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- UniversalGuy, on 09/17/2009, -65/+2493I am a conservative.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level
determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its
valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right. - LFMmadbrad, on 09/17/2009, -17/+841(slow clapping)
Well done, sir! - DarrenLu, on 09/17/2009, -10/+325Okay people. I don't scare easy, but this may the End Times. Bill Fricken O'Reilly supports the Public Option. That, and I'm pretty sure a cat and dog making out.
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Is it Opposite Day? Really i thought that video was going to be a rickroll. - Berkana, on 09/17/2009, -13/+281In other words, the government exists and has duties to the public (including the regulation of private industry) whose benefits we all enjoy.
Is this such a hard concept to understand? Or has Regan's doctrine about the government being the problem really blinded people so much that they can't see these things? - yocouchdigga, on 09/17/2009, -8/+258Give credit where it's due, quote by anonymous.
- mjk340, on 09/18/2009, -4/+244I'm starting to wonder WTF is wrong with the public option now that O'Reilly supports it.
- Berkana, on 09/17/2009, -6/+243Let's see O'Reilly have a yelling match against Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity. Let's see this Fox News witch-hunt turn inwards.
- theDashRendar, on 09/18/2009, -8/+199Reminds me of Thom Hartmann's
"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!” - mcarrel, on 09/17/2009, -7/+198Ok, I'm checking temperature of Hell -- it must be icing over down there.
- KibblesnBitts, on 09/18/2009, -12/+191Comment of the ***** month
- stoanhart, on 09/18/2009, -4/+176***** thing rocks!
- FoxtrotUSAF, on 09/18/2009, -10/+182Next thing you know he'll be asking if GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990.
- TheHIV, on 09/18/2009, -8/+156Man, next thing you know we'll see Glenn Beck make an argument based on logic instead of emotion.
- TheUberGamer, on 09/18/2009, -6/+119The postal service's deficit doesn't make it a failure, mail is still delivered in a timely fashion. It would be a failure if it made buckets of money and averaged 2 months per delivery.
As for your other points, no comment at this time. ;) - ScoobyG, on 09/18/2009, -6/+119Weak.
- Insightful, on 09/18/2009, -6/+115Which, I would applaud, but first Beck has to explain whether he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. I can't confirm he did and I am not saying he did it. I am just asking.
- DCTBSBN, on 09/17/2009, -8/+107Wow.
- turbog20, on 09/18/2009, -4/+102on what planet do you spend most of your time?
- AngryDeuce, on 09/18/2009, -4/+102You know...if it's so bad, why don't YOU get the ***** out and move somewhere else?
Don't get mad, I'm just regurgitating the same ***** I was fed for years by right wingers when I criticized the Iraq war...
What, can you only be proud of this country when we're killing other people or something? - Propethic, on 09/18/2009, -3/+98No, he's not, the one that stood out the most is
"On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school. - At $2.00 a letter now and no tracking."
A stamp is 44 cents. Also, the cost to ship that letter even if UPS/Fedex shipped letters, would be $10+ - profgiles, on 09/18/2009, -12/+105There's a trick here. O'Reilly doesn't ever say he supports a liberal idea unless he is using this for some wider ploy. Sorry, but with O'Reilly I have to be cynical. What will he say tomorrow when he has people tuning in because of what he said tonight?
- Vapor17, on 09/18/2009, -2/+86http://www.colectiva.tv/wordpress/wp-content/uploa ...
- inactive, on 09/18/2009, -3/+87You wouldn't be the first...
- EricSchC1, on 09/18/2009, -3/+86"This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy. - In between rolling blackouts."
In California, at least, the rolling blackouts happened FOLLOWING deregulation and less government involvement. Epic Fail - Bartboy919, on 09/18/2009, -4/+86A broken watch is right twice a day.
- Diefree, on 09/18/2009, -7/+88May I please copy and quote this? Very awesome.
- ChadN, on 09/18/2009, -4/+81@BridgeTroll - a meager effort at best. Go to a publicly funded library and read some books until you develop a talent for the trolling. I suggest "Three Billy Goats Gruff".
- rocknog, on 09/17/2009, -0/+72It wouldn't be the first time Bill O'Reilly called out Glenn Beck. I remember, a while back there was a shooting, and the guy apparently had a lot of right-wing books. Glenn Beck suggested that liberals were responsible, for making conservatives feel threatened and causing them to lash out, and Bill O'Reilly was just like STFU, it's obviously a lone nut who is responsible for his own actions.
- Insightful, on 09/18/2009, -4/+75Hi guys, I am posting this from Hell but it can't be because it is getting cool here. What's happening up there?
- pandawa, on 09/18/2009, -3/+73Unless you are backing a return to the gold standard with that last comment, I'll just say this.
You couldn't PAY UPS or FedEx to carry a postcard from Massachusetts to California for 40 cents. They wouldn't do it. Mail is --cheap-- compared with what we ask them to do. I once knew a guy who wanted to airmail a piano. And the USPS did it (cost a fortune but meh). - KenMixNY, on 09/18/2009, -7/+76This was so well written i might just post it on my blog. And my blog is a music industry blog that has nothing to do with politics, but rational people need to begin to overtake this debate, and reclaim it from completely uninformed and misinformed people.
- inactive, on 09/18/2009, -5/+73He's jealous because Glenn Beck stole all his crazy-thunder. He figures the only way to get back in the (other) media again is to do something totally out of character.
- WafflesID, on 09/18/2009, -3/+68Excellent post actually.
And you just outlined exactly WHY we should have a public OPTION.
You've said it yourself, even when a government option exists, the PRIVATELY OWNED companies are still doing VERY WELL.
FedEx, UPS aren't dead because of the post office (ok so post office came first, but still).
Adding a public OPTION for our health care isn't going to put private insurers out of business. So why the ***** are the ring wingers going *****? - ZeroDarkness, on 09/18/2009, -2/+64Remember, Bill! No take backs! Don't let Glenn or Rupert pressure you in to taking it back.
- breached, on 09/17/2009, -1/+62Yep, ice crystals forming in hell as we speak!
- FoxtrotUSAF, on 09/18/2009, -2/+62Let's not be unfair. It just means no denial has been made that GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990. I'm not making the accusation that GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990. it would be totally unfair to directly say GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990. Just think how hurt his wife would be if she logged on the internet and read the headline GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990. None of us want that. We just want him to ease our worries and make a public denial so we know it isn't true that GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990. But it could be possible that GLENN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED A YOUNG GIRL IN 1990 if he never denies it?
- pandawa, on 09/18/2009, -2/+61same to you bud
- JStraum, on 09/18/2009, -0/+56UniversalGuy already did, so why not?
- EnderSaveUs, on 09/18/2009, -1/+55I'm going to need some health care soon, cause I just shat a brick.
- AAK15, on 09/18/2009, -3/+57I always knew I secretly liked you Papa Bear
- woofers07, on 09/18/2009, -6/+58And you can sleep well at night knowing that if your house were to catch fire that a publicly funded fire department will do everything in their power to make sure you and your loved ones make out alive.
- TrevorBelmont, on 09/18/2009, -4/+55Delicious copypasta.
(Or, for the uninitiated, UniversalGuy didn't write that.)
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Libertarian#T ... - Berkana, on 09/17/2009, -0/+49"Glenn Beck suggested that liberals were responsible, for making conservatives feel threatened and causing them to lash out."
Wow. That's as bad as vocal Muslims blaming political cartoonists for Muslim violence when they were pointing out patterns of Muslim religiously justified violence in their cartoons. Modern "conservatives" threaten everybody, and calling them out for lies and intimidation and calling for long-overdue reforms is equated with threatening them. Unbelievable. I hope Glenn Beck gets ill again and has to face our health care system again. He forgot how bad it was since the last time he had to deal with it. Until he walks a mile in other people's shoes, he will never understand. - novenator, on 09/18/2009, -2/+51ITS THE 4 ELEPHANTS OF THE APOCALYPSE!
- Itsatrapackbar, on 09/18/2009, -1/+50He started taking them.
- spriggig, on 09/18/2009, -2/+49Jeebus! Flying pigs outside my window, RIGHT NOW!
- ptFoe, on 09/18/2009, -9/+56I just joined to digg that
(OK I lied, but I would have). - tamman2000, on 09/18/2009, -3/+49You're right!
Privatize the police! I don't want to pay for your security dammit. I will pay for armed me to protect ME. Same goes for fire protection! Also, let's get rid of the military. If there is a need for national armed action the market will determine as much and people will all chip in and hire soldiers to go fight for us.
If the government is worse at everything why don't you try moving someplace where there isn't one, like Somalia or Angola. Enjoy your paradise. Tell me how great it is if you survive long enough to send a message to digg -
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