I work for a living. I feel sorry for able-bodied welfare recipients who don't have enough dignity to look for a job to become self-sufficient. I can't imagine not having enough self-respect to find ANY job to better my life. I feel sorry for people so unbelievably lazy and self-centred that they'll jealously whine and complain and hurl insults if anyone around that person has a nice thing that was earned through hard work.
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:
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Small things amuse small minds.
I know, it must piss them off that you have that much time to do all this, especially when they're paying for your icecream.;-)
You really do have to feel sorry for those people that have to work for a living don't you Charles.
I work for a living. I feel sorry for able-bodied welfare recipients who don't have enough dignity to look for a job to become self-sufficient. I can't imagine not having enough self-respect to find ANY job to better my life. I feel sorry for people so unbelievably lazy and self-centred that they'll jealously whine and complain and hurl insults if anyone around that person has a nice thing that was earned through hard work.
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
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