Monday, February 21, 2011

A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

     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 the 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 FDIC 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”.

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