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August 04, 2008
Ant and the Grasshopper ~ Old and New Version
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!
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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 s ummer 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, Fox 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 ha s 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 careful how you vote in 2008!!
....Thank you Mark.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 4, 2008 02:45 AM
Comments
This deal BUGS me!
Posted by: 2bornot2b? at August 4, 2008 04:48 AM
I am thinking "Katrina".
Posted by: TomR at August 4, 2008 02:15 PM
I guess there is another hurricane headed for NO, will be interesting how this one is handled.
It seems like all the 'grasshoppers' live in NO and the rest of the state. while the Ants lived next door in Mississippi.
But they did get the superdome fixed, now those are some bassackeards priorities.
Posted by: Mark at August 4, 2008 04:36 PM
2bornot2b?, giggle
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 4, 2008 06:01 PM
Tom, yes it sure applies to that in a huge way.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 4, 2008 06:03 PM
Mark, I really liked this, thank you again for sending it to me.
LOL yes they got that built fast and now they wait, and wait for the a-hem other things needed. and wait................
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 4, 2008 06:05 PM
The difference between republican and socialist. The republican works hard to make his money go as far as it can and works as hard as he can to make whatever kind of living he can. The socialist comes and takes his income so others can live off him at his expense.
What part of this don't dummys understand? I see so many wealthy socialites backing the dummys. It's like, "We made our money, we're going to keep our money, but you can't join the club. You have to keep paying and paying and paying so we can live high on the hog at your expense."
I will not watch Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Madonna, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand--any of those knotheaded fartfaces who think we owe them in some way. I don't owe them one thin dime. If they want to share the wealth, let it start with them. Hey, Madonna--how about giving up some of those millions? Hey Sarah Jessica, how 'bout you? Alec Baldwin, you too! Pony up--you have plenty.
Posted by: Lynn at August 4, 2008 08:50 PM
