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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA union member, a tea party activist, and a CEO...
..are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it.
The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says,
'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'
I forgot where I heard this but it's one of my favorites.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Given the distribution of wealth and income in the US the CEO-class does get about 11 of every 12 cookies. The success of the CEO-party is that they not only get the 11 cookies but they get the others at the table to fight over the scraps rather than over why the CEO is getting so fat.
I've heard other versions of the joke that included immigrants, women and/or minorities sitting at the table as well. The constant in all versions is that the CEO gets 11 cookies and the others are expected to fight with each other over the remaining one.
brewens
(13,583 posts)CEO's at relatively small operations who aren't robbing us. People will get the point though.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)so the asshat could eat 143 of them.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)the Union Member wants to steal his crumbs.
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)The union member gets 12, and the tea partier gets 8. The CEO tells the tea partier that isn't fair, that he and the union guy should each have 10.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)the CEO owns the table, and provides temporary seating to serve crumbs to the teabagger. The union member can't afford to get in and the only chair available is in front of a closed factory.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)A wealthy media mogul, an economic migrant from a poor country, and a single mother on benefits are sitting at the table. The mogul takes 11 of the biscuits, and tells the economic migrant and the benefit claimant, out of both sides of his mouth, 'Watch out! That scrounger is demanding part of your biscuit!' While the two watch each other with suspicion, the media mogul takes the opportunity to grab the last biscuit for himself.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)The CEO takes all of them and tells the tea partier that the union member stole his cookie.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Thank you for that one!