Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Just FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!

How long do we 70's Vets get to keep being spit on???

 

[Moxon4]

After 4 more year of President Carter and two terms of puss man Dukakis, Joe is sad to see his son taken away to the CCCP work camp.

(Applauds)

Plus if the industry Joe was in was doing well it would be because of Republicans cutting taxes so it would operate better and his wages could go up, so giving more money to the top of the food chain trickles down

 

[TWB]

Hastert and Reid have the same damned ties.

This is no more than William Jefferson shared office space with Ney who had ties to Abramoff and they all took bribes so the Republicans are steeped in a culture of corruption so we have to vote out Republicans and get more upstanding citizens like William Jefferson and Harry Reid in charge of the largess of the Public Treasury to make sure the right Fawkin' Injuns get shown the money.

What a mountain-sea change!

African-Americans? In the bag.

It'a all about cheap Mexican labor and Indian Casinos...

Stop minimizing. Ney is not the only one. Read my post above.

While Jefferson was first, and looks to be guilty (innocent until proven otherwise), Hastert and the other repubs have a great interest in stopping any house office searches. No one wants to be next, especially if they are under investigation already.

If you are in agreement that there is a "culture of corruption," I might ask you, who has been in charge of the house the last ten years? If the unethical tone is set by republicans, and democrats are stupid enough to do the same illegal acts, I don't see how the republicans blame the democrats, or, point at democrats and say "hey, its not just us." It is their leadership, or lack of it, which led to and allowed this. Their failure to have a neutral ethics committee, etc.

It is the republican's tone. The republican's permissive house rules. The republican's fault. This does not abrogate the persons involved, regardless of party. But, it is the lack of leadership in the house that has led to what appears to be widespread corruption.

Time for a change.

 

[Moxon4]

Stop minimizing. Ney is not the only one. Read my post above.

While Jefferson was first, and looks to be guilty (innocent until proven otherwise), Hastert and the other repubs have a great interest in stopping any house office searches. No one wants to be next, especially if they are under investigation already.

If you are in agreement that there is a "culture of corruption," I might ask you, who has been in charge of the house the last ten years? If the unethical tone is set by republicans, and democrats are stupid enough to do the same illegal acts, I don't see how the republicans blame the democrats, or, point at democrats and say "hey, its not just us." It is their leadership, or lack of it, which led to and allowed this. Their failure to have a neutral ethics committee, etc.

It is the republican's tone. The republican's permissive house rules. The republican's fault. This does not abrogate the persons involved, regardless of party. But, it is the lack of leadership in the house that has led to what appears to be widespread corruption.

Time for a change.

I love that a Democrat being all but convicted on taking bribes and ethics violations is still the Republican's fault

The point of the "Culture of Corruption" crap the Democrats were spewing was that they were clean since they aren't Republicans, when really all of the House members are dirty

 

[MechaBlade]

Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Saw this in a blog and loved it. I don't know if it has been around a long time or not but I thought it was good, sorry if its old.


Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

By John Gray
Cincinnati, Ohio

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 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 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, medical 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 lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It's 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 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 to Dad's; 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 Republicans 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 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."

This thread is absurd. Republicans don't have "lives".

 

[Byron In Exile]

At a time, I might add, when it wasn't a real popular career choice; baby-killer.

You did what you felt you should do.

I was too young to vote at that time.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Just FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!

How long do we 70's Vets get to keep being spit on???

Pretty much forever.

But you'll be honored that much as well.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Just FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!

How long do we 70's Vets get to keep being spit on???

Hmmm. Losing it. And, who's spitting?

 

[phrodeau]

Hmmm. Losing it. And, who's spitting?

Probably a camel.

There are no documented cases of returning soldiers being spat upon in the months following the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Probably a camel.

There are no documented cases of returning soldiers being spat upon in the months following the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

I didn't know that there were camels in Viet Nam or in the US. Interesting.

In technologically-advanced Saudi Arabia, even the Bedouin are not as dependent on the camel as they once were. These days, camels are valued more as thoroughbred racing animals and sentimental images of the past than as the mainstay of transportation. But in many parts of Africa and Asia today, camels still pull ploughs, turn waterwheels and transport people and goods to market along desert routes unpassable by wheeled vehicles.

To appreciate the unique contribution that the Arabian camel has made to the people and history of desert lands, here's a comprehensive fact-pack on the special characteristics, body structure and behaviour patterns of this amazing creature.

Okay, looks like the troops now are more apt to be in the fire of camel spit. I think they're already protected, though, by the body armor that civilians (as family and friends and supporters of the troops) have purchased as an act of charity since the government chose not to...

Here, I'll quote Fox News:

The Department of Defense has provided thousands of top-of-the-line protective vests to coalition forces on the ground while some U.S. troops in Iraq have been asked to take their chances with inferior flak jackets, sources told Foxnews.com.

Congress had allocated funds for all U.S. troops to wear 16-pound, ceramic-plated Interceptor body armor (search), but as many as 51,000 American soldiers and civilian administrators in Iraq have not yet been equipped with the gear, and have been asking friends and families at home to purchase and send them off-the-shelf models for protection.

 

[phrodeau]

I didn't know that there were camels in Viet Nam or in the US. Interesting.

Okay, looks like the troops now are more apt to be in the fire of camel spit. I think they're already protected, though, by the body armor that civilians (as family and friends and supporters of the troops) have purchased as an act of charity since the government chose not to...

Here, I'll quote Fox News:

I can quote Fox News too.

Last March, Army officials barred soldiers from wearing body armor other than military-issued gear.... The officials said they were concerned that soldiers and their families were buying inadequate or untested commercial armor.

http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=4928226

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

I've seen a shorter version of this posted to the same effect. We all derive benefits of extensive government regulations that we don't much notice unless we pay close attention.

 

[TWB]

I love that a Democrat being all but convicted on taking bribes and ethics violations is still the Republican's fault

I wrote that "This does not abrogate the persons involved, regardless of party." In saying this, I was trying to indicated exactly that the guilt of the person is the guilt of the person. If Jefferson did it, he did it, and its on him.

BUT, like Enron, if you have corruption at the top, it is going to permeate the organization.

The point of the "Culture of Corruption" crap the Democrats were spewing was that they were clean since they aren't Republicans, when really all of the House members are dirty

Well, I think there is no question why Jefferson was targeted first, when there are criminals like Delay around. It is exactly so dittoheads can avoid the argument I just made, that they are the leaders, and they are leading their respective houses into corruptionland.

 

[ksmybuttons]

I can quote Fox News too.http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=4928226

This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, eh?

My National Guard troops are being deployed to train the Afghan Army and, eventually, their police force.

And, you are right, Oliver. We should stay on topic. My husband is in a wonderful union. I find it totally amazing the number, that are a part of that union, that support the present administration.

You know why, don't you? It's because of the right social agenda. They don't even realize what is happening to them on an economic front, which includes health care, the drop in the dollar and the loss of family wage jobs and their increasing tax burden and the increase in the national debt.

They are more concerned with fighting evolutionary theory, someone else's right to have an abortion and whether or not homosexual marriages should have government sanctions. They support a war that has nothing to do with 9/11, but strictly a personal agenda of the present admin...

Oh well...good luck to them and their children.

 

[poony]

This thread is absurd. Republicans don't have "lives".

What you do not say is that the car is Japanese because the US car makers can not compete because they have to price their cars higher because they have to pay Union employees that do not work for the company anymore. More than half of every money made on the car goes to the retired employee. Because a liberal demanded it...

Union had there place at one time but any more they take advantage of their power.

And you did not mention that a Liberal wants raise your taxes to benefit the man or woman who does not want to work..they decide hey I can stay on welfare and let the hard working woman and men pay my way.

 

[Lavared]

But, it is the lack of leadership in the house that has led to what appears to be widespread corruption.

Time for a change.

If there is anyone here who trusts the politicians (regardless of party) in power not to be corrupt please let me know.

If there is anyone here who thinks the next batch elected or even the batch after that will be less apt to be corrupt please let me know that too.

I'm sorry, TWB. I hear what you're saying about lack of leadership but I've been mistrusting our duly elected officials for so long I can't imagine thinking of any of them as even remotely near trustworthy.

That's a shame for two reasons. First, there might be one or two good ones out there who I have wrongly painted as nefarious. Secondly because I no longer hold the lot of them to the kind of standards I should. That's where cynicism gets you. Once you believe that none of them are good you're not surprised anymore when you hear of their wrongdoings and you're certainly not going to get up in arms about it.

Do you remember the album "What once were vices are now habits". It's kind of like that.

 

[RoryN]

You got Cap’n AMatrixca and a couple of others to flip out.

Thread successful.

 

[poony]

Just FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!

How long do we 70's Vets get to keep being spit on???

Well it is because of the Liberals that the Vietnam Vets get spit on...the likes of John Kerry and others like him who came home and made up stories about our soliders.

No one that has serve this great Country should be treated that way. Unless they come home and make up stories and say bad things about the men and women serving this country.

 

[RoryN]

No one that has serve this great Country should be treated that way.

What if they committed certain atrocities above and beyond what's acceptable in warfare?

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Stop minimizing. Ney is not the only one. Read my post above.

While Jefferson was first, and looks to be guilty (innocent until proven otherwise), Hastert and the other repubs have a great interest in stopping any house office searches. No one wants to be next, especially if they are under investigation already.

If you are in agreement that there is a "culture of corruption," I might ask you, who has been in charge of the house the last ten years? If the unethical tone is set by republicans, and democrats are stupid enough to do the same illegal acts, I don't see how the republicans blame the democrats, or, point at democrats and say "hey, its not just us." It is their leadership, or lack of it, which led to and allowed this. Their failure to have a neutral ethics committee, etc.

It is the republican's tone. The republican's permissive house rules. The republican's fault. This does not abrogate the persons involved, regardless of party. But, it is the lack of leadership in the house that has led to what appears to be widespread corruption.

Time for a change.

Harry Reid was taking Abramov money and writing the same letters on behalf of Indians, but ABC goes after Hastart to protect William Jefferson. They are acting Imperially in Congress. How dare you arrest us when we commit crimes; how dare you get a warrant and search us. How dare you stop a congresswoman and you will take your slapdown. How dare you try to breathalize a drunken COngressman who claims to be on his way to a vote at 3AM???

 

[Sean Renaud]

Its warfare. Its attrocious that there are things you don't do to people you are trying to kill and subdue.

With that said I can at least comprehend why people would think otherwise in certain extreme situations.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

You did what you felt you should do.

I was too young to vote at that time.

If I knew then what I know now...

 

[RoryN]

Its warfare. Its attrocious that there are things you don't do to people you are trying to kill and subdue.

...come again?

 

[Wok]

Just FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!

How long do we 70's Vets get to keep being spit on???

Settle down. Have some ramon, coffee and listen to Mike Malloy with me.

Great fun.

 

[poony]

What if they committed certain atrocities above and beyond what's acceptable in warfare?

atrocities yes, but what most of what Kerry and the Winter Soliders said happen did not..


How do you know what was commited? In Vietnam and at any war time you do not know what the soliders went through. Women would put a bomb in with their baby and set it off near soliders. Is that right?