LuckyTheDog
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:33 PM
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Something I found on a message board |
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I don't know who wrote this, but it is pretty good:
"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN"
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's 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. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby 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 environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants 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, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy 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 stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money overhis lifetime.
Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university. 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. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safetystandards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.
He arrives at his boyhood home. His 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 electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the 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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Fri Apr-08-05 12:35 PM
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and :party: WELCOME ABOARD! :party:
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:35 PM
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2. I saw that a while ago |
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Edited on Fri Apr-08-05 12:37 PM by hippiepunk
but its still funny. Welcome from another newbie! :hi: on edit: welcome
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:37 PM
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This has been around awhile. However, no reason AT ALL why it can't be brought up yet again. And maybe again soon after that. It's important. Thanks for posting it here! It's an EXCELLENT reminder.
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:38 PM
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Glad to see you here. I saw this too and it's typical. :)
:hi:
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:38 PM
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4. There is a great amount of truth in that |
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Conservatives piss me off when they think they do everything for themselves.
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:40 PM
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6. This is ALL wrong I tell you |
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What about the FREE MARKET? Huh, huh? If Joe get sick from unsafe medicine or food, or the polluted air gives him lung cancer....he just won't buy from that bad corporation next time. </sarcasm>
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:40 PM
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And this is the first time I've used the F word on DU.
I have been arguing this point for pretty much all of my adult life: there are NO self-made men or women. Plenty who think they are, but where would they be without roads, electricity, medicine, education, plumbing?
Nominating, forwarding, and printing out to past on my door at work!
Thanks for sharing.
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:42 PM
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8. Could you give the link? Thanks...it's a good read. n/t |
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:44 PM
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9. For the life of me I don't know why Dems aren't constantly touting the |
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amazing contributions their party has made to improve the life of every day people.
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:47 PM
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Edited on Fri Apr-08-05 12:48 PM by Pithlet
:applause: I'm bookmarking, and the next time I get some stupid right wing email, I'm forwarding this to everyone on the list.
Oh, and welcome to DU! :bounce:
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Fri Apr-08-05 12:49 PM
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11. It's sad reading this because Bushies have already worked to undermine |
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Edited on Fri Apr-08-05 12:50 PM by KoKo01
so many of Joe Republicans perks mentioned in this. What's so good about reading this again, is that it reminds ALL of us what they are up to and how much we've lost that we really have to fight to keep the rest from being taken away or dismantled beyond recognition. :-(
Welcome to DU! :toast:
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Fri Apr-08-05 02:10 PM
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12. Welcome to DU Lucky!! |
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Thanks for sharing this! It's great & I'm printing it out now to send to my repuke mother - who incidentally, is on social security & medicade.
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Fri Apr-08-05 02:59 PM
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Fri Apr-08-05 03:07 PM
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14. Thanks Lucky! and Welcome to DU. |
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Fri Apr-08-05 03:56 PM
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15. I think I know where this was posted originally! |
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cool to see again, thanks!
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Fri Apr-08-05 04:25 PM
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16. On Freidman's Discovery Channel Show |
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last night - he was complaining that the US cosmetic companys are going to have to change their formulas at considerable expense because the EU has standards (such as no cancer-causing agents) and it's getting so that the EU is setting the rules for global trade with their 450,000,000 people.
Seems to me - while many good things were mentioned in the post you reposted - the FDA and the EPA are getting pretty lax about things. Now it takes the Europeans to do anything - and the US is following along - reluctantly - to hear Friedman tell it.
Oh yeah - I want a bunch of toxic waste on my face. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
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Fri Apr-08-05 07:50 PM
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17. thanx man...........pretty much says it all |
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Fri Apr-08-05 08:14 PM
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18. Original title -- and credit (?) |
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A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican By John Gray, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2004 Dunno for sure but it's what I found so far - http://www.newshounds.us/2004/08/31/a_day_in_the_life_of_joe_middleclass_republican.phpBIG THANK YOU to John Gray, who wrote it. Visit his site at TVNewsLies.org for more dialogue on deception in the media.
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Fri Apr-08-05 08:21 PM
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19. Awesome post! Here's a link to the source/author. |
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Fri Apr-08-05 10:09 PM
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Not bad for a rookie.
Welcome to DU :hi:
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Fri Apr-08-05 10:31 PM
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21. Welcome & Great Post! |
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I had read this before, & it makes so much sense, why doesn't the Dem Party buy it & use it?
Too bad politicians don't make the case as well.
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Sat Apr-09-05 01:23 AM
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22. Yowza! That says it all! Thanks for sharing. |
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