Those Big Government Liberals are Ruining our lives...

...from fark.com

"Joe gets up at 6 am and fills his coffee pot 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 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."

to use making wanker wingers STFU

:-)

Should make an excellent E-mail reply to some of the spam the freepers keep circulating.

There's a great piece at the site Responsible Wealth-dot-org:
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/press/2004/Forbes400_pr.html
(need PDF)

showing how the people who do get very rich didn't do it by themselves - there was an underlying society of public investment and infrastructure that helped them.

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Every day, along with the fact that most students wouldn't be in schools without those same commie pinkos, or have qualified teachers to teach them.

Blame those do-gooder spoilsport liberals for campaigning against child labor (and implementing mandatory education and workplace safety standards).

I've seen it before, but not lately.

Thanks for posting.

1,710 Hits - I recall seeing this or something like in a year or two ago.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joe+gets+up+at+6+am%22&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

...but well worthy of occasional repetition. Welcome to DU!

Conservatives (AND Libertarians) line up for their Agricultural Subsidies and Disaster Relief (Flood or Drought depending on the year) in the morning,
and whine about the "Nanny State" in the afternoon.




Most Conservatives I know denounce "Big Government Programs" that don't directly affect them.
Which Government programs would YOU be willing give up?

FDIC (FSLIC)

EPA

Social Security (You really want your parents to come live with you?)

FDA (what's really in those pills?)

Bureau of Weights and Measures (Did you get a FULL gallon)

Corp of Engineers (All the floods that "didn't" happen. All the internal shipping channels and ports)

Weather Dept

Agriculture Dept (suppose everyone grew only corn this year)

Bureau of Land Management

Health Dept (Are there rats turds in your stew at the Diner?)

Weather Bureau

NASA (I have a problem with manned space projects, but where would we be without the satellites?)

FCC

Federal Maritime Commission (leaky supertankers?)

Highway Dept

SEC

Fire Department
Police Dept

Zoning Commissions (Want a Rendering Plant on your block?)

Federal funding of Medical and Social Science Research

National Parks

Libraries

Museums (Smithsonian)

Public Schools

Corrections

Better Business Bureau

Consumer Protection Agency

U.S. Postal Inspection Service (Fraud)

Dept of Veteran Affairs

FAA

Employment Standards Administration

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)





(ALL of the above are Socialist Programs).


Those are just the ones off the top of my head. There are mny more government programs that improve my quality of life daily.
Each could use some streamlining and upgrading, which should be an ongoing process.
You and I USE (reap the benefits from) each and every one of these programs every single day!
I would not like to see the elimination or defunding or privitization of any.



The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM
for those who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners)
at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

Sometimes I think Republicans win just cause they are meaner and yell louder. They sure aren't winning on their list of accomplishments. :(

I hadn't seen this - thank you! Fabulous!
:hi:

The right was wrong, so they send letters that start like this:

Dear DU,

I am writing today to apologize. I now know that I was wrong about many things but, worst than that, I derided you, marginalized you, called you every name in the book, and went along with a campaign to turn you into second class citizens, to make you the new, socially acceptable group to hate. I had a lot of help along the way, and as part of my 12-step program to return to the sobriety of citizenship, I want to knowledge my mistakes and offer my sincerest apologies.

Let me begin by saying I am sorry I didn't listen to you when you said the president had not made the case for war. I got caught up in the war like it was a football game. I wanted to be on America’s side, the winning side, and I had been going around waving my flag and yelling “we’re number one” for so long, that I think I lost sight of the fact that war is not a game. It was so easy to make myself feel bigger by laughing at the dems…in my heart I knew it was wrong, but everyone was doing it. . .

Everyone here has had someone at work say, "Hey, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you before the war started." Right?

TRULY REMARKABLE, well-written piece! Thanks!

I all ready had this one saved a while back. I think a friend emailed it to me about a year ago actually....