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.
Speaking of water, farmers in California were denied water for their crops in California because it would endanger the Smelt thanks to the liberals, but please continue....
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.
While some folks badly in need of new life saving medication have no access to it because it is stalled in bureaucracy imposed by liberal standards, they must suffer for years, even decades or find a way to get it in foreign countries...carry on....
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
Medical insurance tied to employees of jobs provide union imposed benefits that have driven many companies to relocate to foreign countries so that can operate. Why should medical insurance even be tied to employment benefits? Affordable health insurance should be offered to every American at the same rates offered to employers who can offer the coverage by buying in bulk.
- now Joe gets it too.
Like I said, anyone could have it if it was offered at the same rate without being tied to employment. Affordable rates would be possible if insurance companies could compete for business across state lines.
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.
While more regulations imposed on farmers cause more farmers to go bankrupt and more farms to fold...rising grocery costs deny many low and middle class families the ability to buy quality food for balanced meals. While I agree that regulations should be in force for the quality and safety of our food products, not to mention the humane treatment of the animals involved, the bureaucratic system needs to be simplified so the regulations can actually be economically feasible to enforce.
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.
Labels are beginning to read like War and Peace. Enjoy the read...great work Mr. Liberal.
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.
No argument from this Conservative.
He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work.
Aw, come on. People made it to work for decades without subsidized transportation to get there. Put it in your budget, Mr. Liberal.
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.
Like I said...put the transportation costs in your budget. We people who don't live in the big cities buy our own vehicles and gasoline to get to work everyday. Why should we have to subsidize your ride to work while we pay for ours? Want us to pack your lunch and walk you to the bus stop, too?
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.
Many jobs are no longer in the United States because of unions breaking the backs of the employers with more and more demands. The industry and business that stays in the U.S.A. just pass the costs on to the consumers in higher prices. Those wages and benefits are being paid for by every consumer in the country, including the union wage earners. They see these big pay raises and increased benefits, yet the raises are quickly lost in the higher prices they must pay to be a consumer. Their health care benefits are better, but the costs are also higher, in case you didn't notice your paycheck may actually be a little smaller because of the portion you must pay for your coverage has increased. And Joe Average who works in the non-union jobs and is happy for receive a fair, living wage is impacted by these costs also.
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.
Why should employers have to fear unions. Employers are providing jobs and taking the fiscal risks of a free market to provide these jobs. As for accidents and unemployment, the advantages received will not save your home in catastrophic cases. Ask me about how far my cushy government job benefits got me when I was hurt off the job. Shit happens. Families should look after each other like back in the day when government was not the nanny to all people.
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.
The same banking practices that have outed the gouging of consumers in these modern times. The federally funded insurance does protect consumer assets to a certain extent at the cost of every taxpayer. Yet the banks get bailed out, people paid for their losses, and the bankers are again free to find more ways to screw up the economy while fattening their own off shore accounts. How about instead of using taxpayer money to save the day, get to the bottom of how these bankers and fiscal manipulators scam the public and run off with our money.
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.
Uh, housing crisis? Why is the government underwriting loans to people who cannot afford to or are not secure enough in their lifestyle and fiscal practices to receive these loans? The American way...work hard, pay your bills, save up a down payment, buy a house. Not everyone should be a home owner. It is not a right, it is a privilege. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed by offering to subsidise risky home buyers. We all, as taxpayers, share in the cost of bad loans to risky people. Our country is now in the worse housing crisis ever seen by the people of the U.S.A. because of the liberal views that everyone should be equally offered the opportunity to own a home whether they are responsible or not. All of the taxpayers are suffering because of these liberal views.
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.
Recalls, did anyone hear the word recall? The safety standards should be met before the cars hit the road. Somebody is not doing their job. What good are standards when not enforced.
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.
I'll concede that point to a certain extent. But check back in history when the demands for electrification were being adopted. Conservatives backed it.
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.
Social Security. A fine idea but one not totally researched. Social Security was meant for a society where the life span of its people was around 60 to 65 years. It was a gamble that most people who paid into the system would be dead before or shortly after they became retirement age. Who would guess that today's 80 would be yesterdays 65. People are far outliving their benefits for over the past three decades. Today's retirees are living on our grand children's benefits. The aging population will never be able to collect what they have paid into the system. Alternate retirement plans should be encouraged (not that anyone could actually live off their social security benefits anyway) This is when being a nanny state is fiscally impossible. People need to plan for their own lives and take charge, or rely on family to help get them by. Generations past took care of their aging, not the government.
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."
True! All have benefited by liberal views but have made us a very needy society of people who cannot stand on our own two feet. Is it too late to change? All the things given to us by the government are at the cost of taxpayers. We are paying a bureaucracy billions to oversee all of our benefits everyday. And the 13 trillion deficit is still rising while a liberal adminsitration continues to spend. Perhaps if we did not have to pay for all of these programs, as taxpayers we would have the money available to stand on our own two feet and use our own charitable instincts to help those need with a hand up (as opposed to hand out). Liberals, Conservatives, Independents all pay for those who do not care if they ever work or not. We pay welfare to able bodied people, subsidize their housing, put the burden of health care to the indigent on our hospitals, which they pass on to us in rising health care costs. We pay unwed mothers who continue to have child after child while on welfare and subsidized housing. Where are their families to teach her to stand up on her own, get a job, raise her own children off the backs of the taxpayers? She is probably the third generation of welfare mothers and has learned the system well. How many drunkards and drug abusers are being housed and fed by the taxpayers? If the Conservatives didn't look out for us fiscally, would the Liberals? Maybe it's time to reach a happy medium and each party give a bit each way. Liberals, we can't support everyone, and everyone is not worthy of our support. Conservatives, know the difference and bend a little to those who are really in need because of circumstances, not laziness. Get the bureaucrats and regulators off the government payroll by reducing social programs. Level the tax paying field, dispose of the two ton tax code and make everyone pay the same 17% across the board with no loopholes and no need for the billions spent on IRS employees and tax enforcement.
Most of all, everyone, help those you chose to help through your own charitable hearts. Take the money out of the middle man's hands and it will help many more people than you will ever know.
