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Weekend Contest: Two-Cow Economics
Professional economists get tired of explaining complicated concepts to those of us who can’t count to 20 without taking off our shoes. One popular simplification is to compare competing economic systems using the example of a farmer who owns two cows. A Kiwi talk-show host named Mike Hosking put a few of the examples in graphic form:
After going through the main economic systems, he compared various countries’ approach to globalism:
Most of the entries were pretty good, others were weak, but I know that the readers of Ricochet can come up with better descriptions. Write your ideas below in text (one idea per comment) and “like” all your favorites. Whichever comment has the most likes by 6 p.m., I’ll drop it into the the graphic format above and add it to this post.
Ready. Set. MOO!
UPDATE: And, with 33 “likes,” the winner of the contest is Arizona Patriot with a redefinition of Communism:
The cows are there you just can’t always see them. That’s why it’s called cowhide.
A Zimbabwean Corporation
You have two cows. You breed them successfully, growing your herd and expanding your farm into a successful estate, even branching in to safari tourism and wildlife conservation. Unfortunately, you’re white, so the government encourages thugs to move onto your land, who destroy your buildings, torture you and your wife, and slaughter your cows.
Oh wait, this is becoming too realistic to be funny…
Johnny Lingo:
You have two cows.
Six more and you can get yourself a beautiful wife.
Judaism:
You have two cows. But who’s complaining? At least you have your health.
Trumpism:
You have two cows.
So what? I have two thousand cows. And they are terrific cows. These cows love me. And the milk they give, it’s something special. One of my cows got stuck in the mud. I told it, “You’re mired.” I like the ones that don’t get stuck.
That deserves to be its own post.
Hasn’t happened yet. Don’t worry about it. :)
OK, so we’re not good at Facebook memes and we’re not so great at comedy.
If we’re to win over the populace, we need to go to our biggest strength.
Here’s the play: One person, you identify our biggest strength, and then the rest of us, we all contribute posts using that strength. Then the RNC can put the best ones on the world cloud inter-web.
Reagan Economics
You have two cows.
They double their milk production over the next 8 years.
The Left blames them for chicken feed costs going through the roof.
I actually thought this was a superb thread.
Agreed — this made me laugh a bunch.
And this one is really funny: