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Mercury Mackay ; daily telegraph ; Hobart 
Mercury ; Penrith City Star. ; Penrith Press. ; SBS ; the australian ; The Senior ; 
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herald 
Subject: Fw: " The Squirrel, The grasshopper & Political 
Correctness ".
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Hellen Polley ; Senator Joe Bullock ; Senator Sean Edwards ; Senator Zed Seselja ; senator.gallacher@aph.gov.au ; Senator.O'sullivan ; senator.rhiannon@aph.gov.au ; Shane 
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Burke 
Subject: Fw: " The Squirrel, The grasshopper & Political 
Correctness ".
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; L. J. Springborg MP ; Lara Giddings ; Larissa 
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Chesters ; Louise Clare Pratt ; Louise Markus ; Luke Foley ; Luke Hartsuyker ; M. F. McArdle MP ; Mal 
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Ryan 
Subject: Fw: " The Squirrel, The grasshopper & Political 
Correctness ".
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Brodtmann ; Gai.Coghlan@aph.gov.au ; Gary 
Gray ; Gavin Marshall ; Geoff 
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Don Farrell ; Hon J.R. Miller ; Hon 
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Subject: Fw: " The Squirrel, The grasshopper & Political 
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Abetz ; F. S. Simpson MP ; Federal Greens 
Office 
Subject: " The Squirrel, The grasshopper & Political Correctness 
".
( Me at my place )
I am coming out loud and proud and 
declaring the following:
1. I am an Aussie white bloke of European 
descent!
2. I am 
heterosexual!
3. Although non religious I tend to 
believe in the so-called Christian values/belief!
Sir Mike's Comments 
28/2/2015.
Also on my blog: www.beautkoot.blogspot.com.au
Subject: " The Squirrel.The Grasshopper & Political Correctness 
".
A Squirrel.
A Grasshopper.
People I must receive 1000's of emails over the year and it never ceases to 
amaze me of peoples great imagination, ingenuity, creativeness and their 
erudite, profound, well informed, intellectual scholarly knowledge as well as 
humorous and in many cases a combination of some if not all of the above and 
them some.
Take for instance the email I have just received below which unfortunately 
is " Author Unknown " 
or if they were known their name or names have been omitted ? probably 
having been copied and 
paste a few or more 1000 times on it's journey around the internet?
I believe the author(s) should be proud of this because with the massive 
feed back I get there is absolutely no doubt in my mind - excluding the suburban 
yuppies, greenies, the Labor Party lefties, do-gooders and those that have a 
financial interest in keeping this situation going – that the hard working, Tax 
Paying, Law Abiding ( 98% of the Aussie population) and regrettably silent 
majority would agree with the following (128%)!!!
I don't need to say anymore the following email I believe say's all I could 
say and more !!!
However - there is always an " However " ain't there? - if people you are 
prepared to accept this 
societal cancer that is draining the will of the decent Aussies to strive 
hard and succeed and at the same time empty the nations treasurer because of an 
ever increasing % of people - not necessarily Aussie citizens but free loaders - 
are getting more for producing less!! while the decent Tax Paying people are 
being asked/compelled by law in the way of taxes,fees and charges to produce 
more and more and yet receiving less and less for their efforts? then more fool 
you and as far as I am concerned you deserve all you get so don' t 
whinge!!
Sir Mike Howe - but you can call me Mike.
The Squirrel,The Grasshopper and Political Correctness
REST OF THE WORLD VERSION
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving 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 squirrel is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
NOW THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION
The squirrel 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 squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The ABC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The Australian press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Housing Commission of Australia demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house.
The ABC, interrupting a cultural festival special from St Kilda with breaking news, broadcasts a multi-cultural choir singing 'We Shall Overcome'.
Bill Shorten rants in an interview with Laurie Oakes that the squirrel got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his 'fair share' and increases the charge for squirrels to enter Melbourne city centre.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The squirrel's taxes are reassessed.He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders,for the work he was doing on his home, and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a Housing Commission house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile.
The squirrel's food is seized and re-distributed to the more needy members of society - in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home.
The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Australia as they had to share their country of origin with mice.
On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Australians' apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody.
Initial moves to make them return to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice.
The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A 60 Minutes special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel's food, though spring is still months away, while the Housing Commission house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain it. He is shown to be taking drugs.
Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshopper's drug 'Illness'.
The cats seek recompense in the Australian courts for their treatment since arrival in Australia.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks.He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him.
Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost $10 million and state the obvious, is set up.
Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers.
Legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Australia's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose.
The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison.
They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid $1 million each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in Australia.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order, and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
This then, pretty much sums up what's happening in Australia today, the Lucky country?
THE END

