[Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

[Michael Meltzer]

Life is stranger then fiction.

Now Jessie Ventura holds control of the senate.

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "General Boats" <wwrhodes@rhodes22.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER


> 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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