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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: FW: The "Fair" America...
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This is for all the little people being kept down by the man!  Read
following:

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Valach [mailto:kvalach@tcresidential.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 4:16 PM
To: Max Gardner; Bob Talbott; Jeff Jelniker; John Garibaldi; Mcollins
Subject: Fw: The "Fair" America...


Thought you might enjoy this
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Wise" <swise@tcresidential.com>
To: "John M. Wise" <jonmac@mo-net.com>; "Bergmann, Chris"
<cbergmann@tcresidential.com>; "Valach, Ken" <kvalach@tcresidential.com>;
"Whelan, Andrew" <jdwhelan@email.msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:38 AM
Subject: Fw: The "Fair" America...


> For when you have time to read. Its funny.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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<roates@thebuzz.com>;
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 5:39 PM
> Subject: Fw: The "Fair" America...
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > THE ANT AND THE 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 in the summer heat. Come winter, the
ant
> > > is
> > > warm and well fed.  The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies
> > > out in
> > > the cold.
> > >
> > >
> > > THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER      MODERN VERSION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
> > >
> > > 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
> > > 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". Bill and Hillary Clinton
> > > make a
> > > special appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan
> > > Rather
> > > that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been
> > > denied
> > > the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the
> > > Reagan
> > > summers, or as Bill refers to it as "Temperatures of the 80's".  Jesse
> > > Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
> > > news
> > > stations film the group singing "We shall overcome."  Jesse than has
the
> > >
> > > group kneel down to pray to God for the Grasshopper's sake. (while
> > > making
> > > certain that the cameras are rolling).  Al Gore exclaims in an
interview
> > > with
> > > Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the backs 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-Ant
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
> > > appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients who can only
> > > hear
> > > cases on Thursday between 1:30 and 3:00 PM when there are no talk
shows
> > > scheduled. 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
> > > since
> > > he doesn't maintain it.  The ant has disappeared in the snow,. And on
> > > the TV,
> > > which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they
are
> > >
> > > showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of
> > > Democrats
> > > announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>