Fable: The ant and the grasshopper

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The Ant & the Grasshopper in 2008
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> Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
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> OLD VERSION:
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> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
> the summer away.
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> Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
> The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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> MODERN VERSION:
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> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
> house and laying up supplies for the winter.
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> The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
> the summer away.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
> is allowed to suffer so ?
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> Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
> cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
> retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The ant loses the case.
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> 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.
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> The ant has disappeared in the snow.
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> 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.
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> MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008 !!!!!!

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

Bravo!

Right on Tyme!

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