A Day in the Life of Joe the Republican
Cliff
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.
He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to 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 is 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 also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans,
he attended a state funded university.
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 to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.
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."
]
Too_Many_Tools
wrote:
GREAT POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And completely true.
TMT
Chief Egalitarian
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 29, 3:55 pm, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om>
> wrote:
>> [
>> And Joe says, "This is fucking big!"
>> ]
>
> GREAT POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> And completely true.
>
> TMT
Yeap, it's true. Tell Joe Biden to stop staring at my cock.
Cliff
>Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced.
Elected FOUR times, was he?
Guess the people loved what he did.
Which rethugs did they hate & why?
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Cliff
Cliff
>Additionally because he is just an "Average Joe" his annual Federal
>Income Tax Rate is about 25% with an average State Income Tax of about
>6% and a Sales Tax Rate of about 6% as well (depending on where Joe
>Exists)
Plus all FICA taxes .... the wealthy pay at a lower total tax rate.
That's Average Joe's problem. He was not born wealthy.
How stupid of him.
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Cliff
Cliff
This guy really does love winger lies !!!
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/ss-origins.htm
>But then Joe reads an article about the History of the first U.S.
>Social program that Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced. The
>Social Security (FICA) Program where FDR promised:
>
>1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
>but i's no longer Voluntary.
"According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Social Security
(FICA) contribution is a payroll tax and, like all taxes, has never been
voluntary."
>2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first
>$1,400 of their annual Incomes into the program, but it it's now 12.4%
>on earnings up to $106,800 with Medicare being another 2.9% on all
>earnings.
"SSA says the original tax rate was 1% on the employer and the employee on the
first $3,000 of annual wages."
>3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program
>would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year, but
>it' no longer tax deductible.
"The 1935 law prevented Social Security contributions from being tax
deductible and they never have been."
>4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust
>Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore,
>would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and
>no other Government program, but Under Johnson the money was moved to
>the General Fund and Spent like a drunken sailor on liberty spends.
[
According to the SSA, the way that Social Security is financed has not changed
since it was enacted in 1939.
Social Security payroll taxes are deposited into The Social Security Trust Fund.
The SSA says that those funds have never been taken out and put into a "general
fund."
There was an accounting change in 1968, however, that listed the Trust Fund
under something called the "unified budget" along with all other federal
programs.
In 1990, there was another accounting change that took the Trust Fund out from
under that umbrella, but according to the SSA, it was merely a matter of
accounting practices, not the function of the fund itself.
]
>5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as
>income, but under Clinton & Gore that changed so that up to 85% of
>your Social Security can be Taxed.
[
There was no guarantee that Social Security payments would never be taxed.
Originally, they were not taxed, but in 1983, Congress passed a law that did
include Social Security payments as taxable income.
]
HTH
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Cliff
Chief Egalitarian
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> HTH
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> Cliff
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Damn. And I thought we were gonna discuss solder suckers - and are
where I actually have some expertise.
Rightardia
progress Americans have made in our society is because of progressives
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