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Maynard says:

A tale making the rounds:

I recently asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said that she wanted to be President of the United States. 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 of the homeless people.”

Her parents proudly beamed. “Wow…what a worthy goal,” I told her. “But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. Tell you what – you can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, 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. How about doing something wonderful like that?”

She thought that over for a few seconds. Then she looked at me and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over, do the work and you can just pay him the $50?”

I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.”

Her parents are still not speaking to me.