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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ygsmilo on January 07, 2004, 11:22:12 AM
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Little Red Hen
> Once upon a time, on a farm in Arkansas, there was a
> little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until
> she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat.
>
> She called all of her neighbors together and said,
> "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who
> will help me plant it?"
>
> "Not I," said the cow.
> "Not I," said the duck.
> "Not I," said the pig.
> "Not I," said the goose.
>
> "Then I will do it by myself," said the little red
> hen. And so she did; The wheat grew very tall and
> ripened into golden grain.
>
> "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little
> red hen.
>
> "Not I," said the duck.
> "Out of my classification," said the pig.
> "I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.
> "I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.
>
> "Then I will do it by myself," said the little red
> hen, and so she did.
>
> At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will
> help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.
>
> "That would be overtime for me," said the cow.
> "I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
> "I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.
> "If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,"
> said the goose.
>
> "Then I will do it by myself," said the little red
> hen. She baked five loaves and held them up for all
> of her neighbors to see.
>
> They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But
> the little red hen said, "No, I shall eat all five
> loaves."
>
> "Excess profits!" cried the cow.
> "Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck.
> "I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose.
> The pig just grunted in disdain.
>
> And they all painted "Unfair!" picket signs and
> marched around and around the little red hen,
> shouting obscenities.
>
> Then a government agent came, he said to the little
> red hen, "You must not be so greedy."
>
> "But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.
>
> "Exactly," said the agent. "That is what makes our
> free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the
> barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our
> modern government regulations, the productive workers
> must divide the fruits of their labor with those who
> are lazy and idle."
>
> And they all lived happily ever after, including the
> little red hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am
> grateful, for now I truly understand."
>
> But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her.
> She never again baked bread because she joined the
> "party" and got her bread free.
>
> And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been
> established. Individual initiative had died but
> nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared, as long as
> there was free bread.
This is a cut and paste from an email I received, thought is was pretty good.
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here we go again.
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That was the Soviet system. It collapsed.
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mmmm chicken samiches.
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the story should end that the big fat republican banker takes the bread and eats the chicken and convinces the lazey barnyard animals that the chicken was subversive.
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Originally posted by Pongo
the story should end that the big fat republican banker takes the bread and eats the chicken and convinces the lazey barnyard animals that the chicken was subversive.
would a subversive chicken be a pullet or cornish game hen?
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The post was doing well until the Democrats were mentioned. The story is about big government, not political parties.
Democrats are for big government and high taxes.
Republicans are for big government and high budget deficits.
One has an understanding of fiscal responsibility, one has an understanding of how to get votes. But they go for the same goal.
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Thats a longer story then I remember..
I remember the red hen killed them all...:confused:
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good story either way.
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Originally posted by ygsmilo
would a subversive chicken be a pullet or cornish game hen?
I think it would be a Capon.
Is it an African chicken?
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Originally posted by Pongo
the story should end that the big fat republican banker takes the bread and eats the chicken and convinces the lazey barnyard animals that the chicken was subversive.
What? You have a problem with that too?
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I dont have any problem with it.
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Originally posted by Tarmac
Democrats are for big government and high taxes.
Republicans are for big government and high budget deficits.
One has an understanding of fiscal responsibility, one has an understanding of how to get votes. But they go for the same goal.
Uh...I'm confused. I know the Republicans don't know how to get votes, but I'm also pretty sure the Democrats are anything but fiscally responsible (read "tax and spend").
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yea they are really driving the deficit down under bush.
tax and spend is better than tax and borrow any day.
one has a future one dosent.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
yea they are really driving the deficit down under bush.
tax and spend is better than tax and borrow any day.
one has a future one dosent.
How do you figure. If you "tax and spend" what's to say the govts spending of your money will be any better than YOU spending it.
What are you gonna say if the deficit is cut in half in 2005 by economic growth?
I dont agree with deficit spending myself but I HATE heavier taxes and more social spending even more.
Point being......If I earn my living I dont want it to go to somone else to lazy to earn there's. If I'm successful in life why should I have to fork over the fruits of my labor to somone who isnt successful in life. I think that is mostly the point of the whole story.
More importantly....wich came first...the chicken or the wheat grains?
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what about the part where the rich pig gets himself elected as gardian of the wheat. then gives it all to his friends to take on an expidition to another farm.
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Originally posted by slimm50
Uh...I'm confused. I know the Republicans don't know how to get votes, but I'm also pretty sure the Democrats are anything but fiscally responsible (read "tax and spend").
Tax and spend is more responsible than spending and not taxing.
I'm all for spending less and taxing less. In fact, that's what I'd like the government to do more than anything. But you can't spend and not have a way to pay for it.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
How do you figure. If you "tax and spend" what's to say the govts spending of your money will be any better than YOU spending it.
You're exactly right.
I dont agree with deficit spending myself but I HATE heavier taxes and more social spending even more.
We're on the same page here, too. Cut social spending. I can spend my money on charity better than a government bureacracy can.
Point being......If I earn my living I dont want it to go to somone else to lazy to earn there's. If I'm successful in life why should I have to fork over the fruits of my labor to somone who isnt successful in life. I think that is mostly the point of the whole story.
Yep.
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Instead of "tax and spend," the popular Democrat approach, or "borrow and spend," the popular Republican one, how about we just spend less? Oh wait, because as long as the government is spending buttloads of money on people, it can buy their votes with pork projects. Their power is in their ability to spend our money. They're not going to give that up, but they'll slowly keep taking more.
We seem to be on the same page, Gunslinger, except that I don't think that the borrow and spend approach is sustainable. If our country borrows too much for too long, we get inflation and reduced dollar values. In that case, who's actually gained anything in the long run?
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Sounds like Britain in the 1970s under the Labour Government. Then Margaret Thatcher came along, and the red hens were allowed to eat the bread they had baked. Those red hens spread the word to the red hens who had left because they didn't like having to give up 83% of the bread they had made. And some of those red hens came back after they found out they would be allowed to keep 75% of the bread they made (up to the first 20,000 loaves or so) and after that could keep 60% of their loaves. Under this new fairer deal, the government received many more loaves than when it tried to be too greedy.
Unfortunately, Tony Blair's government is once again being unfair to red hens, and they are becoming an endangered species.