Elephants

I'm sure we've all gotten this or another forward with a similar message, never the less I always get a kick out of how simple the idea is.

> > 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 proudly beamed.
> >
> > "What a worthy goal," I told her. "But you don't have to wait until you're
> > President to do that. Tell you what - 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 the homeless guy hangs out, and you
> > can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house. How about
> doing something wonderful like that?"
> >
> > She thought that over for a few seconds and then 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."
> >
> >