anyworld: November 2008

COW-O-NOMICS

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.

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 say that that nation is a danger to mankind.
You wage a war to save the world and grab that nation's cows.

FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.

GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You reengineer 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 owners for storing them.

JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinarycow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon andmarket 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.

BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know economy.
You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the other as the Leader of the Opposition.

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You make one of these as suicide bomber, that blows itself killing other.

INDIAN ECONOMICS
You already have 2 cows.
You claim that the one of Pakistani cows belong to you, and you occupy it.
You ask the US for financial aid, Russia for military aid,British for technology, French for submarines, Switzerlandfor loans, Afghanistan for drugs and Japan for equipment to save that cow.
And then start worshiping the cow.