The Lesson
Recently, while I was working in the front yard, my neighbor stopped to chat as she returned home from walking her dog.
During our friendly conversation, I asked her little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.
She said she wanted to be President some day.
Her mother, a liberal Democrat, stood there while I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"
The litte girl replied... "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her mother beamed with pride!
"Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said, "but you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!"
"What do you mean?" she asked.
I told her, "You can come to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my bushes, 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 mother isn't speaking to me.
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