Posted on 08/30/2004 9:59:47 AM PDT by gattaca
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican A TvNewsLIES Reader contribution. By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.
I don't drink coffee, this article is poorly researched.
And he's able to do this this morning because President Bush had the will, the ability and the right to combat terrorism and keep another 911 at bay.
En route, Joe is approached by a scumbag who a liberal felt had been sufficiently "rehabilitated" to be let out on parole from a previous armed robbery. Scumbag attempts to relieve Joe of his deposit, in an effort to "share the wealth." Joe pulls out his .45 calibre pistol, his right to carry being secured by the blood of patriots, and blows scumbag to kingdom come.
Next installment: Liberal trial lawyers v. Joe.
Wasn't Nixon responsible for the Clean Water Act?
Technicolor yawn placemarker.
Socialism sucks.
I am self-employed. Besides when has a liberal ever died for those standards?
Without Capitalism, Joe would be starving, homeless and unemployed.
Then Joe remembers the polls are still open, and that he still has time to vote before they close. Joe casts his vote for Bush/Cheney, making sure that his chad is neither pregnant nor hanging. He drives home and sleeps like a baby that night.
I didn't know that food safety was a liberal vs. conservative thing. Conservatives are against food safety? Pffft....
However, and this a big however, their ideas where never more than refinements made to trends initiated by doers. That is, they were never more than counter-punchers. Now that the refinements have been made, their place in history has passed.
Unfortunately for them, all that's left on their platter of ideas is socialism.
The article omits to mention part of the daily Republican routine pointed out by Michael Moore -- according to Michael, Republicans get up at 6:00 in the morning in order to determine which minority groups to screw.
What the writer of this article doesn't understand is that today's liberals aren't after those standards. I'm sorry, but abortion on demand, gay marriage with state sponsorship on demand, and smaller, weaker military aren't on par with their previous accomplishments.
In short, today's liberals are not yesterday's liberals.
This liberal has the opportunity to whine because, while all his liberal buddies were hiding, conservatives fought to give him freedom.
That has appreciated values of houses to obscenely false levels and encouraged people to go deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep into to debt with AMR which is going to hammer so many people this time around.
If liberals truly got what they want.
Uh...oh, Joe hears that his employer is bogged down with liberal benefit payments/taxes and may have to shut down!
It's just frightening that the kool-aid drinkers actually beleive this...
"You're welcome, Joe."
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