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Joe Cooper
May 7, 2014, 3:18:25 PM5/7/14
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America as a country is rapidly changing � morals, ideals and more. As
such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
Grasshopper. The story is known as one of Aesop�s Fables, providing an
ambivalent moral lesson about the virtues of hard work and the need to
plan for the future. As a self-made entrepreneur who has sacrificed so
much in order to build my business, the adaptation below is an
interpretation of what such a fable may look like today.
In the ancient fable, the ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and saving supplies for the winter. The
grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away (as so many of us would want to). Of course, come winter, the
ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he
dies out in the cold. The ending of the version which I was read as a
child has two sayings at the end: �Idleness brings want,� and �To work
today is to eat tomorrow.�
In the modern version, the ant works hard in the withering heat and the
rain all summer long, building his house and preparing for the winter.
He works hard, pays 50% in taxes to the government and spends ample time
complying with government regulations as he prepares 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 allowed to be warm and well fed
while he is cold and starving. The liberal media lines up and supports
protests against the rich ant � as they run ad naseum supporting stories
of the shivering grasshopper.
The grasshopper hosts regular press conferences � and shocks Americans
with the sharp contrast. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, �It�s Not Easy Being
Green.� Occupy Wall Street stages a demonstration in front of the ant�s
house where the news stations film the group ranting and raving against
the 1%. Harry Reid stands up and calls the ant �un-American.�
The liberal Democrats blame President Bush, President Reagan, and others
for the maligned grasshopper�s plight. There are countless petitions and
wall-to-wall media coverage about how 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.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green
bugs. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his friends finishing
up the last bits of the ant�s food in a bid for equality.
In a country where today people like Lloyd Blankfein and Sheldon Adelson
are demonized, one wonders if America is on a path for a better tomorrow.
Lloyd Blankfein is the chairman of Goldman Sachs who was raised in
housing projects in the Bronx � his father was a clerk with the U.S.
Postal Service (after he lost his job driving a bakery truck), and his
mom was a receptionist. As a boy, he worked as a concession vendor at
Yankee Stadium. Blankfein attended Harvard University on scholarship and
had to work in the cafeteria to pay bills. The man is demonized � due to
his success and it is vastly unfair.
Sheldon Adelson was born into a poor immigrant family, the son of a
Boston cab driver � and today is the world�s 14th wealthiest man with a
net worth approaching $25 billion dollars. He is ideological, driven and
focused � and lives by the principles his father instilled in him:
�honesty and integrity.� Yet, people like Adelson are demonized.
Success takes sacrifice � and rather than taking from the uber-
successful, one should learn from and seek to emulate the uber-
successful. It takes sacrifice and is not done easily � Making money and
being successful is something to aspire to � not to take from them.
Source: http://bit.ly/1kNion3
Remember in November
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"If the Democrats didn�t have double standards, they wouldn�t have any
standards all." (Chuck Lehmann)
�The best way to undermine leftism is to let it operate for awhile.
Expose the country at large to the nightmare realities of life under a
Lyndon Johnson, a Jimmy Carter, or an Obama, and you will inoculate the
citizenry for a generation to come.� � J.R. Dunn
such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
Grasshopper. The story is known as one of Aesop�s Fables, providing an
ambivalent moral lesson about the virtues of hard work and the need to
plan for the future. As a self-made entrepreneur who has sacrificed so
much in order to build my business, the adaptation below is an
interpretation of what such a fable may look like today.
In the ancient fable, the ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and saving supplies for the winter. The
grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away (as so many of us would want to). Of course, come winter, the
ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he
dies out in the cold. The ending of the version which I was read as a
child has two sayings at the end: �Idleness brings want,� and �To work
today is to eat tomorrow.�
In the modern version, the ant works hard in the withering heat and the
rain all summer long, building his house and preparing for the winter.
He works hard, pays 50% in taxes to the government and spends ample time
complying with government regulations as he prepares 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 allowed to be warm and well fed
while he is cold and starving. The liberal media lines up and supports
protests against the rich ant � as they run ad naseum supporting stories
of the shivering grasshopper.
The grasshopper hosts regular press conferences � and shocks Americans
with the sharp contrast. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, �It�s Not Easy Being
Green.� Occupy Wall Street stages a demonstration in front of the ant�s
house where the news stations film the group ranting and raving against
the 1%. Harry Reid stands up and calls the ant �un-American.�
The liberal Democrats blame President Bush, President Reagan, and others
for the maligned grasshopper�s plight. There are countless petitions and
wall-to-wall media coverage about how 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.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green
bugs. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his friends finishing
up the last bits of the ant�s food in a bid for equality.
In a country where today people like Lloyd Blankfein and Sheldon Adelson
are demonized, one wonders if America is on a path for a better tomorrow.
Lloyd Blankfein is the chairman of Goldman Sachs who was raised in
housing projects in the Bronx � his father was a clerk with the U.S.
Postal Service (after he lost his job driving a bakery truck), and his
mom was a receptionist. As a boy, he worked as a concession vendor at
Yankee Stadium. Blankfein attended Harvard University on scholarship and
had to work in the cafeteria to pay bills. The man is demonized � due to
his success and it is vastly unfair.
Sheldon Adelson was born into a poor immigrant family, the son of a
Boston cab driver � and today is the world�s 14th wealthiest man with a
net worth approaching $25 billion dollars. He is ideological, driven and
focused � and lives by the principles his father instilled in him:
�honesty and integrity.� Yet, people like Adelson are demonized.
Success takes sacrifice � and rather than taking from the uber-
successful, one should learn from and seek to emulate the uber-
successful. It takes sacrifice and is not done easily � Making money and
being successful is something to aspire to � not to take from them.
Source: http://bit.ly/1kNion3
Remember in November
--
Stop Mozilla Firefox's Discrimination Against Christians & Conservatives
- Sign the Petition & Uninstall FireFox: http://t.co/KjFkLRaRJa
"If the Democrats didn�t have double standards, they wouldn�t have any
standards all." (Chuck Lehmann)
�The best way to undermine leftism is to let it operate for awhile.
Expose the country at large to the nightmare realities of life under a
Lyndon Johnson, a Jimmy Carter, or an Obama, and you will inoculate the
citizenry for a generation to come.� � J.R. Dunn
Davej
May 7, 2014, 3:46:27 PM5/7/14
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On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Cut-n-paste Cooper pasted:
>[...gibber...]
In the ancient fable, the ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and saving supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and works on Wall Street making millions of dollars skimming transactions, using insider trading, and giving bad advice.
Later the ant has nothing and the grasshopper buys a basketball team.
>[...gibber...]
In the ancient fable, the ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and saving supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and works on Wall Street making millions of dollars skimming transactions, using insider trading, and giving bad advice.
Later the ant has nothing and the grasshopper buys a basketball team.
Dakota
May 7, 2014, 5:47:07 PM5/7/14
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Jeanne Douglas
May 7, 2014, 8:22:28 PM5/7/14
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In article <67c96ed4-ed4b-42df...@googlegroups.com>,
Yep.
--
JD
�Labor is prior to and independent of capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.�
--Abraham Lincoln
--
JD
�Labor is prior to and independent of capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.�
--Abraham Lincoln
MarkA
May 8, 2014, 10:16:51 AM5/8/14
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On Wed, 07 May 2014 19:18:25 +0000, Joe Cooper wrote:
> America as a country is rapidly changing – morals, ideals and more. As
> such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
> Grasshopper.
A Fortune 500 CEO, a Tea Party activist, and a union worker sit down
> America as a country is rapidly changing – morals, ideals and more. As
> such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
> Grasshopper.
together for lunch (hey, it's a fable, alright?). The waitress puts a
plate of 12 cookies in the middle of the table. The CEO takes 11 of the
cookies, then nudges the Tea Party activist and whispers to him, "You
better watch out. That union guy is after your cookie!"
MarkA
May 8, 2014, 10:18:14 AM5/8/14
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You left out the part where, when the grasshopper's investment firm is on
the brink of insolvency, the government gives them a few billion dollars
to help them stay afloat.
tirebiter
May 8, 2014, 1:25:17 PM5/8/14
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In the Muppet's version, when winter came, the grasshopper drove his
convertible to Florida and the ant got stepped on.
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a.a. #2273
GSI
Jun 26, 2014, 1:28:39 PM6/26/14
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On 2014-05-07 19:18:25 +0000, Joe Cooper said:
> America as a country is rapidly changing � morals, ideals and more. As
> such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
> Grasshopper. The story is known as one of Aesop�s Fables, providing an
> ambivalent moral lesson about the virtues of hard work and the need to
> plan for the future. As a self-made entrepreneur who has sacrificed so
> much in order to build my business, the adaptation below is an
> interpretation of what such a fable may look like today.
This is the Fox News Zionist version of the Aesop Fable, where the
> America as a country is rapidly changing � morals, ideals and more. As
> such, I decided to provide a modern-day adaptation of The Ant and the
> Grasshopper. The story is known as one of Aesop�s Fables, providing an
> ambivalent moral lesson about the virtues of hard work and the need to
> plan for the future. As a self-made entrepreneur who has sacrificed so
> much in order to build my business, the adaptation below is an
> interpretation of what such a fable may look like today.
far-right Zionist criminals who have looted America for trillions are the
good guys, and the "liberals", who oppose the Zionist theft of Palestine
and systematic looting of America, are the bad guys. The article is from
"FrontPageMag", a far-right Zionist propaganda shit-hole.
joebr...@gmail.com
Jun 26, 2014, 4:45:10 PM6/26/14
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Copied from a rightard blog. How pathetic.
Idiot.
Idiot.
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