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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:44 pm 
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I read this a while ago, but always makes me laugh given how true it is.

It is a slow day in the small Athens city of Greece , and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A rich tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the Hotel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the nght. As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Farmer's Co-op. The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit. The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:55 pm 
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Great!
Here is a little commentary on the government folks:
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in
Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of
dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and
YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to
his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet,
where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he
then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to
an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ....

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an
ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few
minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He
watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as
the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a
question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying
to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about
how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a
herd of sheep
Now give me back my dog.

AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT


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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:58 pm 
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LOL funny - ahh the good ole days of "RAZR's" and "Palm Pilots"!

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Good one... Both of them

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