Posted on 02/20/2011 8:09:40 PM PST by PaulZe
I got this email from my liberal friend of mine. Before I respond I present it to my fellow Freepers for opinions on how best to respond:
Nelda Elder posted this on the Washington Post's Facebook page. She's from Kansas, and looks to be in her mid to late 50's. She uses the term "teabagger". But do remember that NOT everyone knows this can also mean a sexual act; it's not exactly a common one. I didn't know it; I'm betting she doesn't either. It's just easier to say "Teabagger" than "TeaPartier" or whatever description they're using now:
"The Teabagger 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 The Teabagger gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. The Teabagger's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
The Teabagger 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.
The Teabagger 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.
The Teabagger 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. The Teabagger's employer pays these standards because The Teabagger's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
If The Teabagger 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 lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It's noon time, The Teabagger needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. The Teabagger's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect The Teabagger's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
The Teabagger has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that The Teabagger and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
The Teabagger 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 dad's; 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 Republicans 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 The Teabagger 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 keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good (He doesn't tell The Teabagger that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit The Teabagger enjoys throughout his day).
The Teabagger agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives."
You need a new friend...
Great post, Harley!
Just calmly inform the lady that we in the movement do NOT call ourselves Teabaggers. That is a pejorative term pinned on us by liberal media people who must have been familiar with that sexual activity, and they wanted to besmirch Tea PARTIERS.
Libs trying to steel what we ALL contributed to. I lived it and there was no such thing as a tree hugger or liberal in the 60’s,.....just hippies, dirty smelly hippies.
“If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.”
Excellent list!
How about one more:
If a conservative encounters a problem, he works on solving it, looking to himself for a solution. If a liberal encouters a problem, he sits and demands the government, funded by others, solve it for him.
Their probably isn’t much you can say. This sounds like my breakfast table where my wife looks at me with concern because I still haven’t figured out what bad people conservatives are. Rather than accept that most conservatives are basically good, honest people like myself, she long ago decided that I’ve been conned, and that I’ll one day see the light.
Here’s, the truth. Conservatives are nothing like the liberal concept of conservatives, and to be honest, liberals aren’t the stereotypical loons described on FR either. Most folks just get up, take care of their families, go to work and try to get by. The experience transcends politics more than any ideologue will ever admit.
Tell her that before you can rebut her spam mail you would like for her to come over so you can show her what a teabagger is exactly. Or could ask her that if Republicans are teabaggers, does that make liberals teabagees?
She needs to go back and review her history. America was not built by Liberals. It is being torn down by Liberals.
Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.
Why do liberals run for the hills, to the safety of the Teabagger neighborhoods?
Tell her she needs to get the facts and should read How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
Actually, what you need to ask her is how are her lib buddies doing running urban public “education”? How’s Washington DC doing decades later? Detroit? How’s that Great Society workin out for the inner city? When’s the last time she’s taken a leisurely stroll in one?
Explain in very great and graphic detail, perhaps with illustations, exactly what “teabagging” means. And remind her that liberals are fighting to make this normal and accepted. And taught in schools.
Ask her how safe now are the neighborhoods and schools we grew up in? Ask when she’s going to request Section 8 housing to move into her neighborhood? When’s she gonna give up her own job, or her kid’s/grandkid’s admission to the college of his/her choice in the name of “affirmative action”? Ask why doesn’t she and her fellow liberals go “diversify” the inner cities or send their kids to schools there? After all, shouldn’t she set an example to “celebrate diversity”? What happened to the formerly great state of California nowadays? All that dope and drugs you hear about now in the schools, thank your Woodstock liberals. Oh, and how many cases of HIV did you hear about before the Stonewall riot? What’s today’s deficit ? The US Post Office deficit? How’s Detroit’s auto industry compared to say, 40 years ago? Sales tax rates? Property taxes? “User” fees? Been on some toll roads lately? What’s the food stamp program count numbers now? Reading and math proficiencies in urban schools? Remember when we didn’t need security guards? Electronic gates? Gated communities?
Oh and lastly, when’s the last time she’s prayed and given thanks for the reasons for President’s Day and Veteran’s Day?
The one part of the list of claims that struck me, was employment benefits. Much of the benefits, including medical, was instituted around the time of WWII as an alternative to higher wages and salaries, if memory serves me correctly. Good luck trying to correlate that with modern liberalism.
So does this Tea Partier.
He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards.
This Tea Partier filters every drop of water he drinks because a lifetime exposure to fluoride and chlorine on a daily basis has left him dangerously allergic - Some liberal has caused drinking water to be poisonous to him.
Luckily, he lives near clear-water creeks... Creeks which he can drink from with no filters at all when he walks in the woods.
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 The Teabagger gets it too.
After years of being poisoned by water, this Tea Partier was poisoned further by the toxic chemical cocktail prescribed by big-pharma doctors who never did figure out what his illness was. In the first year of illness, he was deemed uninsure-able, and his premiums were jacked up far beyond his means. Therefore, he and his family have no insurance at all.
After ten years, during which all trust in the medical system was completely removed, this Tea Partier found healing in God (whom liberals detest) and in natural alternative medicines- Medicines that are so cheap and easy to acquire that they can be paid for easily out of pocket, or if health is sufficient, can be collected from God's wonderful creation at no cost whatsoever.
While disabled, he admittedly received a tiny stipend from Social Security, and took advantage of low-income programs, but he was genuinely supported through his trial by residual income, his family and his church, whose free will gifts dwarf the meager amount offered by the government.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. The Teabagger's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
This Tea Partier ate venison and eggs for breakfast - Venison which was killed, cleaned, packaged, and cooked by his own two hands. And the eggs were produced in his own yard, by chickens he raise himself - And boy, are they ever better than those sickly things others are forced to buy from the national food system.
The Teabagger 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.
This Tea Partier can make his own soap, which has no chemicals in it at all.
The Teabagger 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.
This Tea Partier lives in Montana, where the foul stench of liberal cities is far removed.
The Teabagger 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. The Teabagger's employer pays these standards because The Teabagger's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
This Tea Partier hasn't worked for anyone in 30 years. He runs his own company, and employed others - Employed them, that is, until the exorbitant tax rates on employees caused him to restructure his business model to remove the need for the nine to twenty employees he used to provide work for.
If The Teabagger 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 lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
This Tea Partier has never been covered by Workman's Compensation, even though he was forced to pay for it for his employees - the cost of covering himself was always too expensive.
Neither has he ever drawn an unemployment check.
It's noon time, The Teabagger needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. The Teabagger's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect The Teabagger's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
This Tea Partier has no bank accounts. He chooses to invest in local businesses, run by fellow entrepreneurs, like in mind and in kind. He makes a fair rateon his invested money - far safer than Wall Street, and far more profitable than leaving it sit in the federally insured saving system.
His investments are self-insuring, as the bricks-and-mortar businesses he keeps his money in are worth far more than he has invested.
The Teabagger has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that The Teabagger and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
This Tea Partier's house loan is with a local credit union, whose loans are made with local money. And He has never had a student loan in his life. Even so, he is smart enough to be successful in business, and smart enough to to do so in spite of governmental/liberal interference, not because of it.
The Teabagger 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 dad's; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards.
This Tea Partier's pickup is thirty years old, and has been personally upgraded and modified in order to make it far more powerful, and far more reliable, and far safer than anything one could get today.
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 Republicans would still be sitting in the dark)
This Tea Partier's family home is paid for. His father also used local banking resources, and paid every penny through self-employment. And this Tea Partier finds the electrical grid to be nothing more than a convenience, as he is fully capable of, and likewise supplied, in order to go off-grid at any given time (and soon will be).
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 The Teabagger wouldn't have to.
This Tea Partier's dad never drew a day of Social Security, and died working in his beloved mechanical shop at seventy-one years of age.
And BTW, dumbass, farmers don't have a union, and don't get union pensions.
After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show, the host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good (He doesn't tell The Teabagger that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit The Teabagger enjoys throughout his day).
The Teabagger agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives."
This Tea Partier thanks God for another convert. and prays that the "Teabagger" will soon learn the benefits of rugged individualism (self reliance), and will soon make a large family, and the sort of friends that will happily help him when he cannot be self-reliant - Happily because they are grateful to those like themselves, who helped them when they were down....
He is happy beyond words that another soul has been able to break the chains of liberalism.
Sorry it took so long I was busy.
Joe gets up at 5a.m., his wife joins him because he needs the second income so they can pay taxes.
He would like to get up at 8 am, but because of the tax burdens, he and now his wife, must work.
He sneaks a cup of coffee despite city regulations against coffee. Coffee is on the un wholesome list.
The water is clean and good because a huge foreign corporation sells him bottled water.
The local union run water coops water is filled with perchlorate (rocket fuel). Union Aerospace workers contaminated the water tables years ago.
With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because they come from an offshore online pharmacy, run by medical practitioners and not union bureaucrats. All but $50 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan that he contributes into.
He prepares his morning breakfast of a granola bar and a bowl of cereal. He used to enjoy bacon and eggs but the state has restricted them after they determined they are too high in sodium and cholesterol. Which doesn’t seem too bad given the rash of E coli break outs in bacon and eggs. EColi, the union Dept of Agriclture agents keep missing. Ecoli spread by illegal immigrants that will not wash their hands.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because Richard Nixon started the EPA to clean up the environment. He walks making certain not to make eye contact with any of the numerous illegal’s and gang bangers that wolf pack and beat innocent taxpayers.They call him a pendejo gringo. His town prides itself for being a sanctuary city for illegals, such as MS-13 gang bangers.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because he studied hard, earned good grades and stayed away from the liberals pushing pot. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he has saved enough and bought insurance to cover lost wages and even pay bills.
It’s noontime. Liberals across America begin to wake up as Joe and his wife have now worked several hours. His work enables liberals to take buses to protests at which they will carry professionally made placards and signs saying that Joe and his wife are Nazis. And that his daughters are whores.The liberals enjoy free transportation in a very comfy,clean bus with great security to the protests.They even get free meals to and from the protests.
Joe’s home is below market value. Liberals such as Jimmy Carter and Barney Frank bought votes by creating agencies such as the CRA and Fannie Mae. Liberals even removed any down payment requirements to buy homes. The housing market collapsed. In fact the economic collapse was so severe it affected the entire planets economy.
Joe plans to visit his father this evening at his nursing home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because it’s from a non UAW auto plant in Japan. He passes by his boyhood home. A home his parents lost when their neighborhood went under. His old neighborhood suffered form the liberals vote buying tactics too.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His dad fought for the nation in far away place called ‘Nam. Liberals called his dad a baby killer when he got home. He had to go, President Johnson drafted him. Joe wasn’t drafted. President Ford ended the Selective Service in 1973. His father lives on Social Security and some GI Benefits. He may have to leave the nursing home because the workers want to unionize. The costs will be more than Joes dad can afford.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and listens to the radio, he tunes past a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that Joe is a teabagger, a Nazi and his daughters are whores.
He and his wife had worked their day, but they don’t really get the money. Their wages go towards their taxes, this year’s Tax Freedom Day, is April 9th this year.
A liberal is enjoying a great meal provide by MoveOn something or other. He doesn’t know that his mom was to have aborted him. She changed her mind after some born again Christian handed her a pamphlet outside a planned parenthood clinic. He is returning home via bus after the days- “Joe and his wife are Nazis and his kids are whores”, protest.
As Joe exits the freeway another car pulls alongside Joes car. The passengers fire guns into Joe’s car as they yell pendejo gringo! and speed off.
Joe never made it home.
Joes wife still owes taxes on income Joe earned, when she inherited Joes savings.
At Joe’s funeral a former Democrat candidate and his “church” protested. They carried signs calling Joe, his wife Nazis and his daughters whores.
I laugh when I see crap like this. Do you know anybody who reads the ingredients on the shampoo bottle they are using? Heck, people don't even read the ingredients on the food they eat.
In CA we have a new law that makes all the Restaurants list the calorie count of every food item on the menu. The fast food places list the calories next to the items on the big menu behind the counter. Nobody even notices and if they do they laugh out loud.
I am 57 years old and I marvel how I survived my youth playing with Mercury or riding my Schwinn Stingray without wearing a helmet. And no, I didn't do both those things at the same time.
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