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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The fable - The Ant and the Grasshopper - updated

THE ANT AND THE

GRASSHOPPER

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!



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.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the

ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome."

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant

and blames President Bush, 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 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

once 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 2010.

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