The local paper screwed up again.

Yep, they published a letter by one of those quiche eatin', latte-slurpin', tax raising, godless, comminist-pinko, librals:

What has a conservative done for you lately?
Monday, March 28, 2005, Greenville, NC Reflector Letter

It's tough being a liberal today. The spinners on the right – Coulter, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, even our “dear leader” Bush – have turned the term into curse word.

I'm a liberal; should I hide my head when I'm near conservative Republicans? Not a chance.

With apologies to liberal journalist Joe Conason, here are a few thoughts:

● If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you're paid (what used to be) a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour work week and are allowed to join a union to protect your rights – thank a liberal.

● If your food is sanitary and your water is drinkable – thank a liberal.

● If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family – thank a liberal.

● If the rivers are cleaner, and the air is, too; if we still have some protected wilderness, and our countryside is still green – thank a liberal.

● If people of all races can share the same public facilities and have the right to vote – thank a liberal.

Conservatives fought every single one of those programs then – and they're trying to undo them now.

Big business, the Bush administration, and the Republican Congress are trying to minimize or reverse most of these “liberal” programs.

Liberals protect “us” from “them.”

“They” really don't have your best interests at heart when “they” go to war or want to “privatize” or “contract out” something.

What has a conservative done for you lately?

BRUCE BERBERICH
Greenville

On rereading, it’s not a bad piece of work - by Joe Conason from Salon who supplied the bullets, which I edited slightly. Then again, I did acknowledge his work.