> The Ant & the Grasshopper in 2008

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> The Ant & the Grasshopper in 2008
>
> Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
>
> OLD 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 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 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 allowed to 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 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.
> Hillary and Barack go on national television agreeing that the plight of
> the
> grasshopper is the fault of George Bush.
>
> Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & 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.
>
> Obama gets his 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 very careful how you vote in 2008