Here’s video of Obama talking to Joe Wurzelbacher while campaigning in Ohio around Oct 13 or 14, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFC9jv9jfoA
Here’s a transcript of what they said:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/article858299.ece
Here’s a transcript of the third presidential debate from 15 Oct 2008, in which McCain gave Joe the Plumber his fifteen minutes of fame (or fifteen megs, whichever comes first) as a potential victim of Obama’s proposed tax plan:
http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2008d.html
“Story of Joe the Plumber springs many leaks”:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/17/MNQ013J6JV.DTL
Here’s a study supporting the claim that Germany and some Scandinavian countries have more “upward mobility” (people moving from working class to middle, or middle class to upper in one generation) in recent decades than USA or the UK:
http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/IntergenerationalMobility.pdf
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