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02-15-2008, 07:00 AM | #1 |
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| So true! Subject: Modern fable You've seen this before, but a few changes have been made to make it current. > The Updated Ant and the Grasshopper > > 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 STORY: Be responsible for yourself! > > *****MODERN UPDATED 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 shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and > demands > to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold > and > starving. > > CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC 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. America 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 Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody > cries > when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." > > Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house > where the > news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then > has > the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. > > Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with > Larry > King 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 EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act, > 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. > > Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a > defamation > suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal > judges > that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare > recipients. > The ant loses the case. > > The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits > 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 because he doesn't maintain it. > > The ant has disappeared in the snow. > > 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 once > peaceful neighborhood. > > > MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
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