[217] in Humor
HUMOR: An alternative view of the economy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blgreenb@MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 18 22:05:43 1994
From: blgreenb@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 22:02:44 EDT
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> A little boy came home from school one day and said to his father,
> "Dad, what can you tell me about politics? I have to learn about it for
> school tomorrow." The father thought some and said, "OK, son, the best way
> I can describe politics is to use an analogy. Let's say that I'm
> capitalism because I'm the breadwinner. Your mother will be government because
> she controls everything, our maid will be the working class because she
> works for us, you will be the people because you answer to us, and your
> baby brother will be the future. Does that help any?" The little boy
> said, "Well, Dad, I don't know, but I'll think about what you said."
>
> Later that night, after everyone had gone to bed, the little boy
> was woken up by his brother's crying. Upon further investigation, he found a
> dirty diaper. So, he went down the hall to his parent's bedroom and found
> his father's side of the bed empty and his mother wouldn't wake up.
> Then he saw a light on in the guest room down the hall, and when he reached
> the door, he saw through the crack that his father was in bed with the
> maid. Because he couldn't do anything else, he turned and went back to
> bed.
> The next morning, he said to his father at the breakfast table,
> "Dad, I think I understand politics much better now." "Excellent, my boy,"
> he answered, "What have you learned?" The little boy thought for a
> minute and said, "I learned that capitalism is screwing the working class,
> government is sound asleep ignoring the people, and the future's full of shit."
>
>
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