Economic Models explained - with Cows
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SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, so you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then files 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.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

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.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, 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 a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it
worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk
themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they
are. You decide to have 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 2 cows. You stop counting cows because your sobering up and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINA CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.

IRAQI CORPORATION: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....

AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers.

WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

IRISH CORPORATION. You have two cows...or is it three? What matters? Shure, aren't you well off to have even one.

Government cannot create growth, government can only create conditions that foster growth.

So why is it that their solution to the problems of the Eurozone and America lie in "Austerity" plans for workers, and contraction of retirement and social security benefits that people have already funded?

Where is the justice in giving someone who doesn't want to work government cash to buy alcohol, drugs and tobacco, while the people who paid into that government from their hard-earned taxes over many many years are now told there's no money to fund their retirement and healthcare costs?

There is a bitter irony when you realize America, having gotten rid of the USSR is itself turning into one of the most Socialist political systems, in spite of the historically repeated failure of those systems.

Why do they not understand that they are biting the hand that feeds them, and this situation will inevitably lead to chaos or revolution?

Surely with all their advisors, consultants and committees, someone has reminded them that they are punishing the very people who pay their salaries and fund their "politically correct" projects?

Or is it that no-one dares to say anything because they are scared of losing THEIR jobs?

The solution is obvious, we need to encourage capitalism and return to our parents ethics and values.

They were workers, not beggars, and proud of it. They saved, not borrowed, and there were no such things as credit cards or "instant" cash.

They built, and created, and manufactured, and passed it on to their children. Our children just USE and throw away. They throw away old iPhones, they throw away old people, today they throw away employees, tomorrow they'll throw you away too. We're all just the same disposable commodities....

We need our governments to return to their roots, too. They have to facilitate individual growth and prosperity and protect just those individuals who cannot take care of themselves, not all of us.

Leave us alone to build and grow and make money and be able to spend it how we wish. That is what gets economies moving and companies starting up and growing.

Let us decide if a charity deserves to be supported, that's not your job. Your job is to regulate fraud OUT of the system, not encourage it by your own corruption.

Governments were elected to suppress Crime and baser human instincts, not encourage laziness, stupidity and tolerance of mediocrity. LEAD and EXCEL, not beat us all down to ignorance.

If Greece and Italy's governments had done their jobs, there would not be a crisis today. Why have they not all been "fired for misconduct and negligence" I'm sure we could easily replace all of them with younger less corrupt people who frankly could not do a worse job.

And yet the focus is all on a Cruiseship captain who refused to stay on board and die for the "job"..... would they have kept his widow and children in the style they had been accustomed to? I'd wager not.... it would be considered "part of the job".

Those useless politicians earn many times what he made, and yet no danger of death or even losing their jobs due to gross incompetence and proven corruption. Noone even comments on that...

What is the world coming to????

A Recession is when your neighbour loses his job
A Depression is when you lose yours.
Recovery is when [the government loses theirs.]

Margaret Thatcher described today's trend towards Big Government perfectly...
"the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money"

I read an interesting article today on Atlas Shrugged - the famous book that keeps rising to the top of the Bestsellers list every time there's a recession (or Corruption in Big Business or Politics hits the news...)

No suprise there, but one of the Comments left after the article made me think twice...

...remember everyone dies in the end. Capitalism puts the gun in your hand. Fascism, Communism, & Socialism put the gun to your head.....

Some idiot is using my domain name to spam everyone on the planet.

Unfortunately I am powerless to prevent these emails being sent or bounced back to me....anyone can send a million emails these days.

There is no email server at this address - it is just a black hole.