A lesson in politics from a little girl.

A $50 Lesson

I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she

grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. 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 yard, 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.'

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.