[Rhodes22-list] Jesusland - Wally the Liberal

[Clarke, Donald R (Don), NEO]

Steve,

I can remain silent no  longer.

Were is your heart, your compassion?

I am a Liberal in the great American tradition,  that person you seem so to loath.
I learned to be a Liberal while serving my country and trying to win the hearts and minds of another. Instead of winning them over to me, they won me over. A great man a lover of peace once told me in the last hours of his life that as imperfect as their life was it was theirs and America need not worry about them as in time they would join the community of nations as a productive partner.  This officer of the army of the north was so right and history has proven him true. He told me to go home and help my countrymen. As so I did.

In my spare time I worked at the food bank, and the homeless shelters since only action shows the true person. If compassion is to be real there must be action. In the many years I have do this work there have been many ups and down and it sometime seen endless. But in the last 3 years the people coming to these services have changed. These are not the typical down and out person but the "there for the grace of God go I" where misfortune has turned to despair.  Formally successful people set a drift. You would think that government should be there to help but in my area the  local Republican administration considers those desperate people as unimportant and are left in the hands of Liberals of all kinds who care and act. If the economy is so wonderful why is our case loads growing, why is the traditional family our best customer. Why is government so uncaring? More than a few great men have said that the measure of a great nation is how we care for those most in need. I see a lot of conservatism but not much compassion. 

I have been lucky to have been able to do so many wonderful things in my life including owning and sailing the Rhodes22 but nothing makes me more proud than to help a family regain the dignity that economic freedom brings.

Liberal is not a dirty word but in fact a proud American tradition of caring and acting. Come join us we could us your help!

Don Clarke
S/V Certainty

 Liberal

a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

having political or social views favoring reform and progress

tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

in political speech now in the U.S. a liberal is a person who believes it is the duty of government to ameliorate social conditions and create a more equitable society. Liberals favor generous spending on the welfare state; they exhibit a concern for minorities, the poor, and the disadvantaged and often see these conditions as a product of social injustices rather than individual failings.

A person who believes that the government should actively support social reform within the existing system. Liberals stress the importance of individual rights and believe the government should promote equality in affairs of private citizens and businesses. (See CONSERVATIVE)

Just a touch of humor


A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN


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 coffee, he takes his daily medication. His 
medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal 
fought to insure 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 
conten! ts 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 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 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. Joes 
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. 

Its 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 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.! 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."