[Vision2020] Those durn liberals anyway!

[Tom Hansen]

EXCELLENT, Saundra.

This one's a keeper.

As they say:

"Vote Democrat if you want to live like a Republican."

Later, Moscow.

Tom Hansen



>From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Those durn liberals anyway!
>Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:48:20 -0700
>
>	A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
>
>Joe gets up at 6 AM 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 the same 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.
>
>It's noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some 
>bills.
>Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless 
>liberal
>wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous conservative 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 himself, just 
>like
>I have."
>
>
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