I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows
up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States.
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 proudly beamed.
“Wow...what a worthy goal,” I told her. “But you
don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. Tell you what - you can come
over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I’ll pay
you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy
and give it to him so he can buy groceries and have money to save towards buying a new house. How about doing something wonderful like that?”
She thought that over for a few seconds, 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 parents still aren’t speaking to me.