The Fate Of To Cows
SOCIALISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes one and gives it to someone else.
COMMUNISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you milk.
FASCISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you the milk.
NAZISM:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREACRACY:
You have 2 cows. The State takes both, kills one and spills the milk in the
sewage system.
CAPITALISM:
You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM:
You have 2 cows. You sell 3 of them to your publicly listed company, using
letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then you execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all 4 cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping
5 cows. The milk rights are transferred
via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the
majority shareholder who sells
the rights to all 7 cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report
says that the company owns 8 cows, with
an option to purchase one more. Meanwhile, you kill the 2 cows because the feng
shui is bad.
SINGAPORE DEMOCRACY:
You have 2 cows. The government fines you for keeping 2 unlicensed animals
in an apartment.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY:
The government promises to give you 2 cows if you vote for them. After the
election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press
dubs the affair "Cowgate".
BRITISH DEMOCRACY:
You have 2 cows. You feed them sheep's brain and they go mad. The government
doesn't do anything.
RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY:
You are still queuing for the first cow.
IRAQI DEMOCRACY:
You cannot inspect the 2 cows.
MALAYSIAN DEMOCRACY:
The cows are now controlled from grazing and you are jailed for being unfit to
rear cows.
JAPANESE DEMOCRACY:
You have 2 cows. You give the milk for gangsters so they don't ask awkward
questions about whom you are giving the
milk to