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greenlands · February 23, 2014

The Â£50 lesson

Recently, while I was working in the front yard, my neighbours stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog.

During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister

some day. Both of her parents who are Tory supporters were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were Prime Minister 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 with pride!

"Wow! What a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that!" I told her.

"What do you mean?" she replied.

So I explained to her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you Â£50. Then you can go over to the

grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the Â£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 Â£50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Tory Party."

Her parents aren't speaking to me, anymore. :emoticon-0138-thinking: