My difficult week: part 1, Ian Marchant blog post dt 24/06/2008
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Post Title - My difficult week: part 1
Date Posted - 24/06/2008
Name: Joseph George
Department: Technical Solutions
Location: Havant
Comments:
Dear Ian,
Speaking of Ant & Dec, and your difficult week justifying why some people are suffering, I've just received an interesting note via email. I have only put in the initial transcript, which goes on further talking about how the media + government pressure the ant into becoming penniless...
ANT & GRASS HOPPER
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 & dances & 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.
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 the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & 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.
NDTV, BBC, CNN 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. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
From: Ian Marchant
Date: 02/07/2008 13:24
Subject: Re: My difficult week: part 1
To: Joseph George
Joseph,
Very good. I assume Gordon Brown goes on to announce a grasshopper task force!
Ian