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The $50 Lesson
I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be
when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United
States .
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 food and houses to all the homeless
people... "
Her parents proudly beamed. "Wow...what a worthy goal," I told
her. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. Tell
you what - you can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds,
and sweep my driveway, 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 food and a new house. How about doing something
wonderful like that?"
She thought that over for a few seconds, 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?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be
when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United
States .
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 food and houses to all the homeless
people... "
Her parents proudly beamed. "Wow...what a worthy goal," I told
her. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. Tell
you what - you can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds,
and sweep my driveway, 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 food and a new house. How about doing something
wonderful like that?"
She thought that over for a few seconds, 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?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
