[bramps]

I want to relate a very important example of free choice, capitalistic ideas, and the opportunities that exsist in this country. This is a true experience that I lived through and am very proud of. I am a CPA. Have practiced for 55 years. Was sitting in my office one day a few years ago when a young lady called, asked for me and was put through. She had a very strong accent that sounded familiar to me. It was because my immigrant parents sounded the same for years. She was of the same ethnicity and it was the reason she called me. I was the first one in the yellow pages with the same ethnic background. She was looking for a job in accounting. After a few minutes I asked her to come in. To make a long story short, she was a graduate of a University in her native country but didn't know anything about how we carried on in the US. She never saw a tax return nor even knew what I was referring to. I hired her because of her honesty in presenting her knowledge, her willingness to learn, her extreme desire to succeed in this profession. She told me she would be a CPA some day, to which, I'm ashamed to say I laughed at her. It didn't deter her. She asked me one day if I thought she could prepare her friends tax returns after being employed for a year. I replied, "If you don't like them". She had two children, a husband who also had a language problem and she was living with friends. Due to her convictions, intense desire, and hard work, today she is a CPA, has her own business and has a volume that exceed mine and when we met for lunch the other day, she drove off in a new Mercedes. At lunch we laughed at the times early in her employ, but I am astonished at her accomplishment. Her first child just entered the first year of college, no loans, she and her husband own a nice home and she is a very sound addition to this countries economy. That is my anti-Julia story and it benefits this country a lot more than Obama's example of government largess for votes. Amen.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880270/posts
Iowahawk: Julia’s Circle of Life

[Joe 6-pack]

Orwell's "1984" was the first thing I thought of when I heard the name of this fictitious composite lady. I know I can't be the only one, but I have to wonder how many people did not make the connection...

[andyk]

This is a good start, but the Republicans need to start getting mean.

[alloysteel]

A similar kind of propaganda was widely used in the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, when the paragon of the “New Soviet Man” was presented as the ideal for all of Mother Russia’s sons.

Didn’t prevent malingering and drunkennes on the job, though. After all, they won’t shoot EVERYBODY, would they?

Would they?

As it turned out, whole entire villages got just that treatment, and the stories were allowed to be passed by word of mouth as an example to other villages.

[sickoflibs]

[Gay State Conservative]

This is my new tagline....

[stormhill]

Heard Rush talk about "Julia" debunking the claims year by year. Of course, the fictional character is not meant literally to live all those years as if no other legislation or conditions will apply in future years.

Actually, Julia is a composite of many people in different stages of life currently enjoying the benefits of...wait, a composite of...now, where have we heard that before?

The pathological bastard strikes again!

[Army Air Corps]

You just described a citizen.
“Julia” is a subject.

[Army Air Corps]

She must have him and his big government to depend on to go anywhere in life.

Slavery. That, or the relationship between a pimp and a member of his "stable."

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[The Duke]

If women can’t make it without government assistance, and if government assistance comes from taxes imposed on men and women (who themselves can’t make it without government assistance) - doesn’t this mean that women can’t make it without taking money from men?

[Rembrandt]

Something just occurred to me. I think this “Julia” thing is just one more attempt by The Messiah and his minions to get the Republicans to join them for a wrestling match in the mud. They’re worried. We need to keep focusing on numbers and educate the voters.

[freekitty]

Has anyone noticed there is no notice of health care during Julia’s retirement years?

[Eagles6]

Julia is faceless. What’s up with that?
Oh. Never mind.
FTPU(Faceless Tax Paying Unit).
FNTPU (Faceless Non Tax Paying Unit)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wisconsin Paul Ryan and Julia ping

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