country. It is the very business of liberals to
create an ever expanding dependence on government. What's remarkable is
that you, who have never produced a job in your life, are going to tax
me to take more of my money and give it to people who wouldn't need my
money if they would get off their entitlement mentality asses and apply
themselves at work, demand more from themselves, and quit looking to
liberal politicians to raise their station in life.

You see, I know because I've had them work for me before. Hundreds of
them over these 25 years. People who simply will not show up to work on
time. People who just will not work 5 days in a week, much less, 6
days. People always looking for a way to put less effort out. People
who actually tell me that they would do more if I just would first pay
them more. People who take off work to sit in government offices to
apply to get free government handouts (gee, I wonder how things would
have turned out for them if they had spent that time earning money and
pleasing their employer?).You see, all of this comes from your
entitlement mentality culture.

Oh, I know you will say I am uncompassionate. Sorry, Mr. Obama, wrong
again. You see, I've seen what the average percentage of your income
has been given to charities over the years of 2000 to 2004 (ignoring
the years you started running for office - can you pronounce
"politically motivated"), you averaged less than 1% annually. And your
running mate, Joe Biden, averaged less than ¼% of his annual income in
charitable contributions over the last 10 years. Like so many liberals,
the two of you want to give to the needy, just as long as it is someone
else's money you are giving to them. I won't say what I have given to
charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times
more than you and Joe Biden... combined (don't you just hate google?).
Tell me again how you feel my pain.

In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything
that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government
dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of
personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the
unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open
debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final
transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-
reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps,
who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems. Like
all of western Europe. All countries on the decline. All countries
that, because of liberal socialistic mentalities, have a little less to
offer mankind every year.

God help us..."

Cory Miller

just an ordinary, extraordinary American, the way a lot of Americans used to be.

P.S. Yes, Mr. Obama, I am a real American...

Reminded me of  these two videos offering a glimpse of the inside workings of the Clintons.  They are really worth watching and worth watching again if you have seen them before.  The way these dem thugs destroy people is chilling.  It is all about power and evidently the dems will even eat their own supporters to obtain more.

Does America really expect the Chicago street thug and his cronies to be any better?  And check out the way the leftist talking heads approach this story. 

Get ready to be shocked -

Part 1

Part 2

I am Joe The Plumber.  ALL my neighbors are Joe The Plumbers!  ALL my friends are Joe The Plumber! 

Bill Clinton is only one man (with a lot of baggage) but there are MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS of JOE THE PLUMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!