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    Fable: The ant and the grasshopper

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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.
    >
    > 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.
    >
    > 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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    Re: Fable: The ant and the grasshopper

    Ha ha I love it! I wish more people would get it...

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    Re: Fable: The ant and the grasshopper

    Bravo!

    Right on Tyme!

    Hilarious and sad, a perfect reflection of the times we live in.

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