A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table

[Jackpine Radical]

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.

[leftstreet]

1. K&R - but you could substitute 'ordinary person' for tea party activist

This is the message the working classes have been inundated with for decades

[Marie Marie]

2. Well, that sums it up nicely.

[Lisa0825]

3. LOL! So glad to see this going viral... :-)

[ck4829]

4. Awesome. K&R.

[Joe Bacon]

5. Nice, Nice, Very Nice!

[krispos42]

6. And the Tea Partier says

"Wow, the average salary here is spectacular! I must be doing GREAT! Boo socialism! Yay capitalism!"

[lpbk2713]

7. The teabagger agrees ...

and says ... "Rush is right."

[disillusioned73]

8. Perfect.. lol

[Reader Rabbit]

9. Can I steal this?

Or at least borrow?

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Why not? I stole it.

[LeftishBrit]

10. k&r

[Obamanaut]

11. This is now 'rec' to GP w/ four threads. It is time for 'rec' to be retired.

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[Vinca]

12. That's brilliant.

[Que Cera Cera]

13. ....and that's how the cookie crumbles.....

(hiding)

I like this political cartoon. http://cartoonbox.slate.com/patoliphant/

[salinen]

14. Like it

welcome to du.

[Overseas]

16. Good one! Sadly true to the situation.

Amazing how much talk there is about entitlements and comfy government pay but when extending tax cuts for multi-millionaires was discussed there was no vilification of the folks around their swimming pools and in their limos or John Sidney McCain needing a tenth home.

[indepat]

17. It's as if the public union employee should be grateful that some crumbs that might fall

to the floor.

[blondeatlast]

18. LOL--perfect! nt

[KillCapitalism]

19. I have to correct you.

with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 & 9/10ths of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.

Just 11 is not enough for them.

[reggie the dog]

20. my ending

the union guy punches the ceo in the mouth, leaves him 4 cookies and splits the remaining 8 with the teabagger and says "i told you that greedy fuck was holding out on us"

[socialist_n_TN]

22. My ending.........

The union guy turns to the teabagger and says. "There's more of us. We could take ALL of the cookies from this guy. We baked the damn things after all."

BTW, I ran into a union guy at the post office today (he had a UAW tag) and we talked a few minutes. I told him the joke (the original version) and he said he'd spread it to his local office. They were putting together some stragegy ideas for supporting the teaches here in Tennessee.

[rhett o rick]

21. Thom Hartmann mentioned DU when he read this joke on the air today. nm

[Chalfont]

23. And the CEO says...

And the CEO says, "I don't have any cookies".

[davidthegnome]

24. It would be more funny

If it wasn't so damned accurate. It's depressing to think so many people are duped into believing CEOs would share their cookies.

I rather think though, that he would have eaten 11 - then crumbled the final cookie over the plates of the other two - the larger portion going to the tea partier. Then he could say, "See? Trickle down does work."

[moondust]

25. The CEO says...

"all these are mine because I OWN the plate."