Cow politics

This is an oldie but a goodie. It is an internet forward, but i have made a number of additions.

SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, so you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. You are forced to sing a song thanking the state for taking the cows.

FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. You are forced to sing a song about the superiority of your country's cows.

NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then files the milk away while it investigates writing a comprehensive set of milk quality procedures, and setting up a task force to investigate the health and safety implications of milking...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. The cows are tended by slaves. You get your cronies in parliament to ban goat's milk. You sell the cows and the slaves and retire on the income.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows.You sell one, and send the other to Indonesia, while forcing it to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows.You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank,then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows.No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows.You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows.You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide. The farm hands work 16 hours a day, and many of them commit suicide.

A KOREAN CORPORATION: You have three hundred cows all living in a 5m square apartment. There are two hundred people tending the cows. The people doing the actual work are women and "guest workers". All the men are standing around spitting and drinking soju, while proclaiming the superiority of korean cows, even though their cows were imported from the USA few weeks ago.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows.You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. You founded the farm based on the profits of Nazism, but you prefer to keep that quiet.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows.You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows because you're sobering up and open another bottle of vodka. When you sober up you discover that the President’s mafia-linked goons have taken the cows.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5,000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINA CORPORATION: You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb you and invade your country.You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows.Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION: You have two cows. You charge “fart tax” on your two cows and have a 4-1 ratio of sheep/person.

AN IRISH CORPORATION. You have two cows...or is it three? What does it matter? Aren't you well off to have even one?

A WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.