Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:21:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Council of Egypt
Subject: BLAGUES-L: Cows and International Politics


FROM: Rene Routhier
DATE:   Tue, 7 May 2002 14:29:10 -0400 


International Politics

SOCIALISM: 

You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour 

COMMUNISM: 

You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk 

FACISM: 

You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk 

NAZISM: 

You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you! 

BUREAUCRATISM: 

You have 2 cows. The Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and 
throws the milk away... 

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: 

You have two cows. 
You sell one and buy a bull. 
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. 
You sell them and retire on the income. 

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: 

You have two cows. 
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit 
opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with 
an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax 
exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an 
intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority 
shareholder who sells, the rights to all seven cows back to your listed 
company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on 
one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you 
with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys 
your bull. 

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. 
You are surprised when the cow drops dead. 

A FRENCH CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You go on strike because you want three cows. 

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce 
twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called 
Cowkimon and market them World-Wide. 

A GERMAN CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a 
month, and milk 
themselves. 

A BRITISH CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
Both are mad. 

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: 

You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. 
You break for lunch. 

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You count them and learn you have five cows. 
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. 
You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. 
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. 

A SWISS CORPORATION: 

You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. 
You charge others for storing them. 

A HINDU CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You worship them. 

A CHINESE CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
You have 300 people milking them. 
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who 
reported the numbers. 

AN ISRAELI CORPORATION: 

So, there are these two Jewish cows, right? 
They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. 
They send their calves to Harvard to become doctors. 
So, who needs people? 

AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION: 

You have two cows. 
That one on the left is kinda cute...