The Grasshopper & the Ant

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 9:42 AM PDT

2009/10/07 · 09:42

I just got an e-mail going around rewriting the Grasshopper and the Ant story. Basically, the Ant works hard and winter comes and the lazy Grasshopper gets the Liberals to bail him out.

Usually, I just click delete, but this time, I just had to say something. I hit reply all and here's what I said:

Arlyn

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Saturday November 29, 2008 · 12:39 PM PST

2008/11/29 · 12:39

The American Dream is a house and a car, a college education for your children, but it’s more than that. It’s that you can turn your talent, your ideas, your dreams, with hard work and perseverance, into success. The house, the car and better future for the kids usually come with that.

While the idea of “Ownership” society comes crashing down as Wall Street wails, I’m one of those Americans that has been the owner all these years, mostly of Hope. And the crashing of the Big Three car companies, I take very personally though I’ve never lived in Detroit. In fact, I just want to smack them.

This has nothing to do with their bailout. I’m not opining either way on that. No, this story is all about me and my American Dream.

Arlyn

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 11:34 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 23:34

My poems are rants. Or my rants are poems. Anyway, I thought I'd share. Here are three of them.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

The wealth
to trickle down
as Ronnie promised
got dammed up
in deregulation
platitudes of “free”
and greed
an untenable situation
that finally burst

A Wall Street disaster
as floods of worthless paper
drown the middle class
drench the poor
while the wealthy
with their multi-million
dollar bonuses
dressed in golden parachutes
beg for a bailout.

Arlyn

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Sunday May 21, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/05/21 · 14:17

I think that Dems should start wearing a little broom on their lapels to indicate that they are willing to clean up Washington, sweep the House (& the Senate) clean.

The Grasshopper & the Ant

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Political Rant Poems

Get out the broom for a clean sweep