[Healeys] Fw: Old horse, new wagon.....

[Ghess4]

Subject: Old horse, new wagon.....


Young Chuck bought a horse from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to
deliver the horse the next day.  The next day the farmer drove up and said,
"Sorry son, but I have some bad news... the horse died."

Chuck replied, "Then give me my money back."  The farmer said, "Can't do that.
I spent it already."

Chuck said, "Ok, then, then bring me the dead horse."  The farmer asked, "What
ya gonna do with him?"  Chuck said, "I'm going to raffle him off."  The farmer
said, "You can't raffle off a dead horse!"

Chuck said, "Sure I can. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."

A month later, the farmer ran across Chuck and asked, "What ever happened with
that dead horse?"



Chuck said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece."



The farmer said, "Didn't anyone complain?"



Chuck said, "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back. I made
a profit of $998 - all cash I don't have to report... all on people's "hope"
they were gonna get a horse for $2"



"Then I sold the corpse to a rendering plant for another $20 cash...



Now that I have paperwork showing my only horse died, and no way to make I
living, I applied for government aid, and they're giving me enough welfare
that I can buy a really nice horse with my cash, and the Government will never
know about it."



That was several years ago...



Chuck now works for the government.  He's the one who came up with the Obama
"bail-out" scheme.