RM
05-05-2008, 07:32 PM
The Ant and the Grasshopper
> >
> > There is an 'Old Version' and a 'Modern Version' ...
> >
> > 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. '
> >
> > Al Sharpton 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 & Barack Obama 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 very careful how you vote in 2008
> >
> > There is an 'Old Version' and a 'Modern Version' ...
> >
> > 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. '
> >
> > Al Sharpton 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 & Barack Obama 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 very careful how you vote in 2008