Lorie Byrd at Wizbang met Michael Steele (former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and U.S. Senate candidate) at the Civitas Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh, NC.
She shares this very interesting — and spot-on accurate — joke from Mr. Steele:
He told the joke about a conservative and a liberal walking down the street and coming upon a homeless man. The conservative hands him his business card invites him to come into his office to talk about a job, then he hands him twenty dollars. The liberal, not wanting to be outdone, points the man to the nearest welfare office and then hands him fifty dollars from the conservative’s pocket.
There’s a lot of truth in that little bit of humor.
Too bad this man didn’t win the race in Maryland. I hear he went to private industry after losing. He’s sorely needed in public service.
Then the conservative hired his son instead of the homeless guy, and sent the homeless guy to Iraq.
…and sent the homeless guy to Iraq.
Well, since it’s a volunteer military, that would mean that the homeless guy learned the leasson of “teach a man to fish” and decided to do for himself by getting a job in the military.