A Lesson on Liberalism

I stole this from a web forum I frequent and changed things around to make it more Canadian. This obviously isn't a true story.

I was talking to a friend's little girl, and she said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day. Both of her parents, long time Liberals, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were to be the Prime Minister, what first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and rake 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 or a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds, 'cause she's only 6.

And while her Mom glared at me, the little girl 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?'

And I said, 'Welcome to the Conservative Party.'

Her folks still aren't talking to me. Even children understand.