Fifty Dollars

The story goes…

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,

'Well, 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.