recent post about "them damn liberals"

[carrowsboy]

Can anyone repost that article where it tells a story of a typical conservative pissed off about "them damn liberals" that got him a SS check, safe drinking water, etc.

Much appreciated.

[NMDemDist2]

1. A day in the life of Joe Republican

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 because his employer needs to offer competitive benefits to hire the best people.

Joe 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.

Joe drives to work in one of the safest cars in the world because some liberal fought to raise safety standards and emission controls.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with good pay, medical 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 up to $100,000 because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from greedy, unscrupulous bankers like the ones who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe needs to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some 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 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 might 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 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".

[Catch22Dem]

3. Fucking brilliant!

Haven't seen that one!

[carrowsboy]

4. THANK YOU!!!

I have to send this out to some people!

[NMDemDist2]

9. you're welcome! it's a keeper isn't it? n/t

[Massacure]

6. How sure are you that all of those policies were made by liberals?

[ASanders84]

8. I absolutely love that

[sam sarrha]

2. wont do any good, they changed the definition of Liberal... to evoke a

negative emotion.. to which the Dido Head seeks out because the brain chemicals that it produces are ADDICTIVE..

this creates typical addiction DENIAL. It is the most "indestructible element known to man".

You have heard the saying, "You cant take it with you" ..well, denial probably is an exception. I know several people that took alot of Denial to the Grave with them.

[istruthfull]

5. Liberal is now a bad word

Can't help but give credit to the NON-existent right wing agenda'rs for making Liberal a bad word, took skill and years to do. Shame they wont change the name Republician to what it should be. Republician = oppression/communism/dictatorship.

[olddem43]

7. Those Dang Liberals!

LTTE from Jack Buescher, Published in the Cincinnati Enquirer (a RW Rag) and posted on DU


Those dang Liberals. They sure have screwed things up. Every Conservative knows it. Just ask Rush or Hannity or O’Reilly. They talk about it all the time, 24/7. Just the word “Liberal” fills us with fear and loathing thanks to Newt Gingrich and the Fox network.

Those dang Liberals; just look what they did to our country: FDR, the worst, nastiest of all Liberals is responsible for pulling our country out of the Great Depression when us Conservatives wanted to “Stay the Course”.

Liberals are responsible for all kinds of expensive legislation that ended up protecting our investments, our environment, our air, road, and railroad safety. Dang Liberals ended Prohibition that was brought on by our good Conservatives. And they inflicted rural America with electricity and built the TVA with those dang lakes and dams too.

And just look what they did to our work and families. Those dang Liberals made America a middle class country, made work conditions safer, created jobs where there were none, ended sweat shops, and fought for a living wage. They provided housing for the poor and under-employed. And some of their worst ideas were Social Security , Medicare, and veteran’s benefits. We would rather have our seniors and vets begging on the streets than collecting from these “socialistic” agencies.

You have to watch out for Liberals. They think about people first.

We took the word “compassionate” from them. Imagine, the concept of fair pay, the 40 work week, paid vacation, medical coverage and an inheritance tax on the super wealthy that tries to level the playing field. No self respecting Conservatives would embrace these expensive programs and little by little we are taking ‘em back.

We called ‘em “tax and spend” Liberals, and it stuck, even after Reagan tripled the national debt. Clinton tried to make us Conservatives look bad by paying down the debt and running a surplus. The surplus is gone now and our big spenders got big tax cuts. And Bush2’s war to settle the family score has generated billions for his chums. If the dang Liberals get in again they have to pay the bills we ran up. The joke’s on them. If we stay in, the sky’s the limit.

I could go on but I’m sure you get the point, us Conservatives like the “good old days” and those Liberals dream of moving forward. Dang ‘em