Monday, November 29, 2010

A Day in the Life of a TRUE Conservative

Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.

Joe steps outside and coughs–the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys ‘em. Joe Conservative checks to make sure he has enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work. There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.

On the way, he drops his 12 year old daughter off at the clothing factory she works at. Paying for kids to go to private school until they’re 18 is a luxury, and Joe needs the extra income coming in. Times are hard and there’re no social safety nets.

He gets to work 5 minutes late and misses the call for Christian prayer, and is immediately docked by his employer. He is not feeling well today, but has no health insurance, since neither his employer nor his government provide it, and paying for it himself is really expensive, since he has a precondition. He just hopes for the best.

Joe’s workday is 12 hours long, because there is no regulation over working hours, and Joe will lose his job if he complains or unionizes. Today is an especially bad day. Joe’s manager demands that he work until midnight, a 16 hour day. Joe does, knowing that he’ll lose his job if he does not.

Finally, after midnight, Joe gets to pick up his daughter and go home. His daughter shows him the deep cut she got on the industrial sewing machine today. Joe is outraged and asks why she doesn’t have metal mesh gloves or other protection. She says the company will not provide it and she’ll have to pay for it out of her own pocket. Joe looks at the wound and decides they’ll use an over the counter disinfectant and bandages until it heals. She’ll have a scar, but getting stitches at the emergency room is expensive.

His daughter also complains that the manager made suggestive overtures towards her. Joe counsels her to be a “good girl” and not rock the boat, or she’ll get fired and they’ll be out the income.

His daughter says she can’t wait until she’s 18 so she can vote for change or go to the Iraq War.

They get home and there’s a message from his elderly father who can’t afford to pay his medical or heating bills. Joe can hear him coughing and shivering.

Joe turns on the radio and the top story is a proposal in Congress to raise the voting age to 25. A rare liberal opinionator states that it’s an attempt to keep power out of the hands of working class Americans. The conservative host immediately quashes him, calling him “a utopian idealist,” and agreeing that people aren’t mature enough to make good choices until they’re at least 25.

Joe chuckles at the wine-swilling, cheese eating liberal egghead and thinks, “Thank God I live in America where I have freedom!”

Note: This reverse on the riff was copied directly from Thom Hartmann's website. The site is marked "(c) Copyright 1996-2007, Mythical Intelligence, Inc. and Thom Hartmann", however, Thom says of the piece in reply to a request for authorship of item/permission to reprint: "It's not original to me...".

2 comments:

Joya Xanders said...

It's my ME Boosters this appears to elicit the most comments from strangers. You are well on your way this day. What if I told you that you can accomplish it too? Is there anywhere top brass stumble upon cheap Vyasilx ME Boosters tricks? That should make you feel successful. Maybe I may be mute as that respects that. Testo Booster can be found online through different web stores and even in a number of online auctions.

https://www.worthydiets.com/vyasilx-testo-boost/

https://www.worthydiets.com/keto-bodytone-reviews/

https://sites.google.com/site/worthydiets/vyasilx
https://sites.google.com/view/vyasilxtestoboost/
https://medium.com/@worthydiets/vyasilx-testo-boost-male-stamina-enhancer-revealed-see-how-it-works-cb5fdb2c6327
https://worthydietss.blogspot.com/2020/06/vyasilx-male-enhancement.html
http://worthydiets.over-blog.com/vyasilx-testo-boost.html
https://twitter.com/worthydiets/status/1270739701721255936/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/622763454713368973
http://worthy-diets.267712.n8.nabble.com/Vyasilx-Testo-Boost-Reviews-td8.html

Latest Reviews said...

Literally, "Dead people have no friends." This is only a provisional solution. Tech Gadgets is known to cause this. In spite of everything, "Every man has his price." This post is going to explore that problem. Where can their jocks perceive good Tech Gadgets keys? Really, I began to feel that there were several advantages to Tech Gadgets. Tech Gadgets in particular has been found to be useful in this case. I networked with them about that example. I almost had to punch my Mac there for a moment.

AOL Support Number
PowerVolt Energy Saver