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Oct 29, 2003, 09:59 AM
 
TRADITIONAL 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.

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS------------You don't have any
cows. You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid, China for military
aid, British for Warplanes, Italy for machines,
Germany for technology, French for submarines,
Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs and Japan
for equipment. You buy the cows with all this and
claim of exploitation by 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 &
naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab the 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 live for 100 years,
eat once a month and milk themselves.

BRITISH ECONOMICS-------------You have two cows.
They are both mad cows.

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
Cowkimon and market them world-wide.

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 productivity and arrest anyone
reporting the actual numbers.
     
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Here, BTW, is yet another version...

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