"Give a man a fish..." the progressive & GOP versions:

[yurbud]

The progressive version:

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime."


The GOP version:

"Steal a man's fish and you can eat sushi for a day. Privatize all fish, and nobody eats without paying you."

[Warpy]

1. Not really

The progressive version: Share your fish with a starving man while you teach him how to fish, and you'll both eat for a lifetime.

The GOP version: Tell that lazy bastard to go buy a fishing pole and then charge him to fish in your pond and if he dies in the meantime, it's because inferior people who don't own fishing poles and ponds have a duty to die off.

[LeftCoast]

2. You forgot - If he dies, then you charge the family for body disposal

C'mon now...you don't seriously expect a republican to pick up any of the tab do you? :)

[baldguy]

9. He dies, you charge the family for body disposal

And you have more fish food!

[yurbud]

11. and sell his organs

[Domitan]

12. Funny that!

The progressive version: I used that as an analogy when teaching my class a few weeks ago. Good one!

[fasttense]

3. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day....

teach a man to fish and you just lost your market base.

[knitter4democracy]

4. Progressive version:

Give a man a safe fish to eat every day until he can feed himself and then work like mad to keep the fish safe enough to eat and the water clean enough to drink.

GOP version:
Smack the guy for even asking and then go pollute the lake and charge the taxpayers the cost of cleaning it up while eating imported food.

[guitar man]

5. redneck version

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he spends every weekend ath the lake drinking beer in a bass boat! :toast:

[Habibi]

8. Variation:

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him for the whole weekend!

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

[CT_Progressive]

6. Sadist version

Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life...

:)

[yurbud]

10. the Bushies used that one in Fallujah

[Squatch]

7. My version:

"Nobody gets to fish because all you assholes destroyed damn near every fish stock (except for maybe the hagfish) in the world. Everybody eat beef instead."

[Hippo_Tron]

13. Idiot version

Give a man a fish and he'll fish for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll fish for a lifetime.