The Economy: Jokes Only Please

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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby Chris Fleming on Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:02 pm

Doc Stier wrote:http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80969221/

OMG! And so, sho 'nuff, there you have it, Bubba! :o

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Most ironic thing is, that um, lady in the above clip and the one posted elsewhere (the one who said Obama will pay for her car and house) actually understand the system and how it really works better than most.
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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby Doc Stier on Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:09 pm

yeniseri wrote:At my last check-in, USA is a democracy...!

Well, perhaps temporarily for the time being, but apparently not for long if the current Administration has its way! :-\
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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby zenman on Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:22 am

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different ...
Two Different Versions ... Two Different Morals

OLD 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 the ant is 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.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, 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...'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's sake. President Obama condems the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper 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 Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around them because thegrasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: ???
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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby yeniseri on Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:21 pm

We think Obama is bad!
Just wait until he leaves and we will elect real assclowns to refelct the will of the "people".
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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby klonk on Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:29 pm

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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

Postby klonk on Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:47 am

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Re: The Economy: Jokes Only Please

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Re: The Economy on Artificial Life Support

Postby Doc Stier on Wed May 05, 2010 5:50 pm

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