a forward I received...

...said the following...

I recently asked my  friend's 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. '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?' I said,

 'Welcome to  the Republican Party.' Her parents still

 aren't speaking to  me.