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Aesop's fable rewritten for the new reality.


CLASSIC VERSION:

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 ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:

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 allowed to 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 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 & 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 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.
 
SF, I should catch you up on a few facts:

This country does not reward sloth. It never has.

Most poor people are either children, or working poor. They have jobs.

The sick and disabled most certainly might get life-long taxpayer funded benefits. But, as for collecting a welfare check and hanging out on the street corner, I think you've been watching too many movies. Welfare was reformed over a decade ago. One can't stay on welfare and lounge around. That's not the way it works.
 
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 his taxes aren't being cut. With lower taxes he can put more ants to work. With more ants working for the Grasshopper he claims he can protect the nation from the evil Bol Weevils.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the
courageous grasshopper next to a video of the evil Bol Weevils attacking and pillaging a village on the other side of the ocean while the ant is in his comfortable home
with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the ants lack of patriotism

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer such a horrible tax burden while the cowardly ant doesn't live up to his responsibility to defend his nation?

Grover Norquist appears on Fox and Friends with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Paying Taxes'

Pat Robertson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where
the news stations film the group singing, 'My Country Tis of Thee.' Pat then
has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's tax burden.

Tom Delay & Trent Lott exclaim in an interview with Larry King that
the ant is just lazy and has gotten rich off the back of the grasshoppers investors, and both call for an immediate tax cut for the grasshopper so he can put more ants to work.

Finally, the EEOG, in response to a dastardly attack by the Bol Weevils on Bugland, declares war on Ladybug land because the ladybugs refuse to allow the Grasshoppers to search for hidden WMD's (Weevils of Mass Deforestation).

The ant is drafted into the bug army while the Grasshopper, courageously condeming the Ant, does his patriotic duty by calling those ants who have not volunteered for the war as cowards while regretting his inability to serve due to "other priorities". The Grasshoppers then command an all out attack on the ladybugs killing massive numbers of them. The Bol Weevils are left unchecked.

While the war is raging the Grasshopper funds the war by borrowing massive amounts of money from the Bol Weevils. Since desperate measures are needed to preserve the Grasshoppers wealth and ability to put more bugs to work the Grasshopper has his hi priced lobbying firm bribe other Grasshoppers in Congress to lower Grasshopper taxes while the price of ant food is tripled.

To the surprize of the Grasshoppers who were convinced they could just hop over to ladybug land and defeat their army in a couple of days, the lady bugs put up stout resistance. More Ants are drafted to fight the belligerant ladybugs. Since the ants have been at war and not working they have been depending on the Grasshoppers to provide them with food and equipment. The Grasshoppers inexplicably left the food and weapons back in bug land.

The Grasshoppers lose the war.

The story ends as we see the grasshoppers selling what few ants are left to the Bol Weevils for slave labor as the Government, hopelessly mired in debt and mismangement collapses as the Grasshoppers get on a Leer Jet for Vail to go skiing.

The ant's house has been forclosed by the Banker Grasshopper because the Ant has been unable to make mortgage payments on his Ant Soldiers pay and has been sold at discount to the Grasshopper as his new winter home. The Ant spends the last of his money buying armor that the Grasshoppers sold to the Bol Weevils for a 35% mark up to help fund the war. The ant gets blown up by a ladybug IED.

The grasshoppers go broke because no ants are around to do any work. As the Grasshoppers are starving to death they make one last desperate stand to save themselves......but the tax cut doesn't work and they all starve to death.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.
 
Superfreak said:
Aesop's fable rewritten for the new reality.


CLASSIC VERSION:

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 ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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MODERN VERSION:

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 allowed to 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 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 & 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 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.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote.
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There is no self reliance in a fascist system where the resources of the earth are taken from us by illegitimate strongmen and then given back to us piecemeal as we agree to their agendas.
 
The moral of the story is to kill round up all the grasshoppers before the first leaf changes color. Maybe we could build or retrofit large warehouses to bus these poor bastards to. Once there we march em all into giant ovens where we both gas and incinerate these grasshoppers by the tens of thousands.. oh what joy we could have then....
 
Cypress said:
SF, I should catch you up on a few facts:

This country does not reward sloth. It never has.

Most poor people are either children, or working poor. They have jobs.

The sick and disabled most certainly might get life-long taxpayer funded benefits. But, as for collecting a welfare check and hanging out on the street corner, I think you've been watching too many movies. Welfare was reformed over a decade ago. One can't stay on welfare and lounge around. That's not the way it works.
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I can't help it. I love these people that don't know what is happening under their feet (you never look into the soul, to see the working people you step on, do you?). Mr.--I have had roomates that got disability for drug and alcohol abuse, and the guy was clean and getting his engineering degree on my bill. By the way--lower paying jobs and rising cost of living are why those people are poor pal (and thsoe jobs will expand because of irresponsible globalization)--Some engineers have three of those low paying jobs.

I have a rich lib, very well educated brother, who is gay on the West coast. He read the Birtanica collection when he was 7 years old, skipped 2nd grade. He only got a BS degree in computer science from Michigan State University, and of course, graduated at the top of the lib society class, but that is all he needed to gain the skills to retain a 18 years long job at Microsoft. Stock benifits made him a 5 time millionaire (don't confuse a single employeer that can make their employees rich, with most others that keep us poor). Then, he breaks up with his boyfriend, and can't deal well with the emotion (libs are all about emotion--and always use it to sell a point) can't concentrate on his job--gets a doctor to claim he has adult ADD, and this multi millionaire now gets 52 grand a year to live on disability. No, this multi millionaire did not pull up his boot straps like a real American. May be use the talents he learned, resources he met, and money he earned because of a free market, to do something for himself. No, this "feel sorry for me rich azz" educated liberial choose the welfare system. He never lived from pay check to pay check in his life--and this rich jerk (my bro) chooses the welfare system.

Who are you trying to BS? Please--you don't know what your talking about, because you don't go into those neighborhoods--do you?--Your out of touch--like most libs. If you think any welfare system is not grosely misused--you got to get out of the house more.
Welfare families used to flock to Michigan, because we had better state benifits. Look at detroit now! It is the way it works. Welfare--does not work!
 
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Nearing death (we all are) what will we think about? The work we did? The life we had? Our families? What we have stashed away? What we have shared?

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Use this handy parable to understand politics

Conservatism in a Nutshell

A man is lost in the woods and it starts snowing, off in the distance he sees a cabin. Slowly he makes his way only to find a locked gate, he rings the bell and a voice asks what he wants. He tells the voice his plight and is told by the voice that there is a church down the road and that they will pray for him.

Libertarianism in a Nutshell

The snow continues and growing more tired and cold, the man sees another cabin, struggling he barely makes it, he knocks and finally opens the door to warm himself. There is a full kettle of hot soup, he helps himself. Soon out of a back room comes a man, he scolds the man and tells him to leave as this is private property. The man stumbles out the door.

Liberalism in a Nutshell

Nearly exhausted the man sees a third cabin. Slowly he makes his way, opens the door and warms himself. There is soup in a kettle and he helps himself. From a back room a woman enters, she sits down next to him and they talk. He sleeps the night on the floor and the next morning goes on his way.

(with apologies to Jeremy Waldron)
 
Jeepers said:
The moral of the story is to kill round up all the grasshoppers before the first leaf changes color. Maybe we could build or retrofit large warehouses to bus these poor bastards to. Once there we march em all into giant ovens where we both gas and incinerate these grasshoppers by the tens of thousands.. oh what joy we could have then....
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AH yes. The final purification.
 
midcan5 said:
Nearing death (we all are) what will we think about? The work we did? The life we had? Our families? What we have stashed away? What we have shared?

__________________

Use this handy parable to understand politics

Conservatism in a Nutshell

A man is lost in the woods and it starts snowing, off in the distance he sees a cabin. Slowly he makes his way only to find a locked gate, he rings the bell and a voice asks what he wants. He tells the voice his plight and the religious conservative remembers the parable of the three visits, allows the man to come in and feeds him. He believes that charity is a good thing, and gives to the local church, he gives him a ride to the local church where the man can find an actual bed for the homeless and better fare for sustenance. The man who was lost is 'pissed' because the man told him about his religious beliefs...

Libertarianism in a Nutshell

The snow continues and growing more tired and cold, the man sees another cabin, struggling he barely makes it, he knocks and finally opens the door to warm himself. There is a full kettle of hot soup, he helps himself. Soon out of a back room comes a man, entering alarmed with a gun, he realizes that this person is no threat, he scolds himself for not locking the door and scolds the man and tells him he should have knocked before entering (he hadn't heard the knock or he'd likely have opened the door for him), feeds him soup in return for a small bit of work and sends him away full and happy. Remembers to lock his door this time.

Liberalism in a Nutshell

Nearly exhausted the man sees a third cabin. Slowly he makes his way, opens the door and warms himself. There is soup in a kettle and he helps himself. From a back room a woman enters, she sits down next to him and they talk. He sleeps the night on the floor and the next morning the man robs her, but she fights back and stabs him in the thigh with a kitchen knife. The man leaves with her money. Later she is served a lawsuit for stabbing the man in the thigh.... story developing....

(with apologies to Jeremy Waldron)
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Had to fix that for ya....

It's fun to play this kind of partisan hackery, but it is unrealistic.
 
midcan5 said:
Nearing death (we all are) what will we think about? The work we did? The life we had? Our families? What we have stashed away? What we have shared?

__________________

Use this handy parable to understand politics

Conservatism in a Nutshell

A man is lost in the woods and it starts snowing, off in the distance he sees a cabin. Slowly he makes his way only to find a locked gate, he rings the bell and a voice asks what he wants. He tells the voice his plight and is told by the voice that there is a church down the road and that they will pray for him.

Libertarianism in a Nutshell

The snow continues and growing more tired and cold, the man sees another cabin, struggling he barely makes it, he knocks and finally opens the door to warm himself. There is a full kettle of hot soup, he helps himself. Soon out of a back room comes a man, he scolds the man and tells him to leave as this is private property. The man stumbles out the door.

Liberalism in a Nutshell

Nearly exhausted the man sees a third cabin. Slowly he makes his way, opens the door and warms himself. There is soup in a kettle and he helps himself. From a back room a woman enters, she sits down next to him and they talk. He sleeps the night on the floor and the next morning goes on his way.

(with apologies to Jeremy Waldron)
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You have to be kidding me? I am 44 years old, and hopefully about half way from death. But I decided to start smoking two packs a day-----for the children. Ya wanna know what I am thinking about my death right now, like most Americans who don't want to be a burdon on society, living pay check to pay check (which is theMAJORITY--I promoise you) because of welfare systems and other very expensive programs that our trusted officials spend our money on? My thought right now is I can make it to death with out further draining other people pockets who have a hard time puting a returrement plan together. You don't understand do you? I don't feel good being a begger and accepting welfare. I don't feel I have the right for other people to take care of me, when I should have had the means to take care of myself.

your poam (liberials always have poams) about the major political parties is so inaccurate to me, it is not funny.


The first cabin is the consertative cabin. The consertative lets him in, and feeds him--but he is not sure if he wants to educate the person so he can take care of himslf. Nothing is done, and the guys shows up again next winter for a handout (this time he is not lost or in bad weather).

The second cabon is the libertairian cabin. This guy has no problem letting him in, and helping the guy with everything anything he can directly. Believe it or not, a good libertarian does help out their neighbor directly--better than any other party. As long as there is not a third to 300th party, skimming money off the top, to help a person who the libertarian does not even know--that is all that matters. But the guys fills his belly, gets a good nights sleep, waits until the weather is better, gets a chance to dry his clothes--and the libertarian helps him build his own cabin in the spring so he has the means to take care of himslef and not add to the domino effect of socialism and a poor people. He has no problem helping out a person directly. If successfull--there is nothing better for the nation.

The thrid cabin is the liberial cabin. The man comes to this cabin, and is offered all kinds of welfare from people he does not know. They tell him it is all free---but he has friends and neighbors who are barely surviving because they are taxed so much for all this "free stuff". But the man now has his own cabin plans with a real neighbor that does not have his hand in his pocket--and he says "no thanks. I am fine. But thank you for caring so much that you are rich, and me and all my friends are broke." But, there are plenty of people that feel that it is their right to be taken care of--so those people are all stuffed in the back room--making babies.--never to leave and branch out on their own if they desire, because they will not learn how to because of socialism welfare they understand life to be.

Theeeeeere---thaaaats betteeeer. No coutry got great for the people under a liberal social philosophy. They keep there hard working people poor. JOB used to stand for Just Over Broke. But it is not even that good anymore.

Hey libs---how about we all quit our jobs and go on welfare---would that work? You would be helping out a lot of people--and you would feel really good. I know your addicted to that feeling--but your not paying for it--and you people really bug me. If you want socialism---why don't you pay for it? Most people can't afford any more socialism, and we have a risng poverty population to proove it. Just wait untill we actualy get a welfare medical system. Ya want to see poverty?--ya have not seen anything yet.
 
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