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>A little economics refresher course!!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Brian Tague [SMTP:temgroup@sprintmail.com]
>> Sent:	Thursday, January 14, 1999 7:09 AM
>> To:	Mackey, Lynne
>> Subject:	You Have Two Cows...
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>> You have two cows....... 
>> 
>>  FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. 
>>   
>>  PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and 
>>  puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows.  You have to take 
>>  care of all the cows.  The government gives you as much milk as 
>>  you need. 
>>   
>>  BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes 
>>  them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are 
>>  cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the 
>>  chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The 
>>  government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the 
>>  regulations say you should need. 
>>   
>>  FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you 
>>  to take care of them, and sells you the milk. 
>>   
>>  PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take 
>>  care of them, and you all share the milk. 
>>   
>>  RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of 
>>  them, but the government takes all the milk. 
>>   
>>  DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and 
>>  shoots you. 
>>   
>>  SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines 
>>  you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment. 
>>   
>>  MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and 
>>  drafts you. 
>>   
>>  PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who 
>>  gets the milk. 
>>   
>>  REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick 
>>  someone to tell you who gets the milk. 
>>   
>>  AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows 
>>  if you vote for it. After the election, the president is 
>>  impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the 
>>  affair "Cowgate". 
>>   
>>  BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep' 
>>  brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. 
>>   
>>  BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government 
>>  regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. 
>>  Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, 
>>  shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. 
>>  Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the 
>>  missing cows.. 
>>   
>>  ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair 
>>  price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows. 
>>   
>>  CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. 
>>   
>>  HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them 
>>  to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit 
>>  opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a 
>>  debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get 
>>  all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. 
>>  The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian 
>>  intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the 
>>  majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' 
>>  milk back to the listed company.  The annual report says that 
>>  the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. 
>>  Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shiu is bad. 
>>   
>>  ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you 
>>  from milking or killing them. 
>>   
>>  FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal 
>>  calf. 
>>   
>>  TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them 
>>  and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. 
>>   
>>  COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. 
>>  You got to have some of this milk. 
>>   
>>  SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you 
>>  to take harmonica lessons. 
>>   
>>  LIBERTARIANISM: You have two cows. One has actually read the 
>>  constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas 
>>  about government.  The cow runs for office, and while most 
>>  people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except 
>>  the other cow votes for her because they think it would be 
>>  "throwing their vote away."
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