Socialist Squirrel Story Card

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Inside the Socialist Squirrel Story Card you'll find our original story on how the governments of the world are turning our squirrels into deadbeat dependents. Well, not really. But it is a funny story and it really did happen.

It begins:
There once was an old man, retired, with not too many interests.
He played cards everyday, solitaire mostly. Sometimes he played rummy, but he usually cheated so it was difficult to get anyone to play with him.
He’d go to the supermarket regularly and talk to ‘his girlfriends’. He was convinced they loved him. Sometimes he would visit his former workplace. He really missed it.
And he fed a squirrel.
The squirrel lived in a tree outside the back door. The old man took note of him one day and put cookie crumbs outside for him. Well, as you might expect, the squirrel gobbled them up in short order. They must have been a big step up over his usual diet of acorns. Chocolate, sugar, nuts, what’s not to like.
So the old man put cookies out for the squirrel everyday. He liked to see the squirrel respond to him. It made him feel good about himself. He’d made a friend...so he thought.
One day for some unknown reason the man forgot to put the prescribed delicacy out for his little friend at the proper time. And in the kitchen, while he was engaged in a conversation with his daughter, there suddenly came an awful bellow. With its paws sprawled out across the window, the squirrel was actually shrieking into the kitchen.
Startled, the man and his daughter looked at him and back at each other. Apparently the squirrel had become quite accustomed to this particular diet and his ‘butler’ was somewhat late with the goods. When his impatience got the better of him, he let his servant know of his extreme displeasure.
Both the man and his daughter thought it was probably a bad idea to make this poor creature dependent on him. So the cookies handouts ought to go away.
But who knew, how pushy squirrels could be.

Moral of the story: Squirrels, just like human beings, naturally know how to take care of themselves, until some messianic figure or government make them dependent on their supposed generosity.

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.”
Lady Margaret Thatcher