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. 
>> 
>> Hillary and Barack go on national television agreeing that 
>> the plight of the grasshopper is the fault of George Bush. 
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> Obama gets his 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 

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mama4...
Oct. 30, 2008 at 9:30 AM

LOL That is too funny!

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edwin...
Oct. 30, 2008 at 9:31 AM

lol! Cracked me up!

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Memaw...
Oct. 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM

laughing

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