$50 Lesson

I recently asked my neighbors’ little girl what she wanted to be when
she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. 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 beamed with pride.

‘Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to
wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my
house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, 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. ‘

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?”

Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.