Message-ID: <26924389.1075853249689.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) From: jgaribaldi@hanoverco.com To: richard.b.sanders@enron.com Subject: FW: The "Fair" America... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: John Garibaldi X-To: "'Richard.B.Sanders@enron.com'" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Richard_Sanders_Oct2001\Notes Folders\Radack X-Origin: Sanders-R X-FileName: rsanders.nsf 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" To: "John M. Wise" ; "Bergmann, Chris" ; "Valach, Ken" ; "Whelan, Andrew" Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:38 AM Subject: Fw: The "Fair" America... > For when you have time to read. Its funny. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "andiz" > To: "Morgan Parker" ; "SAMINA MAHMOOD" > ; ; ; > "Bryan Hash" ; ; "michael chamberlain" > ; ; "DeVries Howard > HD" ; ; "braswelldiver" > ; ; "Dennis" > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >