Say Anything Blog

Saw this great post by LLL on another site, and I thought it to be insightful. Happy Labor Day to all.
Donora gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With her first swallow of water, she takes her daily medication. Her 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 her medications are paid for by her employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Donora gets it too. She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Donora’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Donora reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.

Donora dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

She walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her 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.

Donora begins her work day. She 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. Donora’s employer pays these standards because Donora’s employer doesn’t want her employees to call the union. If Donora is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Donora needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Donora’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Donora’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Donora has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Donora and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.

Donora also forgets that in addition to her federally subsidized student loans, she attended a state funded university.

Donora is home from work. She plans to visit her father that evening at her farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her 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.

She arrives at her boyhood home. Hers 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 her nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.

She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure she could take care of himself so Donora wouldn’t have to.
Donora gets back in her 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. She doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Donora enjoys throughout her day.

Donora says: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made woman who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”