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08/12/2004 01:30:39 AM · #1 |
Heres a nice story that I saw today.
ORIGINAL VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer, building his house and laying supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks heâs 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.
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks heâs 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, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to pictures 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, âItâs Not Easy Being Green.â
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the antâs house, where the news stations film the group saying, âWe shall overcome.â Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopperâs sake.
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the ant of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his âfair share.â
Finally, the EEOC drafts the âEconomic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,â retroactive to the beginning of 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 had 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 antâs food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the antâs old house, crumbles around him because he doesnât 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.
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08/12/2004 01:33:14 AM · #2 |
Already posted here.
-Terry
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08/12/2004 01:55:06 AM · #3 |
Why would you want to perpetuate the myth that people who are disadvantaged are lazy and in that condition by choice?
You completely overlooked the "fact" that when the grasshopper went to apply for a job he was told that what with downsizing and outsourcing, there weren't any jobs anyway, even if they DID hire green entities. |
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08/12/2004 02:04:35 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Why would you want to perpetuate the myth that people who are disadvantaged are lazy and in that condition by choice?
You completely overlooked the "fact" that when the grasshopper went to apply for a job he was told that what with downsizing and outsourcing, there weren't any jobs anyway, even if they DID hire green entities. |
The story isn't about the grasshopper that looked for a job, it's about the grasshopper that didn't feel like looking for a job or looked for a job and gave up after looking in the classifieds once.
I bealive heinz is outsourcing jobs. So mayb the grasshopper applied for a job at Kerry's wife's company. |
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08/12/2004 02:07:09 AM · #5 |
| Im also not saying that all people who are "disadvantaged" are lazy. Even though they probally decided not to go to college or dropped out of highshcool. |
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08/12/2004 02:15:06 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by mrwaffles989:
Im also not saying that all people who are "disadvantaged" are lazy. Even though they probally decided not to go to college or dropped out of highshcool. |
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, got my GED same year. Went to college one semester, decided it wasnât for me. I now work at a telecommunications company and have had 6 years of experience in the computer field.
I have a good friend, my age, who finished high school, went to college for 4 years and got his computer science degree. He now works at a dial up ISP making less than half what I make and is 30K in dept.
Message edited by author 2004-08-12 02:15:46. |
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08/12/2004 02:43:26 AM · #7 |
I think the point of the little story is that there are many out there that want something for nothing, and there are a whole lot more that think that it is RIGHT.
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08/12/2004 03:46:44 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by dacrazyrn:
I think the point of the little story is that there are many out there that want something for nothing, and there are a whole lot more that think that it is RIGHT. |
So now we wonder where is the morale behind getting maximum benefit using minimum resources, mathematical optima being at getting everything for nothing ... plz ... ;D
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08/12/2004 04:47:46 AM · #9 |
Can't believe anyone thinks that's a 'nice' story :-(
Heard the one about the ant that finds all the work stocking up through the summer to be demeaning, so, being possessed of a certain charm, persuades all the spiders to help him force the grasshoppers and green bugs to do it for him, and give them just enough food to keep them going and nothing to store up for the winter, and then tries to sell you that first story as the way it is?
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08/12/2004 10:25:33 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by e301:
Can't believe anyone thinks that's a 'nice' story :-(
Heard the one about the ant that finds all the work stocking up through the summer to be demeaning, so, being possessed of a certain charm, persuades all the spiders to help him force the grasshoppers and green bugs to do it for him, and give them just enough food to keep them going and nothing to store up for the winter, and then tries to sell you that first story as the way it is?
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Nice. |
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