[Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

[General Boats]

OK, where are all you chickenhearted grasshoppers that should be answering these few misguided ants.

This is not a matter of someone trying to make up an Esop's type fable - this is politics.  And I was told Politics (and
religion) are forbidden on this list.

It is not politics?  Then why all the mentioning of the names of my gods?  (Which is what also makes this an illegal
religious posting.)  Of course, I speak up for the majority, since Gore got almost a million more votes than that other
guy and Clinton got elected twice which is more than the previous guy was able to do. (Notice I am not mentioning names so
as to keep this on a non political level).

Having gone to college in the mid west and shared my room and bed with midwesterners, I found them lovely folks, sweet,
innocent and naive - but I was sure that by now the great leveler of television programing, of such classics as the Enron
hearings, had finally tuned us all in on the same wavelength in beginning to understand politics.

But alas, those few ants jumping on the nonsense grasshopper post, makes me think my assumption is premature - Michael,
you may want to give this move a second thought.

stan. c.e.o survivor of three trickle down administrations - but just barely.


Todd Tavares wrote:

> you forgot the welfare  and medicare the grasshopper received and the free school lunches for the little grasshoppers.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Grandholm <paul@mi.chtechnology.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:41:48 -0400
> To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
>
> > 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.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >  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 less
> > fortunate are cold and starving.
> >
> > CBS, NBC 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."
> >
> > Al Gore 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-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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ========================
> > Paul Grandholm
> > C&H Technology
> > GrandPower Components Div.
> > ========================
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