The $50 lesson

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I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she
grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States .

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked
her, "If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."

Her parents proudly beamed. "Wow...what a worthy goal," I told her.
"But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. Tell you
what - you can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep
my driveway, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery
store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use
toward food and a new house. How about doing something wonderful like
that?"

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 $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her parents still aren't speaking to me...