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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:00 PM
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A day in the life of Joe Republican
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 coffee, he takes his daily medication. His
medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought
to insure 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 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 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.

Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some
bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC 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 over his lifetime.

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 safety standards. 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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And a note from Rabrrrrrr: i don't know who wrote it. It's being passed around the emails. I think it is brilliant and filled with pure truth.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:02 PM
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1. Excellent!
I'm sending this one around. Thanks!
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:05 PM
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2. An oldie, but a goodie.
;)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:06 PM
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3. People like Robert Novak think they made their money in a vacume.
They would love to have no taxes to pay.
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 10:09 PM
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4. Thanks Rabrrr. Passed this along to my 77 year old mother,
who keeps getting email 'attacks' from a Republican supporter. He just sent her one that generally knocks liberals and Dems. I'd like to hear his response to this one.
Or maybe she should just tell him to put his money where his mouth is and not take his social security check or medicare benefits.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 09:01 AM
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5. Awesome!
Edited on Tue Sep-28-04 09:01 AM by ih8thegop
:thumbsup:
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Screaming Lord Bob Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 09:03 AM
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6. I've seen this before, but its worth seeing again.
And now I will bookmark this.

It is so brilliant.
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-28-04 09:15 AM
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7. And Joe is alive and free to do all these things
because some uneducated gun-totin' redneck felt it was better to protect America than to roll over and let the commies, terrorists, and dictators tell us what to do.

</sarcasm off>
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