Joe the Outlaw

Joe is doing plumbing without a proper business license. How dare he call himself a plumber! A license is required by Toledo, not just one license for a partnership but for everyone who is called a plumber. Joe has not taken the training courses, is not a member of the union, and cannot legally call himself a plumber.

The press reports on this were explosive, with reporters speaking as if they had caught this guy red-handed and completely discredited him. But what about the complete absurdity of the idea that you have to have a license in order to have the right to fix someone else's sink? This is Soviet like, but deeply entrenched in American professional life.

Joe plumbs but he is not a plumber unless the state says he is a plumber. I've watched with amazement as Obama and Biden and the press attack Joe with aplomb - sorry - for not having a license. It doesn't seem like astute politics to attack a working stiff like Joe. The Dems say they are for Joe Six Pack but not if he aspires to make more than $250k/year?