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‘The Life of Julia’ — a.k.a., how NOT to live

May. 3, 2012 1:44pm Meredith Jessup

Ok, I’ve been sitting on this all morning, contemplating how best to approach the subject of the Obama campaign’s newest effort to woo women voters. Apparently the best they could come up with is “The Life of Julia,” an interactive set of slides documenting the fictitious life of a hypothetical female and how Obama’s policies will help her while Mitt Romney’s would ultimately hurt her. Sounds completely legit, right?

I have to say, I’m insulted. I’m insulted to think the Obama administration honestly thinks such a simplistic scenario accurately reflects the life of a modern woman. Instead of being the champion of women he claims to be, it seems pretty clear to me that Barack Obama knows nothing about us. “The Life of Julia” tells the story not of a strong, independent woman, but of a completely helpless and hopeless cretin who depends on government assistance to function. Uh, no thanks.

The second thing that struck me about this lame new campaign is how blatantly false & misleading most of its assertions are. Take for instance Julia at age 3:

The young toddler enrolls in HeadStart, a program to “help get her ready” for school. “Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve programs like this one, Julia joins thousands of students across the country who will start kindergarten ready to learn and succeed.” That sounds nice, but it’s a load of bull. As my friend Ben Shapiro notes, HeadStart has been a huge failure:

The Department of Health and Human Services itself found that the government has invested $150 billion in Head Start since 1965 … and that has yielded precisely zero impact for the kids involved.

Darn that Mitt Romney for wanting to cut 20% of the funding for a failing program!

According to Obama, the next age at which the government re-enters Julia’s life is 17 — an interesting notion since government-run public schools will have failed to help her realize her full potential for the past 14 years. But apparently Obama’s not worried about improving basic education. Instead, he inflates the college bubble further by pouring funds into his “Race to the Top” program to help Julia prepare for life at one of America’s universities. But mean old Mitt Romney would cut funding from the education budget “to pay for tax cuts to millionaires.” You know, because all America’s education system needs is more money.

Before you know it, Julia is off to college. Unfortunately for her, it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. According to Obama’s scenario, Julia requires surgery. Hee-haw, big government to the rescue! “[The surgery] is thankfully covered by her insurance due to a provision in health care reform that lets her stay on her parents’ coverage until she turns 26.” Because nothing fixes a boo-boo like complete dependence on your parents and the government when you’re 26. (At this point, I’m truly beginning to wonder if Julia has figured out how to wipe her own butt without assistance.)

Apparently Julia recovered quickly because she manages to graduate with her degree, pay off her student loans (thanks, Uncle Sam!) and get a job as a web designer. “Because of steps like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Julia is one of millions of women across the country who knows she’ll always be able to stand up for her right to equal pay,” Obama boasts. Let’s just hope Julia’s new job isn’t in the Obama administration — a place where women earn considerably less than their male counterparts.

At 27, Julia is a young professional and doesn’t want to be ~~punished with a baby~~ worried about her health, so she signs up for the birth control Obama forced her insurance company to pay for. Missing from the sequence, however, are the years during college where she “experimented” with sexuality and managed a number of pregnancy scares with quickie abortions at her local Planned Parenthood — thanks to funding from the Obama administration, of course.

Eventually, Julia has a child (somehow without a man ever entering the picture), sends her kid off to another failing public school so he can continue the cycle of dependence and starts her own web design business. Since we are speaking hypothetically here, I feel it’s important to point out that if Julia were a smart businesswoman, she would undoubtedly notice how expensive it is to do business in the United States. Thanks to crippling corporate taxes levied by the Obama administration, Julia exports her company’s jobs overseas.

She retires and happily receives her Social Security benefits, the Obama camp says, except they fail to mention how Julia only receives $.50/month because the SS trust fund went bankrupt 60 years earlier. Also unfortunately for Julia, her dreams of passing on her successful business to her son are dashed since the Obama campaign failed to predict that her son would be forced to sell off the business altogether to pay the hefty federal tax levied on her remaining estate after she dies. As Jim Geraghty predicts, “at age 68, death panels finally catch up with Julia.”

RIP, Julia.

Julia’s hypothetical life story has been making the rounds on the internet and the Twitterverse has also pointed out key items missing from Obama’s timeline:

#Julia is bummed. Her share of the national debt went up $16,345 under Obama.

#Julia, about to graduate, can’t find a job in the Obama economy

#Julia the commuter has to pay double for gas from what she paid 4 years ago.

What other perils do you foresee in Julia’s pathetic government-run life? Let us know in the comments!

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Related: David Harsanyi asks, “Who the hell is Julia and why am I paying for her whole life?”

A few more milestones in Julia’s life Obama forgot about

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Comments (31)

MIchaelATone-God.us
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:43pm
The Life of Julia: How Not to Live. Now there’s a subtitle worth exploring. Why does the Obama administration’s ad, The Life of Julia, begin at age 3 and fail to even mention the pregnancy termination services required under Obamacare? One answer suggested on YouTube, hits home, at http://youtu.be/s51L2HnXMng , and is entitled, “The Life of Julia (from Conception).” This one’s for every other “Julia” (and Julian), named and unnamed, whose “benefits” under Obamacare’s family planning would make their lives nasty, brutish and short.

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Big South
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:13pm
Wow! julia’s life sounds like a how you survived in germany when hitler began his political career.

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Poppo
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:28pm
Julia is also very lucky to qualify for her SBA loan. I believe that the percent of new businesses that qualify is about 4%.

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- Popp40
  Posted on May 5, 2012 at 5:53pm
  POPPO……cool tagname….but you realize this is going to confuse people…LOL
  
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dieselfuel
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:40pm
I don’t think the whole story is painted here. First off Julia is born to a single mom who is already relying heavily on Government assistance to survive (basically the dependance cycle continues). Later in life, Julia decides that she wants extra benefits for going to college. On her application to Kansas State University, she checks the box that she is part Cherokee Indian. Also, while attending college in Kansas, Julia meets the love of her life. Julia and her girlfriend get married in Hutchinson, KS, thanks to the ordinace passed there that forces churches to conduct gay marriages, against their own convictions. Need I go on………….?

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sundell1951
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:13am
This was obviously aimed (can I use that word?) at the occupy crowd as it matches their reading comprehension level directly attributed to Headstart giving them superior educational skills.
But as far as Julia goes, I would have much rather seen her as a nuclear physicist, inventing an advance in power generation so revolutionary that a reactor could fit in the corner of my bedroom closet. providing all the power I need, eliminating the need for all these stupid looking windmills and solar panels that don’t work practically anyway.

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mikewooten
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 9:15am
Cradle to grave madness.

Remember, though, those that want to enforce this mindset…aren’t willing to participate for socialism is for the people…not the socialists.

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fabercastell
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:57pm
Retire to work on a community garden?? It is difficult growing a garden just on your own, why would you want to share it with the community. lol Do they know how hard it is to grow your own garden? You would want to share very little of that unless it is with your family or close friends. Why does she want to go to college? Maybe she wants to go to a trade school or learn how to drive a truck. Those jobs are still in high demand. By the time she goes to college, it will probably cost a couple million and she will never get that money back. A few thousand at the very least a year at a community college.

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o-dumb-er
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:37pm
I suppose Julia is white. Is she ENTITLED to these benefits?

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KKC003
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:03pm
Julia never read the book “animal farm” !

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mvfoley1215
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:57pm
The thing I noticed right off about Julia’s life that no one else has mentioned (that I have seem anyway) is that while she is in college and needing surgery the claim is made that Julia can have her surgery because Obamacare increased the age that dependent students can remain on their parents health Inusrance to the age of 26. First off Obama’s health care reform increased the age by one year.
Secondly while we are not told what age Julia is when she needs this surgery and quick review of what we do know can help us figure this out. Gaining all the benefits of HeadStart we can assume that in Obama’s world Julia graduated from high school at age 17 or 18. Continuing the benefits of HeadStart and certainly Race to Top one would have to expect Julia to graduate from college in say 5 years or because of the surgery 6 years. Making her age at time of surgery somewhere between 18 and 24. Guess what Obama’s health care reform and increasing the age from 25 to 26 had no impact on Julia’s ability to have her surgery. But as usual why let the facts get in the way of a story.

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- o-dumb-er
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:44pm
  First, u have to start believing this crap…then we can start a conversation.
  
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Aerocog
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:54pm
Julia doesn’t get any freaking benefits because Social Security is bankrupt, she doesn’t get any of those contributions because the government didn’t invest it and spent it incorrectly.

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Valezka.Vidra
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:46pm
I don’t know if I should type this out or not, because I am too lazy to do research on the subject, but oh well: Is it possible that the reason women supposedly pay more for health insurance and whatnot because they…you know…need to? I mean, It’s highly recommended that pap smears get done starting at age 18, whereas men don’t need to get their more humiliating version of the pap until, what? 40? (I’m talking about the prostate exam. Poor guys). Not just that, but mammograms and pregnancy check ups, and the birth giving hospital trip…..I mean….It kind of makes sense to me that way. I don’t think it’s all that discriminating; if it is, blame God, because he made us ladies more high maintenance!

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JQCitizen
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:34pm
Of all the names they could have come up with, they HAD to choose MINE!!! DANG!!!

Well, I will just have to dig in my heels, burn up the dirt, and WORK HARDER THAN EVER to live this one down! I can just hear my 4 brothers now!!! GRRRRR!!!

Oh, well, it will be good for a laugh; since this chick is SO OBVIOUSLY NOT my family’s Julia:)

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AZjackalope
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:00pm
This has got to be the most asinine thing I have heard or seen. As a child under Obama she does not have any siblings. Under Obama only one child is allowed. In fact, under Obama Julia isn’t even married. Only gay and lesbians get married now because they are a special class above all others. So Julia’s significant other is a woman. Under Obama Julia lives in government housing which only is allowed now under his “Agenda 21″ and lives on the 6th floor in a one room apartment. Her room number is 666. Under Obama she was designated at what school she had to attend and what her career choice will be. She always want to be a nurse to help people but under Obama she was forced to become a “web designer”. There is nothing wrong with that field as I do that too along with owning my own biz in another field. Julia always wanted to plant her own garden on the little plot of dirt on her balcony which faces another building. Under Obama she is not allowed to grow her own veggies, fruit or plants. Julia after hearing all her mother’s stories of what it was like to be free before Obama starts to wonder and says something. Under Obama Julia is now in jail and will never be let out. She is charged with treason and not allowed to speak to all the other prisoners in fear of spreading discontent. Being alone in the jail cell she is reminded of how her mom use to pray. She gets on her knees and starts to pray. Others hear her through the walls and they begin to pray to

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GreenLee2
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 4:58pm
Look there are 2 types of leftists really. There are the idealists these are the people that want to make the world a better place, these are the useful idiots that form the backbone of the communist movement. For the most part trying to talking these morons is a waste of time.

The power in control the totalitarian social engineers are the real threat, these people want to transform to become so dependant on the government that they cant live without them. They will transform man into a snivelling cowards, nothing more then a dummy terminal machine that is only capable of accepting input from there users. These people hate the concept of free will, of personal responsibility and ultimately freedom. You can already see this behaviour with the so called “global warming movement”.

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Kerstile
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 4:16pm
Those imbeciles who elected these cretins to office did not elect “communists”, they elected the “useful idiots.” The real communists: Mao, Lenin, Stalin etc., are rolling in their graves. It is something to smile about in a way. If these were real communists in power, I would not be here ditting away on “The Blaze”.

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kp9409
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:02am
it’sBrave New World with a baby! unappealing and sad….

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rwedeking
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:44am
Creepy…Looks like creepy old revolutionary communist propaganda.

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Common.Cents
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:12am
I think the website should link to this website http://usdebtclock.org/ on the side of every story panel.

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- Rijjka
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:59pm
  It’s doubly funny cause it woul go up every time you swtiched to a new panel.
  
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BetterNTexas
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:39pm
I think this is very revealing about what Obama apparently thinks “old people” do.

Obama dream world: Julia lives happily on her pittance from Social Security so that she has time to volunteer in a community garden.

Actual Obamaville: Julia & her husband are trying to make ends meet with their pittance from Social Security. They still have a house payment thanks to the home equity loans they had to take out to help their kids pay the astronomical costs of their college educations. Unfortunately because Julia & her husband lost their jobs & their unemployment benefits have long since dried up, they are part of the “under-employed” working away at minimum wage jobs.

They’d sure like to visit their grandkids but they can’t afford to go anywhere because you can’t buy a lot of gas these days on minimum wage and Social Security.

It sure would help if they could sell their house for what they paid for it, or maybe even a little more, but in Obamaville those days are long gone. Sadly, since termites have recently infested the home & they can’t pay to get rid of them due to the aforementioned minimum wage jobs & Social Security, the house won’t be worth anything once the market finally comes back (if ever).

Good thing Julia volunteers at that community garden. She needs the fresh vegetables she harvests to help keep food on the table in Obamaville.

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- Popp40
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:33pm
  @BetternTexas….actually you have it wrong with the Termites….the EPA and the Environmental nuts will have passed laws making it illegal to kill them and that they have a right to the wood in their house. Matter of fact, they would be required to go out and buy additional wood for the termites.
  
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brickmoon
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 5:46pm
Excellent commentary, Meredith.

Expanding on Geraghty:

Age 72: Death panel decides painkillers are a more pragmatic treatment for Julia than heart surgery, and she finally buys the collective farm. Her cremains are used as fertilizer to help provide nutrition for the next generation of perpetually indebted drudges, thus completing the cycle of life.

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Balrog28
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 3:56pm
It would be better for Julia if her parents saved and scrounged enough to send her to a Private School at least up through High School. Her earning potential would be greatly enhanced by this simple choice – that HER PARENTS made for her, not the GOVT!
Also, Julia would benefit from learning about how much of her income is taken from her in the guise of securing a deposit to a Social Security program, from which – she will never see a dime.

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AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 3:14pm
What a bunch of B.S. Julia needs to get off her a$$, get a frikin job, and support herself!

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Emanuel Goldstein
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 2:57pm
So President Obama will still be president when Julia is an old woman? I think the Constitution may have something to say about that, or it will be null and void by then.

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- MicoElvis
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:54am
  That was my FIRST thought when I got to “age 17″. What a joke!
  
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- Valezka.Vidra
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:49pm
  I think he is implying that by that time he would have successfully become King Obama.
  
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- mvfoley1215
  Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:36pm
  I am sorry to say most of the Constitution we think, believe and have been taught, protect us and give us the liberty we love are already 90% null or so preverted has to make it meanlingless. A quick stroll through the Bill of Rights & 14th will hi light my point. 1st- “Congress shall make no law” this restriction on the Federal govt now applies to State & local govt, which is the basis for banning religion not protecting it. 2nd Where the 1st says Congress shall make no law the 2nd states that this right to own and bear arms “shall not be infringed.” Meaning no authority Fed, State or local can restrict this right. We all know thats no longer the case. 3rd not an issue, the housing of soliders in private homes. 4th Right against unreasonable search and seizure has been expanded to a general right of privacy which was never intented & has led to numerous other “rights”. On surface this might sound good in fact only aids those involved in criminal activities and the new found rights resulted in rights or others being lost. 5th The double jeorady portion disappeared if the parties are of different races. 6th Right to speedy trial, need it say more. 7th N/A. 8th Cruel of unusual punishment now meaning bad food in prison. 9th and 10th two of the most important as far as the anti federalist were concerned are totally ignored. The 14th meant to correct issues relating to the end of slavery now gives the govt limitless spending and mandate all to purchase health insurance.
  
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