Ahhh, sent to my by my buddy John W in Australia. Who was a quite tough rugby back (flyhalf) when we lived in Cayman. YIKES! 43 years ago!!<\/p>\n
TWO COWS<\/p>\n SOCIALISM COMMUNISM FASCISM BUREAUCRATISM TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM VENTURE CAPITALISM AN AMERICAN CORPORATION A FRENCH CORPORATION AN ITALIAN CORPORATION <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A CHINESE CORPORATION AN INDIAN CORPORATION A BRITISH CORPORATION AN IRAQI CORPORATION AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION A GREEK CORPORATION <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahhh, sent to my by my buddy John W in Australia. Who was a quite tough rugby back (flyhalf) when we lived in Cayman. YIKES! 43 years ago!! TWO COWS SOCIALISMYou have 2 cows.You give one to your neighbour. COMMUNISMYou have 2 cows.The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISMYou have 2 cows.The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7187,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/7187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.<\/p>\n
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.<\/p>\n
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.<\/p>\n
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other and then throws the
milk away.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want
three cows.<\/p>\n
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
You worship them.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
Both are mad.<\/p>\n
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
Nobody believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows but at least you are now a Democracy.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.<\/p>\n
You have two cows.
T<\/span>he one on the left looks very attractive.<\/p>\n
You have two cows borrowed from French and German banks.
You eat both of them.
The banks call to collect their milk, but you cannot deliver so you call the IMF.
The IMF loans you two cows. You eat both of them.
The banks and the IMF call to collect their cows\/milk.
You are out getting a haircut.<\/span><\/p>\n