17th January 2004, 6:49 PM
ABF, you are right. A lot of people DON'T save up money for retirement like they should, or at least not enough. ABF, you are wrong. The government should NOT be there to help people out of their own mess. These people were too stupid to plan their lives correctly. Ever hear the story about the grasshopper and the ant? You know, the ant stores food for the winter, and the grasshopper is lazy and has nothing in the winter, so then he breaks down the door to the ant's house and robs the place blind, but since the ant lives in a great kingdom with theft laws, a gestappo shows up at the grasshopper's pad and, not finding the grasshopper who skipped town a few days earlier, tourches the place and kills all the friends and family of the grasshopper as a lessn, but eventually off in some other town a beetle sees a want-ad for the grasshopper with a huge reward and takes matters into his own hands, killing the grasshopper and throwing it's head before the Ant Queen, and thus the beetle was crowned as a lord of a local province and lived happily ever after? Well, the moral of the story is the same. Don't take other's stuff to make up for your mistakes in life.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)