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Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (14564)	11/17/1997 4:35:00 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Ike, let me tell you a story. I used to be a working chicken, before I became an agent of the Chickerati, destined to play a pivotal role in the upcoming chicken domination. I used to work for Farmer Jones, guarding the chicken coop. (and can you think of a better guardian than a 12 ft tall chicken?) Well, chickens have their own form of stock market. I wont bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that if our Farmer (Farmer Jones) made a good profit selling our eggs, then our market went up. Our coop was very lucky, being sided with Farmer Jones, cause he lived very close to a small town in Alabama called Wannalottaeggs, AL. Needless to say, demand for our eggs was very strong in Wannalottaeggs, AL., and our market did very well. About 50 miles away was another coop, run by Farmer Nikki. Farmer Nikki lived right on the edge of HippieTown, AL. In HippieTown, eggs were not in demand because most of the residents were die-hard vegetarians, and opposed to eating animal products. As you can probably guess, the market at Farmer Nikki's coop was in a slump. I'm not saying that Nikki's chickens weren't productive, quite the reverse. They could pump out eggs by the barrel. The problem was that they would then load up a truck with eggs, drive them over and sell them in Wannalottaeggs. This was starting to put a dent in Farmer Jones' profits. Farmer Nikki didn't care, he just kept producing more eggs and selling them in Wannalottaeggs. He thought he could export his way out of a slump. But they still didn't make much of a profit. It cost money to drive over to Wannalottaeggs, and other coops across the state were also exporting to there. It soon became apparent that Farmer Nikki was having financial problems. I still remember the day that Farmer Nikki got an approval for a Federal Loan. The chicken stock market at Farmer Nikki's went wild... 8% up in just one day. This proved that the government was not going to let Farmer Nikki go out of business. At first our market at Farmer Jone's also went up in sympathy, but it didn't last long. We found out that Farmer Nikki was going to use the government loan to buy super-vitamin-enriched grain, to help his chickens produce eggs at an even faster rate. He wasn't going to spend any money at all for advertising to help stimulate demand in HippieTown. All these eggs were destined to compete with ours in Wannalottaeggs. The only ones to benefit from all of this are the omellette lovers in Wannalottaeggs. They kept getting cheap (cheep) eggs. Farmer Jones had to keep his egg prices low, and eventually our chicken stock market sank. TLC