The $50 lesson
I recently asked my neighbors’ daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up.
“President!” she said.
Both of her parents are liberal democrats, and they were standing there as i spoke. So i asked her, “if you were president, what would you do first?”
She replied with, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people!” Her parents beamed with pride.
“That’s a worthy goal,” I said. “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 trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then we can go to the grocery store where that homeless guy hangs around and you can give him $50 to use towards food and a new house.”
She thought about it for a few seconds, then looked me in the eye and asked, “why doesn’t the homeless guy just come over and do the work, so you can just pay him the $50?”
“Welcome to the Republican party,” I said.
Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.
I thought this was incredibly amusing.
Delightful.
the difference between welfare and snooty charity: children and republicans have a hard time understanding it.
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