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Phil -
Simply brilliant - why is it obvious to so
few.
Solution -
Buy a corner dairy and don't do any banking.
Holiday abroad often under an alias with chin up.
Cheers and thanks for that
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 23 February, 2002 1:55 a.m.
Subject: Re: [sharechat] The Millionaire
Mindset
Phil Boeyen wrote:
>
> Are we a country of
optimists or pessimists?
The real question is: are we a country
of ants or grasshoppers?
The Ant works hard all summer long, laying up
supplies for the
winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and
plays the
summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well
fed. But
the Grasshopper has no food or fuel.
So, the
shivering Grasshopper applies for an Emergency Benefit and
visits his
local Food Bank, where he is filmed by a TV3 news crew
doing a story on
poverty. That night on nationwide television, John
Campbell demands
to know why the Grasshopper is cold and starving
when the Ant is warm and
well fed. The next night on TV1, Paul
Holmes interviews the pitiful
Grasshopper and shows film of the
Ant in his comfortable home with a table
filled with food.
The people of New Zealand are appalled. How
can it be that this
poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Donations flood into TV1.
And then the politicians get
involved. Steve Maharey offers the
Grasshopper a cheap state house
in Palmerston North (with free use
of a mayoral car). Helen Clark
offers the Grasshopper a highly-paid
position on the Closing the Gaps
Taskforce. Sue Bradford accuses
the Ant of getting rich by
exploiting the poor and calls for an
immediate tax rise to make the rich
pay their "fair share". Jim
Anderton offers the Grasshopper a
position on the Alliance Party
List.
Meanwhile the Ant
has his tax rate increased from 39% to 49% and
is spit at on the street by
perfect
strangers.
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