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:	post by SlypKnawt at 2008-08-19 14:43:56

TRADITIONAL 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 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 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, Barack Obama, John Kerry & 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 and 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 Clinton 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 very careful how you vote in 2008

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