A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
> pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMWR advanced toward him out
> of a cloud of dust.
>
> The driver, a young man in a ArmoniR suit, GucciR shoes, Ray BanR
> sunglasses and Hugo BossR tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy,
> "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will
> you give me a calf?"
>
> Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his
> peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
>
> The yuppie parks his car, whips out his DellR notebook computer,
> connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3R cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page
> on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on
> his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
> area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
>
> The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe PhotoshopR and
> exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...
>
> Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhoneR that the image has
> been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MicrosoftR database
> through an ExcelR spreadsheet with email on his AndroidR phone and, after a
> few minutes, receives a response.
>
> Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
> miniaturized HP LaserJetR printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
> exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
>
> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
>
> He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
> amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
>
> Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
> your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
>
> The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
> not?"
>
> "You're from the Government. In fact, you're a U.S. Congressman," says
> Bud.
>
> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
>
> "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
> though nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already
> knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars' worth of
> equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are and you don't
> know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for
> that matter. This is a herd of sheep.
>
> Now give me back my dog.
>
> And that's the problem we currently face in the U.S.
>
> ****
>