Equity, How to build it in Summer?

> > 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 shivering grasshopper has no
> > food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
> >
> > The Modern Australian 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. The ABC and Channel 9 show 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. Australians are
> > stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
> > allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats, the
> > Greens and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the
> > ant’s house. The ABC, interrupting an Aboriginal cultural festival
> > special from North Queensland with breaking news, broadcasts them
> > singing “We Shall Overcome.” Bob Brown rants in an interview with Jana
> > Wendt 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. And the ALP quickly passes it through the
> > Senate.
> >
> > 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 Asia, and starts a successful Agribiz
> > company. The TV stations later show the now fat grasshopper finishing
> > up the last of the ant’s food though Spring is still months away, while
> > the government owned 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, Kim Beazley is now appointed
> > to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000. The
> > grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Sydney Morning Herald
> > 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 Australia’s multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize
> > the community. Who says we don’t live in a democracy?

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ChanDollars
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