Joe Conservative

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Joe Conservative
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 8:53am
This is in response to Truemobiles post about the college student. Couldn't find it when I wanted. Didn't post earlier because I thought it was too inflammatory, but guess I was wrong.

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".