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New Version of the Ant and the Grasshopper!!


> > The Ant and The Grasshopper
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >

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