47 - Swine Flu

The outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and elsewhere, including confirmed cases in New York and other states, is an additional argument in favor of Citizen Dividends.

When everyone has a guaranteed basic income, we’ll be much more able to stop the spread of the disease. And much better prepared to cope with whatever happens. If it becomes a pandemic, in particular, basic income can be a critical component of public health.

In this case, moreover, to get the maximum benefits from the basic income, it ought to be universal. We in the United States will benefit directly if Mexicans also have basic income. And Guatemalans. And Canadians, Chinese, and so on.

Before I write about why this is so, here are a few headlines that, by themselves, tell a large part of the story;

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu New York Times
Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu New York Times
U.S. Steps Up Alert as More Swine Flu Is Found Washington Post

In Mexico, Young Adults Appear Most at Risk: Capital Grinds to a Halt as Suspected Deaths Rise to 103 Washington Post Swine Flu Outbreak Could Deepen Mexico’s Recession Washington Post Suppose there is a pandemic here in the United States, and government orders the closing of airports, train stations, shopping malls, and other public facilities. What will happen to the people who work in those places or commute through them? How will they cope with the lost income and other disruptions in their lives? What about their families? Their communities?

Imagine that for your family, your neighbors, your community, your town or city. Imagine that for your workplace, company, industry.

What if public facilities stay closed for a few weeks, or a month or longer?
Now suppose we have Citizen Dividends and everyone has some guaranteed income independent of any job. At the very least, there will be much less fear about how to manage financially, much less stress about how to pay the bills.

Secure income independent of any job will give people the resources to adapt by, for example, working from home by computer and phone, homeschooling the children, rescheduling vacations, planting gardens, organizing community support networks.

Containing a pandemic will require everyone’s cooperation, and Citizen Dividends will affirm that we’re all in this together.

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45 - Funny Story

One day Mr Robinson saw a lady in the street with ten children. He was very surprised because all the children were wearing the same clothes-white caps, dark blue coats and grey trousers.
'Are all those children yours?' he asked ~he mother.

'Yes, they are,' she answered.
'Do you always dress them in the same clothes?' asked
Mr Robinson.

'Yes,' answered the mother. 'When we had only four
children, we dressed them in the same clothes because we did not want to lose any of them. It was easy to see our children when they were among other children, because they were all wearing the same clothes. And now, when we have ten, we dress them like this because we do not want to take other children home too by mistake. When there are other children among ours, it is easy to see them, because their clothes are
different. '

44 - Funny Story

Whenever it rained, .water came through Nasreddin's roof, so one day he got his ladder, climbed up on to the roof and began to mend it. It was quite difficult and dangerous work.

While he was up there, he suddenly saw an old man in the street. This man was waving to him. He wanted Nas­reddin to come down. Nasreddin thought, 'What has happened? What news has this man got for me?' So he climbed down the ladder quickly. Several times he slipped and nearly broke his neck. When he got to the .bottom, the old man said, 'I am a poor man. Please give me some money.'

Nasreddin was very angry, but he said, 'Come up.' He helped the old man to climb up the ladder and on to the roof. Then he said to him, 'I am a poor man too. I have no money for you. And now go down alone. I will not help you.'

43 - Funny Story

One day, the boys of Nasreddin's village said to him, 'You have a nice, fat sheep. Will you invite us to a party to eat it with you?'
Nasreddin did not want the boys to eat his sheep, so he

said, 'It is not fat enough yet.'
'But have you not heard?' they said. 'The world is going to end tomorrow, so the sheep will never get fat!' Nasreddin was getting tired of this, so he said, 'All right, boys, we will have a picnic tomorrow, and eat the sheep.' So the next morning they all went to the river, the boys took off their clothes and jumped into the water, and Nas­reddin killed the sheep.

When the boys came out, their clothes were not there. 'Where are our clothes, Nasredditil?' they asked.

'Oh,' he answered, 'I made the fire to cook the sheep with your clothes. You will not need them again. The world is going to end today, don't you remember?'

42 - Funny Story

Nasreddin wanted to buy some new clothes, so he went to a shop. First he asked for some trousers and put them on, but then he took them off and gave them back to the shop­keeper and said, 'No, give me a coat instead of these.'

The man gave him a coat, and said, 'This one costs the same as the trousers.' Nasreddin took the coat and walked out of the shop with it. The shopkeeper ran after him and said, 'You have not paid for that coat!'

'But I gave you the trousers for the coat,' said Nasreddin. 'They cost the same as the coat, didn't they?'

'Yes,' said the shopkeeper, 'But you didn't pay for the trousers either!'
'Of course I didn't!' answered N asreddin. 'I did not take ­tn-em.' I ani not stupid! Nobody gives things back and then pays for them!'

41 - Funny Story

One day Nasreddin bought a donkey in the market; but while he was taking it home, two thieves followed him. One of them took the rope from the donkey's neck and tied it round his friend's neck. Then he went away with the donkey.

When Nasreddin got home, he turned and saw the young man. He was very surprised. 'Where is my donkey?' he said angrily.

'I am very sorry,' said the thief, 'but once I said some very bad things to my mother, and she changed me-into a donkey. But because a good man bought me, I am now a man again! Thank you!'

Nasreddin untied the man and said, 'Go! And never say bad things to your mother again!'
The next day, Nasreddin saw the same donkey in the market again! The other thief was selling it.

Nasreddin went to it and said into its ear, 'Young man, some people will never learn!'

40 - Taking and Giving

One of Nasreddin's friends loved money very much, and never gave anything to anybody. Soon he became rich.

One day, he was walking near the river with his friends when he slipped and fell in. His friends ran to help him and one of them knelt on the ground, held out his hand and said, 'Give me your hand, and I will pull you out!' The rich man's head went under the water and then came up again, but he did not give his friend his hand. Again another of his friends tried, but again the same

thing happened.

Then Nasreddinsaid, 'Take my hand and I will pull you out!' The rich man took his hand, and Nasreddin pulled him out of the water. 'You don't know our friend very well,' he said to the others. 'When you say "Give" to him, he does nothing; but when you say "Take", he takes!

39 - Donkeys

One morning Nasreddin left his house with six donkeys to go to the market. After a time, he got tired and got on to one of them. He counted the donkeys, and there were only five, so he got off and went to look for the sixth. He looked and looked but did not find it,. so he went back to the donkeys and counted them again. This time there were six, so he got on to one of them again and they all started.

After a few minutes he counted the donkeys again, and again there were only five! While he was counting again a friend of his passed, and Nasreddin said to him, 'I left my house with six donkeys; then I had five; then I had six again; . and now I have only five! Look! One, two, three, four, five.'

'But, Nasreddin,' said his friend, 'You are sitting on a donkey too! That is the sixth! And you are the seventh!'

38 - Cat

Mrs Andrews had a young cat, and it was the cat's first winter. One evening it was outside when it began to snow heavily. Mrs Andrews looked everywhere and shouted its name, but she did not find it, so she telephoned the police and said, 'I have lost a small black cat. Has anybody found one?'

'No, madam,' said the policeman at the other end. 'But cats are really very strong animals. They sometimes live for days in the snow, and when it melts or somebody finds them, they are quite all right.'

Mrs Andrews felt happier when she heard this. 'And', she said, 'our cat is very clever. She almost talks.'

The policeman was getting rather tired. 'Well then,' he said, 'why don't you put your telephone down? Perhaps she is trying to telephone you now.'

37 - Lost a Ring

Nasreddin had a shed behind his house. It had no lights in it. One night he went out to the shed to get his ladder, and lost his ring there. He left the ladder, went out into the street and began to look around.

One of his friends saw him in the street outside his house, and said to him, 'Hullo, Nasreddin. What are you looking for ?'

'My ring,' answered Nasreddin. 'It fell off my finger. It is a silver ring with a red stone in it.'

'Oh, yes,' said his friend. 'I remember it. I will help you
to look for it. Where did you lose it?'

'In my shed.'

'But why don't you look for it there?'

'Don't be stupid! It is quite dark in my shed, so how will I find my ring there? Here there is light from the lamps in the street.'

36 - Hat

One day a lady walked into, a hat shop. The shopkeeper smiled and said, 'Good afternoon, madam.'

'Good afternoon,' the lady answered. 'There is a green hat with red flowers and blue leaves on it in your window. Will you please take it out of there.'

'Yes, madam,' the shopkeeper said. 'I will be very pleased to do that for you.' Usually ladies looked at a lot of hats before they chose one, and the shopkeeper got very tired. 'Good', he thought,' I will sell this hat very quickly-and it has been in my window for a very long time.'

'Do you want it in a box, madam,' he asked, 'or will you wear it?'

'Oh, I don't want it,' she answered. 'I only wanted you to take it out of your window. I pass your shop every day, and I hate to see the ugly thing there!'

35 - Cotton Dress

One day Mrs Jones went shopping. When her husband came home in the evening, she began to tell him about a beautiful cotton dress. 'I saw it in a shop this morning,' she said,
'and .. .'

'And you want to buy it,' said her husband. 'How much does it cost?'

'Fifteen pounds.'

'Fifteen pounds for a cotton dress? That is too much!' But every evening, when Mr Jones came back from work, his wife continued to speak only about the dress, and at last, after a week, he said, 'Oh, buy the dress! Here is the money! ' She was very happy.

But the next evening, when Mr Jones came home and asked, 'Have you got the famous dress?' she said, 'No:' 'Why not?' he said.

'Well, it was still in the window of the shop after a week so I thought, "Nobody else wants this dress, so I don't want it either".'

34 - How old are you?

A woman was having some trouble with her heart, so she went to see the doctor. He was a new doctor, and did not know her, so he first asked some questions, and one of them was, 'How old are you?'

'Well,' she answered, 'I don't remember, doctor, but 1 will try to think.' She thought for a minute and then said, 'Yes, I remember now, doctor! When I married, I was eighteen years old, and my husband was thirty. Now my husband is sixty, I know; and that is twice thirty. So I am twice eighteen. That is thirty-six, isn't it?'

33 - Art of War (P-50-51)

Meaning

If you arrive at the battlefield before your enemies, you have a better chance of winning. But if you arrive later and start the battle without proper preparation you will have little chance of winning. Therefore, an experienced warrior always chooses to arrive early so that he can be the active attacker and not the ignorant intruder who will eventually lose the battle. ,

It is advantageous to lure your enemies into your territory of control. It is not as advantageous to give your enemies the impression that you are too strong to be attacked.

If your enemies are in a commanding position you should pretend to have switched allegiance to the enemy camp an seize the opportunity to corrupt them. If your enemies are fully equipped with supplies and food try to cut off their

Application

The success of a new company can be ,best achieved by doing the right thing at the right time; preparing the set-up of the equipment and machinery required; and engaging the
right personnel. With such advance preparation the organiza­tion should be on a firm footing and have a good chance of a uccessful beginning.

32 - Art of War (P-48-49)

Meaning
The application of the technique or art of war is similar to the" technique of pulling wooden or stone materials. When these materials are placed on flat ground they are static and stable. However, if they are placed on a slope they will fall, move or roll away. If they are square they are more stable and difficult to move. But if they are round they can move easily. The art of war is similar in theory. When the enemies are calm it is difficult to create disturbances among them. But if they are not calm or confident they can be easi,ly agitated.

Application
In setting up a business it is vital to engage the right person to do the right job, and to make proper provision for implementing the company's objectives and goals.

31 - Roses

Mrs Williams loved flowers and had a small but beautiful garden. In the summer, her roses were always the best in her street. One summer afternoon her bell rang, and when she went to the front door, she saw a small boy outside. He was about seven years old, and was holding a big bunch of beautiful roses in his hand.

'I am selling roses,' he said. 'Do you want any? They are quite cheap. Five pence for a big bunch. They are fresh. I picked them this afternoon.'

'My boy,' Mrs Williams. answered, 'I pick roses whenever I want, and don't pay anything for them, because I have lots in my garden.'

'Oh, no, you haven't,' said the small boy. 'There aren't any roses in your garden-because they are here in my hand!'

30 - Traffic Light

The lights were red, so the old man stopped his car and waited for them to change to green. While he was waiting, a police car came up behind him, hit his car hard in the back and stopped.

There were two policemen in the police car, and they were very surprised and glad when the old man got out of his car and walked towards them without any trouble after such an accident. He was over 70 years old.

The old man came to the door of the police car, smiled kindly, and said, 'Tell me, young man, how do you stop this car when the lights are red and I am not here?'

29 - Father & Mother

Mr Jones was very angry with his wife, and she was very angry with her husband. For several days they did not speak to each other at all. One evening Mr Jones was very tired when he came back from work, so he went to bed soon after dinner. Of course, he did not say anything to Mrs Jones before he went upstairs. Mrs Jones washed the dinner things and then did some sewing. When she went up to bed much later than her husband, she found a piece of paper on the small table near her bed. On it were the words, 'Mother.-Wake me up at 7 a.m.-Father.'

When Mr Jones woke up the next morning, it was nearly 8 a.m. -and on the small table near his bed he saw another piece of paper. He took it and read these words: 'Father.­Wake up. It is 7 a.m.-Mother.'

28 - An Artist

An artist. went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from morning to evening, and then when it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.

At the end of his holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said, 'No, I do not want money-but give me one of your. pictures. What is money? In a week it will all be finished, but your painting will still be here.'

The artist was very pleased and thanked the farmer for saying such kind things about his paintings.

The farmer smiled and answered, 'It is not that. I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes here next month, I will show him your picture, and then he will not want to be an artist any more, I think.'

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26 - An Electric Motor-Car

A man was trying to build an electric moto-car. He worked in an office in the town during most of the week, but on Saturdays and Sundays he stayed at home in the country and worked on his electric car. Every Monday he told his friends at the office about his work on the car, but his news about it was never very good. Then at last one Monday morning he came to the office and said to his friends, 'I have done it! I have driven from my home to here by electricity!'

His friends were all very glad. 'How much did it cost to get here by electricity?' They asked.

'Three hundred and two pounds,' he answered. 'Two pounds for the electricity, and three hundred pounds for the electric wires from my house to the car.'

25 - Glasses

Helen's eyes were not very good, so she usually wore glasses. But when she was seventeen and she began to go out with a young man, she never wore her glasses when she was with him. When he came to the door to take her out, she took her glasses off, and when she came home again and he left, she put them on.

One day her mother said to her, 'But Helen, why do you never wear your glasses when you are with Jim? He takes you to beautiful places in his car, but you don't see anything.'

'Well, mother,' said Helen, 'I look prettier to Jim when I am not wearing my glasses-and he looks better to me too!'

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23 - The Poor Old Gentleman

Mrs Brown's old grandfather lived with her and her husband. Every morning he went for a walk in the park and came home at half past twelve for his lunch.

But one morning a police car stopped outside Mrs Brown's house at twelve o'clock, and two policemen helped Mr Brown to get out. One of the said to Mrs Brown, 'The poor old gentleman lost his way in the park and telephone us for help, so we sent a car to bring him home.' Mrs Brown was very surprised, but she thanked the policemen and they left.

'But, Grandfather,' she then said, 'you have been to that park nearly every day for twenty years. How did you lost your way there?'

The old man smile, closed one eye and said, 'I didn't quite lose my way. I just tried and I didn't want to walk home!'

22 - I Am Not A Bear

Old Mr Black loved shooting bears, but his eyes were not good any more. Several times he nearly shot people instead of bears, so his friends were always very careful when they went out shooting with him.

One day a young friend of his wanted to have a joke, so he got a big piece of white paper and wrote on it in a very big letters 'I AM NOT A BEAR'. Then he tied it to his back and went off. His friends saw it and laughed a lot.

But it did not save him. After a few minutes Mr Black shot at him and knocked his hat off.

The young man was frightened and angry. 'Didn't you see this piece of paper?' he shouted to Mr Black. 'Yes, I did,' said Mr Black. Then he went nearer, looked carefully at the paper and said, 'Oh, I am very sorry. I did not see the word NOT.'

21 - My friend's beer

A man always went to the same bar at the same time everyday and asked for two glasses of beer. He drank them and then asked for two more.

One day the man behind the bar said to him, 'Why do you always ask for two glasses of beer? why don't you get one big glass instead?'

The man answered, 'Because I do not like to drink alone. I drink with my friend.'

But a few days later the man came in and asked only for one beer.

'Oh,' said the barman, 'has your friend died?'

'Oh, no,' said the man. 'He is very well. This beer is for him. But I have stopped drinking beer. My doctor doesn't want me to drink any more because it is dangerous for me.'

20 - Garden Fork

Nasreddin* had an old shed. It had no windows, so it was very dark, and it was full of old things.

One day Nasreddin went into this shed to get a ladder, but slipped on something and fell against a big garden fork. The fork hit him on the head and knocked him down. Then it fell on top of him and hit him hard on left leg. The ends of the fork then went into his long beard. He fought with the fork fiercely, and at last threw it off him, jumped up and ran out of the shed. He was very angry. He had an old sword under his bed, and he now ran and got this. Then he ran back to the shed, opened the door suddenly and shouted in a terrible voice, 'All right, come out and fight, you and all the other forks in the world! I'm not afraid of you!'

19 - Telephone

Mrs Jones was waiting for an important telephone call, but she had no bread in the house, so she left the baby at home and said to his five-year-old brother, 'I am going to the shops, Jimmy, and I will be back in a few minutes.'

While she was out, the telephone rang, and Jimmy answered. 'hullo,' said a man, 'is your mother there?'

'No,' answered jimmy.

'Well, when she comes back, say to her,' "Mr Baker telephoneed".'

'What?'

'Mr Baker. Write it down. B-A-K-E-R.'

'How do you make a B?'

'How do I make...? Listen, little boy, is there anybody else with you? Any brothers or sisters?'

'My brother Billy is here.'

'Good, I want to talk to him, please.'

'All right.' Jimmy took the telephone to the baby's bed and give it to Billy. When their mother came back, she asked, 'Did anyone telephone?'

'Yes,' said Jimmy, 'a man. But he only wanted to talk to Billy.'

18 - Christmas Card

It was two weeks before Christmas, and Mrs Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband's friends, and put them on the table in the living-room. Then, when her husband came home from work, she said to him, 'Here are the Christmas cards for our friends, and here are some stamps, a pen and our book of addresses. Will you please write the cards while I am cooking the dinner?'

Mr Smith did not say anything, but walked out of the living-room and went to his study. Mrs Smith was very angry with him, but did not say anything either.

Then a minute later he came back with a box full of Christmas cards. All of them had addresses and stamps on them.

'There are from last year,' he said. 'I forgot to post them.'

17 - Wanted

The police in the city were looking for a thief. At last they caught him. But while they were taking photographs of him - from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat - he suddenly attacked the policemen and ran off. They tried to catch him, but he got away.

Then a week later the telephone rang in police-station, and somebody said, 'You are looking for Bill Cross, aren't you?'

'Yes.'

'Well, he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago.'

Waterbridge was a small town 150 kilometres from city. The city police at once sent four photographs of the thief to the police in Waterbridge. 'We have caught three of the men,' they said happily, 'and we will catch the fourth this evening, we think'.

16 - The Band

A lot of people go to the seaside for their holidays, and the various towns try to organize entertainment for them.

In one seaside holiday town in the south of England, arrangements were made for a band to play outdoors in a public park every evening for a week. Unfortunately it rained the first evening, and although the band performed well, there was only one person in the audience because, although the band was under cover, the audience were not.

The man was sitting in a chair, wearing a waterproof hat and coat.

After an hour, the conductor of the band went to this man and enquire whether he had a special request.

'Yes, I have,' said the man. 'Please finish as soon as you can. I'm the keeper of this park, and I want to lock the gates and go home.'

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14 - We Want A New Chairman

Application

A good manager plans well and conceives a good strategy before he plunges into a "war" with his competitors. He has to win the confidence of all his subordinates. When he fails, he shoulders the responsibility and does not blame them. He is also capable of employing able assistants to help him win the "war".

Meaning

The army can be divided into battalions or regiments each led by a leader. If the leader can control a frew soldiers he can also control many. If the battalion can go to war with a large number of soldiers to fight an opposing army of equal strength, it can also go to war with a small number of soldiers to fight a small opposing force. The difference lies in the equipment and the supplies. One who knows the art of war may use all kinds of tactics, such as creating confusion, creating fear and bribery.

13 - Fisherman

The cautious captain of a small ship had to go along a coast with which he was unfamiliar, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. he went ashore in one of the small ports where his ship stopped, and a local fisherman pretended that he was one because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and let him tell him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what he was doing or where he was going so he said to him, 'Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?'

'Oh, yes,' answered the fisherman. 'I know every rock on this part of the coast.' Suddenly there was a terrible tearing sound from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, 'And that's one of them.'

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11 - The Motto

There are lots of different kinds of Christian groups in the world, and one of them decided that they would adopt the motto: 'There are no problems. There are only opportunities. 'People think too much about difficulties which prevent them from doing good deeds,' they said, 'and not enough about things that help them to do them.'

Once this group was having a big conference in a hotel, when one of the members came up to the conference inquiries desk and said to the girl behind it, 'Excuse me, miss, but I have a problem.'

The girl pointed to the motto, and said to the man, 'No, sir, you haven't got a problem. You only have an opportunity.'

The man smile patiently at her and answered, 'Well, you can call it whatever you like, but there's a young woman in the room I was given when I arrived twenty minutes ago.'

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