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Dec 23, 2004 13:12


Government Explained.  Using 2 cows

Fuedalism - You have two cows, your lord takes some of the milk
Pure Socialism - You have two cows, the government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone els's cows.  You have to take care of all the cows.  The government gives you as much milk as you need.
Bureaucratic Socialism - You have two cows, the government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows.  They are cared for by an ex chicken farmer.  You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmer.
Facism - You have two cows, the government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Marxism - You have two cows, your neighbors help you take care of them and you all share the milk.
Leninism - You have two cows, you have tot take care of them, but the government takes the milk
Dictatorship - You have two cows, the government takes them both and shoots you
Pure Democracy - You have two cows, Your neighbors decide who gets the milk
Representative Democracy - You have two cows, your neighs pick someone to tell you who gets the milk
Anarchy - You have two cows, either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows
Capitalism - You have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull
Totalitarianism - You have two cows, the government takes them and denies that they ever existed, milk is banned
Hong Kong Captitalism - You have two cows,
                          You sell three of them to your publicly listed company using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows.  The milk rights of sixs cow are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fun shui is bad
Surrealism - You have two giraffes, the government requires you to take harmonica lessons
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