I came across this article which featured a short story describing the attitude of many of our modern politicians:
A little girl was reading a book.
A politician was seated next to a little girl on an airplane. He turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied, “What do you want to talk about?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the congressman. He smiled smugly. “How about the global credit crisis or stimulus packages?”
“OK,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics. But let me ask you a question first.”
“What’s that?”
“A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff—grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?” the girl asked.
The politician, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thought about it. “Hmmm, I have no idea,” he said.
To which the little girl replied, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss the global credit crisis or stimulus packages when you don’t know poop?”
And then she went back to reading her book.
This attitude is evident in the controversial world of politics. Whether a change will be adopted, however, lies in the future. Hopefully it will be in 2012, given the Europe crisis and the Middle Eastern revolutions.
Wishing everyone a wonderful year and for the record, I do not own the picture.
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