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Old 01-29-2008, 11:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

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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”.
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Old 01-29-2008, 11:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Good post. I can't wait to see how Muddy responds to this one!
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Good post. I can't wait to see how Muddy responds to this one!
he won't! so i wouldn't hold my breath if i were you!!!
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Old 01-30-2008, 05:51 PM   #4 (permalink)
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What a bunch of horseshit! Joe Liberal might have healthcare if we wasn't too damn lazy to get up and go to work with Joe Republican.
You nailed that one. Since not a single 'liberal' in this country has ever had a job.
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A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Yeah, because everything in life can be simplified to liberal and conservative? This post is very small minded,injust propaganda.

Logically and rationally, I don't think you can attribute all that to any one group. Basically by agreeing with it your saying that all people who vote with Republican sometimes are completely ungrateful or fail to recognize that we are better off with certain regulations protecting our health and well being? That's ridiculous, I have seen this post before on the old BMB, its running on the premise that just because you label yourself "liberal" you suddenly can do no wrong, that your automatically righteous and humanistic? Yeah well if that's the case why do all your leaders condone a pointless war? Fiscal irresponsibility? I am not saying Republican's don't either, I am simply trying to point out that its very hypocritical.

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I'm guessing you've got your causality reversed. anyone who becomes unemployed would rationally support the party who wants to extend unemployement and secure health care not tied to employment. ergo they become democrats. except for the few idiots who think all their problems are caused by the gays down the road marrying - they'll stay republican.
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Our problems are caused by the people that refuse to work and pay their fair share. If you don't contribute you shouldn't be allowed to vote for any political office, as a matter of fact if you have paid taxes for consecutive years your vote should be worth more than crack head, drug selling, pimping joe street person that will register democrat so his ole lady can get her food stamps on the first of the month.
Is there any ancient, idiotic and obnoxious cliché you do not believe and would spew here?
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Our problems are caused by the people that refuse to work and pay their fair share. If you don't contribute you shouldn't be allowed to vote for any political office, as a matter of fact if you have paid taxes for consecutive years your vote should be worth more than crack head, drug selling, pimping joe street person that will register democrat so his ole lady can get her food stamps on the first of the month.

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Old 01-31-2008, 07:26 PM   #9 (permalink)
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not until you have grown up and faced some reality so you could unerstand jr.
"Unerstand" racist and absurd mythology held up as some kind of mature truth? Please, regale us with your first hand experiences of being stuck in traffic with "Welfare Cadillacs".
On second thought, do not. Those tired old stereotypes have been given enough attention already.
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whatever you say mr. experience, stereotypes have nothing to do with life experiences.
And what are your "life experiences"? A Black person or a woman received some perk or reward, which not that long ago would have been routinely denied them without a second thought and with the force of law behind the denial, that you felt you or another deserved more?
Or was I right about your being stuck in that "Welfare Cadillac" traffic jam, angry and bitter that someone may have something you do not believe they deserve, while in fact knowing nothing about them?
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