Subject: $50.00 Lesson

 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 beamed.

"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 sweep my driveway, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you

over to the grocery store where a 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.