THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

    This one is a little different... 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 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 & 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.
    The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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.

[Eagler]

it would be funny were it not true

today's generation wants it all NOW, they do not want to have to wait and actually earn it first

do you think it matters to them who pays for it as long as they do not have to and they get it NOW???

with obamamans promised tax "relief" ie payoff to those who do not pay now and the governments bailouts, seems many agree with this thought....

[Maverick]

I believe you are living up to your handle there fella. 

[Nwbie]

INteresting stories
 

[Kermit de frog]

 

[Dragon]

Poor Kermey

[BnZ]

It is demonstrable that among people in the U.S. who graduate high school, get married before having children, do not commit any felonies, and do not become addicted to drugs or alcohol, the poverty rate is in the single digits.

Furthermore, we Americans have a rather warped sense of poverty, since our "poor" commonly own a television, a car, and are over-fed.

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Furthermore, we Americans have a rather warped sense of poverty, since our "poor" commonly own a television, a car, and are over-fed.

Over-fed is a polite way of saying it.     I couldn't help but notice that the vast majority of those "poor" citizens being evacuated from New Orleans were on the rather large size.