Having trouble helping your child (or your liberal friend) understand the fallacies of socialism? Let the story of the Little Red Hen help you out.
Little Red Hen a.k.a. Greedy Capitalist Pig
“Who will help me plant my wheat?” asked the little red hen.
“Not I,” said the cow.
“Not I,” said the duck.
“Not I,” said the pig.
“Not I,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself.” She planted her crop and the wheat grew and ripened.
“Who will help me reap my wheat?” asked the little red hen.
“I’m on disability,” said the duck.
“Out of my classification,” said the pig.
“I’d lose my seniority,” said the cow.
“I’d lose my unemployment compensation,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself,” said the little red hen, and so she did.
“Who will help me bake the bread?” asked the little red hen.
“That would be overtime for me,” said the cow.
“I’d lose my welfare benefits,” said the duck.
“I’m a dropout and never learned how,” said the pig.
“If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,” said the goose.
“Then I will do it by myself,” said the little red hen, and so she did.
The smell of fresh-baked bread attracted all her neighbors. They saw the bread and wanted some. In fact, they demanded a share.
But the little red hen said, “No, I shall eat all the loaves. I earned them!”
“Excess profits!” cried the cow.
“Capitalist leech!” screamed the duck.
“I demand equal rights!” yelled the goose.
“Share with the 99 percent,” grunted the pig.
And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.
Then the farmer came He said to the little red hen, “You must not be so greedy.”
“But I earned the bread,” said the little red hen.
“Exactly,” said the farmer. “That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern socialist government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are idle.”
So the next year:
The little red hen didn’t plant the wheat or sow the wheat or reap the wheat or bake the wheat and all the farm animals went hungry including the farmer.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery!” -Winston Churchill
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Haha! Could it be any simpler?
Posted by Cucciolo | July 24, 2012, 7:52 am“The Farmer” says “somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive” while deliberately trying to destroy that very system. He just doesn’t get it.
Posted by Dan | July 24, 2012, 8:55 amThe farmer forgot to tell the hen that the bread is his because he provided the barn, the yard, the farm tools…
Posted by CD | July 24, 2012, 11:31 amas you said, Cucciolo, could it be any simpler? unfortunately, simple goes over too many liberals heads!
Posted by lundy | July 24, 2012, 2:52 pmthe farmer should be quoted as telling the Little Red hen at every step of her production process, “you didn’t do that.”
Posted by linus | July 24, 2012, 2:53 pmOf course, eventually, they all had a chicken dinner.
Posted by Ed Lathrop | September 3, 2012, 3:56 pm