The $50 Lesson
An unknown author’s story:
Recently,
while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors
stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our
friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be
when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President someday.
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 said. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that!” I told her.
“What do you mean?” she replied.
So
I told her, “You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull
weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then you can go over to
the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and 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 aren’t speaking to me anymore.
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