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AESOP'S FABLE:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE POST-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 ant is warm and well fed. 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 like him are cold and starving.
The media shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.
Democrats are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant's house. The Media, interrupting a Native American cultural festival special from South Dakota with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome." A leading Democrat rants in an interview with Connie Chung that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
In response to polls, the Government drafts the Economic Equity & Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. A new federal department, "EEGAD" is set up to administer the act with a first year budget of $10 million.
The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government The ant moves to the Canada and starts an agribiz company.
The media later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it. Inadequate government funding is blamed and an inquiry that will cost $10,000,000 is implemented. The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose and the media blames it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching America's multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize the community.
The workings of the new federal department, EEGAD, are scrutinized by an independent auditor who finds that the initial $10 million budget has been exceeded -- by approximately $1.5 billion.
The Cabinet promptly doubles the budget. A few businessmen from New York end up taking over the Ant's now house-less property and, with a grant from Washington, develop it into a new resort and golf course complex. In January, the South Dakota Governor, together with 80 high profile associates are sent on a month long federally funded tour of South Pacific island states to show the world how American style democracy can improve their way of life. The Ant is well, thank you, has sold his successful agribiz and retired in Arizona.
The end.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE POST-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 ant is warm and well fed. 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 like him are cold and starving.
The media shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.
Democrats are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant's house. The Media, interrupting a Native American cultural festival special from South Dakota with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome." A leading Democrat rants in an interview with Connie Chung that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
In response to polls, the Government drafts the Economic Equity & Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. A new federal department, "EEGAD" is set up to administer the act with a first year budget of $10 million.
The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government The ant moves to the Canada and starts an agribiz company.
The media later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it. Inadequate government funding is blamed and an inquiry that will cost $10,000,000 is implemented. The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose and the media blames it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching America's multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize the community.
The workings of the new federal department, EEGAD, are scrutinized by an independent auditor who finds that the initial $10 million budget has been exceeded -- by approximately $1.5 billion.
The Cabinet promptly doubles the budget. A few businessmen from New York end up taking over the Ant's now house-less property and, with a grant from Washington, develop it into a new resort and golf course complex. In January, the South Dakota Governor, together with 80 high profile associates are sent on a month long federally funded tour of South Pacific island states to show the world how American style democracy can improve their way of life. The Ant is well, thank you, has sold his successful agribiz and retired in Arizona.
The end.
