The progressive version: Share your fish with a starving man while you teach him how to fish, and you'll both eat for a lifetime.
The GOP version: Tell that lazy bastard to go buy a fishing pole and then charge him to fish in your pond and if he dies in the meantime, it's because inferior people who don't own fishing poles and ponds have a duty to die off.
Give a man a safe fish to eat every day until he can feed himself and then work like mad to keep the fish safe enough to eat and the water clean enough to drink.
GOP version: Smack the guy for even asking and then go pollute the lake and charge the taxpayers the cost of cleaning it up while eating imported food.
"Nobody gets to fish because all you assholes destroyed damn near every fish stock (except for maybe the hagfish) in the world. Everybody eat beef instead."
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