OT: US politics talk - who are you voting for and why? - Page 5

Here's one I received via email yesterday.

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl the other day. I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she replied, 'I want to be President!'

Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there. So then I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where this homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house.'

Since she is only 6, she thought that over for a few seconds. While her Mom glared at me, 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?'

And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'

Her folks still aren't talking to me.

Here's the other one.

Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia , there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat. She called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?'

'Not I,' said the cow.
'Not I,' said the duck.
'Not I,' said the pig.
'Not I,' said the goose.
'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.
The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck.
'Out of my classification,' said the pig.
'I 'd lose my seniority,' said the cow.
'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. 'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.
'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.
'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.
'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.
'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.
'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.'
'Excess profits!' cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)
'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)
'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)
The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)
And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the Farmer Obama came. He said to the little red hen, 'You must not be so greedy.'
'But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.

'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of
their labor with those who are lazy and idle.'

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, 'I am grateful,for now I truly understand.'

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness'had been established. Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

EPILOGUE

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.
Hillary got $8 million for hers.
That's $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

on second thoughts.....better to stay out of politics......

The only thing that would have help the "credit crunch" is honesty.  On the part of all parties.

If you can't afford it and live within your means, you can't afford it.  Period.  Educate yourself.  Get a better job.  Save. Then buy. Get rid of the credit cards that contribute to the debt to income ratio.  If you want that BBQ grill, save for it. 

It's a microwave society.  We want it and we want it NOW!  Oh, but we don't want to have to pay for it or have it on our "credit". 

No different with a house.  We want it NOW!  Doesn't matter that we can't afford it.  Doesn't matter that we've lied in order to take out two mortgages from the get-go. 

Doesn't matter that we had no self-control and had to keep up with the Jone's' to get that BBQ and vehicle and everything else on credit.  We make our payments much of the time.  By the time we've paid off the credit card for that one item, or the lending company for that one care we'd have owned it three times over with the interest on that "loan". 

Makes me sick to my stomach. 

I always did like the book Animal Farm.

I think the "Little Red Hen" parody was written just for people like you.

Those that can't relate to much more than a fairy tale.

Gotta love this one....

:)

ROFLMAO!

Hadn't seen that one before.  Very good.  Very true.

As far as I am concerned McCain is the only candidate running. Obama scares the bee-jeeezuz out of this woman. If he should get elected, I hope he's picked a good, solid VP, because I'm betting some wacked-out far-right nut-case will likely rob him of his chance to present an inaugural address, same reason Colin Powell, who I would have supported 100%,  refuses to run... He wants to see all of his golden years.

SS

I am not voting they both full of S**t. If I decide to vote I think I am more prone towards Mccain as of today but that may change.