huskernumerouno Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 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. > > Th e 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 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 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. > > > > If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Saraha Desert, in 5 > years there would be a shortage of sand! Milton Friedman, Nobel > Economist > > > Quote Link to comment
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