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"Well Done" wrote in message
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> Uncle Al wrote:
>>A Conservative and a Liberal are walking down the street when they
>>encounter a homeless fellow. The Conservative takes out a business
>>card and a $20 bill and says,
>>
>>"Come in Monday morning and we'll start you out as a janitor."
>>
>>The Conservatve and Liberal continue walking. They encounter another
>>homeless fellow. Then Liberal reaches into the Conservative's pocket,
>>takes out two $20s and says,
>>
>>"Theres' a Welfare Office a couple of blocks down the street. Here's
>>$20 - take a cab."
>>
>>The Liberal then pockets the other $20 and says to the Conservative,
>>
>>"You swine! What can anybody buy with only $20 these days?"
>>
> No doubt many on the left won't even understand how closely the above
> joke mirrors the truth... the left take from "the rich" and distribute
> a tiny percentage of that to "the poor", most of it goes to
> themselves, of course.

Yes. But don't get too carried away by free market thinking. Countries
that implemented it too rigorously using Milton Friedman's ideas didn't do
too good. As always, just as Churchill said, democracy is the worst system
ever devised - except for any other that has ever been tried. And if the
people choose a bit of socialism, so be it as far as I am concerned.

Thanks
Bill