World Economics Made Easy..

[Overlook]

An oldie but made me grin when I re-discovered it in my 'stuff' folder

>TRADITIONAL (COMMON SENSE) ECONOMICS
>
>You have two cows.You sell one and buy a bull.
>Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
>You retire on the income.
>
>INDIAN ECONOMICS
>
>You have two cows.You worship them.
>
>PAKISTANI ECONOMICS
>
>You don't have any cows.You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
>You ask the US for finacial aid,China for military aid,Britian for
>warplanes,Italy for machines, Germany for technology,France for
>submarines,Switzerland for loans,Russia for drugs and Japan for
>equipement.You buy the cows with all this and then complain of
>exploitation by the rest of 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 naturally that nation will be a danger to
>mankind.You wage a war to save the World and grab their cows.
>
>FRENCH ECONOMICS
>
>You have two cows.You go on strike because you want three cows.
>
>
>GERMAN ECONOMICS
>
>You have two cows.You re-engineer them so that they can live for
>100years,eat once a month and milk themselves.
>
>BRITISH ECONOMICS
>
>You have two cows.They are both mad.
>
>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 others 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 Cow-kimon 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.

[maxandskye]

That was funny Cec, & you can just imagine it happening this way !

[Grampac]

CANADIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows...they froze to death in January.

[Tone C]

LOL,that got passed on..