Letter from Grandpa!

e-mail | 12/02 | unkown

[dalereed]

Letter from Grandpa - priceless

Jack G. is 64 years old and owns a small business. He's a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, Jack assumes now that he will work to his dying day.

Jack has a granddaughter, Ashley. She is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants and takes dream vacations.

Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a big I told-you-so earful on how the world is going to be a much better place now that her party is taking over.

Recently having lost both roommates, Ashley ran short of cash and cannot pay the rent on her 3 bedroom townhouse. Like she has done many times in the past, she e-mailed her grandfather asking for some financial help. Here is his reply:

Sweetheart,

I received your request for assistance. Ashley, you know I love you dearly and I 'm sympathetic to your financial plight. Unfortunately, times have changed. With the election of President Obama, your grandmother and I have had to set forth a bold new economic plan of our own... "The Ashley Economic Empowerment Plan." Let me explain.

Your grandmother and I are life-long, wage-earning tax payers. We have lived a comfortable life, as you know, but we have never had the fancier things like European vacations, luxury cars, etc. We have worked hard and were looking forward to retiring soon. But the plan has changed.

Your president is raising our personal and business taxes significantly. He says it is so he can give our hard earned money to other people. Do you know what this means, Ashley?

It means less for us, and we must cut back on many business and personal expenses.

You know the wonderful receptionist who worked in my office for more than 3 years? The one who always gave you candy when you came over to visit? I had to let her go last week. I can't afford to pay her salary and all of the government mandated taxes that go with having employees.

Your grandmother will now work 4 days a week to answer phones, take orders and handle the books. We will be closed on Fridays and will lose even more income to Wal-Mart.

I'm also very sorry to report that your cousin Bob will no longer be working summers in the warehouse. I called him at school this morning. He already knows about it and he's upset because he will have to give up skydiving and his yearly trip to Greenland to survey the polar bears.

That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc,etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.

If you need money now sweetheart, I recommend you call 202-456-1111. That is the direct phone number for the White House. You yourself told me how foolish it is to vote Republican. You said Mr. Obama is going to be the People's President, and is going to help every American live a better life. Based on everything you've told me, along with all the promises we heard during the campaign, I'm sure Mr.. Obama will be happy to transfer some stimulus money into your bank account. Have him call me for the account number which I memorized years ago.

Perhaps you can now understand what I've been saying all my life: those who vote for a president should consider the impact on the nation as a whole, and not be just concerned with what they can get for themselves. What Obama supporters don't seem to realize is all of the money he is redistributing to illegal aliens and non-taxpaying Americans (the so-called "less fortunate") comes from tax-paying families.

Remember how you told me, "Only the richest of the rich will be affected"? Well guess what, honey?

Because we own a business, your grandmother and I are now considered to be the richest of the rich. On paper, it might look that way, but in the real world, we are far from it.

As you said while campaigning for Obama, some people will have to carry more of the burden so all of America can prosper. You understand what that means, right? It means that raising taxes on productive people results in them having less money; less money for everything, including granddaughters.

I'm sorry, Ashley, but the well has run dry. The free lunches are over.. I have no money to give you now. So, congratulations on your choice for "change."

For future reference, I encourage you to try and add up the total value of the gifts and cash you have received from us, just since you went off to college, and compare it to what you expect to get from Mr. Obama over the next 4 (or 8) years. I have not kept track of it.

Remember, we love you dearly....but from now on you'll need to call the number mentioned above. Your "savior" has the money we would have given to you.

Just try and get it from him.

Good luck, sweetheart.

Love,

Grandpa

[smokingfrog]

Good story.

[sinanju]

Which is why I very much doubt Obama’s Youth Army will be showing up for him and his Capitol Hill buddies in the future.

Blacks may still poll for him in excess of 90% but it’s looking unlikely that they will be taking the trouble to actually show up at the polls (not without “walking-around money,” at any rate).

As for the elderly? Well!

Even metro/state-level guv employees and public teachers are finding out they’re not recession-proof.

I’m betting that we’re about to find out soon just how demoralized the “democratic base” really is. It could get even worse though, there is also the downside of the “Messiah” complex, in that the most fanatical of devotees can turn on the Dear Leader if they feel they’ve been betrayed.

If anyone ever actually goes so far as to make an attempt on him, You can bet even money it won’t be a “christian fundamentalist”, “white supremacist” or “disgruntled veteran”, no sir. It will be an outraged former groupie.

[Ciexyz]

Tee hee.

[Skepolitic]

I have a welfare-state liberal sister-in-law who has three teenage kids. Their parents and their school have thoroughly indoctrinated my neice and nephews in the welfare-state worldview.

For Christmas last year I gave them $50 each. This year I plan to give them cash presents in two installments. With the first installment of $20 I’ll explain how Obama and the Democrat Congress are raising taxes and hurting my business. To soften the blow, however, I plan a second installment of $20. With this I’ll explain how Obama, the Democrat Congress and the Federal Reserve have already destroyed much of the value of the dollar. Fortunately, I bought some gold when Obama was inaugurated and the increase in gold prices allows me to make up some of the difference.

I’ll advise not them to save it college, but to spend it soon because it will be worth much less in the near future. I might just advise them to skip college because, based on Obama’s track record so far, there won’t be any jobs for them anyway.

[tflabo]

Here's an e mail excerpt from a relative today who lives in Ca and regrets his vote for O.

"What is rather new is I've come to really despise myself for having been hoodwinked by Okeydoke Obama. Damn Zebra has kept but one campaign promise: to smilingly gladhand the bad guys and somehow turn them from bad witches into good. So far this pollyannish approach has charmed Iran into building an additional nine nuclear reactors, Somalian pirates into seizing twenty tons of erl, Karzai and bro to become even more brazenly corrrupt, and brought goodwill to men everywhere except the Nato coalition which appears ready to leave the brunt of empire building (always a great idea) to us. The pawn-in-chief is roughly 180 degree from what I expected. Me and votin be no mo, all a charade of banks and bullsheet, why waste the time. Anyway, as long as I avoid thinkin bout politics and drinkin like a lunatic everything is more or less copasetic."

[Razz Barry]

That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc,etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.

IMHO, the grandparents created the little socialist. Instead of giving her money, they should have had her working for them. That would have been the best gift they could have given her. You can tell people how things work but they won't get it until they live it.

[dalereed]

“You can tell people how things work but they won’t get it until they live it.”

You’re right!

My parents could have bought me anything I wanted but made me work for everything I got.

I had a paper route when I was 8 and walked it until I made enough to buy a bicycle, went to work for my father plastering when I was 14 so I could buy a car and have it built and ready to drive when I turned 16.

None of it hurt me one bit!

In my 72 years i’ve never borrowed one cent except for a mortgage on our 1st home.

[MonicaG]

Your parents did some good parenting, then. Parents today frequently act like “good parenting” means playing Santa whenever possible.

[Defiant]

Anyone check snopes on this one? I smell a myth.

[dalereed]

Growing up durring and just after the depression was an entirely way of life from today.

Everyone I grew up with had well to do parents and every one of them had to work for everything they got.

We were all taught that if you can’t pay for it you don’t need it.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

What a lovely fake story.

[meadsjn]

Blacks may still poll for him in excess of 90% ...

Or they may not. Obama got 95% of the black vote in VA a year ago. In the recent Gov election, the Republican was getting over 31% of the black vote.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I was thinking the same thing.What the hell did they expect?We better not miss an opportunity to school these young heads of dumbshit to the real ways of the world.

[Razz Barry]

I have a friend who gets upset with her daughter for being lazy and helpless. I tell her it's her fault, and she is doing the same thing to her one year old granddaughter. She says she can't help but spoil the grand baby because she's so cute. "Well", says I, "how cute will she be at fourteen when she wraps your car around a tree?"
While watching the Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino", I couldn't help but be upset that Eastwood's character didn't put time into his own grandchildren. He should have kicked the butts of his own flesh and straightened them out before starting on his foreign neighbors.

[lowbridge]

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