Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
by John Gray
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 lose 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”.
|||This is FABULOUS! Thank you for posting it!
And yes, I agree this is how Republicans (with blinders on) see things.|||Nice
In many cases I think it is so!|||if joe does not believe in republican values he was never one to begin with|||Very true!! Great story!|||I wonder if the writer realizes that just because something was right in the past doesn't make the philsophy right now. |||Yes, it is true...think about it.|||Nice article. Thanks for that. It's about time we stopped acting as though we're ashamed of being "too liberal."|||Yes, liberals have save the world and are god like. We all bow down to your supreme intelligence.
You forgot to mention that Joe has to lock everything up because liberals are soft on crime.
That Joe's daughter can't feel safe walking alone because rapists are let loose.
That Joe's son has to worry about pedophiles everywhere because "it's not their fault" and they are let loose.
That Joe's kids are getting a pisspoor education because liberals have taken over and are not teaching anymore.
That the inner cities are crime infested crap holes thanks to liberal agendas.
Liberal ideas are OK in small doses but must be tempered with strong conservative values.|||Wow! Nice.|||Thank you for all the things that "they" did. I seems to me, most of those things happened before the sixties. JFK was OK but, what have they (the current liberals) done lately. Return from the "radical mentality" and deconstructionist revolutionaries. That's what the heartland supports.
Obama know's it. Last year, his platform was transparent to enlist your support. Today he sounds very moderate, which is insincere. |||What Joe doesn't understand, when the Rich got large tax cuts Joe was told they would create more jobs, but they took the money and the jobs from Americans sending them to nations across the world, as well as Mexico and Canada, now the average Joe can't find a job.
When John McCain and others passed a bill to deregulated banking, Crooks took advantage of the average Joe, causing him to lose his home. When he got his loan, payments were $600.00 within 3 years they were $1100.00, Yes, that's what happened to the average Joe in America under George Bush and the Republican Congress for 6 years.
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