First of all I would like to start off this blog to wish everyone a very healthy, happy and peaceful 2008. I hope the year is kind to all my readers and a course everyone else.
2008 is a big election year here in the good ol' U.S. of A. We will be voting in November for a new President to replace on of our worst and most corrupt leader ever George W.Bush.
Below is a recent email I received from one of my right wing Republican friends. I receive a bunch of like minded emails during election season. I just don't understand why they think this helps sway me into thinking that that maybe I should change my moderate view points and embrace their narrow-minded position
Read this for yourself and then read my further comments at the end.
The Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper
TRADITIONAL 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
the ant is 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!
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
the ant is 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 warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, 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." Jesse
then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has become 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 the Rose 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.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
Wow! What a story that was, don't you feel sorry for that hard working Ant. Those evil Democratic, Left-wing Liberals really have it in for the hard working people and are willing to screw them just because they are doing everything right.
Don't vote for them because you could end up like that poor Ant and lose everything you worked so hard for to that lazy good for nothing Grasshopper.
If you are a big fan of Rush Limbaugh and Fox news you probably are to far gone to even think that this modern version of the Ant & the Grasshopper parable is a total joke and tries to use the worst stereotypes and racist overtones it turns this version into one very, bad analogy.
It some people didn't take this to heart it would be so laughable. Whoever wrote this "modern version" really threw the whole kitchen sink of supposedly evil democrats at us in their story.
You have, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry (I guess they just inserted him in for Ted Kennedy) and Harry Reid. Then for good measure they add all the major news stations except Fox News probably because they are so far and balanced. Throw in some celebrities like Oprah, Larry King and that ultra lefty Kermit the frog then just for icing on top of the pile of crap you add the Rose Law firm (Hillary gets name mentioned here) Single parent welfare recipients and "activist judges but only those appointed by Bill Clinton. Then they conclude that the moral of the story is" be careful how you vote in 2008."
If you are convinced by that story and you think things have been great these past seven and half years under the presidency of George W. Bush I have no hope for you. You will go along believing crap like this, blaming who ever they tell you is evil, anti American or is against the position of the most powerful because that is what you want to believe. If you choose to be stupid and ignorant you get my pity but never get any of my respect.
This long election season is in full swing. Hopefully the candidate with the best idea's, compassion and trust will win. We need desperately to fix and improve our nation. Our Country, economy and our trust in humanity is unraveling before our very eyes.
The filthy rich are the only ones who doing well in Bush's failing economy .They are the only ones receiving large Tax-Cuts while the middle-class and poor are pitted against each other. We need compressive health care reform. Where the profit is taken out and the health of the patient is the only thing that matters. We need to rebuild our creditability with our allies and try to understand our enemies so we can try to find a peaceful solution out the current mess we are in. Also we need to get everyone aboard to save and develop wind, solar, and electric energy. I think passing a windfall profit tax on the oil companies to help pay for this change over would help. Maybe we could also use some of the massive money we waste on stupid wars and invest in public education. We could hire more teachers, pay them a better wage and let them teach innovated methods to keep kids interested and involved in learning.
Let's make college affordable for everyone who wants to go. If people are well educated maybe I wouldn't receive these types of emails
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