Wally wrote: This isn't the time for someone with my skills to be shopping for a new job, so I have to work very hard to keep the voices under control.
$13 just to cross the Verrazano bridge. I think good times are just around the corner for you my friend... Go ahead and speak your mind. The MTA is not concerned in the slightest what the people think of them.
yes.. what is up with that.. how can the Verrazano bridge cost 4 times the amount it costs to cross any bridge into Philly.
Economic models explained by cows
Nazis?
SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbor.
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 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.
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.
THE ANDERSEN MODEL: You have two cows. You shred them.
FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
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.
ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.
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 and open another bottle of vodka.
SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
CHINESE 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.
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...
WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.
And I thought this was going to be about right wing Nazi fetishes.
But the Cows are far more entertaining.
Nazis are safe because they are the form of socialism that everybody hates.
Only about half the population hates the virtually functionally identical communist version.
And what really gets people going is when you accurately point out that a particular socialist policy is actually more fascist socialist in format than communist socialist. (There are some differences...and FDR was more a fan of the fascist economic model than the more traditional socialist ones... so our form of socialism in the US has always leaned in that economic direction.)
wcelliot wrote: Nazis are safe because they are the form of socialism that everybody hates. Only about half the population hates the virtually functionally identical communist version. And what really gets people going is when you accurately point out that a particular socialist policy is actually more fascist socialist in format than communist socialist. (There are some differences...and FDR was more a fan of the fascist economic model than the more traditional socialist ones... so our form of socialism in the US has always leaned in that economic direction.)
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914Driver wrote: Economic models explained by cows
Very funny, thank you for posting.
ignorant wrote:914Driver wrote: Economic models explained by cowsVery funny, thank you for posting.
He says, as he wipes the snot off his keyboard again...This one had me roaring laughing. People were starting to stare...more than usual
Don't ROAR! It scares the cows.
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