Sorry if you've read this previously...

> THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:
> The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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>
> This one is a little different....
> Two Different Versions ...
> Two Different Morals
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> 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 OLD STORY:
>
> Be responsible for yourself!
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> MODERN VERSION
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain 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 he is 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...'
>
> Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where
> the news stations film the SEIUgroup singing,
> We shall overcome.
>
> Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
> has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake,
> while he damns the ants.
>
> President Obama condems the ant and blames
> President Bush 43,
> President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for
> the grasshopper's plight...
>
> Nancy Pelosi & 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 &
> 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 Green Czar and given to thegrasshopper.
>
> The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends
> finishing up the last bits of the ant'sfood while the government house he is
> in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles
> around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
>
> The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
>
> 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 ramshackle,
> once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
>
> The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
>
> MORAL OF THE STORY:
>
> Be careful how you vote in 2012.
>
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