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. 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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>>
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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 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.'
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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.
>>
>> 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.
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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.
>>
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> MORAL OF THE STORY:
>> Be very careful how you vote in 2008
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LOL That is too funny!
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