Saturday, August 05, 2006

Interesting story...

I shamlessly stole this from my "College Libertarians" group, but it perfectly desribes the socialization of property in America and the decline of society itself. The Ant being the capitalist, one who saves, earns and keeps the wealth, the grasshopper being a lower class citizen in our society.

OLD 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.

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 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, 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 filledwith 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.

Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings 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 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 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 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: Vote Libertarian

5 Comments:

Blogger Nicholas said...

This is of course a totally dillusional story. The ant does nothing but direct the grasshopper, take his surplus and then offers to sell the grasshopper all of the necessities of modern life. Then before the summer is over half of the grasshoppers are laid off. Ass some of the grasshoppers starve the ant founds a charity in his own name to show how much he cares... that is a little more like how reality is.

Its so nice to see the libertarians making fun of black leaders, ghetto poverty and suffering. It must make you feel really good about being middle class "individuals."

6:39 PM  
Blogger James Nease said...

Spin-zone!

I guarentee, both scenarios happen, I will admit there's abuse in the work place it's all over history. But I also can point to the tax system abusing individual and corporate rights, to "equate" society.

Not going to debate over this cause it's futile, because I know, and you know the system can abuse both parties equally aswell. You feel for the down-trodden worker, I feel for the business owner that's getting shafted in taxes, and personal freedoms.

10:49 PM  
Blogger James Nease said...

By the way come on, you know damn well, that Jesse Jackson would that, and you know damn well the media would eat this shit up.

Media likes to show the "disadvantaged" it's good for ratings!

10:50 PM  
Blogger k. edward warmoth said...

James, the media is run by the rich. It only shows as much as is safe.

11:19 PM  
Blogger James Nease said...

The media may be controlled by a mogul, but the media is quite leftist, which takes a very liberal stance on alot of things including economics. But I suppose marketing extremism works quite well...

Hence the influx of kids buying RATM CD's, Michael Moore books, and Che shirts.

Besides that if WASP America loved the media the U.S Government wouldn't be trying to jail them all the time for "leaks" and denounce them for being unpatriotic.

2:55 AM  

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