Friday, March 27, 2009

Common Sense

This is a little story that was forwarded to me. It made me laugh for a full 5 minutes.
Disclaimer: this is of a political nature (Democrats might not like it)

Subject: $50

I recently 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.'

Her parents beamed.

'Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to waituntil 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 inthe 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.

5 comments:

andrea said...

Emily! I just found your blog through Noel (Zulauf) Trapnell's blog. I am Andrea (formerly McCandless) Eidukonis. How are you? You look great. What an adorable little baby. It so nice to see you.

I don't have any kids, just a dog. She is enough work for me.

Tara said...

Hi guys! Cute little baby, Duane. He looks just like you! This is Tara Simonson, and I'm glad you guys let us post comments finally because I've been wanting to tell you guys hi! Hope i get to meet you some day Emily! Anyways, we have a blog also, with pictures of our family on there. Look us up!

Shelly Benson said...

So funny! Hope you don't mind if I add you to my blog list.

Britany said...

hahaha that's awesome!

Sheri said...

lol -I love it!