Posted on 04/18/2005 8:51:58 AM PDT by Nachum
UNDERSTANDING POLITICS AND ECONOMIES 101:
DEMOCRATIC:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICANISM:
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST:
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST:
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one,
milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION:
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature' private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION:
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
BELGIAN CORPORATION:
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow. The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION:
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION:
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.
I've seen that one. It's funny.
CAPTIALISM INTERNATIONAL STYLE?
Post Script to Russian Country:
You have two cows
You have vodka
You have white russians at cocktail hour.
FREE TRADER
You have two cows, you ship them to China because the labor costs less to milk the cows there.
Life is good and milk is cheap until....
Chinese develop their own cows and no longer take care of yours.
We end up in a war and can't provide our troops milk, while China milks our cows for their troops.
FREE TRADER
You have two cows, you ship them to China because the labor costs less to milk the cows there.
Life is good and milk is cheap until....
Chinese develop their own cows and no longer take care of yours.
We end up in a war and can't provide our troops milk, while China milks our cows for their troops.
COLORADO CORPORATION
You have two cows
You don't care how the are because their actually "little Eichman's anyway
You lie and say they are really sheep (members of the native American sheep union)
You steal a painting of cows and sign it, and declare it yours.
You sue the cows.
There were some new ones in there. Funny stuff.
You have two cows.
You get reprimanded and/or disciplined for using such a deragatory term.
TS
New York Public School version #2
You have two cows
You can't have two cows because that's segretation! You must bus in the dogs from the south side of town.
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