{"id":356,"date":"2015-03-11T07:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=356"},"modified":"2015-03-11T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T12:05:44","slug":"political-definitions-explained-with-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Political Definitions explained with Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-6143 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cow-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cow-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cow-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cow.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.<\/li>\n<li>SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour. You form a co-operative to tell him how to manage his cow.<\/li>\n<li>COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour.<\/li>\n<li>CAPITALISM (AMERICAN STYLE): You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.<\/li>\n<li>AMERCIAN DEMOCRATIC: You have two cows. Your neighbour has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you.<\/li>\n<li>AMERICAN REPUBLICANISM: You have two cows. Your neighbour has none. So?<\/li>\n<li>BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, then throws the milk away&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(ed. Photo attribution through Creative Commons \/ CC BY-SA2.0: Dirty Cow, photo by Ian Paterson, and property of http:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/profile\/13639)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour. You form a co-operative to tell him how to manage his cow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}