Posted by Riccardo (195.103.80.225) on January 17, 2000 at 04:56:57:
....sorry for horrible translation from italian.....
Some NOTES Of MACROECONOMY FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
* FEUDALISM
You have 2 cows. Your master takes part of the milk
* PURE SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows. The government takes it and puts it in a stall with the cows of all the others. You must take care of all the cows. The government give yourself the milk of which you need exactly
* BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows. The government takes it and puts it in a stall with the cows of all the others. A group of ex breeders of chickens take care of them us. You must take care of the chickens took to the ex breeders of chickens. The government give yourself the milk and the eggs of which the rules establish that you need exactly
* PURE COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows. Your neighbours help you take care of the cows and you all together divide the milk
* RUSSIAN COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows. You must take care of cows but the government takes all the milk
* FASCISM
You have 2 cows. The government takes it both, he engages you to take care of it and he sells you the milk
* MILITARY REGIME
You have 2 cows. The government takes it both and denies that they have never existed.
The milk is put outlaw and you comes enlisted in the army
* TOTALITARIANISM
You have 2 cows. The government takes it both and shoot you
* PURE DEMOCRACY
You have 2 cows. Your neighbours decide who takes the milk
* REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
You have 2 cows. Your neighbours name anybody that decides who takes the milk
* AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The government promises to give you 2 cows if you vote him. After the elections the president is put under impeachment for have speculated on the "futures" cattle (COWgate)
* ENGLISH DEMOCRACY
You have 2 cows. You fed it with brain of sheep and they go mad. The government doesn't do nothing
* ITALIAN DEMOCRACY
You have 2 cows. To the beginning the government establishes in which way you must feed and when you must milk it. Then the government pays you for don't milk it. In succession takes it both, kills one of two and throws all the milk.
At the end forces you to fill many forms for denounce the lacking cows
* ANARCHY
You have 2 cows. Or you sell it to an equitable price, or your neighbours kill you for take it
* CAPITALISM
You have 2 cows. You sell one of two, buy a bull and makes it to join with the other cow
* CAPITALISM Of HONG KONG
You have 2 cows. Any sells three to your farm, using the letters of credit opened from your brother-in-law by bank. Then you start a due exchange actions with a public offer and you are able to take back you all and four the cows with a tax relief for the maintenance of five cows. The laws on the milk of six cows have transferred through a Panamanian middleman to a company of the Cayman Islands of ownership of the shareholder of majority, that resells your company the laws on the milk of all and seven the cows. The annual budget affirms that the company own eight cows with an option on the acquisition of another. In the meantime you kill the two cows because the milk is bad.
* HINDUISM
You have 2 cows. You adore it
* ENVIRONMENTALISM
You have 2 cows. The government forbids you to use the milk and to kill it
* FEMINISM
You have 2 cows. You make it marry and you adopt a little calf