I grew up poor and went to Yale. Scholarships and government loans ;-)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Colin


I grew up poor and went to Yale. Scholarships and government loans ;-) [/QUOTE

Did you graduate, if so what a waste of a degree. lol All that money spend to wind up slinging porn lol.

steven, when you graduate from highcshool, get a job and all of these things the liberals have taught you to fear will become meaningless.:1orglaugh

If you enjoyed the first story, You'll probably laugh at this one!


BACK TO BASICS..................

This story contains TWO Versions......

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 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.

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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, 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 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."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house here the news stations film the group singing "We shall overcome."

Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the
grasshopper's sake.

Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the
ant has gotten rich off the back 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-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.

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.

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 because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

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 once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican.

Cut it out with the word parsing crap. Just because Dubya calls them his tax cut plan, they are two separate and totally different tax bills. The first one was passed as an income tax cut, and the second one is coming in the form of an "economic stimulus package"
And one may stay while the other one gets thrown out of congress. So they are two different bills, one that gave an accross the board rate cut, and one that cuts a tax that almost solely benefits the top 1% of Americans.

As for the Reagan tax cuts, they were revenue neutral. They closed off several loopholes in the tax code and used the money they saved with that to lower the tax rates. They also instituted the alternative minimum tax.
There is still no conclusive evidence that the tax cuts had anything to do with the economic growth of the 80's.
A few things that did have a lot to do with that growth were the end of the oil embargo which crippled the economy under the Carter administration, and a military buildup that for all intents and purposes put us into a "wartime economy".
It also left us 5 trillion dollars in debt.

Now, are you just going to reply and call me names? Or can you actually discuss the issue without making it personal?

hahaha, too true!

if you keep lying, we'll just ignore you.
this is all one plan but lets humor you and *pretend* it isn't. (liberals like the world of make believe)
why shouldn't the people paying more than double the % what others pay get a tax break?

back that up with facts please. saying it doesn't make it so.

and none that it didn't.


are you saying you liked the world under the carter admin?
I can't really tell.

Name calling is fun:thumbsup

I think all the liberals who bemoan the troubles of the poor should adopt a homeless family and feed them instead of telling everyone else they have too much money.

Excellent -

Let's have a head count from all you "liberals" who want my tax money for the poor who have taken this fine suggestion.

:1orglaugh

Nice propaganda. I just did a search because I found a new version that includes John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi.

Ahh the memories here.

In reading over this old relic I see there are plenty of 1's, 2's -- up to 8's. I think that ninth guy was smarter than the example gave him credit for. I think #9 was aspiring to be like #10 someday, thus he was able to clue in to the bigger picture. The #9's of the world are smarter than that story gives them credit for. :D