I  recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows  up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal  Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were President what  would be the first thing you would do?”
 
She  replied, “I'd give food and houses to all the homeless  people.”
Her  parents beamed.
 
“Wow...what  a worthy goal,” I told her, “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  sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery  store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use  toward food and a new house.”
 
She  thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye  and asked, “Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you  can just pay him the  $50?”
 
I  said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”
 
Her  parents still aren't speaking to me.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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