-Caveat Lector-
this was posted as an example of propaganda was it not?
abdication of the plight of the poor equals abdication of responsibility
for the planet. for my part; f*** the ant and the grasshopper and the
writer for that matter.
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
>Interesting new version of the old Ant and Grasshopper story, that is
>particularly relevant in these "interesting times".
>Forwarded from a friend.
>Teo1000
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>From: Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Rand netcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Poor Ant
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:58:30 -0800
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>THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER - 1999
>
>THE 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 he's 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.
>
>
>THE 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 he's 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, CNN, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of
>the
>shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home
>with a
>table filled with food.
>
>America and the world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be
>that,
>in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer
>so?
>
>Then a representative of the NAAGB (National Association of Green Bugs)
>shows
>up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias," and makes the case
>that
>the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism.
>
>Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries
>when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make
>a
>special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan
>Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has
>been
>denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during
>the
>Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's."
>
>Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the
>ant has
>gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate
>tax
>hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
>
>Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act."
>Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was 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.
>
>The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
>ant's food while the government house he's in, which just happens to be
>the
>ant's old house, crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to
>maintain it.
>The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper
>bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton
>standing before a wildly applauding group of compatriots announcing that
>a new
>era of "fairness" has dawned in America.
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