Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped
to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly
conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows
up. 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 food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents
beamed with pride!"Wow... what
a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to
do that!" I told her."What do you mean?" she replied.
So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my
hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go 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."
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 aren't speaking to me.
