Saundra,<br><br>The Republican in me has to ask (in a shouting voice), WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA? ;-)<br><br>-Scott<br><br><b><i>Saundra Lund <sslund@adelphia.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN <br> <br>Joe gets up at 6 AM and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his<br>morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging<br>liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. <br> <br>With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His<br>medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to<br>insure their safety and that they work as advertised. <br> <br>All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan<br>because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical<br>insurance -- now Joe gets it too. <br> <br>He prepares his
morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to<br>eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat<br>packing industry. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His<br>bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total<br>contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he<br>was putting on his body and how much it contained. <br> <br>Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is<br>clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop<br>industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his<br>government-subsidized ride to work. <br> <br>It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because<br>some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which<br>gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor. <br> <br>Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with
excellent pay, medical<br>benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal<br>union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer<br>pays the same standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to<br>call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes <br>unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because<br>some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his<br>temporary misfortune. <br> <br>It's noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills.<br>Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal<br>wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous conservative bankers who<br>ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. <br> <br>Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market<br>federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the<br>government would be better off
if he was educated and earned more money over<br>his lifetime. <br> <br>Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his<br>farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is<br>among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for<br>car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third<br>generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration<br>because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have<br>electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't<br>belong and demanded rural electrification. He is happy to see his father,<br>who is now retired. <br> <br>His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some<br>wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of<br>himself so Joe wouldn't have to. <br> <br>Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk
show.<br>The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are<br>good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against<br>every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We<br>don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm<br>a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of himself, just like<br>I have." <br></blockquote><br>