On Milk and Cows

My brother, who is a Republican, posted this on Facebook:

COWS DON’T GIVE MILK

A peasant used to say to his children when they were young: —When you all  reach the age of  12  I will tell you the secret of life. One day when the oldest turned 12, he anxiously asked his father what was the secret of life. The father replied that he was going to tell him, but that he should not reveal it to his brothers. 

—The secret of life is this: The cow does not give milk. "What are you saying?" Asked the boy incredulously. —As you hear it, son: The cow does not give milk, you have to milk it. You have to get up at 4 in the morning, go to the field, walk through the corral full of manure, tie the tail, hobble the legs of the cow, sit on the stool, place the bucket and do the work your self.

That is the secret of life, the cow does not give milk. You milk her or you don't get milk. There is this  generation that thinks that cows GIVE milk. That things are automatic and free: their mentality is that if " I wish, I ask..... I obtain." 

" They have been accustomed to get  what ever they want the easy way...But  No, life is not a matter of wishing, asking and obtaining. The things that one receives are the effort of what one does. Happiness is the result of effort. Lack of effort creates frustration. 

So, remember to share with your children, from a young age, the secret of life. So they don't grow up with the mentality that the government, their parents, or their cute little faces is going to give them everything they need in life.

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 "Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it"

This is, of course, the Republican version of not having government oversight and in particular not having a social safety net for those who fall through the cracks of society.

Let's examine this little morality tale.

First, the farmer is a peasant. In other words, the hard worker is poor. He may milk that cow until, well, the cows come home, but he's still a poor peasant.

The moral is that the farmer must take the milk from the cow. The cow does not freely give milk.

The farmer must also grow the crops to feed the cow, give it shelter, and keep it happy with a occasional scratch between the ears, because happier cows give more milk.

Which is to say, a happier populace would give more to society. If the farmer (peasant) gives the cow all of these things, then the farmer gets milk.

This is why people are poor. Because they work and work and only get a little bit of milk.

There are always two sides to these things. Let's not forget how hard the peasant is working for this tiny bit of milk.

Leaving out a lot of background to a little fairy tale might make for a good Facebook post, but honestly, all it is doing is keeping the impoverished down. It's hard to climb up by your bootstraps when you don't have any boots because you're so busy trying to get a little bit of milk from a cow you don't have time to go buy shoes.

What a Democrat does is come along and offer to go buy the guy a pair of boots.

A Republican just tells him to work harder for a little more milk.