Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Joe the plumber

In both campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama they mentioned Joe the plumber as a hard working American with a small business making less than $250,000 a year.

I don't mind. The only thing I do mind is that all those Joe's don't have a certificate. They don't invest in proper education. They didn't pay the bill or their taxes. Excuse me, but isn't Joe the plumber not really Johnny Freerider?

It's not only men like Joe the plumber I oppose. It's the free rider problem.

All over the world pharmacists do their work. Also in the Netherlands. They provide people with medicals to get healthy, stay healthy, or to compensate a deficit.
As the pharmacist are the providers of drugs they are a target for the chemical industry. When the pharmacist sell a lot of drugs of a certain drugs company, pharmacist will be annually overloaded with a bonus of the company. (bonuses of € 180,000,= exist)

This is a kind of freerider effect/behaviour. I'm sure this happens all over the world. Not only in a small town in the Netherlands.

The Dutch, the world should stand up against these practices because the average man in the street pays the bill in the end. We, all citizens of the world, pay for the freeloader behaviour of pharmacists.

The average man's the one who should count. The average man pays his bills, taxes, as long as he can. If Joe the plumber does this all and he's certified than Joe has a last name.

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