A guy I know who is a republican always sends me republican crap that he gets forwrded from his pals, because he knows is gets under my skin. So I retaliated by signing him up for email alerts to Moveon.org and Hillary Clinton's web site and other democrat stuff.
So today he send's me this little gem of a story, and I couldn't help myself by adding my commentary at the end and sending it back to all his conservative pals. Heh heh heh.
A Child Makes It Simple:
I'm reminded of the time that Catherine, one of Shannon 's friends, when she was little - told me that she wanted to be President one day.Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there with us and I asked Catherine - 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
Catherine replied - 'I would give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow - what a worthy goal you have there Catherine.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house.
'Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5 dollars?'
Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine
And of course it's simple people that think like a child and get inspiration from such little pearls of wisdom.
Unfortunately, in the above story little Catherine never asked "Mommy, why does the man at the grocery store not have a home?"
Well, little Catherine, its kind of complicated, but say for instance a long time ago that old man at the grocery store was a young man. The president needed his help so he sent him to a country called Vietnam, where he was a courageous soldier and did many brave things. But he got wounded in body and mind and had to come home to get better. So The president had the doctors fix up his body, but they didn't think fixing his mind was important and cost too much money which is what republicans used to worry about back then, about how much money everything cost and not going into a deficit. Now they think differently about such things.
So the doctors make the man's body better and then cut off his benefits saying he is well. But the man has nightmares and can't sleep and he has delusions like the boogey man is going to get him just like you do Catherine, and he can't hold a job. So he wanders around going to soup kitchens for food and homeless shelters for a bed when it's cold outside and republicans don't care about him anymore because he can't pull himself up by his boot straps and they think he smells funny so they avoid him.
Then, a new republican president comes along and decides not to spend as much money on the soup kitchens and homeless shelters unless a church is doing it so that the tax money of all the people can help poor people hear about Jesus and God before they can eat or sleep. So now the homeless man sits outside the grocery store and wonders not only why the president and other politicians who sent him to help in a war abandoned him and didn't help him when he couldn't help himself, but he also now has to wonder why if Jesus loves him so much then why won't Jesus fix his mind, help him sleep and get a job?
But don't worry little Catherine, liberal democrats have feelings for and try to help the downtrodden, homeless and forgotten just like Jesus taught them to. And the republicans, well they kind of help people become downtrodden and forgotten and they call it an "Ownership Society", so that other people like democrats can help save them just like Jesus would. I guess we need those republicans after all so we liberal democrats can do good things to help people, huh Catherine?
Well Catherine, the moral of the story is this: liberal democrats have to go around and clean up the dog poop that conservative republicans always leave behind, and if the democrats win this upcoming presidential election, it's going to take every shovel and every garbage can in the whole world to clean up the poop the last president left behind!
