A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

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A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

This showed up in my e-mail. Anbody know the author? The writer's profound.

A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

A TvNewsLIES Reader contribution.
By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - jgray7@cinci.rr.com - July - 2004

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. Joe¹s 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. Joe¹s employer pays these standards because Joe¹s employer doesn¹t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he¹ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn¹t 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. Joe¹s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe¹s 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 didn¹t want to make rural loans. The house didn¹t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn¹t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican¹s 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 wouldn¹t 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 host¹s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn¹t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don¹t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I¹m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".

By John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - jgray7@cinci.rr.com - Published July - 2004