Here is an article I found on a news site. If it wasn't so close to the truth, it would be funny.
Dave Fuller: June 13, 2010
How many Canadians to screw in a light bulb?
Answer:
One to do the manual labour.
One hundred CSIS agents to ensure the light bulb was made in China and not North Korea.
Five public relations staff to explain why it might take CSIS a few years to determine the light bulbs origin. And another five to cover up what CSIS may or may not have found out.
Two hundred political yes-men to confirm what prime minister Stephen Harper already knew. That his idea to replace the light bulb was not only bold, but genius, demonstrating extraordinary leadership in the face of imminent darkness.
A ten thousand person strong police and security force to keep anyone with nose rings, pierced jewellery, tattoos, sandals and dyed red hair with blue streaks at least a mile away from the light bulb screwing-in work detail.
Five hundred assembly line workers to manufacture new taser-like rifles for the 10,000 strong security force on light bulb duty.
At least a dozen legal teams to represent the government, security forces, etc., in case something goes awry at the light bulb work site and we all get sued.
A dozen more legal teams to organize the ensuing public inquiry into why security forces pepper sprayed light bulb screwing-in protesters who were only high on Red Bull.
Lord knows how many accountants, catering companies, taxi cabs, clean-up crews, and so forth... to ensure that no detail, no matter how small, is overlooked in screwing in the light bulb.
And finally, the 30 million or so of us left who will PAY for Harper's bold and brilliant light bulb screwing-in ceremony.
Of course, knowing how these things work, they'll probably forget to hire a guy to flip the switch connected to the new light bulb, leaving us in the dark again.
Providing there was something wrong with the old light bulb in the first place, which, just guessing, there was not.
Can't we Canadians get anything right?
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