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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!



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    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 ***** 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 later 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 !!!!!!



    Karen

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    Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

    ooooooh I gotta lot to say about voting in '08!
    But I won't kick that anthill here.......

    Enlightening update, Karen :)
    Ken

    If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys. Orson Wells

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    • #3
      Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

      LOL.. I just thought that was cute sorta jokelike thing, as well as political, but gotta admit it makes you think...LOLOL

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      • #4
        Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

        Yes, made me think too, about "The Little Red Hen" omg .. LOL

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        • #5
          Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

          rut row...I'm a Democrat!!!

          However I have always said..you want a Democrat for your bookkeeper and a Republican for your salesman!!! They compliment each other!

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          • #6
            Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

            OOOOOOOHHHHHHH SSSSoOOOOO Good Karen!!!
            I don't think it could have been put any better!!
            If you don't mind I am going to copy and send that to my dad, he'll love it.
            Thanks!!
            Mike

            Any excuse for non performance only weakens the charactor

            In God We Trust

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            • #7
              Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper

              copy away

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