AESOP'S FABLE
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
> his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
> The grasshopper thinks the ant is 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 CANADIAN POST-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 ant is warm and well fed. 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. 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 filled 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."
>
> Svend Robinson of the NDP 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, 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 hadn't maintained it. Inadequate
> government funding is blamed and 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 and 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 terrorize the community.
>
> The Ant is well, thank you and has retired to Arizona.
>
>
>
>
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
> his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
> The grasshopper thinks the ant is 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 CANADIAN POST-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 ant is warm and well fed. 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. 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 filled 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."
>
> Svend Robinson of the NDP 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, 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 hadn't maintained it. Inadequate
> government funding is blamed and 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 and 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 terrorize the community.
>
> The Ant is well, thank you and has retired to Arizona.
>
>
>
>
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