iCONOMICS
TRADITIONAL ìCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.
INDIAN ìCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You worship them.
PAKISTAN iCONOMICS
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, Britain for
Warplanes, Italy for machines, Germany for technology, France 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 iCONOMICS
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 iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
GERMAN iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month
and milk themselves.
BRITISH iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
They are both mad.
ITALIAN iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
SWISS iCONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.
JAPANESE iCONOMICS
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 worldwide.
RUSSIAN iCONOMICS
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 iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone
reporting the actual numbers.
Last month, a world-wide survey was conducted by the UN. The only
question asked was... Would you please give your honest opinion about
solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure because...
In Africa they didn't know what "food" means.
In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" means.
In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" means.
In China they didn't know what "opinion" means.
In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" means.
In South America they didn't know what "please" means.
In the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" means.
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