Excellent way to understand the philosophy of the various nations. > >TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You sell one and buy a bull. >Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. >You retire on the income. > >* INDIAN ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You worship them. > >* PAKISTAN ECONOMICS* >You don't have any cows. >You claim that the Indian cows belong to you. >You ask the US for financial aid, >China for military aid, >Britain for warplanes, >Italy for machines, >Germany for technology, >France for submarines, >Switzerland for loans, >Russia for drugs and >Japan for equipment. >You buy the cows with all this and claim of exploitation by the world > >*AMERICAN ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. >You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. >You put the blame on some nation with cows & naturally that nation will be a >danger to > >mankind. >You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows. > >*JAPANESE ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You re-design them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and >produce > >twenty times the milk. >You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and market them >worldwide. > > > >*CHINESE ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You have 300 people milking them. >You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone >reporting the actual numbers. > >*RUSSIAN ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You count them and learn you have five cows. >You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. >You count them again and learn you have 17 cows. >You give up counting and open another bottle of Vodka > >* FRENCH ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You go on strike because you want three cows. > >*GERMAN ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and >milk themselves. > >*BRITISH ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >They are both mad. > >*ITALIAN ECONOMICS* >You have two cows. >You don't know where they are. >You break for lunch. > >*SWISS ECONOMICS* >You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. >You charge others for storing them. > > > > S.V.SAI BABA