Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper

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Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper

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TRADITIONAL 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 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 & Harry Reid 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

and 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 Clinton 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 work to 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