Out of the mouths of babes

My wife sent this story to me this morning. It perfectly illustrates why homelessness is sometimes self-induced and why handouts are unfair to those from whom the handout is taken.....

So, I was talking to this little girl Catherine, the daughter of some friends,
and she said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there with us - and I asked Catherine - 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'

Catherine replied - 'I would give houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.'

I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in my back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house.'

Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second while her mom looked at me, and Catherine replied,
Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can just pay him the $5 dollars?'

And I said, "Welcome to the Conservative side".

Liberals want to take from those who've earned, and give to those who haven't. Conservatives want everybody to earn.

A perfect job to help a homeless dude get back on his feet.