THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:

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   OLYHOOCHposted 13 years ago

   THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:
   
    
   
    
   
   The ANT
   AND THE
   GRASSHOPPER
   
   This one is a little different....
   Two Different Versions ...
   Two Different Morals 
   
   
   OL D 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!
   
   
   
   
   
   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 EasyBeing Green...'
   
   Occupy the Anthill stages
   a demonstration in front of the ant's
   house where the news stations film the SEIU group 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 GreenCzar
   and given  to the grasshopper.
   
   The story ends as we see the grasshopper
   and his free-loading  friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food 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.
   
   
   
   I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant
   not a grasshopper!
   
   Make sure that you pass
   this on to other ants.
   
   Don't bother sending
   it on to any grasshoppers
   because they wouldn't
   understand it, anyway

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   paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

   A meandering bump.

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