Ant and Grasshopper


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hchheda   
Member since: Aug 05
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Location: Woodbridge

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 01-12-05 18:11:55

I wont comment on the social culture in India and Canada, but this story shows there not much difference in Political Culture.

Ant and grasshopper

CLASSIC 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 has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE END

THE CANADIAN 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. So far, so good, eh?
>> > > >>
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 CBC 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 laden with food.
>> > > >>
Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have
plenty.

The NDP, the CAW and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate
in front of the ant's house. The CBC, interrupting an Inuit cultural
festival special from Nunavut with breaking news, broadcasts them singing \"We
Shall Overcome.\"


Sven Robinson rants in an interview with Pamela Wallin 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 Liberal Government drafts the
Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the
beginning of the summer.

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 US, and starts a successful agribiz company.

The CBC 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 hasn't bothered to maintain it.

Inadequate government funding is blamed, Roy Romanow is
appointed to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000.

The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Toronto
Star 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 Canada's multicultural diversity,
who promptly set up a marijuana grow op and terrorize the community.

THE END



Smiley   
Member since: Mar 03
Posts: 1185
Location: USA

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 02-12-05 01:18:34

Really Great Post


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desi in ottawa   
Member since: May 04
Posts: 1627
Location:

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 02-12-05 15:10:26

The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant
spiders,praised by the government for enriching Canada's multicultural diversity, who promptly set up a marijuana grow op and terrorize the community.


>>>LOL, but so true.





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