To: jlallen who wrote (24431 ) 3/4/2002 11:17:19 AM From: Nite-Man Respond to of 59480 WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM COWS > > DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for > being successful. You vote people into office who put a tax on your cows, > forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the > tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money, buy a cow and give > it > to your neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbara Streisand sings for you. > > SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to > your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow. > > REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? > > CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your > neighbor. Then you covet it. > > COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you > with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour. > > CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, > and build a herd of cows. > > DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to > the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who > has > only one cow, which was a gift from your government. > > BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. > The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for > the milk, then pours the milk down the drain. > > AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to > yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the 2 cows to produce the > milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an > announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing > expenses. Your stock goes up. > > FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want > three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good. > > JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are > one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the > milk.They > learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of > their > class at cow school. > > GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re engineer them so they are > all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a > hundred > miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per > year. > > ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don't know where they are. > While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. > You break for lunch. > Life is good. > > RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count > them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count > them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you > have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. You > produce your 10th, 5-year plan > in the last 3 months. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows > you > really have. > > TALIBAN CORPORATION: You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which is > two.You > don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts. At > night when no one is looking, you have sex with both of them. Then you > kill > them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital. > > SWISS CORPORATION: > You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. > You charge for storing them for others. > > BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: > You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American > corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation > declares bankruptcy. > > INDIAN CORPORATION: > You have two cows. You worship them. > > POLISH CORPORATION: You have two bulls. Employees are regularly maimed and > killed attempting to milk them. > > FLORIDA CORPORATION: You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes > for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown one best > vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for > neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch > of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best looking one. > > NEW YORK CORPORATION: You have fifteen million cows. You have to choose > which one will be the leader of the herd and represent you in the Senate, > so you elect some fat cow from Arkansas who wandered into the State. NM