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Does this adequately describe democrats and republicans?

I asked my friend's 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.'

'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, 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 while her Mom glared at me, 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 folks still aren't talking to me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Accurate

    I'm a registered Republican now but I grew up in a Democratic house where both my parents were Democrats.

    I was expected to mow, pull weeds, shovel snow and any thing else my parents said to do.

    Hard work never hurt any kid

  • 5 years ago

    Conservatives: The glass is half full, but it's rightly owned by 1 out of 10 Americans. Republicans: The glass is half full owned by 1 out of 10 Americans but they'll allow some to trickle down. Democrats: The glass is half full owned by 1 out of 10 Americans, and they contribute lots of campaign cash to us so we'll deregulate them. Liberals (classical, known as Libertarians today): Water is a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. Progressives: Our drinking glass system is unsustainable without massive amounts of debt to buy workers water, which leads to periodic collapse and bailouts of the 1 out of 10 who have the only water available. We need a new system!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Wow, that's amazing. Imagine if the entire population of the United States was as smart as your friend's little girl then Republicans would win every election with 100% of the vote! You're half way there at least, well...a little less then half...but keep plugging away!

    Make sure you advise your friends daughter not to obtain any more knowledge otherwise she might end up switching back.

  • bob
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    That's an old, old story. I think I first heard it when I was in college about forty years ago. If you are going to use fiction, at least you should come up with something original. Oh wait! Republicans aren't capable of original thought are they? Now go back to your imaginary Democratic friends and apologize.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Why should they? You drink safe water & breathe clean air thanks to anti-pollution statutes put into place by Democrats. Democrats lobbied for consumer liability standards so your car is safe. Democrats enforced truth in labeling laws so you know what's in your food. Your dad retired with good benefits because Democrats fought for worker's rights. Your money in the bank is ensured thanks to Democrats. I could go on and on...

    And you sit there smug and righteous, proud of the 'fact' that you're a self-made man.

  • 1 decade ago

    Perfect.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    duh! Because in that particular scenario the homeless person didn't know that that work existed... and you asked the little girl to do it. How would the homeless person know that you wanted your weeds pulled? If they went door to door asking for work, everyone would hate them even more. In general, think about it. An employer will never hire a homeless peson over someone with a home. The homeless people smell bad and look ragged, and that's not good for business. It seems you forgot the hardest part of the story, getting the qualifications and getting hired to do a job

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You are absolutely disgusting. I cannot believe you say something like that to a LITTLE GIRL. Someone who wants to do nice things for people. You are nasty, you'll burn in hell one of these days.

    Oh, and for your information, the people who Obama is going to help out, the MIDDLE class, we do work. We work long and hard hours. If we didn't work, we'd be the lower class. He's not helping the lower class. Moron.

    Edit: Okay, so it's a joke. But it's not funny. You republicans are SICK.

    Nick: You have very intelligent answers on here. I like how you think things out and how you answer these morons.

  • 1 decade ago

    this one is old dude i read it months ago but still correct.

  • 1 decade ago

    wow the best i heard on here in months

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