Parables

For those who have heard the Parable of the ten men who went to dinner ("Ten guys went to dinner, and they decided to pay their dinner bill. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So you see if we don't coddle the rich they will leave America and society will collapse."), there's an excellent analysis of it at Politicalstrategy.org.

Here's my version.

"Ten men went to dinner. The first five had the complementary bread and water. The sixth had a side order of fries and water. The Seventh had a small house salad and water. The eigth had a chicken fried steak, some fries and a soda. The ninth had a nice steak and salad, with a glass of wine. The tenth had a five course meal with salad, soup, lobster and steak, desert and coffee.

"When the check came, the tenth picked it up and said, "Well there are ten of us and the bill is $100.00. That will be $10.00 each."

This is of course a terribly flawed parable, but it's no worse than the other one.