A funny.... SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes one and gives it to someone else. COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you milk. FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you the milk. NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRACY: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, kills one and spills the milk in the sewage system. CAPITALISM: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. SINGAPORE DEMOCRACY: You have 2 cows. The government fines you for keeping 2 unlicensed animals in an apartment. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you 2 cows if you vote for them. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate". BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have 2 cows. You feed them sheep's brain and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY: You are still queuing for the first cow. IRAQI DEMOCRACY: You cannot inspect the 2 cows. HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have 2 cows. You sell 3 of them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then you execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all 4 cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping 5 cows. The milk rights are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all 7 cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns 8 cows, with an option to purchase one more. Meanwhile, you kill the 2 cows because the feng shui is bad.