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Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 09:03 PM Feb 2017

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN - (Found on FaceBook)

I have no idea if this is fully, factually correct, but I loved what it was saying...No author credit available.



A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN:

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. 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 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 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 FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous 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 themselves, just like I have."

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN - (Found on FaceBook) (Original Post) Lucinda Feb 2017 OP
Ditch the hostile derogatory slams on liberal. This used to not have those msongs Feb 2017 #1
? Lucinda Feb 2017 #2
A day in the life of Joe Republican - June 2017 needledriver Feb 2017 #3
This is great. Thanks for posting. :) Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 #4

msongs

(67,405 posts)
1. Ditch the hostile derogatory slams on liberal. This used to not have those
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 09:10 PM
Feb 2017

But somewhere along the way have been added

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
2. ?
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 09:15 PM
Feb 2017

Editing to say I think I know what you mean.
They don't bother me, I have heard many a Rep use them, and they make sense in this context.
Plus I didn't write this, I have no right to edit it.

 

needledriver

(836 posts)
3. A day in the life of Joe Republican - June 2017
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 09:35 AM
Feb 2017
A day in the life of Joe Republican - June 2017

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water from the gallon jug he bought to prepare his morning coffee. Tap water smells weird and tastes funny ever since they built the pipeline.


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