Frank J. Parise: Does Hub know parable of the Little Red Hen?
Re “Five to vie in bid for District 4 board seat” (Page 2A, March 18): A little red hen discovers some grains of wheat. The hen asks her neighbors who will help her plant the wheat. The duck, pig, cow and goose all beg off. So the hen plants the wheat herself. After it ripens into grain, she asks who will help harvest the wheat.
Duck: Not I. Pig: It’s out of my classification. Cow: I will lose my seniority. Goose: I will lose my unemployment.
The hen harvests the wheat, and asks who will help bake the bread? Same result; no help.
After the bread is baked, her neighbors demand a share but she keeps it all for herself.
Duck: Capitalist leech.
Pig: (grunts).
Cow: Excess profits!
Goose: Equal rights!
They complain to Hub, who tells the hen she must share. The hen tells him she earned the bread. Hub says, “Exactly, the free-enterprise system says everyone in the barnyard can earn as much as they want. But under current government regulations, productive workers must divide their product with the idle.”
If you agree, then vote for Hub Walsh for the third time. If you disagree, vote for his opponent.
Frank J. Parise, Merced
This story was originally published March 24, 2016 at 11:58 AM with the headline "Frank J. Parise: Does Hub know parable of the Little Red Hen?."