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Ran accross this and thought is was pretty fitting:
Quote:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures
of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in
his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,
and everybody cries when
they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group singing,
'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to
pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an
interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich
off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and
Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a
proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government.
Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the
grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and
the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill
Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent
welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up
the last bits of the ant's food while the government house
he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house,<
crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of
spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
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 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 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 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 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 outsourcing 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 silly stories of lazy, irresponsible grasshoppers living off the efforts of industrious, sober-minded ants.
You know why ant's are so successful? They are basicly run by a strongman type operation, you know, totalitarianism. A queen chemicly controls all her sisters, all of whom are sterile. It's like Saddam Husesin crossed with the Manson Family.
Bottom line, it's an old fable and I'm not sure how much of it really applies to modern people. The reasons people are poor now days has alot to do with social inequality and less to do with "hard work".
Cute but stunningly correct analogies. The Nanny State is coming, the HillBill and her cronies will make sure of it, will be their shining legacy to us all. So let's all get to work against work! Think I'll go down now to sign up for my SSI and disability benefits early, I am so "sick and tired".
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