This might be of some interest:
> >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 shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the
> >cold.
> >
> >THE TRINIDADIAN VERSION:
> >
> >The ant works hard in the withering heat all day long, building his house
> >and laying up supplies for the rainy season.
> >The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, dances at fetes and plays Carnival.
> >Eventually, the ant is warm and well fed.
> >The now homeless grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know
> >why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less
> >fortunate like him are homeless and starving.
> >CCN (Caribbean Communications Network) shows up to provide live coverage of
> >the homeless grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his
>comfortable
> >warm home with a table filled with food.
> >Trinidadians are stunned that in a country of such oil wealth, this poor
> >grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, while others have plenty.
> >
> >The NATUC, the CWU and the Coalition against Poverty demonstrate in front
>of
> >the ant's house.
> >CCN, interrupts the Point Fortin cultural festival special with breaking
> >news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome."
> >Cro Cro rants in an interview with Elizabeth Solomon that the ant has
>gotten
> >rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on
> >the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
> >In response to polls, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and
> >Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of
>August.
> >The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire
> >grasshoppers as helpers.
> >Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive
> >taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
> >The ant moves to the United States and starts a successful agribiz company.
> >CCN later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last 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 hadn't maintained it.
> >Inadequate government funding is blamed, Hudson-Phillips is appointed to
> >head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000.
> >The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose.
> >The TnT Mirror blames it on obvious failure of government to address the
> >root causes of despair arising from social inequity.
> >The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of small island spiders,
>praised
> >by the government for enriching Trinidad's multi cultural diversity, who
> >promptly terrorize the community.
> >THE END
> >EDUCATE THIS COUNTRY = SEND THIS TO AS MUCH PEOPLE YOU KNOW...
> >LET THEM GET THE MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >When you change the way you look at things ... the things you look at
> >change.
