Saturday, November 1, 2008

More on cows

> TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You sell one and buy a bull.
> Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
> You retire on the income.
>
> PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
> You don't have any cows.
> You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
> You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid,
> British for technology, French for submarines, Switzerland
> for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan for equipment.
> You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.
>
> AMERICAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
> You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. You put the blame on some
> nation with cows and say that that nation is a danger to mankind.
> You wage a war to save the world and grab that nation's cows.
>
> FRENCH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You go on strike because you want three cows.
>
> GERMAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years,eat once a month and
> milk themselves.
>
> BRITISH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> They are both mad cows.
>
> ITALIAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You don't know where they are.
> You break for lunch.
>
> SWISS ECONOMICS
> You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
> You charge owners for storing them.
>
> JAPANESE ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary
> cow and produce twenty times the milk.
> You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and
> market them worldwide.
>
> RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
> 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 17 cows.
> You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.
>
> CHINESE ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You have 300 people milking them.
> You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone
> reporting the actual numbers.
>
> BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You don't know economy.
> You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the
> other as the Leader of the Opposition.
>
> INDIAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You worship them.

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