The Ant & the Grasshopper

[blowndodge]

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.



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

Gee...McCain Obama.....Obama McCain.....They are both soooo....

[basco]

Those grasshoppers just ain't worth a sh*t huh :-/

[phenrichs]

Ridicule me if you like.

I have been a republican my whole life and I am becoming more embarassed by the day. Every time I see a McCain ad I feel like I am being led by the hand to ride the short bus to school for the next 4 years.

I remember in the last election that he was in last place of all the republican candidates. The republican party made him out to be the idiotic, one foot in the grave alternative to Bush. They made him look like Billy Carter. Now all of a sudden he is the best they can come up with. I could see that perhaps they thought that there was no way a republican would have a chance so why waste the money on somebody good. But what if he wins. Or were they filling us with crap last time? Cause the gummymint never does that right.
Oh crap, did I actually say that.

[billmac]

One candidate doesnt care what anyone else thinks and wants to kill large numbers of people we have never met and refuse to talk with. The other has no experience in world affairs, military, and budgeting? Thats Great, we get to choose between a senile hair trigger or an inexperienced Speech Maker.

Be careful how you vote is right.

Hopefully McCain will pick an awesome VP....who will be more capable to 'lead'