Liberal to conservative, just like that!
It was years ago that I first heard this little story, and I just heard it re-told today, a little different of course, but the meaning still hit as hard as it did the first time I heard it.
I just wonder what anyone's opinion of the story might be:
A man was attending dinner at a friends home one evening.
After dinner, the Very Liberal host and hostess were visiting with the man when the couples 5 year old daughter came into the room.
"Hi", she says to the man.
"Well, hello there, whats your name"?
The girl told him her name, and he asked her, "what do you want to do when you grow up"?
Without a moments hesitation, she replied, "I'm going to be the president of the United States"!
"Well, that is one heck of a goal for a 5 year old", looking up at the beaming parents, the man asks "When you become president, what is the first thing you will do"? The girl replies, "I will give a house and food, to every homeless person in America"!
"Good for you" the man replies, "but, you won't have to wait that long in order to start helping the homeless, I can help you get started right now"
"How" the girl asks?
"You come over to my house with me, I have a whole lot of dog poop in my back yard that needs to be picked up and cleaned up, I'll pay you $5.00 to clean it up. Then, you can take your $5.00 down to the homeless shelter, and use it to buy a homeless man dinner, how would you like that"?
The girl looks at her parents, and then back at the man, and says " I have a better idea.
Why don't you go down to the homeless shelter and pick the man up. Then take him to your house and let him pick up all that dog poop, and you just pay him to do it"?
"Ah YES, the man said, WELCOME TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY"!!