Commercials by The Original Mattress Factory are constantly airing on television and radio, usually talking about how great their springs are or something, but I recently heard one on my car radio that never really mentioned their product at all.  The ad, apparently titled “The Declaration,” is an ode to the Declaration of Independence in anticipation of the impending July 4th holiday.  Toward the end of the commercial, I was surprised to hear the following:

“Our Founders intended this government to be one of limited power, created expressly to protect our rights.
As time has progressed, however, it has become less limited in scope and our rights less secure.”

Hey, wait a minute!  Did company spokesman Ron Trzcinski just sneak some Republican propaganda into what I expected to be an innocuous mattress ad?  Certainly not, since Ron claims to have left his job as President of the Ohio Mattress Company because he objected to their “cash is king” philosophy.  That anti-capitalist idea doesn’t sound very conservative.

However, if you poke around the information superhighway, you find that this is not the first time Independence Day has inspired Mr. Trzcinski to share his views on the problems caused by big government.  In the summer of 2012, the ad which aired in the weeks before July 4th was apparently called “American Dream.”  According to Mr. Trzcinski, people now believed that the American Dream was:

“something that ought to be handed out.  It is expected, demanded even, and the sense of entitlement
has led to record debt and persistent joblessness.”

“Um, yes, I was promised there would be some extra-firm Queens available in this establishment?”

Thanks to Mr. Trzcinski, we learned that the national debt was not enhanced by fighting George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and the unemployment rate was not a result of the economic recession that began under President Bush, but rather we can chalk these problems up to the laziness of poor people.  Really?  You’d think a company like this would market their product to all people rather than blame the most vulnerable of them for problems they couldn’t have possibly caused.  And you would also think that after all of the Republican sex scandals (Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford, Bob Allen, Phil Hinkle, Edward Schrock, the list goes on and on…), the party wouldn’t be thrilled to be associated with a mattress company these days.