Capitalism and Socialism, explain please

[NorthernRaider]

I still prefer the ant and grasshopper analogy of socialism cos its just spot on accurate for the UKs lefties.

THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:

**** 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 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.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself !

**** MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is 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 he is cold and starving.

ITN, SKY, CH4, and BBC 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 country 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 Jeremy Kyle with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeing Green'. Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We Shall Overcome. Then Rev. Rowan Williams has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns the ants.

David Cameron and Ed Milliband condemns the ant and blames Maggie Thatcher, John Major, Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Dianne Abbbott & Tony Robinson exclaim in an interview with Jeremy Paxman that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally the Equalities Comision drafts the Economic Equity & Anti Grasshopper bill 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 Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his Labour voting socialist friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

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 ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighbourhood.

[Tibbs735]

Can you believe it?
My Income Tax return form has been sent back to me, because in response to question 4, "Do you have anyone dependent on you?" I replied "2.1 million Illegal Immigrants 1.1 million crackheads, 4.4 million
unemployable Jeremy Kyle scroungers, 900,000 criminals in 85 prisons, plus 650 idiots in Parliament and the entire European Commission." They said this was not an acceptable answer! So who the hell did I miss out? Alan, Evesham

[Skvez]

Thanks, that cheered me up

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(12 September 2012, 22:29)Tibbs735 Wrote: They said this was not an acceptable answer!

So they agree with us then, we don't think it's an acceptable way to run the country either!

[NorthernRaider]

(12 September 2012, 22:29)Tibbs735 Wrote: Can you believe it?
My Income Tax return form has been sent back to me, because in response to question 4, "Do you have anyone dependent on you?" I replied "2.1 million Illegal Immigrants 1.1 million crackheads, 4.4 million
unemployable Jeremy Kyle scroungers, 900,000 criminals in 85 prisons, plus 650 idiots in Parliament and the entire European Commission." They said this was not an acceptable answer! So who the hell did I miss out? Alan, Evesham

30,000 tax inspectors