Joe Republican gets his wish.

[ErikJ]

This is a re-post from Flaminlib 5 years ago. Never heard the 2nd part where Joe is thinking suicide cuz of the GOP. The original had a big impact on me when Thom Hartmann first read it.

I wonder if this could be animated or acted and put on Youtube somehow? It could go viral.


A day in the life of Joe Republican and a reprise or Sympathy for the Devil.

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 water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure 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 the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

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 FSLIC 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."

******

Joe votes Republicans into power.

Joe once enjoyed fishing and the outdoors. Now the fish he catches exceed the mercury levels set by the FDA because of de-regulated coal fired electric plants.

Joe's paying for his health insurance now because his employer can't afford to pick up the cost after the industry was de-regulated and tort reform capped damages. That expense really cuts into the budget.

Joe doesn't visit his dad very often because gas is too expensive what with the uncertainty of the Middle East and all the wars going on over there.

Joe's dad had to give up the homestead when Social Security was privatized and his stock portfolio lost most of it's value.

Joe comes home in the evening to a home with a sweltering 85 degrees because the electric bill is too high for him to pay because of the cost of oil and natural gas used to generate his electricity.

Joe's father is begging for a lethal cocktail of drugs because he feels abandoned in the nursing home. Joe doesn't have time to visit what with the second job to make his mortgage payment after predatory lending laws were repealed and he got screwed when he cashed out his equity to avoid bankruptcy.

Joe's kid is in Iraq on his third tour. They used to exchange emails every day but when net neutrality was defeated his ISP jacked up the charges for his DSL so high he had to drop it. Now the letters come once every few weeks if at all.

Joe's street is full of pot holes and the sidewalks are falling apart because his city can't get help from Federal grants and the last city tax increase was defeated. Three houses on his street were vandalized because of the cutback in the police force.

Joe's depressed because his wife left him after all the fights over money. He can't afford counseling because he dropped his insurance after his employer cut his pay to compete with the illegal aliens.

Joe's gained 50 pounds and a heart condition. He can't afford the blood pressure medication because his drug benefits under Medicaid have been slashed.

Joe's talk radio is on endless repeat and he still thinks everybody should just take care personal responsibility.

Joe sits alone in the dark fondling the gun he bought with his instant background check and no psychological profile.

[butterfly77]

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I remember this too..