A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW advanced toward
him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni®
suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® 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 Dell® notebook computer, connects it to

his Apple i 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 Photoshop® and exports

it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple ipad® that the image has

been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database

through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Galaxy S5®

and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on hishi-tech, miniaturized HP

LaserJet® 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 a Congressman for the U.S. Government", 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 squat

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 FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.