{"id":13,"date":"2008-11-18T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paganfreak.net\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-11-18T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:45:00","slug":"dairy-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":">DAIRY ECONOMICS:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><b>DAIRY ECONOMICS<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><b>SOCIALISM<\/b>: You have 2 cows. The State nationalizes one and gives it to<br \/>your neighbour.<br \/><b><br \/>COMMUNISM<\/b>: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.<br \/><b><br \/>FASCISM<\/b>: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.<br \/><b><br \/>NAZISM:<\/b> You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.<br \/><b><br \/>BUREAUCRATISM<\/b>: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks<br \/>the other, and then throws the milk away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:<\/b> <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1227047724_7\">You have two cows<\/span>. You sell one and buy a bull.<br \/>Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire<br \/>on the income.<br \/><b><br \/>SURREALISM:<\/b> You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take<br \/>harmonica lessons.<br \/><b><br \/>LEHMAN BROTHERS VENTURE CAPITALISM<\/b>: You have two cows. You sell three of<br \/>them to your publically listed company, using letters of credit opened<br \/>by your brother-in-law at Bear Stearns, then execute a debt\/equity swap<br \/>with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back,<br \/>with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are<br \/>transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly<br \/>owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows<br \/>back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns<br \/>eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new<br \/>president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance<br \/>sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.<br \/><b><br \/>AN AMERICAN CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the<br \/>other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to<br \/>analyze why the cow has dropped dead.<br \/><b><br \/>A FRENCH CORPORATION: <\/b>You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a<br \/>riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.<br \/><b><br \/>A JAPANESE CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are<br \/>one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.<br \/>You then create a clever cow cartoon image called &#8216;Cowkimon&#8217; and market<br \/>it worldwide.<br \/><b><br \/>A GERMAN CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they<br \/>live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.<br \/><b><br \/>AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:<\/b> You have two cows, but you don&#8217;t know where they<br \/>are.  You decide to have lunch.<br \/><b><br \/>A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:<\/b> You have two cows.  You count them and learn you<br \/>have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.  You<br \/>count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and<br \/>open another bottle of vodka.<br \/><b><br \/>A SWISS CORPORATION<\/b>: You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.<br \/>You charge the owners for storing them.<br \/><b><br \/>A CHINESE CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking<br \/>them.  You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine<br \/>productivity. You add melamine and arrest the newsman who reported the<br \/>real situation.<br \/><b><br \/>AN INDIAN CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. You worship them.<br \/><b><br \/>A BRITISH CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. Both are mad.<br \/><b><br \/>AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. Business seems pretty<br \/>good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.<br \/><b><br \/>A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION<\/b>: You have two cows. The one on the left looks<br \/>very attractive..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>DAIRY ECONOMICS: SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows. The State nationalizes one and gives it toyour 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;>DAIRY ECONOMICS:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}