Two Cows

• Socialism
  • You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.
    
    
• Communism
  • You have two cows, The government takes them both and provides you with milk.
    
    
• Fascism
  • You have two cows, the government takes them and sells you the milk.
    
    
• Bureaucracy
  • You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours it down the drain.
    
    
• Capitalism
  • You have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.
    
    
• Corporate
  • You have two cows, You sell one, force the other to produce the milk of four cows, then act surprised when it drops dead.
    
    
• Democracy
  • You have two cows, the government taxes you to the point that you must sell them both in order to support a man in a foreign country that has only one cow which was a gift from your government.
    
    

~ This was an email I received a long time ago