SOCIALISM:   You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM:  You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM: You have 2 cows.  The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.  The public buys your bull.

THE ANDERSEN MODEL:  You have two cows. You shred them.

FRENCH CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

JAPANESE CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called  cowkimon and market it worldwide.  

A GERMAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you dont know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION:  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 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

CHINESE CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

INDIAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You worship them.

BRITISH CORPORATION:  You have two cows. Both are mad.

IRAQI CORPORATION:  Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none.  No one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....

WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.  

AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

Dates back at least ten years. Thats teh eternity in net terms.

Earliest I found on Usenet is 97 on soc.culture.tamil:

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.tamil/browse_frm/thread/bd901f40221eed29/527beb352b483ac4?lnk=st&q=economic+models+cows&rnum=1&hl=en#527beb352b483ac4

Like Nessie, its about time it resurfaced for another sighting.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeSOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour. .

Thats not true.. every hardworking Brit knows you get 5 Cows. The goverment takes 2 & charges you for collection & puts VAT on top.

One gets given to the scrounging Neighbour from hell.
Another gets given to the smiling Eastern European Family who arrived by the  U-move WE-haul truck, but didnt haul any furniture.

Your left with 1 cow.. on which you pay a high % of luxury tax on because you had 5 cows.

Quote from: Eggtastico

Quote from: Clockd 0NeSOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour. .

Thats not true.. every hardworking Brit knows you get 5 Cows. The goverment takes 2 & charges you for collection & puts VAT on top.

One gets given to the scrounging Neighbour from hell.
Another gets given to the smiling Eastern European Family who arrived by the  U-move WE-haul truck, but didnt haul any furniture.

Your left with 1 cow.. on which you pay a high % of luxury tax on because you had 5 cows.

The cow you have got though gets elected to be Prime Minister and alternately ruins and builds up the economy.

BIRDSEYE: You have two cows - enough beef for 285,000 patties.

McDonalds, you have two cows - enough beef for 285,000 patties and two cows left over...

This is supposed to be humour NIGEL not boredom lessons, lol.

Quote from: *she-devil*This is supposed to be humour NIGEL not boredom lessons, lol.

*she-devil*: you had two cows, now you have neither and have had your sense of humour extracted....






[runs and hides]