a big difference

Someone said to me the other day that there is no difference between a republican and a democrat....that they are all the same underneath the veneer they present to the public. That statement caused me to examine the root cause of the surface contradictions and the answer may lie in the story of how two opposites attack the same problem.

You see, this fellow had a skin condition. Every night dried skin would flake off and soil the bedsheets, to his wife's dismay. He told a friend about the problem and the guy came up with a solution. He invented a lightweight vacuum with which the sleeper could easily clean the sheets every morning. The machine was such a success that he told all his neighbors. They would come around to see how the vacuum worked and soon just about everyone wanted one.

The inventor of the contraption started making the vacuum for his neighbors in his basement but the demand grew so rapidly that he persuaded friends to invest in his enterprise. They built a factory and soon were producing thousands and thousands of the machines. Millions of dollars were made and the inventor was so grateful to his neighbor that he gave him a job in his new factory sweeping up at nights after everyone had gone home. That's when he met a fellow worker. They became fast friends and one night he told his buddy about his skin problem.

"Why don't you just rub some skin cream on your body every day for awhile and see if that helps," his friend advised. Well, he did, and in a few days the skin problem vanished.

That friend was a democrat.