too true to be funny

[Carbon_15]

ORIGINAL VERSION:
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house and laying in 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 in 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 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.
>
> 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 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 had 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.

[SteelyDan]

...and a year or two later the government collapses because the ants were the only ones paying taxes in the first place.

[ernest2]

Dear Stealy, not really!

The government, realizing that the ants cant possibly
pay enough taxes even if they were taxed at a 100 % tax rate

meerly prints up large quantities of more paper money to the point that a 2002 dollar is equal to 3 cents of a 1930 dollar.

Thats why that 2 cent loaf of bread in 1930 now costs
$2.89 in the supermarket and also why I by my bread at
the frieholfer's thrift store for 75 cents, not 2.89 same bread
same exploration date.

We can't beat inflation because the government continues to just print up more and more money, but we can take a few steps to keep what money we do have from melting away in our hands.

Yes, I see the US government ripping me off day after day and time and time yet again and it constantly maddens me terribly but there is not much that I can do about it.

Not one of my elected so called representitives gives even half a dam and yet some how people continue to elect liberal tax and overspenders, then tax yet again and overspend some more.

It never stops and continues to get even worst.