Thursday, July 28, 2011

A Piece of the Pie - Bacon and Politics

FEUDALISM: You have bacon. The lord comes and takes the bacon. And your last pig. You get a potato.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have some bacon. Your neighbor does not. The government takes your bacon and gives it to the neighbor. You have to take a second job to bring home the bacon so you can continue to supply the non working neighbor with your bacon.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have some bacon. The government takes half of it to give to the neighbor with none. The bacon is then managed by a Bacon Czar with a large staff. The Bacon Czar is a vegan. With the ensuing paperwork, and the latent inability of the Bacon Czar to actually handle the bacon, the bacon goes bad and is thrown out.

FASCISM: You have a little bit of bacon. The government takes it, and offers to sell you the oink.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have bacon. Your neighbor works to help you get more bacon and you share in it, even though he eats twice as much as you and does half the amount of work.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have bacon. The government takes it and gives you a potato.

DICTATORSHIP: You have bacon. The government takes it and drafts you. You get MRE's. They do not contain bacon.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have bacon. You vote with your neighbors as to how your bacon should be protected.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have some bacon. You elect someone to vote on how best to ensure you get more bacon.



LIBERAL SOCIETY: You don't like bacon so I don't get any.

BUREAUCRACY: You have bacon. The government makes a new food pyramid that tell you when you should eat the bacon and how often. It then pays you not to eat the bacon and takes it and throws it away, after you have filled out a form to pay your bacon tax for the bacon that you no longer have.

CALIFORNIA BUREAUCRACY: In California, bacon contains nitrates and fats that may be bad for people who have no willpower. So no one gets bacon.

PROGRESSIVISM: You have bacon. The government takes it and gives you a receipt.

ANARCHY: You have bacon. You try and sell the bacon to others so you survive or others with big pointy things simply take the bacon and kill you.

MONARCHY: We have bacon because you love us and want us to have bacon. Smile. Wave.

CAPITALISM: You have bacon. Strengthened by bacon, you work harder and buy a whole damn pig.

MUCH OF THE MIDDLE EAST: Bacon is unclean. Die infidel.

MAOISM - We are Urban Working Class. What is bacon??(c) Home on the Range 2011

25 comments:

Borepatch said...

Out of my cold, dead hands,

Cedar said...

mmm… Bacon! I have three pigs out in the pasture, and we are using them to till up the ground. Later, we will butcher them, and I will make bacon. So what is this called?

DaddyBear said...

Libertarian Bacon - You have maple bacon. Your neighbors have applewood bacon, peppered bacon, and hickory smoked bacon. None of you care what the others do with their bacon as long as your bacon is left alone.

Old NFO said...

Damn, I 'knew' there was something I forgot to get at the store... sigh..
I must be losing what is left of my tiny ass mind...

Tango Juliet said...

That about sums it all up. :)

Jay G said...

MMmmmmmm.... baaaacon.

[drool]

(That's a Homerist Society)

45er said...

Russian Communism bacon made me LOL.

Kirk said...

ROTFLMBO!!!

Matt said...

Anybody that does not like bacon has not tried bacon. Anybody that has not tried bacon should not be trusted.

Joshkie said...

Amen!!! Daddybear that's why your my daddy....wait that sounded bad.

:-)
Josh

Lois Evensen said...

Buy as much bacon as you can today because the price of bacon will skyrocket tomorrow. Freeze your bacon so you'll have something to eat when rationing comes and pray you will still be able to get power you can afford (or any power for that matter) to keep your freezer running.

Jon said...

Brilliant!

*hands Brigid a pint of Guiness*

Paladin said...

You had me at "You have bacon."

It completes me.

idahobob said...

What Lois said.....and have a generator, or solar, or.....if worse comes to worse, can it.

Just have plenty of bacon, I do!

Bob
III

Ed Rasimus said...

You are invited to my classroom next semester to give a presentation on comparative government. At the completion of your presentation we will all go to town for a BLT and Shiner Bock (we don't have Guiness on tap in backwater N. Texas.)

Stephen said...

My blood is made of bacon. Love it, well done.

og said...

Libertarianism: You have a rally talking about how everyone should have the right to whatever bacon they want.

All the people there are crazy but you.

Nobody notices.

Shannon said...

This has helped me in more ways than you could possibly understand.

Shannon said...

@ og & Daddy Bear...perfect.

Mrs. S. said...

Medical Nanny State Politics: "Your hubby has coronary arterial disease, but you are not allowed to purchase and cook bacon in your home lest he become tempted and go on a cholesterol binge."

Need some bacon pictures here; both of us are experiencing bacon withdrawals.

Vic & Dave said...

How true! And how tasty!!

--Vic303

North said...

All of your problems can be solved with a little quiche on the lips.

AussieAlaskan said...

So right, DaddyBear! Love it!

Midwest Patriot said...

All this talk of the cricpy meaty goodness I had to search out Gustufson's take on health:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1leLgTr9ytw

Laurie said...

Love this post! Great comment, DaddyBear. :-)