Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards.
He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised. All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers 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 this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some 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 tree hugging 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. You see, some 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, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some 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 liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
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 to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He 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 electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.
After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his 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”.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
As posted on AddictingInfo.com
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You forgot to mention a few things, Mike.
You forgot to mention that those same liberals spend other people's money in reckless ways. You forgot to mention that despite all the taxes that "Joe" pays, "Joe" lives in a soon to be bankrupt country with a $14 trillion national debt. You forgot to mention that our national economy will continue to suffer precisely because liberals like yourself are so fond of defecit spending.
Poor Joe. His once great nation spent itself into collapse. Thanks, liberals.
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You just illustrated how liberals have been successful in making the populous dependent on the government ... which is realy the main reason why they are successful at winning elections.
I need a cup of tea after that last remark.
Mr. Martin,
Middletown isn't run by liberals, and yet our town debt has skyrocketed in the last decade. These days the town is barely solvent. That is the end result of years of unsound decisions, poor management, and that recklessness with other people's money you speak of.
Martin, You forgot to mention that GWB and his reckless spending for 2 unfunded wars and unfunded tax breaks for the wealthy contributed to nation's debt. That along with a world wide financial melt down and high employement is why we are in the crisis we are in.
Pres. Clinton left us with a huge surplus when GWB took over. So stop blaming so called Liberals for raising the defict. Even Ronald Reagan ran up the deficit when he was in office.
The point that Mike is trying to make, is that the things we take for granted that protect every citizen were sponsored mainly by those so called liberals.
If you're so concerned about deficit spending that you should be pushing for changing the tax breaks for the wealthy. Even Warren Buffet agrees. He's one of the wealthiest men in the world and admits he does not pay his fair share.
Get people back to work and the deficit will come down.
Mr. Martin: I suppose you would prefer to be in a depression. Maybe you're too young, but I prefer not to go through that again.
Thank you Robert Martin for that debt clock. Did you notice that little icon to the right that gives you the debt time machine? I did. Check out the debt between 2000 and 2008- the glorious Bush Years. You and the Tea Party didn't seem to mind when one of your own was running up the clock and ignoring terror warnings to boot.
But don't worry Robert, not everyone is suffering. Poor Joe's employer, if it is on Wall Street, may be doing very well thank you as their profits increase as they do more and more with less and less employees. If poor Joe in the customer service industry, he can always move to India where he can take on the same job he lost here for a much diminished salary. See, it's not as bad as you say, right Robert?
Robert, you forgot to mention that the cost of health care has trippled in the last 10 years. That has also contributed to the deficit.
Clinton tried to change that and couldn't because of Republican opposition. Obama got something passed, but in my opinion not enough.
Corporations are making huge profits, but are not increasing their employment. They've learned they can succeed with what they have. Yet they still enjoy those tax breaks which are still promising to trickle down.
We've got to stop the wasteful spending and increase revenue. You can't lower the deficit doing one without the other.
That's not liberal thinking it's just basic economics.
Thank you, Anonymous. Given the time stamps, I have to believe that you are one person and not several persons.
That said, and as any conservative will be quick to tell you, George W. Bush was no conservative. Anyone that would add a prescription drug benefit to an already broke Medicare system is not acting financially responsible. Bush certainly didn't act responsibily when he added billions, if not trillions, to our debt when launching the wars that he did -- wars, I might add, that President Obama and the Democrats that controlled Congress until recently did little to stop and/or unfund. Again, conservatives are not fans of G.W. Bush.
Spare me the whole "let's tax the rich until they bleed" argument. Obama's plan to increase taxes on the wealthiest top 2% of wage earners would only bring in $700 billion dollars OVER A TEN YEAR PERIOD. We are adding over $1.4 trillion each year to the national debt. $700 billion in new taxes over ten years is nothing more than a band-aid on a soon to be dead patient. We will, if we continue Obama's reckless ways, add another $14 trillion in debt over that same 10 year period. China will own us in ten years unless we made radical changes in the way we spend money.
Again, we cannot afford the government that we have already. We need to radically reduce spending. If we don't do that, we will cease to exist as a country. It really is that simple.
gRobert Martin....Whoooaaa! Who began the National Debt free fall? Obama? I think not. Clinton left a surplus. Maybe you can try to understand this analogy: Bush sat at the dinner table and ordered a few wars (how many trillions did they cost?), tax cuts to the wealthy, let millions of jobs go overseas then left the check to be paid for Obama. Got it? Well, it looks like you never will since you can only see what you want to see.
New Jersey's Debt Clock: Got Property Taxes?
Robert, Do you really believe that by increasing the tax rate to the rich is bleading them? The rich didn't become rich from just their salaries. They make their money from investments, and on captital gains they pay only 15% in taxes.
I should know, because that's all I pay, So spare me the bleading the rich defense. The rich are not bleading. It's the middle class who are bleading and can't catch a break.
To suggest that $700 billion in added tax revenue wouldn't help is ridiculous. Changing the tax rate back to where it was under Clinton
is not bleading anyone.
Without a strong middle class this country will continue to go downhill.
I don't beleive in reckless spending anymore than you do, but to accuse Obama of it, as if he alone is responsible for the deficit is completely irrational.
We are in a world wide economic crisis caused by a financial melt down that happened prior to Obama taking office.
The auto industry has rebounded, banks are recovering and paid back their debt. It's going to take a long time for unemployment to improve, because companies are still not hiring.
We should be focusing on job creation and improving the economy just as Reagan did.
Cut spending by reducing our involvement in Irag and Afganistan. That should save us billions.
I'm curious as to where you feel more spending should be cut, since a deficit reduction plan was just agreed to.
Anonymous @ 8:53PM, you mentioned the "Clinton surplus." Tell me, which political party controlled the Congress (and thus the nation's spending) when our nation enjoyed this surplus? (Hint: No one was calling Comrade Pelosi "Madam Speaker" back then.) Which political party has, for more than the last 30 years, supported a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution? Which party has stood in the way of fiscal responsibility?
Mr. Martin, please spare us your hyperbole. Clinton ran on reducing the deficit because it was out of control from 12 years of Reagan and Bush Sr.
He did work well with Newt and together they were successful in reducing the deficit.
8 years of Bush, with 2 wars and tax cuts for the wealthy pissed all that away and then some.
Neither party owns the rights to good fiscal governance. It should be all about working together for the common good, but that's not happening. The Republicans just want Obama to fail just like they wanted Clinton to fail. All that money wasted on trying to impeach him was insane.
So saying the Republicans are the only ones who are fiscally responsible is pure BS and hypocritical. You just want to spend our tax dollars on wars and tax breaks for the wealthy.
I find it very interesting that conservatives now try to distance themselves from Bush. Is there any Repbulican President they approve of? Do we have to all the way back to their hero Reagan, who raised taxes and the deficit. Would they approve and support him now?
Is the deficit their only issue now that a Democrat is President?
There's more to this than just deficit spending. Conservatives want it their way or the highway. There's no room for compromise, its all black and white with no grey area. That's a big problem.
The Tea Party "Sons of Bitches" should be tarred and feathered on the rotunda of the Capital Building !
Hypocritical mongrels !!
What are they smoking ???
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