Alms For the Poor

I received this brief anecdote in my email clutter a few days ago, amongst the tech newsletters, hate mail, mindless Congressional "updates" (which are more akin to brag sheets), and numerous offers for diet pills and Rolodex timepieces.

It is indeed very humorous, although I do dissent with its final conclusion (that Republicans are more philanthropic than Democrats; I see very little differences between the two parties). Nonetheless, it'll make you smile. Unless you are a Democrat, of course. Heh.

I recently asked my friend's 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.

"Wow... what a worthy goal." I told her, "But you don't have to wait until you're president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang out, and you can give them the $50, you earned, 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 still aren't speaking to me.

Thanks to Patriot Post for another good chuckle.