The Ant and the Grasshopper, 2009

[Memphis1979]

If I see another email posted on here, that really doesn't have any basis in reality, I think I'm going to puke.

Come on now, even in the worst cases of welfare abuse, this kind of thing doesn't happen. Its trying to scare people, plain and simple.

[burdell]

Incomplete story. It missed the part where the ants decide they need to go half way around the world, at their expense, to build ant hills for other ants while ants in their home country suffering from disease thru no fault of their own, unable to work, are told to pi$$-off, no help for you.

[saganista]

Meanwhile, in another nearby part of the forest...

The Ant and Grasshopper — The Real Story

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper takes a job for dirt wages at WalMart. Come winter, the ant finds he has more supplies than he and his family need, so he invests the surplus in a small business. Due to hard work and shrewd dealing, the ant’s company grows into a profitable business. The grasshopper continues to turn in ten hours a day for dirt wages at WalMart. After thirty years of comfortable middle class existence, the ant sells his company to a large conglomerate and retires. The conglomerate immediately fires all of the ant’s employees and outsources their jobs to India. The ant’s former and now impoverished employees join the grasshopper who, unable to afford retirement, is still working for dirt wages at WalMart. With the added revenue from outsourcing and downsizing the ant’s company, the conglomerate is able to purchase even more politicians who will work hard against peace, unions, the environment, the poor, the middle class, and anything else that might adversely affect the corporate bottom-line. The grasshopper and the ant’s former employees demand that WalMart pay them for overtime but are told they are exempt — because they are all 'managers'. The case makes it to the Supreme Court, where Reagan/Bush appointees rule in favor of WalMart, admonishing the plaintiffs to 'go home and feel lucky to have jobs at all, what with all the unemployment and outsourcng going on these days'. The conglomerate also buys CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, most newspapers, and many radio stations in order to keep the ants and grasshoppers from knowing how dramatically the deck has been stacked against them. And with demagogic politicians and the media in its hip pocket, the conglomerate finds it very easy to keep the ants and grasshoppers from uniting to demand justice by pitting them against each other with ridiculous stories of lazy, irresponsible grasshoppers living off the efforts of industrious, sober-minded ants.

[Icy Tea]

If we're on the subject of crazy threads, why are there so many new threads trying to bring up racial unrest, create the feeling of racial unrest, racism, class warfare, what have you? Its a clumsy attempt at dividing people up in light of real problems we ALL face, problems some would have us not uniting against or discussing. Like a broken dysfunctional government, an economy thats still broken and running on borrowed time and a global attempt to weaken the USA as much as possible.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Memphis1979

If I see another email posted on here, that really doesn't have any basis in reality, I think I'm going to puke.

Come on now, even in the worst cases of welfare abuse, this kind of thing doesn't happen. Its trying to scare people, plain and simple.

relax and get a life. I thought it was cute but did prove a point. Of course it isn't true and it doesn't work quite that way, but it does come close. Think about it. !!!!!!! The same as we all know Little Red Ridinghoods grandma didn't get eaten by the big bad wolf but it is a story for heaven's sake.


Nita