Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
A TvNewsLIES Reader contribution.
By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - [email protected] - July - 2004

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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.

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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”.

By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - [email protected] - Published July - 2004