Excerpt From "No Minister blog " http://nominister.blogspot.co.nz/ I asked my friend's little daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day. Both her parents, Labour supporters, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all those poor people on benefits." Her parents beamed, and said, "Welcome to the Labour Party!" "What a wonderful idea!" I told her, and continued, "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my place, mow the lawn, pull some weeds, sweep my deck and I'll pay you $20 an hour. Then I'll take you over to that homeless chap who hangs out in front of the local shop begging. You can give him the money to buy food." She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless man come over and do the work himself and you can just pay him the $20 an hour?" I smiled and said, "Welcome to the National Party." That was over two years ago and the silence is deafening. Comments are closed.
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Don MalcolmA perfect day involves being on my Harley with a long ride ahead.
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