An interesting email exchange with My Favorite Wingnut (MFW):

[Jackpine Radical]

He sends me an email withthe following story:

I recently asked my neighbors' 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 with pride. Wow...what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that! You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, 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 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.

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In reply, I sent him the following story (author not unknown; author =me)

So this little girl is walking down the street with her father and says she wants to grow up to be a Republican President. As they are walking, they pass a raggedly dressed blind man with no legs and only one arm. He has a tin cup in his one hand, and there is a sign around his neck that says "Please help a Vietnam veteran with a few coins. The little girl walks out around the beggar, and her father speeds up, grabs her by the arm. jerks her back toward the cripple, kicks the cripple in the head, and screams at the little girl, "You kick him too, or you won't get that new gold-plated bicycle. If you want to be a Republican, you have to learn how to keep these freeloaders in their place."

[LiberalLoner]

1. Excellent! n/t

[Tx4obama]

2. The little girl should have asked the republican woman ...

If you need all that work done then why haven't YOU gone down to the homeless shelter and HIRED someone that is looking for a job, instead of just keeping your money in the bank? !!!

[Ilsa]

3. Her father forgot to have the little girl

Put a small American flag in the disabled vet's cup before she kicks him.

Sigh.

[zbdent]

4. side note to the story ...

The "author" of the story actually takes the girl down to the homeless shelter and says "Who will cut my grass for $50?"

A number of volunteers line up ...

and then, the shoe drops.

The "author" says, "Whoa, there's way too many of you! Who will do it for $40?"

About the same ...

Again ... "$30?"

a few stragglers sense what's coming and back away.

Before long, you have the "author" saying that he won't pay anyone more than 50 cents to cut the grass ... and he tells the girl "SEE?!!! They just don't want to work!"

(edited to add ...)

And he was demanding that they bring their own tools to do the job, and pay for their own transportation.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I just forwarded your sequel to MFW.

Thanks! :evilgrin: