Cow Economics

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COW ECONOMICS

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

INDIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows
You worship them

PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
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 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 & naturally that nation will be a
danger to mankind
You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows

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

GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows
You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and
milk themselves

SWISS ECONOMICS
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you
You charge others for storing them

JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows
You re-design 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

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.

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.

Amerikanisch eingefärbte Varianten der Cow Economics finden sich beispielsweise hier, hier und hier.