My brother sent this to me and I found it worthy of sharing.
I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
She replied, 'I'd give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house.'
She thought that over for a few seconds while her Mom glared at me, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'
And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party!'
Her folks still aren't talking to me.
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5 years ago
6 comments:
I love the small-scale analogies (like the little league example). It really hits home when you put a face on political ideologies.
Hysterical...I love it!
Homeless people are their own worst enemy! They choose to be homeless!
The kid's obviously smarter than her parents. To take it one step further, someone would need to handle the money before it got to the homeless man. That person would be called a politician. After he gets done with it, the homeless man nets $25.
I love mwest's extention. It is so sad and so true.
perfect... i love it. I can see the rest of the wests did too :)
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