You have to read these next two articles. I promise you will be left shaking your head. First read this crap: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001176.html Now, read the response here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161084,00.html
The 2nd article states exactly what I was thinking as I read the 1st article. It's the ant and the grasshopper all over again.
You hit the nail on the head, SabanFan. I bet a lot of people on here don't know what you are referring to when you say ant and the grasshopper.
I think it's been posted here before, but well worth a re-post: THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER in 2005 THE 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 grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. THE 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 he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and asks how the ants are warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, CNN, NBCand ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America and the world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Then a representative of the NAAGB (National Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest 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, the "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and they 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-Greenism Act". Retroactive to the beginning of the summer, the ant was 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. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to 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 compatriots announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.
Good story. Yes, that's right. Blame it on the media. Blame it on the liberals. Whatever it takes for you to sleep at night while the nation crumbles around us. Because its always more fun to play the blame game rather than come up with actual solutions. Do the liberals have the answers? Of course not. Or anything that can be close to being considered some of the answers. Of course not. Do I have the answers? Of course not. But please, don't let any of the above stop you from crying a river. :cry:
A solution for what, lazy people? Here's an idea: you don't work, you don't eat. Pretty simple Darwinism.
Well, i'm not a firm believer in that philosophy but it's out of our hands now as all those programs will be gone in 10 years anyway. Not the proper thread but its sort of related to the UN by way of Iraq. I'm tired of the republican recent mantra of "it's better to fight terrorism abroad, then wait and let it come to us". What the hell does that mean? Like it's any different that innocent Iraqi civilians are being killed abroad than innocent Americans here domestically? We're all human beings. Or is it distancing ourselves from what's happening over there? If a cactus falls in the middle of the Iraqi desert, will anyone hear it? Sounds like 21st century racism to me. Anyone that can explain this for me, please feel free to jump in.
So typical. Face a liberal with something he can't refute, and sure as God made little green apples, out comes the race card. Am I happy that innocent Iraqis are dying in terrorist attacks? No, I'm not. But in these terrorists, we're dealing with animals, a concept that you and all the other touchy-feely feelgood liberals fail to grasp. THEY don't understand that "we're all human beings". They're going to kill somebody, because to them, life is cheap. You think I would prefer it to be my sister or my nephew or even YOU who is killed over some Iraqi who I've never met? As cold-hearted as it may sound, from my point of view, if somebody's got to inevitably get it, you bet your sweet ass I'd rather it be the Iraqi. Nothing racist about it.
